At the beginning of the TV series "News Queen", it attracted many viewers with its tight rhythm and colorful plot, and was known as a "cool drama". This drama starring Charmaine Sheh and Ma Guoming aroused a warm response among the audience as soon as it was broadcast.
This originally win-win drama with word-of-mouth and popularity, but in the later stage of the plot development and the handling of the finale, it encountered fierce doubts, and was criticized for "opening high and going low" and "unfinished". What went wrong with this "cool drama" that once aroused heated discussions at the ending that made it fall from a "word-of-mouth drama" to a "bad end drama"?This sudden reversal left many viewers who originally loved the show confused and disappointed.
In the early plot, "The Queen of News" successfully shows the survival of a small person in a cruel power game through the complex relationship between inside and outside the Ministry of Information.
Wen Huixin and George come and go, fight openly and secretly, and calculate each other;Fei Ye is scheming, left and right, and wanders all forces;Xu Shiqing is ambitious, unscrupulous, and always tries to take refuge in the most powerful side. There are also those financiers and capital groups hidden behind the scenes, who are the driving force behind this power game. The interweaving of all kinds of complex relationships makes the rhythm and plot advancement of this drama full of appeal.
Coupled with the superb acting skills of first-line actors such as Charmaine Sheh and Ma Guoming, the audience is full of expectations and speculations about the changes in the fate of the characters in the play.
However, as the show nears its end, some plot problems begin to arise. The most incomprehensible thing for the audience is the sudden blackening of the goddess of justice, Zhang Jiayan.
The role of Zhang Jiayan has always shown a firm principle and bottom line of a journalist in the early stage, but in the later stage, she made a choice that violated her consistent style: distorting the news facts in order to curry favor with the financier, using her apprentice Liu Yan, knowingly committing crimes, etc. This abrupt reversal is not only rough, but also seriously undermines the audience's perception of the character.
As the audience mentioned in the comments: "Zhang Jiayan in the early stage did not hesitate to sacrifice herself for the truth of the news, but then why was she suddenly able to sell the truth of the news for other purposes?"This abrupt change directly led to the later behavior of Zhang Jiayan's character being difficult to understand and recognize.
What's even more incomprehensible is the happy ending of this show. Obviously, in the early stage, George and Wen Hui's hearts were like fire and water, but in the end, they could laugh at the enmity;The original image of Zhang Jiayan was positive, and she also "discovered her conscience" at the last moment.
This deliberate HE ending not only has no logical relationship with the previous plot, but also makes the audience feel that the screenwriter is "fooling" the audience and does not take the audience's viewing experience into account.
As the audience said, what George did to Wen Huixin in the early stage, how could he suddenly "turn back" at the end?This 180-degree turn in the character's personality is unbelievable.
In addition to the reversal of the characters' personalities, the plot itself also has some abrupt arrangements.
For example, Fei Ye's resignation, Xu Shiqing's entry into politics, Xu Xiaowei's joining charity and other settings all make people feel that the screenwriter is deliberately doing it and laying the groundwork for the second season. These seemingly "perfect" lives have no foreshadowing or signs in the plot.
As the audience said, this kind of arrangement of "suddenly turning a corner and going their own way" makes people unable to understand the screenwriter's intentions.
The core of the reason why the finale of "The Queen of News" has encountered so many doubts is that it deviates from the tone of the show at the beginning.
This was originally a realistic workplace drama, through the struggle of small people, showing the fragility of ideals in the face of reality and the submission of human nature in the face of power. But in the later stage, the screenwriter went against the norm and forcibly woven it into an idealistic fairy tale of reunion.
This abrupt reversal is not only unacceptable, but also deviates from the original theme of the play.
Maybe the screenwriter wants to let the audience get a sense of positive energy and satisfaction through the HE ending, but this idealistic happy ending is too much in contrast to the characters in the play who are polished by reality and have nothing to do with it, and it makes people feel even more sad.
The Queen of the News is a tragicomedy about ideals and reality. It succeeds in showing the fragility of ideals in the face of harsh reality, but it also tries to weave a happy ending in the finale. However, this sudden reversal will only make the audience feel disagreeable.
Perhaps in the next season, the screenwriter can think about how to better deal with the relationship between this ideal and reality, so that the audience can get more inspiration and insight after enjoying the whole story. After all, a good TV series not only needs a great plot, but also a convincing theme.