Now, as all you muggers out there know, we have to have 4 hours of protected revision time *cue holy music* on weekdays and and 10 hours of protected revision time *cue holy music* on weekends. We also understand some of you may be having a hard time transiting to a full-mugger mode, and that your mug engine seems to belong to belongs to a 99 year old 1908 Ford Model T. Labels: TV Show
Rather than to a Bugatti Veyron.
So, we being very helpful Mugalomaniacs have decided to summarise your favourite TV shows, so you can cut down on time spent catching your favourite serials to study. Unfortunately, we are not going to go through every episode of Lost, Desperate Housewives, CSI, or [Insert favourite Korean serial]. Rather, we will distill each show in to its basic components, like an empirical formula so you know in the end what its all about. We also will not mind accepting feedback from our readers, after which we will be able to create a more accurate equation for the percentage composition of each genre of shows, e.g. 20% weeping+10%affairs+20%fights, and so on. So, here's are the rough chemical general composition of each show.
DISCLAIMER: Before you read the following post, please keep in mind that it was written purely tongue-in-cheek and SHOULD BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. It intends NO OFFENCE to any specific genre, or its viewers (as I have poked fun at as many as I can think of), and this information within SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AT FACE VALUE. It also does not represent the opinions of the Mugalomaniacs, nor of its author. If you think you have no sense of humor, please leave immediately or get a humor transplant. I'm sure you can find a willing donor. If you still continue to read and get offended, I'm going to say "I told you so..." To the rest, read, laugh, and enjoy. (And if you want to thank us, simply tag or just tell your friends about us.) As I say, Mugalomaniac is the best medicine.
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Japanese Anime
Themes:
-Conflict
-Quests
-Friendship/Parties (The game kind)
-Romance (Sometimes)
-Oversized cleavage (occasionally)
-Oversized swords (most of the time)
-Impossibly beautiful/dashing/cute characters (almost always)
-Protagonists with vast unquantifiable amounts of (possibly hidden) powers
-Spectacular battle scenes
In general: Involves A Chosen One with probably hidden powers who will defeat the Evil with his (possibly ragtag) band of friends. May possess a sword about the size of a surfboard, and able to commit wanton acts of destruction with his unlimited supply of power.
Taiwan serial
Themes:
-Conflict
-Slapping (lots, as seen in ads)
-Business competition
-Family
-Affairs
-Minimal romance
In general: Conflict within family/families, involving business, or work. Advertisements are often chararcterised by overly dramatic music and montages of several different random people slapping and/or punching other different random people. "Piak, piak, piak, arbish, arbish, piak!" is often heard during this sequence.
Hongkong Serial
Themes:
-[Theme of show]Marriage/Law/Police/Doctors/Pilots/Bakers/Rescuers/[insert occupation]
-Family
-Conflicts, which are resolved
-Only to be replaced by other conflicts
-Affairs
-More romance than the previous
-Fantasy
-Martial arts
-Magic
-Monsters
-Celestial beings
In general: Stays on topic the most with each serial having its own clearly defined theme (usually job-based). The last few themes are from period dramas. Some drag on into spawning a thousand or more episodes,enough to keep you glued to the idiot box for months if not years, and would probably take up a sizeable chunk of Youtube space. An endless stream of crises appear, because without them, there wouldn't be any show.
Korean Serial
Themes:
-Romance (most of the time)
-Tears/sadness
Love triangle(I'm surprised noone has come up with Benzlove, a 6 sided love loop)
-Something bad happening to either the male or female lead
-Breakups
-Separation
-Parting
-Ancient Korea (anomaly, but I don't say that in a bad way)
-hot guys (rolls eyes. heheh...rhymes)
-hot girls (I THINK. Sorry, information failure here.)
-Sweet stuff
In general: Mostly on BGR, and hot Korean guys/hunks/omg lookit him omg omg *drool*(hey I'm JUST KIDDING, chill)there are other shows, like uh, this popular new show about a girl pretending to be a guy in a guys school(correct me if i'm wrong), and Da Chang Jin, show about cooking, healing, etc(we all know the rest because its very popular) set in ancient Korea.
Singaporean Serial(or rather, sitcom)
Themes:
-Family
-Humor
-Conflict
-Romance
-Er?
In general: Um, gee I'm honestly stumped. Some have been popular like PCK, (if you don't know what's that, you oughta move out from under that rock and buy a HDB flat) but no others have had spectactular successes. Singapore serials are more on sitcoms for the English channel, and drama only in the Chinese channels.
US Serials
Themes:
-Desperate Housewives (I guess its sorta like a theme)
-Crime investigation (No prizes for guessing who)
-Escaping from a prison
-Being stranded on a mysterious island (OoOoOoO...)
In general: Desperate housewives, sex, affairs, families, CSI, usual exciting crime stuff, but more high-tech than most HK police serials, Prison break, very fresh and original, Lost, another original hit.
There you go. Stocked up on the gist of all the shows you wanna watch, you can now go without television for the next year or so. And don't get all angry and such if I made fun of a genre you like. I like Rave and Bleach( Japanese animes) and I have watched my fair share of HK serials, so please, look at the lighter side of life. We must learn to laugh at ourselves once in a while. Cheers. =]
