Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Onslaught 182 @ Thu, 22 May 2008 02:06:42 +0800

Onslaught 182 — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:06:42 +0800

amen bother

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Dendrite88 @ Thu, 22 May 2008 01:54:52 +0800

Dendrite88 — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:54:52 +0800

LOL the noose... Apparently I heard its got a bigger budget than normal, and also have more scriptwriters on it. BUHAHAHHA. so you all dont like it? Must feedback to my friends @ mediacock :D

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Kuali Baba @ Thu, 22 May 2008 00:53:54 +0800

Kuali Baba — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:53:54 +0800

The scripts are utterly dull and usually rehash the same old themes, and that applies to both Channel 5 and Channel 8. Comedies tend to take after Under One Roof or PCK, but the gags are lame. Family dramas, as mentioned earlier, always have some kind of love triangle, crazy webs of love and hate, some silly feud over money and plenty of weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The scriptwriters need to be allowed, or allow themselves to, move away from the same old cathartic formula. They need to be given a free reign, and to write what they can imagine, as if it were art, and enjoy it.

Screw the family-friendly, neighbourly and nation-building themes for once. Break the old stereotypes. Give us über-cool, complex and original characters like Gregory House and Adrian Monk, and build teams and plots around them.

Oh, and I didn't find 'The Noose' funny at all. For proper humour, try watching 'Have I Got News For You' or 'Nevermind The Buzzcocks'. There's no need for queer wigs and costumes, give us satire and mickey-taking straight from the hip. And the censors need to ease up on this.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Angel Danger @ Thu, 22 May 2008 00:45:15 +0800

Angel Danger — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:45:15 +0800

Sg channel 8 dramas has far too many typical...

Dramas centered around the family- A few couples, children, elders. and outsiders

Third parties and love triangle... and then violence, cops get called in... family being broken and torn apart. Try to make good, 1 person suceeds...then jealousy and black mailing.

Too predictable!

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by CPMunk @ Wed, 21 May 2008 21:35:34 +0800

CPMunk — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:35:34 +0800

Originally posted by Sagara:

watched from young but havent watch local drama since years ago... the scripts lacked in creativity and it was damn predictable to the point that i sometimes know what what certain actors would say...

why we cannot have 'smart' serials like Kurosagi, Death Note and Liar Game ? though it probably would be an epic fail with all the ??? in our elderly locals' heads.

lol deathnote?

edwin ng as kira? ni nan xing as L? felicia chin as misa?

they dont even push young stars with certain style.

what they push?

u see the 9pm show , big size , normal face , cant talk

calling a going-to-40 man acting a university man around 25 yr old <- LOL

tolong...

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Sagara @ Wed, 21 May 2008 16:25:33 +0800

Sagara — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:25:33 +0800

watched from young but havent watch local drama since years ago... the scripts lacked in creativity and it was damn predictable to the point that i sometimes know what what certain actors would say...

why we cannot have 'smart' serials like Kurosagi, Death Note and Liar Game ? though it probably would be an epic fail with all the ??? in our elderly locals' heads.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by asdfzhao @ Wed, 21 May 2008 14:14:46 +0800

asdfzhao — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:14:46 +0800

Originally posted by jacqn:

Yeah, 101% Agree HK drama got mixture of everything, balance i would say.

Korean/jap(sucks!)/taiwan same type. they just change some background.

japs n koreans have some varety too. k dramas have a recent 1 which talks about a art auctions, and the japs even have a drama with a 14 year old getting pregnant. and they have covered occupations like pilots, air stewardess', magicians... stuff you will never see on local tv productions.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by asdfzhao @ Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:12 +0800

asdfzhao — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:12 +0800

Singapore? Media Hub? bah. it won't be until they:

spend more time and effort during production.

get new types of plot lines during pre production

stop doing family related shows. Really! its boring.

get actors n actresses who can really act.

dub most of the actors voices. they sound forced.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by domonkassyu @ Wed, 21 May 2008 12:57:03 +0800

domonkassyu — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:57:03 +0800

singapore media hub?? a dream just like sg soccer in olympics ar?? wait till year 5008 oso dont have..

story lines always about the same, people always shouting and raising voices. affect viewers negatively. read tong xin yuan and such.

crappy CGI dreaming of rivalling hollywood ( read sg version condor heroes)

taiwan drama always using young beautiful people. but story always copy jap comics or jap/kor dramas.

k drama always cry n cry about love.

so far only HK n Jap drama is ok..

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by jacqn @ Wed, 21 May 2008 11:52:48 +0800

jacqn — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:52:48 +0800

Originally posted by gigabyte14:

your fucking korean/japanese/taiwan worse

all in the end is romance only

and the actors and actresses, all are young people as main characters all the fucking time

HK DRAMA RULEZ

Yeah, 101% Agree HK drama got mixture of everything, balance i would say.

Korean/jap(sucks!)/taiwan same type. they just change some background.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by jacqn @ Wed, 21 May 2008 11:37:37 +0800

jacqn — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:37:37 +0800

Originally posted by snowfoxx:

well, i have to agree that last time, singapore drama is good, eg, during the time of SBC and TCS, cos last time, the backstage are made up of all hong kong crew that the then SBC hired from HK..... the kind of genre that we used to have are plentiful, have you watched the old dramas? many of them are still very good, up to now

But during the times of Mediacorp, i would say that they have walked downhill, have any of you realised how long they didnt make any 古装 drama??? many years already...........cos they think that its more economical to make similar kinds, like those family drama, cos easy to produce and cheap

I believe that the best period was during when channel u and mediacorp before merger, cos got competition. Now, without competition, they throw all kinds of trash to us........ we become their trash bin...

But i would just like to highlight that, nowadays sources of entertainment is so much... eg internet tv, satelite tv, SCV, computers.... etc etc, i hope any of the higher level mediacorp ppl read this, and pull up their socks, dun throw any more trash to us. WE HAVE CHOICES OTHER THAN THEIR LOCAL TV

the 古装 shows cannot make it ah, they fly here and there, the fighting very blur one. no skills.. the old dramas are really super. now showing channel 8 11pm one.. i really forced to sleep early.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by jacqn @ Wed, 21 May 2008 11:34:05 +0800

jacqn — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:34:05 +0800

what the show now showing on channel 8 9pm? cannot make it leh. same old faces, very boring too..low budget i think.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Dendrite88 @ Wed, 21 May 2008 03:24:12 +0800

Dendrite88 — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:24:12 +0800

yups. last time used to have HK scriptwriters also. thats why past years dramas really was so fantastic... also last time those HK cameramen also more professional, the way they shoot stuff really is commendable.

mediacock is afterall a profit organisation what, their drama time belt (aka advertisement revenue) all for family to watch one.

was recently watching The Vagrant (Bao Zi Dan) at 12am from Mon - Wed, gotta admit Li Nanxing acting skills was superb, shots were nice also. Storyline was equally awesome.. :)

drama is going downhill here! ROAR! HELP!

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by gigabyte14 @ Wed, 21 May 2008 01:00:09 +0800

gigabyte14 — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:00:09 +0800

Originally posted by 798:

tis edwin ng really cmi! the moment i watch him really turn me off dat i decide to switch off my tv immediately.

acting still mono n wtf mediacock is pushing him just becos he is some kinda campus superstar?

he really dunno how to act

he act no expression 1

and also, looks ok only

only he got good body

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by gigabyte14 @ Wed, 21 May 2008 00:58:43 +0800

gigabyte14 — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:58:43 +0800

Originally posted by angel7030:

ya,...those young males and females koreans or japs all go for surgery one lah, only young look nice, all make up thick thick, full whitening therapy, face lift, plant hairs here and there, too bad many aunties fall for it. I find them not realistic unlike down to earth HK or even singapore one that talk about realistic of life a bit better.

Anyway, singaporeans alway complain about singaporeans one lah. The mentality is anything out of singapore is deem good.

i find it disgusting to see so many kids nowadays so engrossed with fake beauty

damn

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by snowfoxx @ Wed, 21 May 2008 00:44:05 +0800

snowfoxx — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:44:05 +0800

well, i have to agree that last time, singapore drama is good, eg, during the time of SBC and TCS, cos last time, the backstage are made up of all hong kong crew that the then SBC hired from HK..... the kind of genre that we used to have are plentiful, have you watched the old dramas? many of them are still very good, up to now

But during the times of Mediacorp, i would say that they have walked downhill, have any of you realised how long they didnt make any 古装 drama??? many years already...........cos they think that its more economical to make similar kinds, like those family drama, cos easy to produce and cheap

I believe that the best period was during when channel u and mediacorp before merger, cos got competition. Now, without competition, they throw all kinds of trash to us........ we become their trash bin...

But i would just like to highlight that, nowadays sources of entertainment is so much... eg internet tv, satelite tv, SCV, computers.... etc etc, i hope any of the higher level mediacorp ppl read this, and pull up their socks, dun throw any more trash to us. WE HAVE CHOICES OTHER THAN THEIR LOCAL TV

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by bizzkit0102 @ Tue, 20 May 2008 23:16:42 +0800

bizzkit0102 — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:16:42 +0800

Recently its only huang jin lu and just in Singapore that are the good shows released by mediacrap.

Its because mediacrap does not do any wu xia or period shows with the setting in the 1950s-60s thats why every show seems like a clone of the previous one.

Its not really all the actors are crap lah I feel. They are not really given a chance to shine with the rubbish scripts thrown to them.

However, I agree that Elvin Ng is merely a pretty face with no acting ability. Makes me cringe most of the time when I see him acting. And don't even get me started on Dawn Yeo's acting...

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by 798 @ Tue, 20 May 2008 22:05:20 +0800

798 — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:05:20 +0800

tis rhythm of life copied one of japanese drama.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Q.C.Pak @ Tue, 20 May 2008 21:56:48 +0800

Q.C.Pak — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:56:48 +0800

Originally posted by ^C ^:

yeah also better than the "golden pillow"

You can go join Lucy Monostone.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Catknight @ Tue, 20 May 2008 21:55:41 +0800

Catknight — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:55:41 +0800

Until Sg come up something like GTO that blazed thru Asia pacific , we can forget about being media hub!

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by 798 @ Tue, 20 May 2008 21:52:19 +0800

798 — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:52:19 +0800

tis edwin ng really cmi! the moment i watch him really turn me off dat i decide to switch off my tv immediately.

acting still mono n wtf mediacock is pushing him just becos he is some kinda campus superstar?

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by Catknight @ Tue, 20 May 2008 21:48:06 +0800

Catknight — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:48:06 +0800

Even jap

麻辣教師(GTO) - 反町隆 better GTO go!

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by MeepokBoy @ Tue, 20 May 2008 21:31:00 +0800

MeepokBoy — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:31:00 +0800

Im only 20 and already gave up watching local chinese dramas and many other local productions. Local dramas seriously lack creativity in their content. Almost every series got this standard bad guy, good guy and someone will die at the very last episode than the end... *clap hand* thats the end of it and nobody remembers it a week later. -__-'''

Local chinese dramas seldom deviate from the standard family problems and love triangle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon bla bla bla. COME ON! Look at dramas from the states such as Lost, Prison Break, Heroes.... just to name afew. They are distinctly different and have very intersting sometimes outrageous plots. The thing is its new, fresh and different.

Local dramas can go much further and I believe that local writers have the potential to do that. Btw, I hope local media will not move towards sex appeal inorder to draw audience like what Taiwan media is doing. Singaporeans dont need such low quality entertainment and stain the minds of our youth.

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by ^C ^ @ Tue, 20 May 2008 21:12:56 +0800

^C ^ — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:12:56 +0800

Originally posted by Catknight:

That's why Is stopped watch SG dramas..prefer HK dramas instead golden faith better tha sg golden path

yeah also better than the "golden pillow"

Singapore chinese drama cannot make it. replied by thehappybunny @ Tue, 20 May 2008 21:04:48 +0800

thehappybunny — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:04:48 +0800

Fu Man Ren Jian my fave =D

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