!Wednesday, June 21, 2006
OMG?
I was watching the Channel 8 C.I.D. show, where they try to copy some X-Files show starring Ivy Lee where there are many cases and every one takes up like 3-4 episodes.
Just that the Ivy Lee one was better, because there was a lot of weird supernatural girls-with-red-hair-due-to-pollution-from-a-chemical-plant stories, and we all remember Julian Hee trying to move chess pieces with his brain.
Anyway, I'm in the middle of the third one, and I know because I'm sort of cheating and reading the sypnosis of the whole show on
mediacorpsingapore.com.
And its called.....DID I TELL YOU I AM A WOMAN?
Hahahaha.
So, according to the website:
Oh darn, they have disabled the right click so I can't cut-and-paste the summary. I'm helping to advertise for your show lah, mediacorp! Any publicity (good, bad, big, small, minute, microscopic, obselete, extinct) is good publicity!
Ok so anyway some man called Dawn went for a gender change, became a woman called Tata (sounds familiar?) and killed a coupla people (ok, she only killed her ex-boyfriend, but the more, the merrier.) And then she tries to kill some more people, including a police inspector, but gets stopped
just in time (told you you can't get away from killing a police inspector!).
Sounds like crap? That's cause I'm writing it, and basically paraphrasing. Go to the website to find out, for basically the chimmified and professionally english-done-up version.
And the reason I am freaking out is:
1. The music is so damn creepy. Especially when you find out some beautiful, mysterious girl is actually a...
guy? There's some Psycho-esque bathroom chiller song playing all the time. And its freaky especially when you are home alone. Yes, call me a scaredy cat or whatever, I muted the whole freaking tv.
2. EVERYBODY DIES. The Tata person dies (I think), Jeanette Aw gets shot (OH NO! A deviation from the usual ooh-I'm-a-ballet-princess-in-pink-with-electricuted-hair roles), Tay Ping Hui almost gets shot, and that Belinda person (I think that's the actress's name, or maybe its my stereotype that all pregnant depressed people are called Belinda, no offence), commits suicide in hospital clothes (which is so cliche already, jumping off a hospital roof).
3. I think I may have short term memory loss, cos I just forgot what the third one was.
click to see that almost-suicidal person in a state of depression and other whatnot.
OH YEAH I REMEMBER NUMBER 3 NOW!
Ivy Lee gets a bit part in the show, just that its called a cameo, classier. Apparently she sports this aunty curly hair look. She was so much better in the other X-Files or Y-Files or Z-Files or whatever it was called show. I think curly shoulder length hair is enough to give me the creeps.
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