There’s a new disease that’s spreading like a plague in the country right now. It mainly affects women & gays & it’s symptoms are tremendous excitement & titillation, excessive swooning, & an uncontrollable urge to get home before 5:30 PM. It’s worse than the AH1N1 Swine Flu pandemic that has already infected hundreds of Filipinos. This “disease” that I’m referring to is called the “Boys Over Flowers Syndrome” or BOFS, named after ABS-CBN’s new weekday afternoon Koreanovela.
Okay, okay, it’s not exactly a disease but apparently everybody’s seem to have caught it like a STD from a cheap prostitute because it’s the hottest Korean TV series(or “Koreanovela”) today. It’s a remake of the original “Meteor Garden” series from Taiwan, which makes me wonder even more why people are still going crazy over BOF like it was the most original & most groundbreaking Asian TV drama series that has ever been made. Oh yeah I forgot, it has cute boys in it.
“Boys Over Flowers” is worse than Swine Flu for the following reasons:
5. It gives the false notion that underprivileged women can bag handsome rich guys
Right. This should be as common as a rich night club patron falling in love & marrying one of the GROs. I’m not saying that it’s impossible for underprivileged girls to marry rich young bachelors, it’s just that it very rarely happens. Besides, most young, good-looking rich guys are either only interested in banging as many chicks as possible, or already have girlfriends who are also filthy rich, or are gay.
4. Recurring themes that have been done to death
Okay let’s see…
- Poor girl meets spoiled rich boy in unusual circumstances: CHECK.
- Spoiled rich boy falls in love with poor girl: CHECK
- Rich boy’s mean, domineering mother/father disapproves of their relationship & does everything to keep them apart: CHECK.
- Rich boy’s parents want him to be married to a pretty rich girl, but they don’t know she’s a two-faced, scheming, manipulative bitch: CHECK.
- Poor girl & rich boy beat all the odds & live happily ever after: CHECK.
Wow, I wonder how many times the aforementioned scenarios have been played out in various Koreanovelas? You can change some of the minor details, but the main themes have always been the same. Not only is the “Rich-boy-falls-in-love-with-poor-girl-and-despite-overwhelming-odds-they-still-end-up-with-each-other-and-live-happily-ever-after” scenario hard to believe, it’s also getting a little old.
3. It’s been recycled over & over again
Boys Over Flowers(or Hana Yori Dango, as it was originally called) started off as a manga in Japan in 1992 & was adapted into TV series by Taiwan, Japan & Korea. Hell, next thing you know there will be a Pakistani or a Somalian version. I mean, how many times do you have to remake, repackage, regurgitate & feed a drama series to the masses before they say “What the fuck?!” & storm your TV station with torches & pitchforks wanting to lynch the producers?
On the other hand, maybe the TV networks have realized the impact of climate change & have decided to go “green” by recycling everything, including old TV shows. If that was the case, then they’re more deserving of a Nobel Prize than Al Gore for being such great environmentalists.
2. You don’t know if your girlfriend or wife fantasizes about one of the male lead stars when you’re having sex
In the heat of a passionate lovemaking session nothing instantly kills a guy’s raging boner than his woman suddenly blurting out someone else’s name, especially if it’s one of the BOF male stars. How would you react if your chick screams “Ji Hoo!!!” as she reaches the big O? Sure it would hurt your ego & masculinity, but you wouldn’t know whether to punch her in the uterus or laugh.
And here’s the Number 1 reason why Boys Over Flowers is worse than Swine Flu…
1. It’s NOT from North Korea
With the local airwaves being flooded with the same old cheesy, generic TV shows from South Korea, wouldn’t it be nice to have a Koreanovela from their nuke-obsessed neighbor that shows us how awesome their dictator Kim Jong Il is & what great joy it is to be under his authoritarian rule? Think about it: There’s great potential for hilarity from a North Korean drama series because propaganda can be funny. It may even be funnier than Bollywood action films.
Boys Over Flowers: Worse than Swine Flu
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