Archive for November, 2007

13
Nov

I’m now updated to South Park

By jamideleon 3 Comments
Categories: Television

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South Park is an animated comedy series well-known for its toilet humor (meaning it’s not for kids) presenting pop culture parody and political satires. Other countries are being ridiculed in the show too. Oh no! Will it be another Desperate Housewives, The Daily Show, or Jimmy Kimmel Live for Filipinos? I’m now addicted with the show especially that I am almost updated with the regular airings of South Park. Almost because I do not live in America and I only depend on sites that stream South Park episodes (same thing as Bleach anime, I don’t live in Japan… ooops!) so there’s an hour/day delay. Jack TV airs South Park here in the Philippines but they keep on replaying the episodes and they are taking time before they release new seasons. There’s no assurance that I’ll be able to complete the episodes with that. Reason Magazine had an interview with the creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker about downloading their episodes.

RM: When it looked like Comedy Central wasn’t going to rerun the Mary episode, people were still able to download it illegally online. Did you see that as a victory for free speech, or did you think, “My God, these people are stealing our intellectual property”?

Stone: We’re always in favor of people downloading. Always.

RM: Why?

Stone: It’s how a lot of people see the show. And it’s never hurt us. We’ve done nothing but been successful with the show. How could you ever get mad about somebody who wants to see your stuff?

Parker: We worked really hard making that show, and the reason you do it is because you want people to see it.

I admired the show for its creativity, humor, the voices, and its cutout animation. "You know, I’ve learned something today" has been my favorite catchphrase followed by the boys of South Park’s realization on the issue in an episode.


Matt Stone and Trey Parker

I can’t imagine how the creators can still come up with lots of philosophical ideas considering South Park has been in the air for ten years now. See how they make fun of themselves on the video below. It is from the DVD version where episodes begin with a fireside chat with Matt and Trey.

12
Nov

Power Rangers SPD

By jamideleon 0 Comments
Categories: Television

Swatmode

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is one of my most watched TV show when I was a kid and my favorite rangers were Green Ranger and White Ranger. I had a Green Ranger action figure when I was young and there were lots of imaginations running in my mind about Power Rangers at that time.

I’m not a retard to be hooked to Power Rangers now that I am 22 but there’s a new generation of rangers called Power Rangers SPD shown in Cartoon Network that caught my attention. I’m not really an avid viewer of the show but I’m watching it if I’ve got the chance to. I’ve found out that the new Power Rangers evolved from episodic (where it always starts from a monster bringing terror, rangers will come out to fight, the monster will grow larger, the rangers summoning their zords or the robot they use against larger monsters, and results to the defeat of the enemy) to series. They are inter-gallactic police similar to Shaider or its Filipino gay version Zaido and serve as Earth’s defense to planet-conquering empires. There had been lots of new incarnations of the Power Rangers but only the SPD intrigues me. Nice costumes too, they can transform to SWAT mode giving more power to their arsenal. It just made me think that kids today were very fortunate to be exposed to a more creative TV shows. SPD is followed by Power Rangers: Mystic Force but this one’s not cool because their powers came from some kind of magical world like how Filipino superheroes are depicted on TV. Bakit ba kelangang lahat ng superheroes ng mga Pinoy ay may lahing engkanto? Anyway, I’m too old to be interested with these Power Ranger things. It’s morphin’ time! (!?!)