Ultimate Crime Fighter (UCF)

The Ultimate Crime Fighter is beginning to air on Thursday, October 23, 2008 on Fairchild after Phoenix Rising. UCF is not the greatest series...so many things went wrong and so many things could've been done so much better...it could have been easily mistaken as an "ATV" series. I was pretty disappointed at this series when I was watching it, to the point it made me stop watching it and skipping episodes which is extremely rare for me to do. Besides the obvious like Kevin killing Gigi and Moses killing Kevin, I can't remember exactly what I proposed as changes, but I think it was something like Kevin should have faced his past and admitted to it rather than killing Gigi. It was Kevin and Gigi's second collaboration (first was Life Art) and they took their endings to the two extremes. Moses shouldn't have gone 'insane' and him and Yoyo should've ended up with more. I didn't think "the ultimate crime fighter" was established in any one of the characters in the series, so the series doesn't fit the title....We'll see if I have the time to watch this one again...

My TVB Award Prediction

Best Actor - Ha Yu
Best Actress - Michelle Yim
Best Supporting Actor - That 'old guy' I voted for?
Best Supporting Actress - Fala Chen
Favorite TV Male Character - Raymond Lam
Favorite TV Female Character - Susanna Kwan
Most Improved Actor - That 'younger dude' I voted for?
Most Improved Actress - Tavia Yeung
Best Host - Super Trio Show
Best Series - Moonlight Resonance
Best Information Show - Super Trio Show

My TVB Vote

Best Actor - Kevin Cheng
Best Actress - Louise Li (LSK)
Best Supporting Actor - Louise's father in Moonlight Resonance - He was pretty funny
Best Supporting Actress - Tavia Yeung
Favorite TV Male Character - Raymond Lam (Moonlight Resonance)
Favorite TV Female Character - Myolie Wu (War of In-Laws 2)
Most Improved Actor - That guy on the right...Mikako Leung(梁珈詠)...He's the best of the five...I don't like that short guy...too short
Most Improved Actress - Selina Li
Best Host - Amigo and that girl (JSG is the only show that I've really watched)
Best Drama Series - The Seventh Day
Best Info Show - Strictly Come Dancing

October 7th Crits

Tonight, I just feel like turning back in time, I really wish that was possible. Because the crit today was somewhat informal, I didn't prepare what I wanted to say on paper or on cue cards and I just thought out loud last night. When I got up to speak about my 'back wall project' today I didn't know where to start and blanked out and then got nervous and it was probably one of my most unprofessional presentation. The studdering, and the ums and the ahs...I tend to think out loud too and that didn't help, lol.

Okay, so here is what I wanted to say...

"This mesh in here represents the partitioning the man tries to hide himself behind because that was a key element of my story. My story has a sense of squeezing and closing in on the space and I communicated that feeling in my wall by creating this small, tight space with the walls of the drawing 'ballooning' into the space and the mesh arching over. The openings in the mesh are small to allow only little amounts of light in while still preserving the visibility of the 'man' and the '2 girls'. Collision is a recurring theme in my story, with the briefcase, man griping hand onto rod, and holding his other hand on his chest, so I took that theme and captured a 'collision' like a series of frames in my wall design. I played with subtlety and elements at the end are split and ripped apart from their regular forms. Finally, all that happens on that end is hidden from this particular view where everything is smooth and peaceful which is deceiving just like how the man entered the booth on his own will not knowing the consequences."

"My section in the Army Surplus Building has no basement and I only have a crawlspace and since that crawlspace was dark and isn't accessible from directly within my site, I focused on the roof and main floor. On the main floor I spent my longest time in this office space which I enlarged on this poster and on my drawing because the atmosphere was comforting. There is also this interesting colliding of different materials in this one corner that I could tie to my back wall. The back rooms were the complete opposite and the spaces were daunting. On the roof, I cut through the lattice structure that holds up the billboard and in order to experience my site, I had to go over and under and so I represented it in a series of plans that are stacked on top of one another. I organized them as ground level, waist level, and arm's reach. Any questions?"

October Already?

Well one month down and seven more to go! As I would have come to expect, I only made a handful of posts last month because of school.

Steps ending on Friday and Channel A ended on Saturday. The ending of Steps was good, better than Brink of Law. There is an obvious relationship between the two series with Steven, Bernice, and Kate in both. Though the ending was better than Brink of Law, I found the time after competition to the time of the proposal a bit draggy. I mean I knew it was going to happen but they put it of until the absolute very end of it. I wish they showed scenes of the wedding or them getting prepared for it or something. I didn't like Steven's character very much, he seemed to be the playboy type and didn't take the relationship seriously at first and was in denial and then he was hesitant to marry Bernice even when she ask. Bernice was really "hun ga" (eager to marry) and it was funny to see a girl be that way. So 3.75/5.

Channel A was one of my favourite ATV series, no crazy people killing each other or ghosts/goblins. It was a nice romantic series. Having said that, there is still room for improvement...I really liked the beginning but near the end, many new things were introduced and corners were cut. I wish they had developed the relationship between "Sum Keet" and "Ching Jee" a bit more. At first they started because they both felt betrayed, but then realized that that wasn't true love and split. Though I missed a couple of episodes because I was in Toronto, I don't think they showed their point of realization that true love does exist between them. "Sum Keet" seems to like the artist way more than "Ching Jee", and only chose "Ching Jee" because she didn't want to be a work of art. I can see how Ching Jee likes Sum Keet but not the other way around. Anyways, time fore bed...So also 3.75/5.