(Source: iGMA.tv)
I didn't mind television thrash so much, except for some witty ads like that Bioessence or something shampoo commercial of un-photoshopped man and his hair.
And the
Robin Padilla/
Angel Locsin tandem
Asian Treasures has become forgivable because of this initial mediocrity.
It's not the celebrity talents. There are simply a lot of misguided elements lifted or taken from a lot of spy movies (
or tv series--- The A Team --- to be specific) as well as characterization that makes it
sablay to the ultimatum.
Of course I am exaggerating. Neither am I an expert on espionage, but I was a spy-kamikaze in my other life, so, I am not here to argue. Just an assassin out to liquidate whatever comes my way on the Asero blah.
The opening. The establishing into using
disierto and
Arabs is downright stupid and discriminatory. A preview of those made-in-China scorpion toys. Spies
NEVER stand out wherever they are. They blend with the sand in the desert, even assuming poisonous arachnids or camels if need be.
Get producers?
Sure we've had loads of Hollywood terrorist movies predicting 9-1-1 and even the impending
US vs. Iran war (
which even obscenely high paid Homeland Security - US of course - observers base their analysis) involving as always our Muslim brothers, but people, we're never really sure who's behind these paid suicide bombers, or if
Osama bin Laden is actually an Arab. Because back here in the Philippines, fellow writers, we also have suicide assassins who will kill vocal journalists for only five thousand pesos (
yeah, that cheap you need not go far for character).
Then, that tube. We've seen that elsewhere, bummer. It was in a
Jacky Chan movie.
Even
Janno Gibbs who's a natural dork has become uncomfortable in his role I can't believe I'd see a trace of embarrassment on his face when finally joined by
Grecko (
Richard Gutierrez' character) in that intro.
Then
Bitoy. We all like Bitoy. But not this time. Is he being depicted as a cross between the
oldie in
Back to the Future and a modern-day IT geek?
He should have been better packaged as the clean-cut, goggles-wearing, old, plain, real-life
Beethoven Bunagan. Because formerly, we had inventors and scientists who hermit themselves in their laboratories, while our present-day ITs splurge on the wonders that technology brings them, including food, vanity sets, and all the materialism they could put their fingers into (
even just by hacking).
What I am trying to say is that production involves research and espionage is about blending and never having to be obvious. The first episode blasted of "glaringly obvious" if there ever was a phrase. It was simply a crime.
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