Darna

I never liked superhero soaps which have been widely popular in the Philippines. But this morning WOW does not appeal to me at all and there aren't any chores to be done. So I went to the website where I watch Filipino soaps and variety shows. The latest post was DARNA. It is the Philippine version of Wonder Woman. So many movie and soap versions have been made and all of them were rubbish. Curiosity got the better of me and decided to have a look at the new Darna installment. And no surprise, special effects still haven't moved on in 2009. It was laughable. To make it all worse, Janice de Belen's acting is the crappest of all crap.

But the thing that got to me the most is the storyline. There were three women - one who has no problem getting pregnant and was on her fourth child, one can't have a child at all and the third just recently had a miscarriage because of complications which caused her husband to go back to his mistress. In desperation she resorted to going into the mountain with a chicken for an offering to the 'gods'. That again isn't anything new. But what I found really pathetic about it is that how the third woman was crying over a husband who would readily leave her because she can't give him a child! She wanted so much to have a child to secure her marriage. What a load of garbage! It'a all right to want to have a child especially for a woman in her mid thirties who feels that she is running out of time but if she wants that child to make sure her husband doesn't leave her, well that is well and truly wrong. A child doesn't complete a marriage nor a family. Having a child should just add to your happiness as a couple. If you're not secured in your marriage then you shouldn't be in in at all.