The many plays that were launched at the beginning of this year can meet everyone's expectations in terms of genre and quality. The quality of "Even with the Wind" is much better than that of "Perfect Relationship" and "Emergency Public Relations" that show the public relations industry in the past, at least there is no common drawback of mistaking the middle-aged Mary Sue drama in the industry drama.
And Liu Yifei and Li Xian's "Go to a Windy Place" has successfully made many audiences into the pit of pastoral healing themes, and the high score of 8.1 has shown that this kind of work that does not forcibly create conflicts, does not deliberately create positive and negative confrontations, and just shows the short stories of parents is still attractive.
There is also the anti-black theme "Crazy", which is not only very different from the earlier "Sweeping Black Storm" and "Punishment" in terms of character setting, but also can meet everyone's expectations in terms of scale. One big drama after another not only benchmarked the preferences of various audiences, but also finally let everyone see the progress of domestic film and television dramas.
And there is also a work that has to be mentioned in these plays, that is, "The Three-Body Problem" starring Yu Hewei and Zhang Luyi. This sci-fi drama was officially announced early, and it was not until this year that it met with everyone, which really made the audience wait too long, but the popularity and ratings of the play after it was launched were quite strong.
It stands to reason that science fiction themes have a certain threshold for chasing dramas, especially works like "The Three-Body Problem", most of them are readers who have read the original work, or audiences who are purely interested in science fiction works, and most middle-aged and elderly audiences are not interested in science fiction dramas.
However, "The Three-Body Problem" makes the overall tone of the work inclined to suspense as much as possible, but increases everyone's desire to chase dramas, which is also an important reason why the ratings of "The Three-Body Problem" can steadily break 1 after the broadcast, and the highest live broadcast attention even reached 1.2%.
At the same time, "The Three-Body Problem" also ranked first on the popularity list, winning the overall list four times in a row within five days of its launch, and there is no doubt that such results have shown that the drama "The Three-Body Problem" is really explosive.
But to say that "The Three-Body Problem" is a flawless work is not fair, although the performance of the actors is mostly remarkable, Yu Hewei, Zhang Luyi, Chen Jin, Wang Ziwen, Li Xiaoran and other acting skills are online, and can accurately interpret the characters in the original work in place, but "The Three-Body Problem" still received a lot of bad reviews.
I believe that many audiences are rushing to Yu Hewei to see this play, after all, Yu Hewei successfully came out of the circle after "The Age of Awakening", and also won the Magnolia Award for Best Actor, with him "The Three-Body Problem" has a minimum quality guarantee. But now it seems that Yu Hewei can't save "The Three-Body Problem", this drama exploded, but the reason why netizens abandoned the drama is very consistent, that is, the plot is too dragged on.
The beginning of this play did not pretend to make science fiction understandable to the audience, but tried to make the characters as grounded as possible, but from the time Shi Qiang invited Wang Miao to a meeting, to a group of scientists and foreign militaries sitting together to discuss scientific border organizations and the reasons why many scientists committed suicide, the plot began to become extremely slow.
Almost all of the reasons why scientists chose suicide are related to the scientific boundary organization, but the entry point of this conference is the most inconspicuous Yang Dong. In the process of the meeting, Shi Qiang discussed the cause of Yang Dong's death with Wang Miao, and sitting in front of him was Yang Dong's fiancé Ding Yi.
Such a plot has no other effect at all except to explain that Wang Miao is interested in Yang Dong and Ding Yi has become muddy because of his fiancée's suicide, but instead makes a meeting of highly intelligent people and national security into a gossip Asura field between Shi Qiang, Wang Miao and Ding Yi.
And the next plot is that the military invited Wang Miao to enter the scientific border organization as an undercover agent, but Wang Miao chose to refuse as soon as he came up, but it was only because of Yang Dong that he was interested again, and the play used a long paragraph to explain the scene where Wang Miao participated in Yang Dong's funeral and talked with the elderly Ye Wenjie.
For audiences who have not seen the original work, they do not know the specific relationship between the characters, especially what kind of past Wang Miao and Yang Dong have, and what kind of emotions and mentality Wang Miao has towards Yang Dong, which makes people confused. After all, Yang Dong has his own fiancé, and Wang Miao has a family and a room, what is the connection between the two?
The subsequent episode-long plot focuses on Wang Miao's discovery that there is a countdown in the photos he took, and after letting his wife and daughter take photos many times, he finds that there is no countdown, thereby determining that the countdown is only for himself, and then tells the story of his change of mind after discovering this secret.
This makes in the early plot, although the suicide of the scientist creates a full of suspense, making people very curious about the next plot direction, but because more shots are aimed at Wang Miao, telling the process of how he found the countdown to face the countdown and make a transformation, not only the story line of the plot cannot be connected together, but also makes Wang Miao's one-man show slightly abrupt.
"The Three-Body Problem" involves many characters and a fairly large volume, and after the adaptation of the drama version, a large amount of space is devoted to one of the characters, which can easily make a wonderful sci-fi group portrait become the self-hi of one or two characters. So far, the reporter played by Yang Rong, Shen Yufei played by Li Xiaoran, and the young Ye Wenjie played by Wang Ziwen are all very attractive characters, but they have become foils.
The character characteristics of Wang Miao's own character are not so prominent, neither is he a genius scientist like Ding Yi, and he has the experience of losing his fiancée and questioning his scientific cognition at the same time, and there is no mixed character like Shi Qiang that is more bright, and spending too much time to show Wang Miao will only make the audience lose the desire to continue watching.
It is undeniable that the adaptation of the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" has a high degree of restoration of the original work, and many details are also presented, but the film and television creation is different from the novel, and the more extreme the details depicted in the text, the more immersive it is. However, once the play wastes too much time on some content, it is easy to affect the overall look and feel.
Therefore, "The Three-Body Problem" did not appear that the casting did not meet everyone's expectations or the actor's acting skills were too poor to stand up the role, but because the plot rhythm was too protracted and dissuaded many audiences, it was indeed worth the loss for this work.
Although "The Three-Body Problem" has many remarkable advantages and is not a bad drama that people can't watch, the control of the overall rhythm is indeed somewhat lacking. Especially for ordinary audiences, they naturally prefer fast-paced narrative works, and sci-fi themes are easy to shoot obscure, compared to slow storytelling, but not as fast as fast-paced.
What do you think of the quality of the play "The Three-Body Problem"? Did the drama version meet your expectations after adaptation?