- Bela Padilla once wrote on her Twitter account: “I’m probably the most patient and understanding person you’ll ever meet but I get stretched thin too.” This is what probably happened recently when the actress tried to defend the industry from a netizen who ‘questioned’ the teleserye system in the country.
- A certain netizen using the Twitter handle @sPAULArium voiced out her opinion on social media recently and said that the Filipino audience deserves better than sub-par shows and said that the two giant networks are only out for their respective monetary gains.
- The actress called out the said netizen and tried to explain that teleserye shows though they mostly used the same formulas through time and again, actually made millions of people happy and also weren’t exactly a walk in the park.
You can’t always please everyone, this is life’s given fact. On the microblogging platform Twitter, a netizen which uses the Twitter handle @sPAULArium made a tweet on the petition for Filipino television to start airing shows on a weekly basis rather than daily ones.
@sPAULArium wrote: “PETITION FOR FILIPINO TELEVISION TO START AIRING SHOWS ON A WEEKLY BASIS RATHER AIRING SHOWS ON A DAILY BASIS ONE BECAUSE IT’S PART OF WHY TV QUALITY HERE IS SH*T.”
@sPAULArium consecutively tweeted: “Hope y’all know that sometimes while the first half of the show is airing, they’re still shooting/editing the latter half of the show? WILD.”
“And sometimes the script isn’t event done yet. So writers are at shoots yelling lines for actors to test out? WHY DO WE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN”
The said netizen also gave a suggestion:
“Also, can we stop creating shows/film around certain actors/love teams? How about we focus on the stories first and then CAST ACCORDINGLY?”
She seemed so disappointed with what she had been seeing on Philippine television.
“I’m so angry because the Filipino audience deserves better than sub-par shows that ABS-CBN/GMA are pumping out for monetary purposes!”
“Let’s try delving outside of tried and tested formulas. Nothing wrong with those. But TV has been the same fro years now, no movement at all!”
Bela Padilla did not mince her words by answering: “@sPAULArium You might feel like your fighting for us but you’re putting everyone’s morale down all the same. These shows take months off our lives.”
Bela continued: “@sPAULArium I admire your passion to help out but to call what is already here “sh*t” is just wrong. There are millions made happy by these shows.”
In the end, Bela even made a wish for the said netizen, she wrote: “Anyway, enjoy the upcoming weekend. I hope you don’t encounter tweets that make you question your job ever.”
Well said, Bela. We feel for you. We may not be able to please all the TV viewers but at least you guys made other people happy and entertained, and that’s all that matters.
