Text | Love cat novelist
Comparing the series together, it is normal to have jagged differences, but it is rare to reduce the score like a cliff.
Especially in today's domestic youth dramas.
Youth dramas, like youth movies, form two extreme endings: one is high score and worth remembering; The other is that playing a star feels redundant.
Many youth dramas rely on the original novel, as long as they are not 'magically changed', the actors are selected carefully, the audience is not so harsh, and they can score a three-star medium rating with their eyes closed.
However, there are some network dramas, hanging the banner of youth, not writing normal lines, blindly relying on 'feelings' to force CP sugar to the audience, and the result is only the whole network group ridicule.
Today's drama, I took advantage of the fact that it first aired to watch a few episodes, although I did not pay too much attention to its first two, but still visibly worried about this one.
"Like a fish in the throat, like a man's thorn in the back, like a needle felt", not only the audience on Douban said so, but also on the bullet screen of each episode of the third season of "Together Through the Window", there are such comments.
Not only that, more viewers in order to soothe the unwillingness of youth in their hearts, go to the first two to find ideas.
Obviously it is a series, after five years, how exactly is the gap opened?
One
We're here to miss it
The first season of "Together In the Window" began airing in 2016, when the show was called a 'three no' product.
There are no big-name actors and directors, and there are few actors who may be familiar; No publicity, although the score is high, but it is not as popular as the "Residual Sin" and "Crown Princess Promotion" in the same period; No 'routine', that is, no dog blood plot, no tearing, no abortion, no former hatred.
Hence the name "My College Journal".
It tells the story of a group of college freshmen, poking at the audience who went to college together in the same year, so when it returned this year, it was obviously full of joy, but after watching it, it was really sad.
Recall how its story began.
Lu Qiaochuan (Wu Yuze), Zhong Bai (Xu Xiaolu) and Ren Yifan (Yu Xiang) are friends in high school, and they have a very good relationship with each other, and the three of them are admitted to the same university together and start their colorful university life.
At school, Zhong Bai and Lu Qiaochuan meet friends such as Ocean (Pang Hanchen), Thirteen (Ying Daizhen), Yixin (Sang Yan), etc., at the same time, Zhong Bai's crush on Lu Qiaochuan, which has continued from high school to the present, has become more and more intense.
Lu Qiaochuan, who has great ability and appeal, was lucky enough to become the squad leader, even if he knew that this heavy title brought glory to Luqiaochuan, but it also brought countless troubles and huge pressures. In the face of repeated failures, Lu Hashikawa started to retreat, however, the trust of classmates and friends made Lu Hashikawa cheer up again, and in the blink of an eye, the first year of college was coming to an end.
Later, in the second season, it continued to tell the life of these protagonists in their sophomore year, and in the third season, it was still the familiar taxi opening statement, telling the story after the third year.
The first two seasons gave me the feeling that it was like reading a diary, there was no feeling, one episode was broadcast, and I could feel the era at that time, and I could also see that the director and screenwriter were working hard to show the rare freshness and grounding in the series, just like the film and television drama adapted from the novel "The Best of Us", which made the most youthful appearance.
Not being pretentious and not deliberate is the strongest hole card in the first two seasons of "Together in the Window", and it is also the most important reason why we have always missed it.
Two
'Substitution' is very uncomfortable
Once, this drama was also known as "sitting firmly in the first chair of domestic youth dramas with excellent scripts and wonderful pictures", but its third season returned under the "thousands of calls", and all the audiences were not satisfied, and it was inevitable that it was inseparable from 'substitution'.
The director has already disclosed the fact of being 'replaced' on social platforms as early as last year.
He said, "I haven't been home for four years, and when I came home last night I found that my room had changed a lot, my desk had changed, I had my leaned back, my bed had changed, my pillow had changed, I had been changed. ”
Although it is quite ridiculous, but the fact is the truth, as soon as the third season is broadcast, you will find that not only the director has been replaced, but also the male protagonist.
Nine starring actors, only Lu Hashikawa, a very key figure, has not returned, and this resigned actor Wu Yuze, who has also sat as a director and screenwriter, heard that his withdrawal is precisely because he understands the hard work of the creators, so he chose to support director Bi Xinye's new drama.
The role replacement can also feel that it is not useful in the early publicity, and the choice of replacement actors is even more difficult to say.
In my opinion, the character of Lu Hashikawa is a somewhat cowardly personality, but also a very warm being. The story begins with him, but also around him, he has love after seeing Lin Luoxue, on the other hand, he has an unclear attitude towards the crush on his own Qingmei Zhongbai, many people complain that he is a scumbag: he has to spit out more than a dozen mouthfuls of slag when he bites.
But in the previous high school period, especially Zhong Bai was bullied, he and Ren Yifan could go against the school rules together to give Zhong Bai a blow, and also remembered the day when the girl's aunt arrived, and took out the first aid from the bag and gave it to her when the girl ran clean.
Such a character, Wu Yuze seems to have played to the bone, suddenly changed his face, even if he is not picky about acting, the audience will feel awkward (acting skills really can't be said).
The main reason for the 'not good look' is that the filter for youth dramas in 2022 is too heavy.
Five years later, the screenwriter is not also keeping up with the 'network' trend, on Li Shuzi's appearance of the 'hum' I want to dissuade, not to mention what bridge there is behind this season, no matter how wonderful it seems to be unable to save all the starring actors that are thick like PPT filters, it is really impossible to catch up.
'Substitution' is uncomfortable, but abandoning all the bland and real plot can only be more uncomfortable, right?
Three
Still looking forward to youth dramas?
"For so many years, I have been interpreting my lonely life, one day, I suddenly got tired of acting, and I felt that Zhaohua was white and the years were faltering. The ones I deduced over and over again turned out to be just my wishful thinking about fate, so I began to indulge myself, as if there was nothing in this world that was worth cherishing and remembering, including myself.
It wasn't until one afternoon when the sun was shining and the wind was blowing well that she suddenly appeared, and the man was you. If, I'm glad for the rest of my life. If, the rest of your life is allowed. So the lonely life, and the indulgent life, I don't want to act out, I want to deduce with you, the next, a new beginning. ”
In youth, once the friendship that is simple to the bone is mixed with 'love', everything will become different.
There is love in "Together in the Window", and even after leaving high school, college love is what everyone yearns for, in this drama, the love of the protagonists is like a strange circle:
Li Shuci likes Xiao Haiyang, Xiao Haiyang likes Zhong Bai, Zhong Bai likes Lu Qiaochuan, Lu Qiaochuan likes Lin Luoxue, Lin Luoxue likes Bi Thirteen, Bi Thirteen likes Gu Yixin...
Gu Yixin finally went abroad (in fact, he no longer starred), the new role of Xu Lianlian in the second season, and in the third season, the nine-person lineup seemed harmonious, but all fans consciously wanted to change the face of Lu Hashikawa AI.
There is nothing wrong with the love of the first two seasons, because everyone has those youthful moments, and everyone has retrospective youth.
If you ask, what's so good about this kind of 'little drama', I would say that who wouldn't like it if you put what you've experienced, or the college life you're experiencing, intact and with a little fun?
Those things you want to do in college but don't dare to do, too late to do, through the hand of the director to let everyone see, who can resist? Among all the domestic youth dramas, the creation of "Together Through the Window" is the most restored 'campus life' youth drama at present, which includes military training, joining clubs, English level 4 and 6 exams, final hanging subjects, class dinners and so on.
There's all the good stories, there's all the bland stories, there's all the "you know" college stories, the four years you're living through, or the four years that've been over, it's all there.
But now, five years later, the blandness is gone, and it tries to use time to change.
So many people were disappointed, and more people couldn't laugh.