China News Service, Beijing, July 13 (Reporter Wang Shiyao) What happened? The popular "withdrawal trend" in the film industry has unknowingly spread to the TV drama industry?
The ending of the TV series "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" recently caused controversy. Many viewers complained that the series was supposed to be broadcast in 5 units, but now only one unit of " Iron Blood and Heart " was broadcast before announcing "Goodbye". Faced with the audience's inquiries about the broadcast arrangements of subsequent episodes, the film studio has still not responded at all, making many fans angry and chilled.
Ending after half the broadcast?
In recent years, there has been a "wind of withdrawal" in the film industry. Not only have some movies changed their schedules multiple times before they were released, but even movies that have already been released will suddenly announce that they will "play again at a later date". During the Spring Festival this year, four movies were withdrawn one after another for the first time, causing 2024 to be called the "first year of withdrawal."
Previously, this "fight and run" approach has caused a lot of controversy. Now this "withdrawal trend" has spread to the TV drama circle.
Two days ago, "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" scored 6.2 points on Douban. In addition to some netizens discussing the plot in the comment area, many people were asking, "Why did it end after only 30 episodes of the 60 episodes promised?"
According to the film introduction, the original number of episodes of "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" is 60, also known as "The New Legend of the Condor Heroes" or "Iron-Blooded Heart + East Evil and West Poison + Southern Emperor and Northern Beggar + Huashan Sword Theory + Nine Yin Manual" . Currently, only 30 episodes of "Iron-Blooded Heart" have been aired, and there is no explanation of the subsequent airing of the remaining four unit episodes.
On June 11, when the official release date of "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" was announced, the cast and crew list also announced the directors, screenwriters and actors of the five units. It can be seen from this that the original broadcast plan did not split the various units, so why was the show "withdrawn" before it was finished?
Before the broadcast, the showrunners ambitiously wanted to create a "Jin Yong Martial Arts World" that could rival the "Marvel Universe". They planned to bring together Jin Yong's classic characters and create character series respectively.
A closer look revealed that the so-called "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" is just a cloak of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and no other characters from Jin Yong's novels have been added to it. This operation of "the text is not on topic" has caused a lot of dissatisfaction.
Based on the plot of "Iron-Blooded Heart" that has already been broadcast, this adaptation has significantly deleted the original story background, resulting in the lack of reasonable logic in some plots and making it difficult for new audiences who are not "Jin Yong fans" to enter the drama.
Therefore, compared with the high expectations of the showrunners, the subsequent broadcast of "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World" was weak, which may be one of the reasons for its withdrawal.
The audience asked the show: Should it still be broadcast?
At the end of June, when the finale of "Heart of Iron" started to be screened, the audience was still looking forward to starting a new chapter. Unexpectedly, what they waited for a week later was the sentence "The mountains are high and the rivers are long. See you in the world!".
Under this closing Weibo post, almost all of them were messages asking about the broadcast arrangements for subsequent episodes. Such a "cliff-like withdrawal" ultimately hurt the audience who followed the drama.
Some netizens questioned that the drama team included other units when calculating the popularity data, but they were not even sure whether it would be aired in the future. They wanted to get an explanation for this.
Some netizens said that they signed up for a video website membership in order to watch "Jin Yong's Martial Arts World", but it stopped broadcasting halfway through. How should this account be calculated?
Some viewers defended the actors and believed that the leading actors in other units worked hard to cooperate with the publicity, but due to poor early broadcast results, the broadcast of their own works was affected.
Previously, the interaction between actor Yiwei and netizens was also discovered. The episode " Ashes of Time " starring him has not yet been broadcast. However, for the episode "Iron-Blooded Heart" in which he starred, the audience was told "Don't Looking forward to it", and hinting that it may be "disappointed", triggering a lot of speculation.
However, Zhou Yiwei once again posted a post explaining that he was not doing anything about Yin and Yang, but that he "did not want to overly raise everyone's expectations" and said that "the original intention of every version is out of love."
Jin Yong’s martial arts has been popular for decades as a classic IP, and its core is the word "xia". If the showrunners only want to superficially rely on IP to gain traffic, and fail to show the truly valuable "chivalrous world", let alone "martial arts", they will be abandoned by the audience. (End)
[Editor: Liang Yi]