"Opponent" ended, I also breathed a sigh of relief, and finally I could rest well, without worrying about the fate of Li Tang and Ding Meixi every day.
If you evaluate the top ten domestic dramas in 2021, there should be a place for "Opponent".
Despite this, I still have a feeling of not spitting out unhappiness in my heart, because the last episode of this finale suddenly has a few failures.
Deliberately looked at the Douban score, before the "Opponent" has been stable at 8.1, the closing day, fell to 8.0.
Not without reason, presumably many people were disappointed in the last episode.
Yes, why does a total of thirty-seven episodes of a spy drama, the first thirty-six episodes make people feel nervous and empathetic, but at the end, it makes people feel bad?
The first point: forced sensationalism, the family ethics section is too long.
The task force won a big victory, received the merit award, and then the camera turned to three families.
Ding Xiaohe took care of Li Xiaoman, Huang Haizhi made Zhu Hui and Duan Yingjiu eat reunion dinner and reconcile with their husbands...
Understand the idea of the choreographer, our happy life today is not easy to come by, where there are some years of quiet, just because someone silently moves forward for us...
So it's not that this part can't be depicted, but the length is too long, accounting for almost a quarter of the whole play.
Originally, after watching the hidden spies being swept away, the audience felt refreshed and emotionally at the climax, but they were worn away by these family ethics plots.
It is equivalent to saying that the thrill of watching the drama has disappeared.
The direct feeling of this is that it is tasteless, which reduces the viewing of the play.
You know, this is a spy drama full of suspense.
The second point: Ding Meixi behaved confusedly and told Li Xiaoman the truth.
Li Xiaoman went to visit the prison and talked with his mother Ding Meixi through the glass wall on the phone.
After some earnest advice, the time came, and despite not giving up, Ding Meixi was forcibly taken away.
After standing up, Ding Meixi suddenly shouted at Li Xiaoman outside: Li Tang is not your father!
Because the phone had been put down, Li Xiaoman did not hear what his mother was shouting.
Here is quite strange, Li Xiaoman is Lin Yu's biological daughter, which only Li Tang, Ding Meixi and Lin Yu know, and Li Xiaoman has no idea.
She had always thought that Li Tang was her biological father, and she had never expected to doubt it.
And Lin Yu's viciousness, Ding Meixi feels empathy, according to common sense, this secret Ding Meixi will stick to for a lifetime, and will never let Li Xiaoman know the truth.
At this time, she made such a move, it was simply unbelievable, did she still want Li Xiaoman to recognize the thief as a father?
Or do you want to tell Li Xiaoman that you see That Li Tang is not your father who is so good to you, and that you have to treat him well and be filial to him?
The third point: Li Xiaoman's life is mysterious
In the first thirty-six episodes of "Opponent", all of them tell the audience that Li Xiaoman is Li Tang's own child.
From the conversations and memories of the two sons, as well as Li Tang's care and doting on Li Xiaoman, it is not at all obvious that Li Tang is actually a stepfather.
There is a scene of Li Tang staring out the window in prison and recalling this:
When he was young, he and Hualien snuggled together to watch fireworks, Hualien's lower abdomen had stood up, li Tang touched Hualien's belly with happiness on his face, and said, "This child must be bold with me"...
I really couldn't figure it out, if he knew at that time that this child was Lin Yu and not his, where did this happiness and this sentence come from?
Everything about Li Xiaoman's life before was logical, but it was reversed in the last episode.
In order to blackmail Li Tang, Lin Yu deliberately infected Li Xiaoman with a virus, and Li Tang suddenly changed his face and angrily rebuked: She is your daughter, you are her father.
Lin Yu was not alarmed, taking Li Tang's own daughter Xiaoting as an example, and said a sentence very coldly: After all, I haven't seen her for so many years, do you have feelings for her?
Obviously, this arrangement here is to highlight Lin Yu's ruthlessness and cold-bloodedness, so that the audience hates this character even more.
But the problem is that even if such a reversal is not made, the audience has already seen through Lin Yu, and now the deliberate arrangement of the plot can only be said to be a snake and a dog tail.
The fourth point: Lin Yu is smart but mistaken by smart?
Lin Yu took an umbrella from the hotel and deliberately let the monitor photograph himself, and also photographed the side with the words on the umbrella.
He was telling Guoan that he had stayed in that hotel.
Sure enough, Duan Yingjiu noticed this detail, arranged for someone to go to the hotel to investigate, and quickly found out that Lin Yu bought the ferry ticket and ticket back.
In fact, this is a smoke bomb put by Lin Yu, and his real purpose is to attract the attention of national security to the airport or the wharf, and then go elsewhere to connect with the "national treasure".
The state security personnel found the trace of "Lin Yu" at the airport and captured him in the bathroom, but found that it was not the real Lin Yu.
It turned out that Lin Yu had secretly changed into other people's clothes to participate in the tour group to hand over information.
As a result, after Guoan asked about the person who was arrested and changed his clothes, he arrested Lin Yu in the tour group according to the person's original itinerary.
With such an arrangement, don't you think that Lin Yu is superfluous, smart but mistaken by smart?
If he hadn't deliberately leaked a flaw through that umbrella, I couldn't think of any way Duan Yingjiu could find him.
The above four points, some people may think that it is nitpicking, but for a spy drama that has not been fragrant and has been chasing for so many days, it is not too much to question it.
Despite the above shortcomings, I still insist that "The Opponent" is a rare and wonderful drama, and at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, I would like to thank Guo Jingfei, Tan Zhuo, Yan Bingyan, Ning Li and others for presenting such a beautiful dish to the audience.