Asian Treasures + Halukay TV

I’m just glad this show is almost over. It’s not going anywhere anyway.

It’s OK for a character in a story to be culturally insensitive if there is a point in being so, or the character had always been so, as framed in the type of story where it belongs.

But when the professor (played by Eddie Garcia) commented that Elias (played by Robin Padilla) didn’t have a fashion sense because he had always been wearing a g-string, the dialog went way out of line.

In Sugo, GMA-7 had made the statement that the evil within us (lowland multi-ethnics) came from our pre-hispanic ancestors while the good within us came from our Hispanic colonialist (like priests who sired bastard children) forbears.

I am not sure why GMA-7 writers keep on repeating this ‘long live the white men, and lets make fun of our brown ancestors and (by way of extension) siblings’ mantra of theirs. Check out the creative team of Asian Treasures. Not really that creative, by the way.

In Asian Treasures, GMA-7 made fun of the Igorot. They were able not to repeat this with the Mamanwa and everything went well when they went to Thailand. Diana Zubiri was quoted that she felt bad because of the way the elephants were treated, and Angel Locsin’s character had to wrap herself with a sarong and a shawl before she entered a relgious site. (Of course, the Thailand arc of the story was a failed attemp to relive Extra Challenge — it only gave viewers a semblance of movement in a script that was going nowhere — but that is not the focus of this entry.)

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I really liked Diana Zubiri’s comment regarding the treatment of the elephants.

Asian Treasures — Angel Locsin in India
photo courtesy of igma.tv © 2007

Asian Treasures — Angel Locsin in China
photo courtesy of igma.tv © 2007

Gabriela and Elias find themselves in Agusan with the Mamanwa (also spelled as Mamanua) as they continue with their task of finding the third medallion.

The Mamanwa are the Aeta found in Surigao.

It’s good that the creative team did not make fun of them in the story unlike what they did with the fictitious undocumented tribe found in the Cordillera. The Mamanwa were presented as they are now, now what the writers wanted them to look like which is most likely how they looked like during pre-Hispanic times, with some romantic embelishments.

They did the shoot in Mainit, Surigao del Norte last February 26. This was confirmed by the last TXT messages I got from Marky’s FANATXT.

Corporate Social Responsibility: Of Igorots and GMA-7

Asian Treasures disappointment

Feb 27 as shown in the US

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Thanks to geerawrd111

Feb 26 as shown in the US
In the previous episode, Rea Nakpil made her first appearance as Z.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3
Gabriela: I know where we are going next. Baguio.

Thanks to geerawrd111

After Mulawin, Darna and Majika, Angel Locsin now stars in Asian Treasures as Gabriela.