Taskforce Firewall: GMA-7 Hasn't Learned Its Lesson At All

Personally, I don't watch TV anymore, compared to using the TV set to view YouTube videos or digital subscriptions. It's crazy, but ABS-CBN and GMA-7 still follow the TELESERYE AHEM TELEBASURA FORMULA. It's quite inexcusable because if you look at GMA-7's foreign programming schedule -- they certainly HAD a lot ot learn from. For example:

• The 2000s had GMA-7 air IRIS and Love Story in Harvard (which actually HAD legal drama in it) for a start.
• GMA-7 competing with ABS-CBN meant it would air other K-Drama crime shows, like Innocent Defendant (a very grim frame-up drama), Yong Pal, Suspicious Partner, and One Ordinary Day later on in its K-Drama lineup. 

In short, GMA-7 had a lot of TEMPLATES to follow from. GMA-7 could've actually started restructuring stuff. Taskforce Firewall's premise is interesting because the problem is COMMON in the Philippines. The pedophilic cybersex den where foreigners predate on preteen girls is a REALITY. However, we end up spending TOO MUCH TIME on the flashbacks. For example, Isa Cervantes the main protagonist (acted by Kylie Padilla) was a victim of childhood exploitation. Isa's nanny was a child trafficker. However, spending TOO MUCH TIME on that flashback can distract us from the PRESENT ISA. It seems the show wants us to care more about how HOT Isa looks than how conflicted of a heroine Isa is. 

Honestly, I was really laughing at the whole Han So Hee/Kylie comparison. I was watching My Name, and I thought about how Korean crime know how to deal with backstories. We see some glimpses of Ji Woo's past and how she lost her father. We can all assume her mother had died before the series started. The backstories served as THE CATALYST. They weren't overly expanded because the story focuses on the PRESENT JI WOO -- a woman who got manipulated by a syndicate as a mole. We don't want too many details of the PAST JI WOO. Ji Woo's past was kept to a minimum or as a catalyst that explained her current actions.

However, Taskforce Firewall is too obsessed with world-building the past than the present continuity. It fails to see that expanded backstories work better IN PRINT than on DIGITAL. For example, the Legends canon of Star Wars created the Expanded Universe as print-only stories. These stories are meant to be commentaries on the actual movies. One could read about the backstories of Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Jabba the Hutt, etc., at their own pace. 

So yeah, Taskforce Firewall is what I'd call,"GREAT IDEA, TERRIBLE EXECUTION." The show could've been used to raise awareness. However, the show's lack of integrity can be frustrating too.