The soulless River God 2 lost more than Li Xian.

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"River God" is no longer a "God".

The audience has been waiting for three years for "River God 2", which is "tasteless". Guo Deyou, the "river god" who changed actors, is greasy and ugly; The plot of the case that should have caused suspense directly turned into "entering the subject" and challenged the audience's IQ.

The opening of "River God 2" is wonderful. It is based on the mysterious folk story of "nine cows, two tigers and one chicken, and the river is deified into a monster in the sea", which not only inherits the high-quality elements of the previous work, but also upgrades visually.

At the sacrificial ceremony, nine cows entered the sea and the river demon appeared. Guo Deyou, the "God of the River", turned over and stepped into a wave-breaking boat in Shuanghu Lake. Holding a golden rooster and a sea gun, he flew up and pretended to be a Zhenhai demon.

Long shots, overhead shots and special effects add more visual wonders.

But with the development of the story, this external sense of superiority can't cover up the defects of the play itself.

After sixteen episodes, River God 2 presents a delicate ugliness-production and aesthetic upgrading, characters and plot degradation. It did not violate the law that the sequel will die, and became a mediocre work with more form than content, flat characters and thin plot.

The word-of-mouth and popularity of the two seasons are also obvious.

At the end of the program, the broadcast volume of "River God" exceeded 65.438+0.7 billion. At present, Douban has been scored by more than 6.5438+0.7 million people, and the score is stable at 8.2.

So far, the douban score is 7.5. Although it doesn't look low, at present, only 1.2 million people participate in the grading, and the sample is very small, which is more like "waiting for loneliness".

Due to the corner-changing storm, the return of Heshen 2 was full of controversy from the beginning.

The actor of the previous work "River God" failed to play the sequel due to physical reasons, and Jin starred. For the audience who have seen the first season, it is inevitable to substitute the previous impression of the protagonist.

Can Jin Canshi Jia overcome the "acclimatization" brought by changing corners? Many viewers were skeptical from the beginning.

After the broadcast, the controversy fermented, and many "unacceptable" comments accumulated on the barrage and Douban.

When Guo Deyou, played by Jin, became a mature middle-aged man with a beard, he was immediately accused of being "greasy" and "acting".

Objectively speaking, Kim's acting skills are excellent. Although he lacks Li Xian's sense of youth, Guo Deyou's unswerving new strength is still there, and he is slightly better at dealing with the details of complex emotions. Especially in the episode where Master Lao He Shen was killed, he showed the deep affection between master and apprentice in a very delicate way.

However, Jin's acting skills can't change the fact that Guo Deyou looks "disobedient". Among them, the script is the "culprit".

The first is that the temperament of the characters is not connected.

In fact, it is not surprising that Guo Deyou has matured from a teenager after Lian Huaqing, a gangster on the Magic Road, detonated the source of evil water and the Tianmen Tiantuan escaped at close range.

However, the plot did not pave the way for this change, which made Kim with a beard look out of step.

Secondly, Guo Deyou's scenes have been greatly reduced, from the backbone to Ding Mao's helper.

In the first season, Guo Deyou was the dragon and phoenix among the peerless people. In the second season, his "aura is exhausted", his charm is no longer, and his IQ is frequently offline.

"River God" suddenly changed from a real hero to a tool paper man. Some netizens spit, and the plot seems to have changed from "River God" to "Ding Mao Biography".

Although River God is not a male-dominated configuration, it is based on the twin Shuang Dan composed of Guo Deyou, Ding Mao, Gu Ying and Xiao Lanlan. But as a control group, there are many new ideas among several protagonists.

Guo Deyou of the body salvage team reasoned the case with the mysterious stunt of "lighting a cigarette to distinguish grievances"; Ding Mao is a gentleman who returned from studying abroad and believes in the scientific method of forensic anatomy.

One is a wild road, and the other is an academic school; One is full of Jianghu flavor, and the other is the spokesman of science.

Starting from their own ideas, the two investigated the case separately, which not only had a sense of conflict, but also cooperated with each other to unlock a more complete plot.

In the second season, the collision between "Jianghu" and "Science" changed its flavor. The "river god" is more like setting off Ding Mao.

The background of the second season is that the ancient magic road was conspired to succeed, the poisonous water spread and the Haihe River was polluted. Therefore, the narrative of the second season revolves around pollution control, and the official drama has increased greatly. These dramas naturally fell on Ding Mao, who became the secretary-general.

Guo Deyou, who was born in the city, has nowhere to display his wisdom, and the identity of the captain of the body salvage team has also been reduced to decoration because of the pollution of Haihe River.

Even the best "lighting a cigarette to distinguish grievances" was banned after Rong's "silver bell seal", and his skill was almost zero. The IQ seems to have been "stolen" by Ding Mao, which is very lethal. Fans who originally watched "River God 2" with some feelings were consumed by the short-circuit behavior of Xiaohe God from time to time.

Anyone who has seen "River God" knows that the advantage of this online drama is that the supporting role is also arc light, which seems to be idle writing, but it inadvertently promotes the development of the main story.

For example, in the first season, the old witch "Hu" was set by cannibals and came in handy when solving crimes.

She can smell the wine on the wrapping paper Guo Deyou picked up, and with her knowledge of Tianjin cuisine, she can point out which hotel will use this wine, thus leading Guo Deyou to the hotel that sells opium privately.

But in the second part, the supporting role lost its "auxiliary" role and became a dispensable existence. The main plot of the old witch turned into crazy marriage urging, and the cute style of the first season was cut by half. If it weren't for her unique dress, she could have walked into the set of the domestic mother-in-law drama and played a Chinese mother who loves to promote marriage.

The charm of the old characters is no longer there, but the newly added characters stick to the rules, which is quite cosmetic.

On the surface, the boss is the commander-in-chief, and the cunning and insidious are written on his face. It's hard to say every time he goes out, so the design of the whole play has to be put on airs. Although all his songs are in line with the development of the plot, the style of singing songs is more formal than content and full of affectation.

The increase of Ding Mao's plays in River God 2 is even more criticized.

The screenwriter not only arranged for him to launch several subplots with the new top leader and physiotherapist Rong, but also made him a "overbearing president" after becoming Secretary-General Ding.

When Guo Deyou refused to tear down the Longwang Temple where he lived with the old river god, Ding Mao even said in a bureaucratic tone, "How can you be so ignorant when it comes to personal interests?" 」

With such a bureaucratic protagonist, it is really hard for the audience to feel * * *. Doubts followed. In the first season, Ding Mao, who was obviously stupid, even became the secretary-general. Is this personality change too great?

No wonder netizens spit out: "This episode should be called" Master of River God's Overbearing Grain Transportation ".

Ding Mao became the highlight of the play, stealing Guo Deyou's original protagonist aura, which made the whole story feel like a presumptuous guest usurps the host's role.

Originally, people are quite unpopular. The negative news of Ding Mao's actor Zhang Mingen is implicated in the role itself.

Just before the launch of "River God 2", Zhang Mingen's tangled feelings with Lulu and Hu Bingqing were exposed and boarded a hot search.

In reality, he used to be a warm-hearted man with single feelings, but suddenly collapsed and became the "Neptune" and "friend circle management master" in the eyes of netizens.

When Ding Mao and the Rong he played had an ambiguous atmosphere during the treatment, and Ding Mao lied to his girlfriend that he was going to see Rong, he even asked the audience to project their antipathy to Ding Mao, and even unconsciously substituted themselves into the role: "Look, are you going to cheat in a male play?" 」

The characters in "River God 2" are untenable, the plot of the detective case is thin, and the reasoning process is even more mysterious, which makes the audience seem to see the online drama version of "Into Science".

For example, the opening "Cui Madman Shredded Body Case", a series of solving process is incredible.

Crazy Cui, the boss of her whole life, took her wife to the theater for her birthday, but she died in the toilet. The body split in two, and her death was strange. Ding Mao made a statement of life and death and vowed to find the murderer within three days. The first case began.

Guo Deyou and Ding Mao rushed to the crime scene. Guo Deyou "lit a cigarette to rehabilitate" and the private room was filled with smoke. He entered the inner senses through the illusion and saw the scene of the deceased before his death. Theoretically, he should start reasoning through the details of this scene; In fact, this kind of behavior is quite chicken ribs.

Guo Deyou tasted the meals at the birthday party one by one, only to find that Cui Furen's bowls and chopsticks didn't move at all. The workmanship and texture of the two soup bowls on the table are obviously different from other tableware. He came to the conclusion that there is no problem with the food, but the soup filled with throat-moistening ginseng soup is the problem.

The process in which he tried the dishes one by one was like a broadcast in a play, which had no influence on the case except for a long time.

"There is a problem too late. Ding Mao's lines express the audience's inner thoughts: you have tasted all the food before you say it's okay. Isn't that a cigarette unnecessary? Showing off skills is less than half an episode, but the conclusion is obvious from the beginning.

After that, Ding Mao tried his best to blend in, and came to the conclusion that Cui Furen was at odds with Cui Madman. At the suggestion of the old river god, Guo Deyou learned that Cui madman should have died of Guanyin lotus poisoning, so he went to Shi Gui to investigate the people who bought drugs and locked Cui Furen with a piece of jade board paper.

Just as Mrs. Cui pleaded guilty, Guo Deyou and Ding Mao pointed the real murderer at Nie Xiaoqiu, a famous actress in the theater, through a joke engraved on the blackboard, thus laying the groundwork for a sadistic love affair between Mrs. Cui and Nie Xiaoqiu.

Typical reason is not enough, and feelings are playful. The relationship between Mrs Cui and Nie Xiaoqiu, love but not love and hate, is very old-fashioned. The story of two people confessing to each other takes up a lot of space, and the lyric drama directly drags the rhythm.

The protagonist's emotional drama is also diluting suspense and reasoning. The old witch kept urging marriage, Guo Deyou and Gu Ying kept getting married, and the parents' short plot was interspersed with mysterious murders. The restrained emotion suddenly became bloody and cliche in the sequel.

The narrative of River God 2 is not a unit drama mode, but a series of major cases based on the folklore of "nine cows, two tigers and one chicken". Therefore, every small murder will leave a tail related to this legend.

For example, Cui madman's death in two pieces is secretly consistent with his family's bronze cow bookstall, and the fate of diplomat Gu spontaneous combustion is also consistent with the "fire cow map" he received before his death.

From the crazy Cui and Gu to Chen Siru, a female student of Qizhi College, these similarities before life are that they can't feel pain ... All kinds of clues imply that there is a bigger conspiracy behind them.

However, the pattern and stalls are large enough, but they are not reasonable as a whole, and every step is not practical enough.

Although all minor murders point to the ultimate mystery, the weak plot and scribbled reasoning in a single case make the story loose and there is no reasonable transition between cases.

After leaving a mess of clues, several protagonists no longer care about the past like turning pages, and plunge into the next case, giving people a sense of mystery to create the so-called ultimate suspense.

Producer Chang Ben said in an interview with Entertainment that "River God 2" is a more exciting play. "Our production is upgrading, and I hope the audience can accompany us to upgrade. 」

Perhaps, Old River God, Manager Hu and Secretary-General Xiao died in the explosion on the same night, which really aroused the collective emotion of the audience. But I'm afraid many people have given up the play because of the plot procrastination before watching it.

20 17 Three suspense dramas, River God, Chasing the Murder in a White Night and Crime Without a License, are known as the three peaks of domestic suspense dramas by word of mouth.

Why did "River God" go out of the circle? Relying on its worldview, not suspense, not reasoning-Compared with realistic themes such as Chasing the Murder in a White Night and Crime Without a License, River God constructed a mysterious fantasy world of the Republic of China.

This is due to the imagination of the original author Muye Zhang and his ability to control folk customs.

"Nine rivers reach Tianjinwei, three pontoons and two passes." River God is adapted from the story of Mystery of Ghost Town, and created a unique way by combining the legend of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio with the pier gang. Muye Zhang himself is a native of Tianjin, and the old style of the old Tianjin Wei period was completely restored by him, forming a unique "river god" Jianghu.

Dead baby with green hair, dead body in Sancha River, floating body in Haihe River, the source of bad water ... Almost every case in River God is related to water. All kinds of strange elements, such as corpse salvage, funeral, soul calling, dancing gods, ghost market stability, yin soldiers borrowing roads, lighting cigarettes and so on, show the legends and folk culture of the East.

Catch turtles and learn from teachers; Can't eat in the kitchen god; Buying and selling in the water, eating fish and turning over is a taboo; Red does not enter the river, and yellow does not enter the sea; Silence is stealing, silence is robbing ... all kinds of details and lines outline Tianjin Wei's Jianghu rules during the Republic of China.

But in the second part, the narrative focus shifted from ordinary rivers and lakes to bureaucratic tactics, and the newly added roles such as viceroy, mayor, commander-in-chief and Fan Junyao were all dignitaries.

To some extent, this setting lacks the underlying color of the rivers and lakes themselves, which makes the story break away from the original simplicity.

Water ghosts, witches and even river gods are reduced to symbolic existence. The river god is no longer in the water, and there is no place for the magical powers in the rivers and lakes. In this way, people no longer have a mysterious awe of the anecdotes of the old society.

It seems that the little witch has no work to do this season, no crying, no soul and no practice. It's about dressing up as a celebrity at the reception, which is beautiful. But is it too old-fashioned to pretend to be a rich girl?

The pattern of "River God 2" seems to be getting bigger, but the "spectacle" of the mysterious ghost water legend has actually decreased. More like a mediocre detective drama of the Republic of China, it will never return to the peak of three years ago.

When the rivers and lakes shrink, the "river god" loses its soul.