There is only one sentence that can sum up the audience's feelings about the Apostle 3 being broadcast: Sir, I am disappointed in you.
From the official story, prequel to this post-biography, the Apostle Trilogy has fallen into an embarrassing situation of drama for drama's sake. In order to attract the audience, TVB shouted the slogan of "the legendary undercover return", but the return of the real story corresponds to the complete collapse of people and the blunt dramatic logic.
There is no drama conflict, but there is no need to be hard.
From True Story Apostle 1 on 20 14 to Prequel Apostle 2 on 20 17, and this year's Postquel Apostle 3, three series of apostles have been developed. Thus, a very realistic question arises: how to play a play with the same story background and protagonist?
The soul of the Apostle 1 is to find five undercover agents. Prequel Apostle 2 is to find an undercover agent and explain the history of the protagonist. In prequel Apostle 3, the playwright is faced with the dramatic task of retaining the core setting of finding undercover agents and summarizing and connecting the stories and characters of Apostle 1 and prequel Apostle 2.
The screenwriter of Acts 3 didn't accomplish this dramatic task well.
As far as the first episode of 16 is concerned, the screenwriter is in a dilemma of no drama to write. All drama conflicts are for conflicts, completely ignoring the relationship between people and characters established in Apostle 1 and Apostle 2.
In Apostle 1 and Apostle 2, finding undercover is an important story line. In Acts 3, the undercover who survived the true story and prequel became the protagonist, and finding undercover is no longer a suspense of the plot. Therefore, undercover rebellion has become the biggest attraction.
The Apostle 1 and Apostle 2 highlight the difficulties and obstacles experienced by police undercover to safeguard justice with 60 episodes. By the time of Apostle 3, the screenwriter told the audience with a stroke of a pen: Brother Tian, a bloody policeman, may be a traitor. Mr. Zhuo and Zheng are both just men. They want to join the underworld and be enemies of the police. As for Brother Huanxi, although he died in the official story, as long as Xu Shaoxiong promised to continue acting, the screenwriter could make up a reason to bring Brother Huanxi back to life.
Ridiculous. This is ridiculous.
"The Apostle 1" and "Apostle 2" spent 60 episodes to set up artificial designs, but in "Apostle 3", they were easily overthrown, and the motives were far-fetched and speechless.
In Apostle 2, Brother Heaven is a popular character, and Zheng is an invisible heroine. It is understandable that Acts 3 should bring these two characters back. However, from the perspective of drama, what dramatic functions can these two "old faces" assume in the new story? To put it bluntly, if the screenwriter wants to put these two characters in Apostle 3, he must always give people a little "play"! Why don't you let these two come back for soy sauce?
The screenwriter made it up and called it outrageous. In order to give them a chance, they were arranged to live under the same roof, and Zheng was arranged to suspect that the Paradise Brothers were traitors. "A pair of ambiguous men and women are suddenly in different positions." This kind of bridge seems to be full of dramatic conflicts. However, in Acts 2, it took 30 episodes to explain that they were excellent policemen and could sacrifice their lives to maintain justice, while in Acts 3, the assumption of people was overturned in a few words, which was false, too false.
The explosion of seeds is even more speechless. As the soul of the story, the image of Baozhong in Apostle 1 is already full, and the relationship with Sister Nail is even more vigorous and tearful. The image of "Apostle 1" is so full that in Apostle 3, there is no play about the body of abalone seeds. Therefore, the screenwriter forcibly arranged a history of the characters-before the nail sister, Bao Zi had her first love, and her first girlfriend gave birth to a son!
If you are speechless, you are speechless. The legendary undercover returns turned out to be a congenial father and son, so why sit in the museum? What kind of occupation?
Sir Zhuo, that's outrageous+speechless. Sir Zhuo in Apostle 1 and Apostle 2 is so hateful and just. As a result, in Acts 3, in order to save his wife, he colluded with the underworld and started stealing chickens and dogs. Do you think this is called ruining people's lives? There are more excesses. The next second, Mr. Zhuo openly joined the underworld, euphemistically calling himself to help the underworld clean up and turn over a new leaf.
If the underworld wants to turn over a new leaf, what if the conflict between black and white, one right and one evil is gone? It's simple. Just let your teammates hack.
The current situation of Acts 3 is that undercover has gone through hardships to break into the underworld. It turns out that the underworld is all our teammates, the real big boss, lurking in the police force.
It's not over yet. There are black policemen in the police force, and a security bureau is airborne, which makes the police force breathless. In order to seize power, the two sides engaged in internal confrontation.
I really don't understand. They are all about upholding justice, punishing criminals and eliminating evil, and we must write the two sides as opposites. Is this a forced service to the drama conflict?
Where is the source of all the collapse? Actually, it's on the timeline.
The story of Apostle 1 takes place on 20 14, the story of prequel Apostle 2 takes place on 20 10, and the story of postquel Apostle 3 takes place in 2020. Of course, part of the prehistory of 2009 is interspersed among them, but in general, Apostle 3 is a place that happened in. Then, the question is, in China and Hongkong in 2020, there will be no underworld on the surface! Science and technology are so developed that the eyes of the sky are connected with the whole country, and the police investigate cases. Are we going to do the same thing as infernal affairs 20 years ago?
So the problem with Apostle 3 is that it is a story of a policeman and a robber in peacetime. The police are no longer policemen and robbers, but TVB is still doing something that the backbone of the police team is scared by the underworld and jumps over to shoot. Isn't this a little behind the times?
In order to win people's hearts, TVB is also fighting.
In the ninth episode, Huang Zhiwen's singing and dancing were so embarrassing that I dug out three bedrooms and a living room with my toes.
The story of this paragraph is roughly like this: Huang Zhiwen's role has a subordinate, and now this subordinate is going undercover. In order to make things easier, Huang Zhiwen is going to teach his subordinates a dance.
Speaking of animation, you said this is two policewomen dancing? I believe your enchanting posture when you participated in the Miss Hong Kong beauty contest.
As one of the active managers of TVB, Hua Dan, Huang Zhiwen always likes to dance videos on social platforms in private, and she dances well. But in order to attract people, it is too selfish to force such a passage into the play.
However, don't forget that the Haoyang brothers have nothing to do with Apostle 1 and Apostle 2, but Zhang Zhenlang does! At that time, Zhang Zhenlang didn't play the leading role, but only played a man who wanted to be-A Huo in The Apostle 1. Now, the role of Ah Huo is played by another actor in Acts 3, and Zhang Zhenlang, as the original actor of Ah Huo, has also become Hao Yang's brother. It's a play. It's too dramatic.
That's all. Cai has something to say.
In The Blind Touch the Elephant, Cai is great, but in Acts 3, he is really ordinary. In Acts 3, Cai's role is an impulsive policeman, just like the impulse of an epileptic sister, but here the soul asks: Although the 1.8-meter-long leg is beautiful, it doesn't have to be shown to people for 24 hours. This is more exaggerated than Chen Minzhi's praise.
The Apostle 3 should be the biggest co-production of this year's war. In order to satisfy the mainland employers, TVB will certainly shed blood and do its best to show sincerity. A luxurious cast is the most basic standard of sincerity. Look at the cast of Acts 3-Lin Ruimeng,,,,, and Cai Beisi. This kind of configuration is too clear for drama. Only from this point of view, TVB wants to satisfy the mainland market.
However, with such a large lineup, all the retired active students who can play the leading role have come to a drama, and TVB must not treat others badly. Everyone should give some play so as not to waste such a strong team.
Too many protagonists is not a good thing. At least in the first two episodes, many viewers were discouraged by the introduction of complex characters. Besides, there are so many plays that everyone has to grab some. One is ugly, and the other is easy to mess up.
Please TVB, the next "Apostle 4", don't do such thankless things. Really can't. Learn the movie version and reopen the story line. In short, don't consume the perfect characters and plump characters set in the first part.