Who Are We?

With all this rehashing and parroting of ideas that ABS-CBN is doing, I view Philippine TV as a vast wasteland of unoriginal and uninspired concepts. Mostly copied from the Western spectrum, ABS-CBN TV shows humiliate us Pinoys in a major major way.

First, there was Noah....

.... a murky copy of James Cameron's Avatar.

Then they are bringing us Idol....

... to the likeness of Glee.

And recently announced their newest TV Show.... Imortal

Giving us vampires and werewolves that we've seen in Twilight.

Where is the Pinoy Ingenuity? Where are the new generation of Mars Ravelo? Do we always have to pattern our Art with what is new and successful in the Western World? How can we be noticed and be respected if we keep on mimicking them? Lets try to be us, as we are, for a change, showing what we've really got, not for them, but for ourselves. We are more than Imitators. Pls lang!

Lets learn from Japan. They gathered a little bit of every nice things from others, braid them all together, add their own little twist, and call it their own. The Anime and Takeshi's Castle are examples. And now look! Who is aping them straight off?

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“You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?” -Bernadette Peters