Blackholes & Revelations

So yesterday Afiq, Nana, and I met up for a random chillout session at Sentosa. Fiq let me play around with his Sally for pretty much the whole day (of course with several annoying interceptions by Nana), and it was fun. Can’t wait to get my own 400D. But I don’t know whether I’d change my mind once Survivor season 69 kicks off in Tekong. We’ll see how it goes.

Anyway I wonder what’s up with the timings for American TV shows. One week they’re aired, and the next it’s as if they never existed. C’mmon man. And where the hell is episode 2 of Knight Rider? I don’t mind being patient though. In the name of good TV. Unlike Police and Thief. I recently saw their latest episode the one where the 2 clowns thought their new neighbours were aliens. What the fuck was that?

For starters, the white balance was off for certain shots, even within the same scene. If our local production can’t even get these fundamental technical issues right, how are we supposed to improve our overall standard of TV?

Also, could they be more direct about selling Singapore as a tourist attraction? The script was insulting the audience’s intelligence. I mean I’m sure STB is one way or another funding the show, but you don’t have to make it so blatant and just ruin the whole show with lame ass dialogues in the name of promoting the country. The irony of trying to make us look good by slipping in all these “Come visit Singapore!” messages is that it really shuns people away if they witness how laughable our TV shows are (yes I know Police and Thief IS supposed to be laughable. It’s a comedy after all, but I’m talking about laughable as in “laughing at” concept rather than “laughing with”).

This is sad man. The government is trying to make our media scene more vibrant and syiok, but if only they’d realise they’re also sandbagging the whole process if they keep wanting to jump on the opportunity of squeezing in whatever crappy fakeass messages in our shows.

I think a good step forward we have thus far is “The Noose”. Yeah I know sometimes the skits are a bit overdone, but there are underlying messages in them. Classic political and social commentary. We need more of that. It’d be fun to see how they roast the government with the Mas Slamat issue.

I’m done ranting.