Seeing the title i guess most people are wondering what this post would be about, well its a new channel 8 9pm drama that i just watched just now. The timing this show is being aired i guess is too close a coincidence with one of the topic discussed by our PM Lee's National Day Rally. The topic our PM approached was giving increased benefits to encourage Singaporean families to have m0re kids.
Well the show is about this bachelor Alan ( portrayed by Adrian Pang ) who is a selfish and petty man who is hated by all his fellow neighbors in the block. One day his sister shows up at his house with her nine month old baby daughter and begs him to look after the baby girl as she has to rush to the middle east to save her husband. Well as the story progresses on we see many funny antics and situation between Alan and the baby like him learning how to change her diapers and wearing female clothing to breastfeed the girl. Basically the show is trying to portray how much fun and joy a baby can bring to a person or family's life and having a baby can also change one's character to make the person more responsible. This might have a certain effect that would lead couples to ponder deeper on having a children as they see the positives sides and joy of having a kid in the family.
Going back to what i learn during communication lectures, i guess the government is using appeal to emotion ( Pathos ) to persuade couples into having kids. The reason why i feel that the government is using persuasion by emotion is because seeing the comical and happy situation with the baby girl evokes one's emotions, feeling the sense of joy through the tv show.
Personally i feel that the show is not really able to get across the sense of joy of having a baby to its audience. No doubt there are the comical moments in the show but some scenes keep repeating itself making it not comical anymore, for example in one episode yesterday i notice twice they tried to make a comical situation of the baby peeing onto Alan's clothes. Seeing it once was enough but repeating it twice kills the effect. Next i feel that there can be more variety of happy scenes with the baby then there is shown on the show.
Hahz so for those who have read this post please comment on what u think about it and if you have seen the show u can also comment on how you feel about the show.
