kojisuzuki

first of all, i really like this show.Sarah Geronimo gave the best performance of her life so far, Angelica Dela Cruz was equally the same, but what's up with eyebrows. anyway, for me the star of the show is Ai-Ai Delas Alas, who became famous when she moved to ABC-CBN years back.in the Philippines, Bituing Walang Ningning is the highest rated show of ABS-CBN, but it never managed to get higher than GMA's Telefantasya Majika - which is excellent! once Sa Piling Mo ended, ABS-CBN moved Bituing Walang Ningning up against GMA's lowest rated local show I Luv NY. now it occasionally beats I Luv NY's rating, but this did not last for a long time as I Luv NY is about to end its rating went higher again.but anyway, the series is great!but i cant help to think that the original plot of Bituing Walang Ningning is quite close to the plot of all about eve with a fan of a famous figure became much more famous than the famous figure.i think the remake of Bituing Walang Ningning came around because of the success of GMA's Now and Forever: Tinig which is also features rival for fame, lost daughter and an evil mother.

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pope_innocentyears

A highly-legendary quotation from a movie has never been so ironically uttered by someone so self-described. The soap opera "Bituing Walang Ningning" is exactly what "second rate, trying hard, copycat" meant and much more."Bituin" is the remake of the classic rags-to-riches movie of the same title starring Sharon Cuneta as the heroine and the incomparable Cherie Gil as the villain everybody loved. The TV incarnate's characters were ineffectively portrayed by Sarah Geronimo in the Sharon role and Angelika dela Cruz as an embarrassing and pitiful version of the Cherie Gil character. To make matters worse, the writers inserts tiring soap opera elements into the story to make it interesting, with disastrous results."Bituin" would have been a mediocre enough soap opera with its mediocre story and mediocre characters if it were not for Angelika dela Cruz' horrible impersonation of Lavinia. Angelika could have made the character her own if she inserted personal acting touches and originality to the role; however, she begins to emulate Cherie Gil's Lavinia, copying every batted eyelash and swagger that the classic character did. The result: a second-rate, trying-hard, Cherie Gil copycat.ABS-CBN has successfully degraded themselves as the TV fad-makers to the eventual fad-followers as they erringly assumed that remaking classic Filipino movies into soap operas was the "in" thing to do. After the embarrassing turns of "Kampanerang Kuba" and "Panday", one might think that the producers, writers and directors have learned a valuable lesson. However, knowing the hard heads at the network, these lessons went into one ear but out the other.Please visit www.innocentyears.blogspot.com for more commentaries and for you recations.

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