Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 123 A New Drama That Was Well-received But Not Popular
Because it is an adaptation of a TV series, some of the lengthy side quests in the original game were all cut out.

The heroine Xiaomai activated her ability to go back in time and returned to the classroom.

Once again, he perfectly answered the questions of his photography teacher, Xu Jie (Jefferson).

Wait in the toilet in advance.

Then, just like last time, he waited for the arrival of his former good friend Xiao Yi and the rich second-generation student in his class, Li Sen.

Everything was the same as when Xiaomai first saw it.

The only difference was that this time, before Li Sen got excited and was about to shoot, Xiaomai pressed the alarm at the deepest part of the women's restroom.

The entire teaching building was filled with shrill alarm sounds.

Xiao Yi took advantage of the chaos to break free from Li Sen and ran away. Before Li Sen fled in a hurry, he saw that the person who sounded the alarm and brought a gun to the school was Xiao Mai.

In the subsequent plot of the first episode, because of this incident, Li Sen began to make trouble for Xiaomai in school, and even wrestled with a boy who had a crush on Xiaomai. At the critical moment, it was Xiao Yi who drove a pickup truck and rushed to let Xiaomai get in the car and saved her.

The first episode, which is less than an hour long, is full of conflicts from the beginning to the end.

It also leaves a lot of foreshadowing for the plot.

What happened to the girl named Shen Qiu (Rachel) who went missing from school?

Is it related to Li Sen, a bad guy who did all kinds of evil and even brought guns to the university?
After Xiao Yi and Xiao Mai separated five years ago, why did Xiao Yi, an excellent student, drop out of school and even get involved in a contraband incident?

What is the relationship between Xiao Yi and the missing Shen Qiu?
Life is Strange is completely different from Su Yan’s previous dramas.

This drama has basically no love elements. It focuses on friendship and puzzle solving, exploring the truth of the crime surrounding the two female protagonists.

After the show ended that night
Su Yan's fans were a little uncomfortable with this.

This is indeed a big change in the plot style, but
Seriously speaking, this drama is quite good!
"The idea of ​​being able to go back in time is really cool. Every time I get into trouble, it's really cool to see Xiaomai use this cheating method to resolve it!"

"Su Yan Lao Zei's dramas are always slow to warm up, but this drama feels quite attractive from the first episode!"

"So what is the main plot of this drama? Is it about finding clues to the missing Shen Qiu through the ability to go back in time?"

"I always feel that it's outrageous that the rich second-generation Li Sen is so arrogant and dares to bring a gun to school. The disappearance of Shen Qiu must be related to him."

"So the background of this drama is set in the last century. At that time, those cities in Xiaguo were indeed in chaos, and there were gangs. Although they have disappeared due to severe crackdowns now, they were indeed scary at the time."

"Although there is no old thief Su Yan, this drama is unexpectedly to my liking! Xiao Yi and Xiao Mai, played by Shen Liqian and Gu Qingyuan, are really cool. I feel that not having a male lead is a stroke of genius!"

"Yes, this kind of drama depicting friendship between girls seems quite interesting!"

The plot of the first episode of Life is Strange is mostly about setting up traps and laying out foreshadowings in the plot.

Strictly speaking, the plot is not very attractive.

If it was written by an unknown screenwriter, perhaps after the first episode was aired it would have received only a "worth watching" comment from the audience.

But the screenwriter of this drama happens to be Su Yan, which makes things different.

When it comes to movies and TV series, different screenwriters bring different expectations to the audience.

The reputation of Su Yan’s previous dramas is so good that his fans are looking for the advantages of Life is Strange with a magnifying glass.

Character makeup, plot rhythm, setting innovation, story connotation
When you deliberately look for these things, you will definitely find the highlights of this drama.

next day
The ratings for the first episode of Life is Strange are out.

4.25%
Ranked third in the ratings this quarter.

However, with a premiere rating of 9.0, it still ranks first among TV dramas aired this season.

After this result was released.
In the crew of Life is Strange, Shen Liqian and Gu Qingyuan both breathed a sigh of relief.

Especially Gu Qingyuan, because Su Yan was not participating in this drama, she was afraid that the ratings would plummet when it was first broadcast.

After all, this is an A-level drama with an investment of 40 million!

This is twice the investment in April.
But it was broadcast on Qingkong TV, and it still had 4.25%, ranking third in the first week.
Judging from the characteristics of Su Yan's drama that develops in the later stages.
Doesn't this mean that if Life is Strange is broadcast in the later stages, the ratings will exceed those in April?
Not only Gu Qingyuan, Shen Liqian, Su Yan, Shinozaki Ikumi and other main creative team members thought so.

Even Xia's film and television media think so.

When the show starts airing on Qingkong TV, the ratings will definitely be low at the beginning, because Qingkong is simply not comparable to the three major TV stations.

Su Yan can only rely on the extremely high reputation formed after his drama has been on the air for a period of time, as well as the fact that more and more people have joined the army of passers-by who watch the drama on Raccoon.com, to surpass the ratings of the works of the three major TV stations.

This is the reason why the ratings reached the top in the late April.

And now it seems that Life is Strange is likely to follow this path.

So even though Life is Strange only ranked third in the ratings in the first week of the winter season, on Monday, a bunch of film critics from the entire film and television industry reported news about Life is Strange all the time.

Everyone is looking forward to Life is Strange to once again achieve the same ratings curve as in April, and Su Yan to achieve the feat of helping Qingkong TV to reach the top for the second time in a row.

But in the second week of the winter season, the plot development was different from what everyone imagined.

The ratings for "Rain in Shanghai" continued to be 4.52%, which is a significant increase compared to the first week.

The second episode of Lie Yang had a viewership rating of 4.31%, which is also rising.

The Mystery of Time had a viewership rating of 4.21% in its second week.

But Life is Strange had a viewership rating of 4.22% in its second week.

The ratings rankings of the four dramas in the second week were exactly the same as in the first week, with Life is Strange still ranking third.

But the ratings of its three competitors are all rising, except for Life is Strange, which actually dropped slightly compared to the first week.

This situation is somewhat abnormal.

But the drop in ratings was not due to any toxic plot points, as Life is Strange's ratings increased again.

It increased from 9.0 to 9.1.

The second episode of Life is Strange focuses on the heroine Xiaomai's classmate Qin Ling (Kate).
In this episode, Xiaomai told Xiaoyi that he had the ability to go back in time, and through a series of experiments, he made Xiaoyi believe it.

Qin Ling was drugged by the jerk Li Sen, the rich second generation in the first episode, and filmed a bunch of obscene videos to spread around the school. The heroine Xiaomai chose to help her and was ready to investigate the relationship between Li Sen and Shen Qiu's disappearance.
In terms of plot, this episode is also extremely compact, and the friendship between the two female protagonists, Xiao Yi and Xiao Mai, is also touching.

But its ratings have dropped a bit. At home, Su Yan looked at the messages from a group of Life is Strange fans on the Internet for a long time, and then he let out a long sigh.

He seemed to understand where the problem lay.

In this work, the plot about school bullying is a bit too uncomfortable.

Although Su Yan’s previous dramas were cruel, they were all cruel at the level of love.

Most of his TV drama viewers are young people, mostly single. Although they feel sad when watching love-depressing dramas, in fact, those are all imagined depressions.
A group of single people, how can we have such a high sense of immersion?

But the first episode of Life is Strange involves the shooting of the heroine.

The second episode is about school bullying again.

The subject matter is good and the plot has depth.

But what about the viewing experience?

Fans of Xia Guo can watch it to find it depressing and sad, but most people don’t want to read such a heavy story.

Moreover, many bullying plots, where the rich second generation bullies others, are too real and have brought back memories for many people.

After realizing this, Su Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

He must have thought that Life is Strange was an extremely excellent work and chose to adapt it into a TV series in Xiaguo, but he ignored these problems.

Although the style of works popular in the Xiaguo market has been greatly influenced by that world's Sakura Island because of its incorporation.

But this does not mean that all works from the previous island country will become popular in Xia Country.

Let’s not talk about love themes for now, but works involving school bullying and crime themes are definitely very sensitive.

Even though the plot of Life is Strange has added the superpower of time travel, its core remains unchanged.

At this moment, Su Yan probably figured this out.

"Every failure makes you wiser." Su Yan smiled bitterly.

But the emotions didn't fluctuate too much.

He has never been a blindly arrogant person. His confidence in the success of his drama came from the outstanding performance of the original work in his previous life.

The Life is Strange game itself also had very good sales in its previous life, otherwise there wouldn’t have been several sequels released in succession.

This is also the reason why Su Yan is willing to invest so much money in its production.

But there are risks in adapting gaming works into TV series across worlds.

"But the situation isn't particularly serious right now. Let's wait and see for a few weeks."

Soon, the third week of the winter season is here.

In this episode, Life is Strange takes a heavier tone.

In the first and second episodes, Qin Ling, a girl who was bullied on campus, was humiliated because of the obscene video spread by the rich second-generation Li Sen.
He committed suicide by jumping off a building.

Of course, in the plot, the heroine Xiaomai overloaded her abilities, not only going back in time, but also walking in the paused time and coming to Qin Ling who was about to jump off the building to commit suicide.
Although the result was that Qin Ling was successfully rescued.

But the despair she felt before jumping off the building to commit suicide, and the tragic scene of her falling to the ground were indeed too real and made people feel uncomfortable.

This week, the ratings of the four major A-rated dramas of this season rose collectively, but
The other three saw even greater increases.

The third episode of Life is Strange had a viewership rating of 4.28%.

But its ratings ranking was only fourth.

After ranking fourth for two consecutive weeks, the ratings of "Mystery of Time" rose to 4.31%.

Sakura TV's "Shanghai Rain.Continuation" still leads the ratings list, with a viewership rate of 4.51%, the highest among all.

only.
Xiaguo's film critics and media did not ridicule Life is Strange just because its ratings dropped to fourth place.

On the contrary, the media unanimously praised the setting in which the heroine Xiaomai in Life is Strange used her ability to travel back in time to save people who were shot and those who jumped to death due to school bullying.

Although the audience doesn't like such heavy plot.

But the media and film critics like it!
What's so good about discussing those cheesy romance dramas?
School bullying and shooting, this is a bold plot.

If you were given the ability to go back in time, what would you do with it?
Should we use it for evil, or use it to redeem the many regrets in the world?
If you think carefully about the plot of Life is Strange so far, it is indeed much deeper than other dramas in Xiaguo during the same period.

As for the ratings?
What else would it be like for a drama like this to rank fourth in the quarter in terms of ratings?

The plot is so heavy, there will definitely be a lot of viewers who like light-hearted plots and won’t want to watch it!
So a situation that surprised Su Yan occurred.

The ratings ranking of Life is Strange was actually not as good as he expected at the beginning.

However, the media reputation of this work exceeded his initial expectations.

"So, it's a good review but not a good seller?"

Su Yan looked at the raccoon website's data of 9.4 million paid views per episode of Life is Strange and the score rising to , and felt a little amused.

　Because some readers left messages saying that Life is Strange was too unfamiliar, and the plot background and setting were too different from the style of previous works.

　　I also said yesterday that this drama will be finished soon.

　　Then let's take this opportunity to write a little about the drama Life is Strange.

　　It is impossible for the protagonist Su Yan to be popular in any adaptation of any work, even in another world. However, it is not easy to write a plot where the protagonist fails. People definitely don’t read novels for those things, so I have never mentioned this logical flaw. Moreover, if some of my popular works fail in the TV adaptation of another world, I will offend the fans of those works.

　　But I let the protagonist choose an adaptation that readers were not optimistic about, and by the way, I made the performance of the novel a little less than satisfactory, so that it would also meet the expectations of everyone who read the novel.

　　I will finish writing this plot in a day or two, followed by cyberpunk and The Garden of Words, and then some Japanese comic adaptations.

　　No more niche stuff.

　　I saw some comments about works like fz, Bai Xue, and Tokyo Love Story, so let's move towards these works in the future.

　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)