Chapter 203: I can’t get out of Xu Kong’s shadow at all
"This drama is so painful. Men, women, young and old all suffer, and the suffering is so real, so uncomfortable and frustrating. The key point is that I am also suffering, and everyone is living so hard. , but still want to live.”
"Strictly speaking, it's not a suspense drama. After watching it, it's more like the director telling the story of that era."
"The staying power is even greater than the original Fairy Sword. After watching the final ending, the characters in it were relieved, but I couldn't get out."
"The last two episodes are really focused on getting rid of the knife. From the moment Wang Xiang saw Wang Yang's body by the river, I couldn't stop crying."
After the finale of "The Long Season" was aired, the popularity reached its peak again directly after the premiere.
Almost all the Internet is discussing the plot and various characters in it.
Not only ordinary netizens, but also many film and television bloggers, including Yiguo, although they could not make film reviews or videos immediately, they also posted updates to express their attitudes.
"It is said to be a suspense drama, but it is a limitation on this drama. It can be said that this is the best drama I have watched in the past five years."
"When a grain of ashes falls on everyone's head, it really becomes a mountain."
"Perhaps "The Long Season" is not as popular as the original "Sword of Sword", but with this drama, I feel that Xu Kong is definitely a leader among the new generation of directors."
Yiguo, who has nearly 60 million fans online, also posted a message.
Although there are only four simple words, it is enough to express all your attitudes.
"Best of the Year!"
"Why is the heat getting higher and higher?"
On Kiwi's side, Qin Xian actually saw that the playback volume of "The Long Season" exceeded that of "Evil Spirit" on their platform in the past two days.
But he didn't care at the time.
After all, some traces can still be seen online. It is Penguin who has increased publicity and promotion resources for the entire drama.
He felt that it was most likely because Penguin was a little anxious seeing that the heat was being suppressed by them.
"After all, the finale has concluded in the past two days. It is normal for Penguin to increase publicity in order to achieve a good result."
Even this time, Qin Xian didn't care.
After all, Xu Kong's new drama had such a big battle when it first aired.
But in fact, the playback volume continues to decline.
It means that the upper limit of this drama is just like that.
To put it harshly, it was just a death struggle.
"But Mr. Qin, why do I feel that these discussions on the Internet are real people, not trolls or marketing accounts?"
Huang Qifeng still had doubts at this time.
But seeing Qin Xian's nonchalant attitude, he didn't dare to say it.
The main thing is that no matter how good the marketing team or marketing account is, you can still see the clues.
Most of their copywriting content will inevitably be repeated.
But at this time, "The Long Season" had just finished airing its finale. Although most of the discussions in the various comment sections were praise, they did not seem to be of the large-scale and organized type.
"And the drama "The Long Season" has already finished airing, so no matter what, it won't have much impact on us."
As if realizing that Huang Qifeng was still a little worried, Qin Xian spoke again.
Thinking of this, Huang Qifeng himself felt a little relieved.
That's right, no matter how popular "The Long Season" is now, the finale has already been aired.
Next, there is no threat to "Evil Spirit" which is still being serialized.
Now their biggest opponent is the movie "Murder in the Far Mountains" from Tudou Video.
However, although the other party's reputation and ratings have always been higher than theirs, the performance of the data is still somewhat unsatisfactory.
"The Long Season" has a total of twelve episodes, and the episode length is really too short.
From the start to the end, it didn’t even take half a month.
Many viewers only watched the first two episodes because of the slow pace, and abandoned the show without even finishing the first episode.
There's still nothing we can do about it.
But at the same time, as long as the audience has watched the entire drama completely, there is almost no negative review.
This can be seen from the ratings trend of the entire drama after it was aired.
With a score of 9.0 when it first aired, it is definitely a drama with a high reputation. At least it is the first among domestic dramas in recent years.
Under normal circumstances, the subsequent ratings of most dramas will definitely lead to a decline.
But "The Long Season" does the opposite.
It is very rare to see the so-called high-spirited performance.
On the day after the finale aired, the ratings once again experienced a second increase.
It directly reached the terrifying level of 9.5 points.
What is this concept? Not to mention the past few years, even among the entire Chinese-language domestic dramas, there are only a few dramas with a score of 9.5.
As for the popularity, although the show has ended, the related discussions have not dropped at all.
With the intervention of various relevant film critics and self-media in the film and television area, the day after the finale of this drama was aired, the number of new views in a single day not only did not drop significantly, but actually increased a lot.
Of course, during this period, the crusade against Xu Kong was also indispensable.
But this time, compared to the original Fairy Sword, the swords in the plot are not so obvious and violent.
Many people's first reaction after watching the show was that it was too realistic and depressing.
On the contrary, there is a feeling that things should develop that way, and it is more of a helpless feeling about the fate of some characters in the play.
"The original fairy sword was like a sharp knife cutting through a mess, and the pain lasted for a while, but this time "The Long Season" is more like a dull knife cutting flesh, which makes it difficult for people to fully recover for a long time."
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"As a screenwriter, Xu Kong's skills in hair-cutting have indeed improved significantly. The audience has actually been told the ending of the characters at the beginning of this drama, so it won't have the same hard-to-accept feeling as the original Sword, but after watching it, I still feel... It’s hard for people.”
"Needless to say, the quality and standard of the drama. If Xu Kong can continue to produce works of this quality, then not only will I not resist, but I will be happy. But I doubt that he did it on purpose. Is he addicted to torturing us audiences? ”
Fengge headquarters at this time.
Seeing that the audience's reaction was not as violent as the original Xianjian, Xu Kong was slightly relieved.
After all, when he was a fairy sword, he really had to be extra careful even when going out.
Even Feng Ge received a lot of genuine blades.
This time, "The Long Season", strictly speaking, although the ending part seems to be a happy ending, there are also a lot of swords issued, but they are not as straightforward as the fairy sword.
"I told you, don't worry too much, the audience won't blame you this time."
Yan Rui, the manager of the film and television department, also spoke at this time.
Although "The Long Season" is considered a self-made drama by Penguin, almost most of the production team, including director Xu Kong, are from Feng Ge.
Moreover, it is Xu Kong's work, so Yan Rui naturally pays more attention to this drama than other dramas.
"Why is Manager Yan so sure?" Xu Kong asked in a somewhat strange tone.
The main reason is that Yan Rui has not watched this drama in advance, and almost caught up with the finale with ordinary viewers.
When Yan Rui heard Xu Kong's question, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Because older viewers all know that your drama is not about stories, but about reality."
"My father was a laid-off worker from the Northeast."
Xu Kong didn't know this before.
However, it can be seen that Yan Rui has a lot more feelings about this drama than some other ordinary viewers.
Although the characters in "The Long Season" such as Wang Xiang and Gong Biao have received a certain amount of artistic processing, anyone who has experienced that era will be silent at first glance.
To other viewers, it was a tragedy that left the viewer somewhat breathless.
But for them, this is a memory that they don't really want to think of, but they can't forget it.
A week after "The Long Season" ended, it's still going strong.
The popularity is getting higher day by day, and even the number of views has been stable at 160 million every day.
Such data, not to mention colleagues, was also shocked by Penguin Video at this time.
"Has Xuanfa really stopped?"
At Penguin Video Headquarters, Zeng Xi couldn’t help but ask.
"It stopped a long time ago."
The manager in charge of promotion work also spoke truthfully at this time.
"But the data has not dropped much, but why has it increased?"
No wonder Zeng Xi was shocked. The main reason is that even for some dramas that have become dark horses based on word-of-mouth in the past, there is no obvious decline in the data after the show is over, or even an increase.
"This drama is indeed very slow, but the plot has great stamina"
The promotion manager couldn't help but sigh at this time.
Naturally, he pays special attention to various news about "The Long Season" on the Internet.
During the previous broadcast period, the popularity was relatively average.
But until it was over and the last episode of the finale was aired, the popularity began to show a terrifying rise.
From time to time, you can still see videos related to "The Long Season" on Weibo's hot searches and on the hot lists of video platforms like Bilibili.
Many viewers who originally wanted to abandon the show after watching one episode are now attracted to go back by the almost unanimously positive reputation online.
"Based on the current data, if it continues for a while, will "The Long Season" be considered a blockbuster drama?"
Zeng Xi spoke incredulously.
"The Long Season"'s opening numbers were indeed good, but then it continued to decline.
At that time, in the eyes of everyone, including him, this drama had no chance of becoming an ordinary hit drama, let alone catching up with the original Sword.
And this is indeed the case. Although the reputation of the subsequent drama has been good, no matter the data or popularity, it is far from reaching the passing level of the hit drama.
On the contrary, the popularity of "Evil" from Kiwi has been rising, and it is almost the last hit drama that has been booked for the end of this year.
Who knew that after "The Long Season" was completely aired, it would start a counterattack.
The popularity has been rising, and now it has even widened the gap between the suspense dramas on the other two platforms in the same period.
And more importantly, while the number of viewers is increasing, the rating of "The Long Season" has not dropped significantly. Although it dropped by 0.1, it is still very stable at around 9.4.
This is almost a rare occurrence.
Many dramas that later became dark horses based on word-of-mouth will definitely see their ratings drop as the number of viewers increases.
A situation like "The Long Season" has instead entered a positive cycle. Those viewers who were attracted to follow the show by word of mouth and various benefits were not only not disappointed after watching it, but were even more shocked. Instead, they also joined the tap water camp. among.
"Qin Xian's current mood is probably not very good."
Zeng Xi suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but smile and say something.
It can be seen that so far this year, a total of three hit dramas have been released, including Xu Kong's Fairy Sword in the summer, a follow-up low-cost campus love drama, and the recent "The Promise of the Night".
Kiwi very much hopes that this "Evil Spirit" can bring a perfect ending to Kiwi's year.
Originally, this plan went smoothly, but who knew that the finale of "The Long Season" had already aired, and it started to gain momentum instead.
In fact, Zeng Xi didn't have high hopes for Xu Kong's drama commercially.
As long as it can build their reputation as a suspense theater, that's all.
Although "The Long Season" has ended, the data is still rising. Even the number of paid members on their platform has recently experienced a short-term sudden increase.
It seems that in terms of business and data, it is completely possible to pursue higher goals.
The fact was just as Zeng Xi expected.
At this time, Qin Xian had indeed begun to doubt his life.
"This is wrong, this is wrong!"
Qin Xian didn't know how many times he said these words.
The main reason is that it is beyond his knowledge for so many years.
After a drama has been broadcast, how is it possible that the data does not decrease but increases?
And it's not just a short period of time, it has lasted for almost a week.
How could he accept this?
He did not pay attention to Xu Kong's finished drama at first, but who knew that the follow-up would even seriously affect the data of their platform's "Evil Spirit".
"Are you sure the promotion side is working seriously?"
He looked at his subordinate Huang Qifeng.
The other party nodded with unusual certainty.
"The promotion department said that the popularity cannot be overtaken by the other side."
Qin Xian was completely speechless at this time.
Originally, he thought that this "Evil Spirit" could bring them a more perfect ending to this year.
Now it seems that although "Evil" will still be broadcast for a while, it is almost impossible to become a hit.
Because the climax of the plot that he was most optimistic about has already passed.
From the follow-up to the end, the plot began to have more loopholes and entered the so-called weak period.
Not every drama can start high and go high, especially for most suspense dramas. It is normal for the ending to be unsatisfactory and so-called unfinished.
Qin Xian suddenly fell silent, and Huang Qifeng did not dare to speak at this time.
But he knew that Vice President Qin would never be able to escape Xu Kong's shadow.
(End of chapter)