Author: Wei Jie
The Maze Circuit has been very lively lately.
"Extreme Men's Gang" will meet again in "Cat in the Box", "Cute Detective 2024" surprises Cheng Lei women's clothing, and Tencent has launched "Let's Start Reasoning 2" (hereinafter referred to as "Open Push 2"), "Open Push 2" This season is set to be a role reasoning game in different time and space, telling the story of the five families in four different eras. The story of the first and second cases takes place in Tui Town in 1924, and an adventure in Tuilemen begins.
But a problem that has to be considered is that at a time when the audience's reading habits are changing, aesthetics are growing wildly, and demand is diversified, reasoning variety shows have grown so far, and they should also usher in some changes and upgrades.
The creative side is certainly aware of this trend. broadcast two episodes, and "Open Push 2" gave the answer with its own content - "social reasoning".
At the beginning of the latest episode of the show, a man with a bandage on his face walked up to Zhang Linghe, asked questions suspiciously, and brought the suspenseful "hook" to the audience at once. At the end of the show, through one "mystery", the fantastical and ironic human ecology behind a small town is shown in front of the audience. In between the unexpected, more aftertaste and reflection are left.
Up to now, there are 1700+ hot searches on the whole network, and the number of TOP1 broadcast platforms is 50+. The path of exploration in "Open Push 2" is not easy, but fortunately, it is worth it.
Cultivation of players and immersive reasoning
Heli Moyu Reasoning Group - the famous 5A scenic spot in Tui Town
Walking by will be hard controlled by Heli for an hour, the head and body of all the staff are better than Jujia, and with the exquisite costume of the program team, the aura is more prominent. "Open Push 2", a variety show that is very friendly to my eyes. The second case is still set in 1924. Di Lieba plays the fashion trendsetter "Ba Li", Bai Yu is her closed disciple "Bai Youxi", Zhang Linghe is her special model "He Shaoshuai", Liu Yuning is her brother "Ning Shaoshuai", Zhou Keyu is the younger brother of "He Shaoshuai" "Ke Shaoshuai", and Wang Xun is the murderer "Wang Legend" who killed the owner of Tuilemen in the previous case.
"Gray fertilizer squatting, gray fertilizer squatting, gray fertilizer squatting black fertilizer squatting."
This not-so-simple tongue twister has become a therapeutic step to recover memory in "Open Push 2". It's just that the memory hasn't recovered yet, and the NPC has sent another task - the repairman opened the mezzanine of the clock, and the last case was a mystery of soy sauce, and he was tied up by five flowers, and he has lost his breath.
It can be expected that after this, it will be the usual process of reasoning variety shows: explain the timeline of the action, find clues, focus on discussion and analysis, suspect defense, and find out the real murderer. Under the label and fixed process of "puzzle solving", as an entertainment product, one of the cores of reasoning variety shows is how to ensure the balance between watchability and threshold. In "Open Push 2", we were pleasantly surprised to see the variety show effect beyond the limitations of the theme.
Starting with a tongue twister turnip squat, it's hard not to let people grin the corners of their mouths to their heels. In front of the screen, do you can't help but start practicing pronouncing their names?
Bai Yu and Liu Yuning are used as probes in this issue. There are also a lot of laughs in the evidence collection process, isn't this really a scene where elementary school students fight each other? There is also Bai Yu's own "little killer" with transposition, which is demonic in the ear. Finally, I want to ask Bai Yu, are you still missing melon seeds, I bring my own melon seeds!
As the pace of the story progresses, more character relationships also surface. In the front, there was Ning Shaoshuai's domineering sister, and then there was He Shaoshuai who recognized Bali on the spot. I said that you understand me in the program group, and the Tui Zhen version of Little Mom Literature has it! While opening the brain hole of story creation, the peculiar CP sense of Heli touching the Yu group was brought into full play.
In the final stage of pushing the murderer, the program effect of Heli touching the Yu group was also full. It's Bai Youju who sees through and doesn't tell through the fun, it's Ba Li who is online with prosecutor An Ni, it's the Chosen X Ning Shaoshuai, it's He Shaoshuai who has been creating his own infatuated personality, and it's Ke Shaoshuai who suddenly doesn't smell good when the apple in his mouth suddenly doesn't smell. Each character's interpretation has its own unique style and is memorable.
The reasoning group played "indiscriminately" and played stalks, making "Open Push 2" watchable and easy to watch, beyond the public's "stereotype" of reasoning variety shows.
In addition, the infinite stream setting in the story adds a certain sense of immersion to the plot and allows the audience to fully feel the aesthetic art of "Open Push 2".
For example, through the time tunnel of Tui Lao Hui, everyone traveled to the book "Tui Town: A Hundred Years of People" that they opened in the hospital through the time tunnel of Tui Lao Hui. It records the development of the descendants of the five generations of the Tui Zhen family: Ba Li's descendants Ba Zimei, Ba Almonds, Guo Ba, Wang Legend's grandson Zhou Zengzeng, and great-grandson Zhou Keke, etc., echoing and linking with the characters of "Kai Tui 1". constitutes the laughter of the bead curtain cannonball, a world that is both absurd and complete, and the perfect closed loop.
In addition to the wonderful story line, the setting of "Open Push 2" also gives the audience an immersive experience. In 1924, the singing and dancing leveling, exquisite and luxurious Tuilemen presented a real and highly textured Republic of China style, creating a more immersive VR-like entity reasoning from the scene. 100 years later, Tui Health Company, which is full of a sense of science and technology, has fully grown the infinite flow of genes through a psychedelic time tunnel, giving a trace of cyber art in the reality of this world, so that the audience is willing to follow the cast and push open the door that cannot be opened. Follow the cast from the 20s to a hundred years later, travel through time and space, and break the filters and shackles.
From a simple puzzle, interlocking, and finally restoring the ecology behind a huge case, the story behind the Tuilemen created by "Open Push 2" is more like a very artistic social reasoning.
Shallow in and deep out, using "strange talk" to show the truth
In social reasoning, the creator is more concerned about "why he did it" on the basis of focusing on what the perpetrator "did". "Enigma" is more like a tool, and its core focuses more on the analysis and depiction of human nature, and the presentation and criticism of social issues.
After opening the show in the way of socialist reasoning, "Let's Start Reasoning 2" inevitably took on the color of this faction. The form of social reasoning allows "Open Push 2" to tear apart the social reality in addition to the reasoning context, and take a closer look at the truth.
The story of the first case is about a self-redemption in the darkest moments. The words that once encouraged the three of them in their childhood, although they were disguised by people with evil thoughts, it was precisely this encouragement that formed a closed loop of goodwill. At the same time, we are encouraged not to be discouraged when we are at a low point in life.
The story of the second case is a redemption that travels through time and space. Those hard-won health are actually "bloodsucking" through a hundred years. At the end of the show, Bai Yu recalled the act of pushing the mystery "Since the lives of the ancient people were cheap, then I will exchange their most worthless things for the most valuable ones here", and said in a deep voice "There is no distinction between high and low life". The existence of the mystery reflects the disregard for the lives of the vulnerable, but before the law, everyone is equal, and life is not divided between high and low. With this case, "Open Push 2" calls on everyone to pay attention to the vulnerable groups around them, respect life, and say no to illegal acts.
Hearing may be false, and seeing may not be believing. Details that no one can expect will become the wings of a butterfly, driving the world around. The one who saved the residents was the long-haired witch who had been hiding in Tui Town for a year. Tui Lao Hui, which brought hope to countless actors, led them to the abyss of fate. The two cases of "Open Push 2" are interlocking, and every previous clue has laid the groundwork for the later development, which is thought-provoking.
From a certain point of view, the display of social reasoning in "Open Push 2" is suitable and necessary for reasoning variety shows. In the past few years when reasoning variety shows have developed rapidly and the track is approaching saturation, how to make differentiation from it has become something that creators must consider. At a time when short videos are gradually attracting the attention of the audience, how to give the public the texture and emotion of long videos through content is also the direction that creators have been chasing.
As a carrier with a strong style, the direction of reasoning variety shows is bound to move from the grassroots construction of the search for the truth to a higher level of emotional resonance and even social enlightenment. "Open Push 2" wants to achieve more and longer retention in the hearts of users, leaving happiness at the same time, but also leaving reflection and growth that is not so "teaching".