ORIGINALITY... OVERRATED?

I am once again caught up in watching a TV series. Last night, I continued with my Gilmore Girls Season 2 marathon... I only stopped when my eyes and head started to hurt. I slept at around 4 in the morning and woke up at 12 noon. Been that way for 2 days now. Haha.

It's amazing how easily we can get caught up in watching things like these... how easily they can turn into an addiction. I remember the first "series" I religiously watched when I was younger... it was Marimar. Yes, the original version that stars Thalia. I started to watch it because my playmates then promptly stopped our play times at 6 in the evening because they wanted to catch their favorite soap opera. So I decided to check it out for myself to see what's taking away a few more minutes of my play time. And so I got hooked... along with my family. We only had one TV, you see... so they really had no choice but to watch it with me. After that came Maria la del Barrio, Rosalinda, Ruby and what not. After the boom of Mexican telenovelas Koreanovelas. Jumpstarting it was the ever famous Meteor Garden. I got hooked on that, too... along with millions of Filipinos. Looking back on it now makes me realize how much of a sucker I was. I also got hooked on the original version of My Girl. I keep saying "the original version" because nowadays, it seems that all the networks ever seem to do is make an adaptation of old koreanovelas and other telenovelas. I mean, what's the big idea? Or do they even have ideas anymore? Because it certainly seems like they don't. What amazes me more is how the viewers easily get hooked on the bait even if they already know how the story would play out. Minsan nga hindi na makatotohanan at talagang pinapahaba na lang kasi maraming nanonood. I'm just wondering where the writers are with brilliant and creative minds. I am a Mass Communication graduate in a well-established institution and we were not educated to follow the trend or to do something that's already been done. We were taught to think out of the box and come up with ideas that are purely our own. I just hope the time will come again when we will see authentic stories on primetime television again.

Until then, I will be watching my much preffered TV series on DVD while others watch the nth remake of Darna. Who knows, maybe the time will come when she won't have to swallow a stone anymore.