"Ace vs. Ace" (hereinafter referred to as "Ace") is in its eighth season. This season has encountered constant negative reviews since its launch. Currently, the Douban score has dropped to 4.8. Many people believe that the main reason for the decline in the reputation of "Ace" this season is the absence of the main star Jia Ling, Shen Teng's "stealing", the guests' poor sense of variety shows, the clichéd segments, and the lack of laughs.
More people have criticized this variety show for playing tricks. At the beginning of the broadcast of this season, the topic "Guan Xiaotong was tricked on her birthday" became a hot search topic. In a program with the theme of "anti-fraud", the scientific research team demonstrated the latest network security defense system CD-ROM that they "took five years" and "spent hundreds of millions of yuan" to build. In the meantime, the program team arranged for guests to get a hands-on experience. However, when Shen Teng and Guan Xiaotong handed over, an "accident" happened. The former's sudden release and the latter's lack of response caused the disc to fall to the ground, and the atmosphere on the entire stage dropped to freezing point. Amidst voices emphasizing how important the results are and how difficult research and development is, Guan Xiaotong could only look around with tears in his eyes. Suddenly, the scene reversed, and a group of people came out pushing birthday cakes to celebrate Guan Xiaotong's birthday. Up to this point, the audience only saw her eyes full of horror, and she was driven by the process to express her gratitude to the program team.
Celebrating the birthdays of guests has always been a part of variety shows that will not be missed. On the one hand, the event itself is a topic of discussion, and on the other hand, it can also add an "emotional light" to the program. However, such an inappropriate way to celebrate a birthday makes the part that should show friendship only awkward, making the viewers feel a little suffocated. Today, this program has been aired for many days. Looking at the video comment area, people are still telling their disappointment.
Coincidentally, this kind of tricky birthday celebration also happened to Zhou Shen in "Running Man" and Li Sidani in "In the Mood for Love". Regardless of whether the parties involved like this way of celebrating or whether the dramatic reversal of behavior makes the audience feel warm, the program crew is always playing tricks on it. They use the trust of the guests and the audience as a bargaining chip to create these surprises that they think are clever, but in fact they are just a self-righteous self-impression. This makes artists helpless and becomes a tool for the show to gain attention, and it also makes viewers feel intense discomfort.
The leopard can be seen in the tube. The characteristics of this type of program are comedy and warmth, and the main focus is on the emotional card. However, there are too many famous scenes mentioned above, but it reveals that the creation is not careful and careless. In their eyes, moving people with emotion is to set up plots for participating guests, create tears, and make them miserable. Many scenes are copied and pasted from similar programs, and even the game segments are not very innovative in terms of content setting and plot direction. Some of the "reveals" and "competitions" have not been aired to the end. The audience has already guessed the general idea, and it will be boring to watch any more. In addition, interruptions to the normal process for promotions and advertisements have become more frequent, and editing has become increasingly confusing and confusing. This has made the program narrative that should have been coherent become fragmented, and the audience's viewing experience has become worse and worse.
Let's talk about "Ace". As one of the representatives of seasonal popular variety shows, its Douban score in the past two seasons has been less than 5 points. After the prosperity, it has obviously gradually become weak. Obviously, the emotional cards have been getting worse and worse. Fundamentally, it is neither innovative nor divorced from the core of people-oriented creation. For TV variety shows, only by respecting the audience can we gain love and following. If you want to remain popular, you should always maintain awe of the audience, constantly reflect and innovate, continue to interact with the audience with higher-quality content, and inject endless vitality into the program. (Reporter Tian Kexin)
