Text/Wang Xinyi
Find yourself or find answers? Go back in time or change the future?
Detective 8 ends the season with a multiple-choice question. One issue and one session, 12 cases, after the changes of the main creative team of the previous season, "Detective 8" achieved iteration this season.
Recognition is multifaceted. At the end of the twelve cases, the Douban score of "Detective 8" was stable at around 8.9 points, the highest score since the fourth season, slightly lower than the 9.4 points in the first season, 9 points in the second season and 9.1 points in the third season. On the other hand, according to Yunhe data, "Detective 8", which was launched on January 19, ranked first in the effective broadcast list of online variety shows in Q1 2023 with 430 million effective broadcasts.
Screenshot of Douban
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On the other hand, the pilot film "Forest Evolution" has triggered another round of discussion in the world of board games and script killing, and more board games and script killing gameplay have also continued to be "pointed" in this season.
It's more than that.
He Drink Drink Seconds to Become Mimi Detective, a title that also accompanies the entire season of the show; The self-introduction of the morning orderman "First, I am not called Wei" crowned the "terrier king" again; Guoba "What to do if it's bad, how did the magic fail" and Xin Photography "Click, click, click... Hehe" self-introduction, also tried to challenge the embarrassing scene of the seventh season of "Visitor in Time" EuroUFO "Disc Flying, Disc Chase" self-introduction; As well as the appearance of "Mangzhou Mystery Record", which still has received a lot of praise, the trickery and feelings of "Echoes of the Past"... "Detective 8" shows stable creativity in content, and the "Detective Universe" is not only consolidated, but also strung out more extensions.
"Detective 8" stills
In the seventh and eighth seasons, "Detective" has maintained a stable performance, and even has a new vitality.
This is related to the stability of the main creative team. It can be seen that the main creative team of the seventh and eighth seasons of the show has maintained the stability of personnel and division of labor.
But "Detective 8" is more than stable.
If the last season was a smooth transition, then this season's Yanji team, which maintained its integrity and was run-in, began to try more new upgrades in the show, and many new gameplay and new settings were also tried throughout the season.
"Detective 8" finally shows "Yan Ji" under more "new" colors, and the "Ming Detective" series has completely won this "the sun never sets" battle.
A "Möbius Belt" variety show
End to end.
Appearing in the Extreme Day and Night, the Sunrise Mansion where a serial murder case takes place opens and ends with players returning to the Sunset Mansion to explore unsolved puzzles, and "Detective 8" interprets a "Mobius Belt" variety show.
Although each season of "Detective" will have a call back to past content, "Detective 8" is obviously more colorful - the entire season of the show, almost a story.
At the beginning, through the two cases of "Sunset Horror", it brought out the Sunset Mansion and the previous curators; The fifth case, "Echoes of the Past", brought HeheDetective Agency and Zenith Group to the surface, and Zenith Group's research on manipulating people's hearts through chips jumped on paper, and also laid the motivation for He Drink to return to the past and change the past; The seventh case, "The Great Black Gold Robbery", once again deepened the existence of Zenith Group in Xihui City; By the last case, "The Battle of Tomorrow", the secrets buried deep behind the Sun Never Set Mansion and the Zenith Group were discovered and revealed.
"Detective 8" "Sunset Cry I"
In addition to the story and elements, "Detective 8" also calls back on the characters.
He Drink appears in the stories of "Sunset Cry 1&2", "Echoes of the Past" and "Tomorrow's War"; Rong Tianzhen in "Sunset Cry 1&2" returns in "Tomorrow's War"; Gull Dijia in "Sunset Cry 1&2" became a victim of "Tomorrow's War"; Zhang Luo in "Black Gold Robbery" became the detective of "Edge of Extreme Day" and appeared in "The Battle of Tomorrow"; The morning aura in "The Legend of the Blue Sea" also completed a quick "encore" in "Edge of Extreme Day".
A Zenith group researches chip technology, studies mermaids and strives to find a way to live forever, kills the He Bulai clan, and separates two versions of the world by manipulating Zhang Gongzi to kill members of the Hehehe Detective Agency, so that the characters' memories are confused and separated into two versions of the world, and then the complete story of Chairman Shi Legend being killed is created.
"'Detective' is a serial", unlike the encores of the characters in previous seasons, the eighth season created a sunset world for the audience, and "Detective 8" itself became a suspense drama.
This is one of the biggest changes in Detective 8, but the "new" of Detective 8 has been revealed almost from the beginning.
The advanced party launched a new game "Forest Evolution: Forest Battle", which attracted many audiences to look forward to and call for the release of the same board game; The "hunting" gameplay that appears in "Sunset Cry 2" integrates board games into the investigation process; "Echoes of the Past" appears for the first time in a case in which "all members" are present, and the "suspect" holding the murder weapon sits with the five victims to comb through the timeline and alibi; In "Black Gold Robbery", the real murderer needs to throw away key clues at the opening scene when everyone is present; Eight players appear in Tomorrow's War; And in the last two cases, there are victims who are not surnamed Zhen, and characters whose character names do not contain the surname or first name of the actor...
Rules of Forest Evolution: Forest War
"Detective 8" opens the season with an advanced party of new games, and integrates the final case of the season with new player numbers, elements, etc. Compared with the micro-upgrades of previous seasons, this season's "Detective" gameplay upgrade has obviously become much larger.
Such innovation allows "Detective 8" to bring more novelty and imagination to the program and the audience when it encounters bottlenecks in reasoning, story and other aspects or is not easy to come out with new ideas.
"Detective 8" took the initiative to make itself "new" and thus gained a new life.
"Sunset" and "Daylight" of "Detective 8"
Seven years itchy or not?
This is the question that needs to be faced and answered in front of "Detective 8", which is in its eighth season, but it is now in its seventh year since it was launched in 2016.
"Detective 8" is facing a gradual decline in word of mouth that can be seen only in the Douban score; As a veteran variety N generation, even the top works in the reasoning variety show cannot escape the decline in the number of sponsorships; And the trickery that has been accompanying the show is difficult to come up with, the script has too many story lines, and the heavy spit ... "Sunset" of "Sunset" wrote: "The sunset is the end. And these may also be the "sunsets" encountered in "Detective 8".
Based on this, the innovation of "Detective 8" seems to bring some new teams to come up with more distinctive things after the transition period, and there is a sense of tragedy that is determined or even desperate.
"Detective 8" "Tomorrow's War"
Fortunately, the data is good, and as the show airs, the number of sponsors also increases, proving the positive effect of the effort, but doubts remain. In addition to the long-standing problems about "story meetings" and too many stories leading to lengthy time, and the modus operandi is not new, the innovation of "Detective 8" has also brought new problems.
For example, the "hunting" gameplay that appears in "Sunset Cry 2" and the gameplay that appears in "Tomorrow's War" that chooses to vote instead of finding the real murderer have produced changes in the investigation process and will make the show lose its characteristics. How the new gameplay is more appropriately integrated with the characteristics of detective reasoning in "Detective" is more naked in front of the main creative team.
On the other hand, looking back at this season's show, "Detective 8" may have inadvertently raised the threshold for viewing.
The threshold here is not that the audience can't understand a certain case, but that the audience who follows from the first case or has been following from the first season will have more fun.
In other words, if viewers watch this season's case intermittently, then he probably won't be able to fully comb through the story that happened in Sunset City that the entire season of the show has shaped for viewers; may not understand why Rong Tianzhen chose to return to the A world; I don't know who Odija, who was killed in the last case, and what really happened; You may also miss the superimposed laughter produced by the rapid return and the "Return of Forty-One" morning qi two self-introductions...
"Detective 8" stills
For viewers who are new to the pit this season or in recent seasons, he may not be able to appreciate the feelings brought by the return of Puyu; may miss the clue search and restoration of several rooms in "Tomorrow's War", like the scene of the ability test of each player in the first season of the pilot film; Can't get the character self-introduction, there is no most embarrassing, only more embarrassing or rhyming contest laughing fruit superposition, and the persistence of looking for a lantern for two seasons... And feelings themselves have a threshold, and most of the people that can hit are "specific" groups.
Of course, such a threshold is good for the attention and broadcast of previous programs. If you forget, miss the details, rebrush, if you can't figure out the development of the story, watch the content you haven't seen, to some extent, the threshold is also a double-edged sword. But in the eighth season, the basic market has stabilized, and how to attract new audiences is also one of the problems in front of "Detective".
However, today's "Detective" seems to be no longer just the core of the "Detective Universe", it has begun to become the divergence point of the platform's mystery program.
Derivatives continue to be updated, such as "Midnight Hotel", "Sin Under the Rose" and other scenes of co-branded blocks have been launched, and the board game "Forest Evolution" has also been released; "Detective Academy" still maintains a stable reputation, and its derivatives also have good sales in the Xiaomang APP, and the derivative derivatives are playing a role; After the "Detective 8" pilot film game "Forest Evolution: Forest Battle" was well received, the new variety show "Forest Evolution" quickly followed, and there was news that the recording had been completed; And "Women's Reasoning Society", which was just announced a few days ago, also interacted with "Detective 8", "Escape Room" and "Detective Academy - Escape God Edition".
"Sin Under the Rose" joint building blocks
"Detective" is incubating more derivatives, and is also incubating more derivative variety shows, meeting "Daylight".
Looking back on the entire season of the show, "Detective 8" still retains the consistent tone of "Ming Detective", the setting of case types, the direct face and discussion of social issues, the insistence on legal education, and the stable script level most of the time although it has not broken through the bottleneck. But it is also undeniable that "Detective 8" has taken a bigger step forward and taken a new color than before.
At the end of Detective 8, it says, "This is the end of everything and the beginning of everything." ”
The eighth-grade "freshman" "Detective 8" opens the next seven years worth looking forward to.