It's a new year. It's safe to say the mini-wave created by the first Big 3 Pinoy love teams to be recognized by young international fans has peaked in the middle of 2017 & has been downhill ever since. This is not to say that Kathniel, Lizquen & Jadine have been forgotten but the novelty has obviously faded. It was just unfortunate that the infrastructure & the vision to sustain the unexpected "miracle"were not there. While the Bollywood stars traipsed for "meet & greets" from Saigon to Jakarta as Bollywood telenovelas dominated the ratings in Indonesia & the rest of the big Southeast Asian markets, "nangangapa" Pinoy-style wins as usual. Everybody seemed to be dumbfounded by what happened- how in the world were the Pinoy LT's noticed!- they didn't know how to react, or even to milk the situation, much less how to prolong the moment.
They trashed the home instead. Looking at the new teen loveteams on the wings, I don't know if they're trying to make a joke. Probably, it was safer to repulse everybody else so they won't face a situation where they are caught unable to react again. It's safer to repulse the fans (who cares about internationally-popular Pinoy LT's anyway?) than to be proved stupid.
Certainly, I was repulsed. The lack of posts in the blog clearly shows my fading interest. During the holiday get-togethers, I checked the level of interest among the younger ones & everybody was clueless about local showbiz. Checking on the brood of the helps elicited more interests on DOTA & everything else except showbiz. Well, it's obvious scraping the barrel has become vogue.
But the blog will continue. If I'm not too keen on the local scene, we'll still document their adventures outside, at least we hope international taste would have filtered out the repulsive ones by then...but we have some surprises, we're linguists after all so we can easily seek satisfaction elsewhere. Just wait.
Meanwhile, deserving Pinoy stars can seek their star somewhere else on their own. It appears Teejay Marquez has really hit big-time in Indonesia. At a time when the original F4 is being remade in China, Indonesia is doing its own version in SCTV's current hit Siapa Takut Jatuh Cinta Reborn. Pinoy actor Teejay Marquez appears as one of the 4 main characters together with the top Indonesian young hearthrobs Aliando Syarief, Verrel Bramastha & Bryan Domani (though in a sudden development, Syarief, currently the top Indonesian young star, backed out because he felt his character was turning out to be not the main star).
This is currently the top-rating show in Indonesia, vaulting its station SCTV into the top station with the biggest audience share among the 15 Indonesian TV stations.
They trashed the home instead. Looking at the new teen loveteams on the wings, I don't know if they're trying to make a joke. Probably, it was safer to repulse everybody else so they won't face a situation where they are caught unable to react again. It's safer to repulse the fans (who cares about internationally-popular Pinoy LT's anyway?) than to be proved stupid.
Certainly, I was repulsed. The lack of posts in the blog clearly shows my fading interest. During the holiday get-togethers, I checked the level of interest among the younger ones & everybody was clueless about local showbiz. Checking on the brood of the helps elicited more interests on DOTA & everything else except showbiz. Well, it's obvious scraping the barrel has become vogue.
But the blog will continue. If I'm not too keen on the local scene, we'll still document their adventures outside, at least we hope international taste would have filtered out the repulsive ones by then...but we have some surprises, we're linguists after all so we can easily seek satisfaction elsewhere. Just wait.
Meanwhile, deserving Pinoy stars can seek their star somewhere else on their own. It appears Teejay Marquez has really hit big-time in Indonesia. At a time when the original F4 is being remade in China, Indonesia is doing its own version in SCTV's current hit Siapa Takut Jatuh Cinta Reborn. Pinoy actor Teejay Marquez appears as one of the 4 main characters together with the top Indonesian young hearthrobs Aliando Syarief, Verrel Bramastha & Bryan Domani (though in a sudden development, Syarief, currently the top Indonesian young star, backed out because he felt his character was turning out to be not the main star).
This is currently the top-rating show in Indonesia, vaulting its station SCTV into the top station with the biggest audience share among the 15 Indonesian TV stations.
