little nyonya

Despite all of Channel 8's attempts to look like it's finally breaking out of the normal nonsense they so love to churn out, Little Nyonya is in exactly the same mould.

I've been pondering this question ever since I woke up to the truth that Channel 8 dramas are all crap; why do they so adore putting mentally challenged people into dramas?
Take Little Nyonya for example: the one episode I actually bothered to watch so that I could critic it contained... you guessed it, a retarded person asking for duck rice. Does this remind you of the other 58349672490752 Channel 8 dramas which all contained retards who could also be easily pacified with, say, duck rice or fishball noodles?
And for some strange reason, all the retards are extremely peaceable and all have useful talents, from picking birds' nests and solving Rubik's Cubes (this was in the time when solving a cube could still be considered a unique talent), and they all have this person whom they adore. Also, somewhere along the series, the abovementioned adored person will get attacked, or compromised in some way or another, and the retard will just happen to pass by and witness it, which will work him up into a frenzied rage where he will run in screaming "YAAAAAAAA" and beat the compromiser up.

However, my mum and grandma remain avid fans of the Little Nyonya show, which they believe has broken out of all known conventions.
I blew apart their theory rather lazily one day in the car. My mum and grandma were discussing the latest development of the show, which was that some random aunty got pushed over a railing during (what else?) a scuffle where she found out a deep dark secret, and in the process of trying to conceal his secret, an over-zealous person inadvertently pushed her- whoops a daisy- over the railing, out of a window which so happened to be conveniently opened.

Note that she only mentioned the part about the random aunty getting pushed over, and I extrapolated the other lengthy bit myself, based on evidence I've gathered over the years regarding Channel 8 shows. But I am right. I just asked my mother for confirmation.

Anyway,
Mum: So how? Do you think she'll die?
Grandma: I dunno. First floor only, so she probably won't.
Me: Don't bother arguing la. She'll definitely die.
Mum: But she only fell from the first floor!
Grandma: Yeah, and the main character fell into a well and didn't die!
Me: That's because she's the main character. The main character could get shot in the chest a gazibillion times, and she'd still miraculously survive. But the random aunty's not a main character, so it wouldn't matter if she fell from a height of 1m onto a soft fluffy mattress. She'd die.
Mum/Grandma: I don't believe you. :/
Me: Wait and see. You'll find out I was right.

Anyway to cut a long story short, I was right.

Little Nyonya is just a scam. You THINK they're breaking out of the monotonous regime of formula-based Channel 8 shows, but they're NOT. They just transported it into... the Peranakan time.

Oh btw my grandma just called. She told my mum I was right. >)