Text/Ma Qingyun
On the evening of July 12, the TV series "The Night the Comet Came 2" (hereinafter referred to as "Comet") was launched on the legitimate video platform, and many episodes premiered. The first episode of this TV series tastes like chewing wax, and it is easy for the audience to abandon the drama. The show started from the second episode and gradually entered a good situation, showing good screenwriting skills. If the audience can insist on watching the second episode, it may have the motivation to continue to chase the drama.
In the first episode, Zhang Yujian played a young and handsome domineering president, while the female protagonist Lu Zhaohua played an unsung female anchor, and joined the male protagonist's company to help promote the male protagonist's island tourism project. The male protagonist is the domineering president, and the female protagonist is silly and sweet. Such a plot is the same, and the audience has long been not cold.
If the TV series "Comet" is just how the silly white sweet heroine counterattacks the domineering president male protagonist, then the drama is really doomed to the street weather. Therefore, the TV series is likely to be abandoned by the audience for five to ten minutes, and some viewers may abandon the drama after watching one episode. This is a big pity, because the show has a new narrative technique from the second episode.
At the end of the first episode, the male and female protagonists are killed at the bottom of the sea. At the beginning of the second episode, the male protagonist re-"crossed" back to a few months ago, and encountered the female protagonist again, and he wanted to avoid the recurrence of the shipwreck. And the heroine is always like a broom star, unexpectedly. In this way, the male and female protagonists will once again go to the blue hole under the sea and may face a greater risk of shipwrecks. The male protagonist knows all this, but has been powerless to avoid it.
This is a kind of "Edge of Tomorrow" narrative, the male protagonist perceives the future world in advance, and can return to the past world. None of the others around him had the ability. Zhou Yunpeng, a disciple of Teacher Zhao Benshan, released an online movie called "Tomorrow Reborn" this year, and in terms of narrative skills, it is also like "Comet", and the male protagonist can go back to the past, so he knows what happened next.
It is this narrative technique that saves a silly white sweet love story. The male and female protagonists enter an interesting narrative space, and then unfold their own love content. Interesting, became the biggest feature of the TV series "Comet". This is an innovation in screenwriting techniques, and of course, this innovation has obviously been used in many movies. For the domineering president's silly white sweet love drama, it is still good to be able to make a fuss about narrative skills.
The main reason why the show was abandoned by the first episode is that when the first episode was released, this narrative technique of their own was not presented, and the male and female protagonists encountered a shipwreck and stopped abruptly. In fact, in the script creation stage, the first episode should stay at 45 minutes of plot time, and after the video platform began broadcasting, the single episode was edited into half an hour or so, so naturally it could not effectively unfold the narrative skills and did not capture the audience.
A similar counterexample is Qin Hao's "The Hidden Corner". In order to be able to unfold the plot line throughout the first episode and echo from beginning to end, the first episode did not hesitate to make nearly two episodes long. In this way, it seems that the advertising content of one episode is missing, but it pulls the audience through its own story, so that everyone can continue to chase the drama. Based on this, the old editor feels that the first episode of "Comet" lost the audience, and it is also "self-inflicted".
In terms of actor performance, the heroine Lu Zhaohua is very noteworthy. The young actor has not done much in the past, but in the work of "Comet", he shows a relatively good acting talent. She is able to present characters with a smile and can give the audience a zero-distance character image. The most important point of this TV series work is the heroine. Lu Zhaohua brings good comedic laughter to the characters, making the whole TV series more relaxed and humorous.
Opposite Lu Zhaohua is the young actor Zhang Yujian. In terms of personal temperament, this actor can only be regarded as unsatisfactory. At the specific performance level, it tastes like chewing wax. Similar to ordinary traffic stars, Zhang Yujian did not provide a vivid performance for the character, he would only read the lines "expressionlessly". It's a very scary way of performing. This model of tool people is obviously no longer suitable for the performance of TV dramas.
Overall, the main content of "The Night The Comet Came 2" is still the domineering president and the silly white sweet girl, but it pays attention to more interesting narrative techniques, so it still has bright colors. In terms of the protagonist, the female protagonist's acting skills are basically hanging the male protagonist, and Zhang Yujian needs to work hard again.