Monday, July 2, 2007

I've realised something. I've rewatched Gods of Honour and I realised why people are so displeased yet those who are pleased like Yin Shi Niang most. She is portrayed like a main character throughout the entire story, when in the real Feng Shen Bang, just show a small part of her following Na Zha. It turns out to be a "Cry for the Mother" kind of show, at least for me. Though I love Kingdom very very much, the story just did not cut it for me to rewatch it again to see Benny keep shouting at her. Kingdom must at least have some respect, no? I'm going back to Game of Deceit and Virtues of Harmony to see her rebellious and outrageous sides. Those were more fun to watch than ahem, the ever-crying mom in Gods of Honour. In green grass of home, I am tired of seeing her husband's sister say her bad things when, hey, being a mom isn't as easy as one thinks. Perhaps I have cried too much in this holiday.

A bit disappointed with the casting. They could have done better and at least install some backbone into the Li family in Gods of Honour, and some intelligence into Kingdom's character in Grass and At Point Blank. At point blank isn't very bad really. Just a little...insulting to Venessa. And the ending about the baby talking isn't...what I expected. I'm pleased that they had done a short series that is nice once in a while.

Anyway, I'm pleased in the way the character Kingdom was formed in my mind. She's cute. Not like the crying mother of the other series and such. I can stand her role in Price of Greed, because she has backbone and has intelligence, making her a more interesting character. Even if she hasn't the other two, I can stand her in comedies. In serious dramas, there should never be such useless characters. Otherwise people will lose interest.

Just my lesson to my comic. There is no one useless there. There is no one who is so dumb such that everything seems to be going for him due to luck. (this is from the Er Lang god from Feng Shen Bang. He might be funny, but he is not the Er Lang Shen I imagined.) No one who is able to destroy the world either (a lesson learnt from Dragonball Z, they said that Goku can destroy the world, making me promise myself never to even touch the series).

Though women dominated, we are going to show the guys that we can do it as well, earning their respect as friends and colleagues. No more girls bowing to guys that kind of thing anymore. The guys nowadays are not without backbone either. They are rather silly, but they know that they could bring smiles to the girl's face, so why not?

TVB could hire me as their scriptwriter. Even I know when the drama gets too much and when one gets too much screentime, enough is enough. If they ever read this, they must think about the audience they are targeting. The actors and actresses are getting better every year, but they are destroyed by the bad scripts. Think of why the actors and actresses left all of you on a bad note. They can simply do their job and shake their legs and collect their salary. Or they can stand up and change the script into what they like, where they think the episode is heading. If they think it wrong, guide them, but don't expect them to stick to your script and muddleheadedly follow your orders. We can see that some of them dislike their roles and their acting is fake. Costumes, music, blah blah blah have improved, but the STORIES, the plot, they have disappeared. I'd rather you make small and short stories than long and boring ones.

I, as an audience, get irritated. You, as the producer, get irritated too when ratings aren't high. Why don't you take more time to look over your storyline? Why don't you take more effort to see whether the script is good, the storyline is good? Don't lie to me that the budgets are low and all that. That isn't the spirit of making a classic. People will remember a classic when they see one. Your time might be precious, but so are ours. Don't make series that waste all our time. Your time and my time. The actors and actresses's time. Their youth must be taken advantage of.

Otherwise, they'd only have so little on their hands....Jia you.

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