On the evening of December 25th, Song Joong Ki starring "The Youngest Son of the Chaebol" ushered in the finale with a national rating of 26.948%. This is the highest ratings since the show started broadcasting, and it also set a new record for the highest ratings in the history of Korean cable TV dramas, jumping to the second place, second only to " The World of Couples " with a ratings of 28.371%.
Since it started broadcasting, "The Youngest Son of the Chaebol" has been praised by the audience and the media. From the story of Gao Neng's rebirth and revenge, to the deep love between Chen Daojun and his grandfather Chen Yangzhe, to the fierce and exciting "struggle for power" between chaebol families, it is full of highlights that strongly attract the audience's attention.
But I didn't expect that after the plot progressed to the second half (grandpa Chen Yangzhe went offline), the plot bugs followed one after another , the foreshadowing that was laid before did not come back, and the finale was seriously unfinished. The series dropped from 8.6 points to 7.6 points, and there is still a downward trend.
1, rebirth turned into a dream, too bloody
"The Youngest Son of the Chaebol" attracts the audience's biggest attraction, is Yin Xianyu's rebirth as Chen Daojun, and the chaebol in the process of taking revenge while using a new identity. took the perspective of God from his previous life, and played with his opponents in the applause. Every business battle is exciting and exciting, so the audience can't stop watching.
Under the setting of rebirth, Yin Xianyu's body and Chen Daojun, who possesses Yin Xianyu's soul, exist at the same time and space. This makes the audience very curious about how the finale will explain this phenomenon. But I never thought that the screenwriter and director only thought about digging holes, not filling them. After realizing that all the previous foreshadowings could not be returned in a logical closed loop, simply and rudely set "Yin Xianyu has not been reborn but had a dream." " bloody plot, hastily.
made the audience very dissatisfied with : Because in the original comics, Yin Xianyu completed his revenge after being reborn and successfully became the chairman of Shunyang. The whole story looks very cool. But the episodes are completely in the opposite direction, and the adaptation is careless, which can be called destroying the original work.
and after the rebirth became a dream, many reasonable narrative lines before are also untenable. If it was just a dream, why did President Chen Yangzhe escape the plane crash by changing history in the past time and space? If it was just a dream, why did Yoon Hyun-woo's relationship with prosecutor Seo Min-min in the identity of Chen Daojun really exist? This is clearly illogical.
Under the development of the plot, all Chen Daojun's plans for revenge and the deep relationship with his grandfather Chen Yangzhe have also become fiction. This made the audience who were really nervous about Chen Daojun's revenge process and shed tears for the relationship between the grandfather and grandson feel very angry. It was like watching a "fraud" Korean drama, and all the emotions paid were wrongly paid. Obviously, the screenwriter and director's handling of the plot is not qualified.
2, Too many bugs in the story
Leaving aside the bloody plot development of "rebirth into a dream", talked about Yin Xianyu waking up from a serious injury and revealing the ugly true face of Shun Yang's heir Chen Xingjun. In order to ensure the downfall of Chen Xingjun, Yin Xianyu, Xu Minming and Wu Shixian, the representative of Miracle Company, worked together to successfully reveal the truth of "Chen Xingjun's father killed Chen Daojun many years ago" in front of everyone.
This episode looks cool, but it's actually full of bugs. first how Yoon Hyun Woo becameThis problem was successfully avoided by the chaebol family. In the first episode, was bought by a murderer and pushed into the sea, unable to resist. In the last episode, his IQ suddenly exploded and he easily escaped the chaebol's tracking and arrest. In order to complete the plot of "Yin Xianyu successfully defeated the chaebol family", he forced the chaebol to send out his men to drop his wits: did not monitor the situation near Yin Xianyu's father's house for 24 hours, and did not go to the rented house of Yin Xianyu to look for it in advance, which may be detrimental to the successor Chen Xingjun evidence of.
Even Yin Xianyu was still in the process of being arrested, ostentatiously appearing in front of Chen Xingjun's confidants. It was just a matter of typing the words "golden finger wide open" on the public screen.
followed by the sudden appearance of Miracle Company representative Wu Shixian . After Chen Daojun's death, Wu Shixian avoided the Shunyang Group like a snake. But under Yin Xianyu's few words, he changed his mind and became one of the helpers. The emotional change in this was too abrupt, without enough reasonable foreshadowing, it seemed very forced.
There is also the memory of Yin Xianyu that confuses the audience the most: the finale of states that Yin Xianyu witnessed the death scene of Chen Daojun many years ago, and Yin Xianyu still left the "call evidence" that witnessed the death scene. But the previous plot indicated that before the rebirth, Yin Xianyu didn't even remember that there was a person like Chen Daojun in the chaebol family . In order to successfully reveal the truth about Chen Daojun's death,
forcibly created illogical clues and added storylines that were completely unprepared before. The ending is cool, but the logic is lost, it can be said that the loss outweighs the gain.
It is worth mentioning that the finale of "The Youngest Son of the Plutocrat" also has the advantage of being reversed. That is the emotional line between Chen Daojun and Xu Minming that has been complained by the audience before. As expected by
, the finale revealed that the reason why Xu Minzhen clung to the Shunyang Group was because he wanted to avenge his former lover Chen Daojun. Xu Min's deep and warm emotions made Chen Daojun's death less tragic. Because there are always people in this world who deeply remember him and are committed to seeking justice for him. After
successfully prevented Chen Daojun from inheriting the group, the character Yin Xianyu also completed his own growth curve : he understood the love his father forbears in words, and successfully became the representative of Miracle Investment Company by virtue of his own ability. After choosing the latter between doing things against moral conscience and justice for the chaebol, Yin Xianyu finally found the value of life. This ending made the audience feel extremely moved.
However, even with these two advantages, it cannot prevent the fact that "The Youngest Son of the Plutocrats" is unfinished. In a blink of an eye, fantasy turns into fantasy drama, and revenge turns into dreamland.
Although Yin Xianyu succeeded in revenge in the end, Chen Daojun didn't know in which time and space he was thrown away. For the series that originally claimed to be a cool drama of rebirth and revenge, the loss of the true depiction of the life of the most important character Chen Daojun is undoubtedly the most fatal flaw and blow.
