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無綫電視事隔多年再度製作並播映《超級無敵獎門人》,由主持人至各環節,原封不動再次呈現給觀眾。電視觀眾似乎不介意,收視率有好成績(雖然收視率今時今日有仍有多少代表性是有爭議性,但最少能反映同一班觀眾之中的趨勢),證明「翻炒冷飯」很合不少人的口胃。儘管有無綫前主播最近抖出該台綜藝製作人員不思長進的心態,但單看《獎門人》收視率也會難怪製作人會作出「橋唔怕舊最緊要受」(點子不怕舊,最重要受落)的結論了。

另一台viuTV最「新」的自家電視劇《I Swim》(播出已接近兩個月),網上對其劇情批評不少,其中有評論指劇情不真實,例如名校學生不會因學校輸掉游泳比賽而私人用鐵棒攻擊對賽學校的學生、師生戀佔據劇情之餘也嫌牽強。相信批評者求學時,定有面對過作文的老大難,就是寫記敍文時——例如記水運會——如何在真實的背景中寫出一個引人入勝的故事,有些情節,就算沒經歷過或目睹過,如果有可能發生的,又或非完全不合理的,為何不能寫?如師生戀不可能發生就不會有相關指引,敗方球迷賽後騷亂發洩更是偶有聽聞吧。加入相關情節於劇情中,佈局、比重固然可作斟酌,但一定不是錯誤,不然就會像把一篇記水運會的記敘文,變質成一篇平鋪直敘的校報新聞了。

特首李家超早前就上任後第一份施政報告出席諮詢會,他其中一個評語,就是「完全很破格的話,在這方面暫時未有極度破格的東西,反而我現在想有否新思維。」說實話,以香港目前的環境和氛圍,期望人民會提出「極度破格的東西」,倒是個頗破格的想法,相信為政者,應不難了解為何民間不能提供突破的原因,但破解此困局,卻非全可由其主宰。

港人素以靈活善變自居,但生活中對新事物或天馬行空思想的狹窄接受程度(由電視劇至社會對非主流的一般偏見),乃至社會層面的食老本和欠缺新思維,卻與「善變」的精神背馳,更會為香港拖後腿。不破格,無突破,換來的只有整個香港社會的破落。

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