“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – VOLTAIRE.
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Many a Pinoy household know and most probably watch the BQ TV series on prime time.
It is because it is starred in by Coco Martin in a follow up of the long running ‘Ang Probinsiyano’ inspired by the film legend Fernando Poe Jr.
I look at ‘Batang Quiapo as somewhat a takeoff from a mix of action thriller movies (local and foreign) that tittilates the ‘masa’ and keeps them glued and entertained Mondays to Fridays.
With the media promo hype, BQ is certainly something the Pinoy household cannot afford to miss.
It is focused on a young rebel (without a cause) whose maverick and ‘siga-siga’ (ala Asiong Salonga) attitude is deceptive because it impresses a “heroic” personality on the young formative minds of kids who are allowed by their parents to watch it.
But what takes the cake is the involvement of characters who are from the ranks of the police hierachy.
When you say “police,” it necessarily refers to the Philippine National Police.
Whether one likes it or not, (even with the disclaimer at the beginning) the unsavory characters of police officials in the BQ series projects the cops as corrupt and scheming drug dealers in uniform who are a reflection of what is contemporarily going on today.
Did not DILG chief BenHur Abalos purged the PNP of corrupt and shady police officers by asking them – from the rank of full colonel upwards to tender their courtesy resignations some months ago?
The time came when PBBM approved and accepted the resignations of 18 officers and I take it that several of them – if not all – will be facing criminal charges in court.
My point here is this: Should not the DILG and the PNP officialdom raise a protest and question the producers of the BQ series on the manner the PNP is being projected notoriously on the TV screen which somehow gives the wrong impression that drug dealing syndicates in the PNP exist and continue to ply their dirty trade?
The actors in the BQ series portraying the roles of corrupt PNP officers are very good and credible.
They emote their roles and create a hated characterization because of the viciousness by which they conduct their nefarious illegal drug business.
They have a select team of killers in their police ranks and portray what appears to me as a “direct semblance” of the manner cops shot and killed an innocent, unarmed teenager in Malabon City.
The language they use is truly the jargon of contemporaty police life.
Except for a few noticeable slips, the other integral components like direction, script and production design are also impressive
The theme music is also commendable.
Unfortunately, I somehow am beginning to believe that as the BQ series will likely live for a number of years like its predecessor ‘Ang Probinsiyano,’ the notorious corrupt character of the PNP will be etched deeper into the Pinoy household consciousness.
I wonder also why the MTRCB has allowed so much violence not only in BQ but in several more TV action serials (past and present) having the same genre.
Definitely, these are not morally uplifting.
They are in fact degeenerative because they cater to the baser instinct of man.
For a Third World country like ours that still has plenty of room and space to avoid the mistakes of the past, it becomes incu,vent upon the agencies I mentioned here to take note and reflect the situation we are in now.
The children and the young impressionable minds of this generation have become preys to the greed and avarice of ambitious evil;people who are blinded by the illussions of granduer and power.
While Dep=-Ed Sec. Sara Duterte works to improve and raise the educational standards of Pinoy school children and other learners, her efforts can g down the drain if the other guardians of the law sleep on their jobs.
Really a pity. What a sorrowful waste. (Email feedback to fredlumba@yahoo.com). GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES!
