Panday Kids, the newest GMA telefantasya, comes at the most opportune time. Barely two months from now, this nation is electing the country’s president and its other top brass. Panday Kids can help us reflect about good and evil, which this national election is exactly about.
From the initial segments and a Sunday marathon, Panday kids clearly cut the universal theme of good and evil into motion. In the evil camp, there is Cicero, Andreas, and what is Panday without its ultimate evil-nemesis Lizardo.
Cicero, Lizardo’s lapdog, is envious and greedy. These characteristics compel him to bring his evil lord back to life. Cicero is highly skilled and was trained in the best school of the imaginary kingdom. His galing at talino can almost make you think that he can actually be an alternate ego of his evil lord. However, his galing at talino make you wonder why he could not see the evil ways of his evil lord.
Cicero started good and is decidedly a leader material of a sort. His friends, and especially his family, see this. He can charm a crowd, his friends, especially his family and relatives. Thus, he is given all the privileges of good training and education. But he is all-too willing to betray everyone, friends and all, again even his own close family and relatives, who by reckoning gave him all the opportunities for growth.
In fact, Cicero (and his likes in our real kingdom) oftentimes is the family’s favorite. Cicero belongs to the kind that can sugar coat his betrayal for epic ambition in equally epic proportion, claiming among other things, that he is able to betray his friends, especially his family and relatives, for a higher cause. Late will be the hour when he will finally realize, if ever he does, that the promised all-out support of his evil lord is phony and is as good as his evil lord’s ambition. As we all know by now, evil ambition knows no end. The imaginary (and the real) horizon foretells this. You don’t even have to read the stars.
However, despite his attachments to evil powers, there are times you wish he is with the good camp. Yes, Kaye, when we sort out the real characters in the real kingdom, it is not difficult to identify who Cicero is.
As Panday Kids progresses, I predict that it will unravel more Cicero-like evil characters. However, these evil characters are more heinous, yet subtle. Like Cicero, they will also charm the people. Initially, they can also look so kind and angelic. They will even claim that they come from the ranks of the people, so not to get their ire this early of the evil game. But, we know this, evil (and the crimes that go with it) has quite a distinct identity. In the end, it will necessarily have to rear its ugly head. They are mostly evasive about their evil acts, and claim that their good opponents are just out there to destroy them, nothing more and nothing less. However, paper trails (and history) can prove their evil ways. Lizardo’s evil friends will compete with Lizardo to out-evil him. However, Lizardo is the devil himself, and we know this, we can’t out-evil evil.
Back in the real kingdom, it’s so easy to identify Lizardo’s friends. Just listen to the numerous catchy and attractive advertisements. You can’t help but sing their jingles.
Lizardo, of course, catches our attention. Insatiable powers, various powers, including emergency powers are the language of his mouth. The desire to accumulate more wealth and power are the driving force of his being. Moreover, he desires to be in his throne for the sheer pleasure of being in the throne. He will not give in, he will not relinquish power. He could not hide this no matter what he does, even if he is faking it, like dishing out his I-am-sorry dialogues or into his I-will-not-run again promises. You know, your gut-feel tells you, he is lying. After the crocodile tears, he is back to his evil ways.
Lizardo’s generosity to his evil friends is also gargantuan, especially to those who can execute his evil ways. It’s not difficult to track down Lizardo’s largesse to his evil friends. You will see his evil friends getting out of the palace carrying bags and bags of loot. They party and taste sumptuous food in and from foreign lands in broad daylight.
Lizardo will also make all sorts of evil deals and contracts to stay in power and to buy more power. Expect that he does not believe in human rights. He has no use for such ideals. Lizardo, with the help of his dear evil friends will raise the ante of mayhem and evil, including killing practically a whole barangay if need be. When Lizardo gives to buy an entire population, expect that he will be getting more.
Lizardo will resurrect again and again with the help of his evil friends. Haughty and insensitive as he is (at wala na talagang delicadeza), he brandishes whatever he does. Don’t be surprised if he attempts to paint sign boards in every nook and cranny of the imaginary (and the real) kingdom with his so-called accomplishments. We know this. We puke on these lies.
Yes, Kaye, back in our real kingdom, Lizardo does not necessarily have to be male.
From the initial segments and a Sunday marathon, Panday kids clearly cut the universal theme of good and evil into motion. In the evil camp, there is Cicero, Andreas, and what is Panday without its ultimate evil-nemesis Lizardo.
Cicero, Lizardo’s lapdog, is envious and greedy. These characteristics compel him to bring his evil lord back to life. Cicero is highly skilled and was trained in the best school of the imaginary kingdom. His galing at talino can almost make you think that he can actually be an alternate ego of his evil lord. However, his galing at talino make you wonder why he could not see the evil ways of his evil lord.
Cicero started good and is decidedly a leader material of a sort. His friends, and especially his family, see this. He can charm a crowd, his friends, especially his family and relatives. Thus, he is given all the privileges of good training and education. But he is all-too willing to betray everyone, friends and all, again even his own close family and relatives, who by reckoning gave him all the opportunities for growth.
In fact, Cicero (and his likes in our real kingdom) oftentimes is the family’s favorite. Cicero belongs to the kind that can sugar coat his betrayal for epic ambition in equally epic proportion, claiming among other things, that he is able to betray his friends, especially his family and relatives, for a higher cause. Late will be the hour when he will finally realize, if ever he does, that the promised all-out support of his evil lord is phony and is as good as his evil lord’s ambition. As we all know by now, evil ambition knows no end. The imaginary (and the real) horizon foretells this. You don’t even have to read the stars.
However, despite his attachments to evil powers, there are times you wish he is with the good camp. Yes, Kaye, when we sort out the real characters in the real kingdom, it is not difficult to identify who Cicero is.
As Panday Kids progresses, I predict that it will unravel more Cicero-like evil characters. However, these evil characters are more heinous, yet subtle. Like Cicero, they will also charm the people. Initially, they can also look so kind and angelic. They will even claim that they come from the ranks of the people, so not to get their ire this early of the evil game. But, we know this, evil (and the crimes that go with it) has quite a distinct identity. In the end, it will necessarily have to rear its ugly head. They are mostly evasive about their evil acts, and claim that their good opponents are just out there to destroy them, nothing more and nothing less. However, paper trails (and history) can prove their evil ways. Lizardo’s evil friends will compete with Lizardo to out-evil him. However, Lizardo is the devil himself, and we know this, we can’t out-evil evil.
Back in the real kingdom, it’s so easy to identify Lizardo’s friends. Just listen to the numerous catchy and attractive advertisements. You can’t help but sing their jingles.
Lizardo, of course, catches our attention. Insatiable powers, various powers, including emergency powers are the language of his mouth. The desire to accumulate more wealth and power are the driving force of his being. Moreover, he desires to be in his throne for the sheer pleasure of being in the throne. He will not give in, he will not relinquish power. He could not hide this no matter what he does, even if he is faking it, like dishing out his I-am-sorry dialogues or into his I-will-not-run again promises. You know, your gut-feel tells you, he is lying. After the crocodile tears, he is back to his evil ways.
Lizardo’s generosity to his evil friends is also gargantuan, especially to those who can execute his evil ways. It’s not difficult to track down Lizardo’s largesse to his evil friends. You will see his evil friends getting out of the palace carrying bags and bags of loot. They party and taste sumptuous food in and from foreign lands in broad daylight.
Lizardo will also make all sorts of evil deals and contracts to stay in power and to buy more power. Expect that he does not believe in human rights. He has no use for such ideals. Lizardo, with the help of his dear evil friends will raise the ante of mayhem and evil, including killing practically a whole barangay if need be. When Lizardo gives to buy an entire population, expect that he will be getting more.
Lizardo will resurrect again and again with the help of his evil friends. Haughty and insensitive as he is (at wala na talagang delicadeza), he brandishes whatever he does. Don’t be surprised if he attempts to paint sign boards in every nook and cranny of the imaginary (and the real) kingdom with his so-called accomplishments. We know this. We puke on these lies.
Yes, Kaye, back in our real kingdom, Lizardo does not necessarily have to be male.
