evil villians with a conscience

Now I have to add this disclaimer here for clarity's sake: I've never watching a single episode of R.E.M. 2, and I have no idea exactly how good they are or how much they suck. This blogpost has been pieced together entirely from the viewing of 1 ad.

So anyway, I was watching TV just now when an ad for R.E.M. 2 came on. (Incidentally, I thought R.E.M. was a really old show dating back from when I was in primary school, and about a smart girl, a bimbo and a tomboy getting together to solve crimes. I'm quite sure they moved past series 2, though)

According to what I've seen, this decade's version of R.E.M. seems to be a trio of girls with long, rebonded hair who fight crimes while dressed in the latest fashion. As a fellow female, I understand the intrinsic desire to look good all the time, but is it really practical to wear your favourite D&G white miniskirt out when fighting evil villians? And besides, wouldn't it help more to have your long rebonded hair up in a ponytail or two instead of having it swishing away in your face all the time? "Eat this, baddie- damn! I can't see! Someone get my hair out of my face!"

Plus if it's anything like the original, R.E.M. should be no stranger to the not-so-glamourous side of crime fighting: the getting knocked out with whatever happens to be on hand at the moment, and the getting tied up. Most people with common sense would have that happen to them once, and then forget it--I'm out of crime fighting. But interestingly enough, R.E.M. doesn't mind doing that not once, but about a billion times. Such masochistic tendencies.

And the most ridiculous thing about the ad: It showed one of the crime-fighting fashionistas screaming at a villian while being tied up: "YOU'RE SICK!!!!!!"

If I were the evil villian getting shouted at, I would definitely stop, put my knife down on the floor, and go: "You're right. I-- I never knew." And then I would untie them, and turn myself in at the nearest police post or check myself in for psychiatric evaluation. Because really, all evil villians capable of murdering lots of people have consciences hidden deep inside them which can be triggered easily by the average bimbo.

And of course, everyone goes home happy and contented in time for their next facial. The reality levels of some Singaporean dramas are so deplorable that the possibility that we're all part of a giant computer simulation doesn't seem that far fetched anymore.