Chapter 148 The Victory of Length and Distance
Ever since the beginning of July, when Tianjian started warming up in Beijing and Taiwan, Xu Kun and Liu Haibo were like ants on a hot pan, restless all day long and never had a moment of peace.
Xu Kun didn't even bother to guest star in other crews, and even put the decoration matters aside.
The reason for such anxiety is mainly due to the soundtrack, which has caused quite a bit of controversy.
The outside world is not criticizing the quality of the song. After all, it was bought according to the martial arts golden song list. It can be said to be the culmination of ten years of music. The interlude even used half of "A Laugh in the Sea". In terms of song quality alone, it completely crushes "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".
But if you only use classic old songs, it will easily distract people from the show, and it will seem very insincere - besides, if all film and television dramas follow this style, then who will we composers sell our new songs to?
So even though Xu Kun and Liu Haibo released the news that the money was spent wisely and that the use of old songs was a last resort, the criticisms still continued.
This also made Xu Kun and Liu Haibo feel anxious. Fortunately, the investors were all Xu Kun's "relatives", otherwise the two of them would have been beaten into pigs by the investors long ago.
Fortunately, after the TV series was officially broadcast, the ratings were quite good. Although the so-called "old songs distract from the show" still exists, it is only the opinion of a very small number of people.
The saying that bad dramas produce great songs is not without basis - if you are really immersed in the plot, who would be distracted and listen to the songs carefully?
Even if I wanted to listen to the songs, I would only listen to them separately after the TV series became popular.
If we ignore the plot alone, even in 20, 2024 years later, the popular songs used by "Tianjian" will still be more popular than "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in KTV.
Having just passed this hurdle, Tianjian soon encountered the second hurdle.
After the ratings for the first three days came out, they were generally good, ranking second among the same number of episodes on Beijing Satellite TV.
"Who's number one?"
After seeing the statistical table, Chen Xuebin immediately asked the question that everyone was most concerned about.
The staff of Beijing and Taiwan replied: "The first one is "Plum Blossom Files"."
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That's normal. At the beginning of the year, the "Plum Blossom Files" was a huge gimmick. It was said that it was filmed in the autopsy room with real corpses. Once it was broadcast, it caused a public opinion storm in Beijing.
As a result, it was banned by the radio and television after only a few episodes were aired.
But it was also because of the "reverse propaganda" of the radio and television that the ratings of "Plum Blossom Files" exploded before its death - no one could get angry when being suppressed by such an unconventional TV series.
What really concerned Xu Kun and others was that in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the ratings of Tianjian and Xianjian were advancing in parallel. Tianjian surpassed Xianjian in Beijing and Hebei, while Xianjian was the most popular in Tianjin.
This is actually a loss.
After all, Tianjian has the platform advantage. A draw or a narrow victory means that Tianjian was unable to defeat Xianjian in the early stage.
This made Xu Kun and Liu Haibo anxious again.
Fortunately, Beijing Satellite TV is quite satisfied with this. No matter how good "Legend of Sword and Fairy" is, it cannot be broadcast on satellite TV. And among the new dramas that they premiered on satellite TV, "Heavenly Sword and Fairy" is already the one with the best performance - except for "Plum Blossom Files" which was banned as soon as it was broadcast.
Because the battle between the two swords had been laid out before, after the show was broadcast on the same day, the situation of the two swords running neck and neck in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei naturally attracted the attention of the media.
Many tabloids and magazines have conducted comparative analyses of the two dramas from various angles.
The first is naturally the soundtrack which has sparked criticism.
Music quality: Tianjian , Xianjian .
Sincerity of music: Tianjian 1, Xianjian .
This is hardly controversial, at least not until the younger generation grows up.
In terms of plot, because Xiao Ting has not yet revealed the identity of King Abila, it is generally regarded as an outdated plot and not as innovative as The Legend of Sword and Fairy.
Plot: Tianjian scored points, Xianjian scored points.
As for character creation, the highest-scoring male actor was Xiao Ting [Xu Kun] with points; and the highest-scoring female actor was Zhao Linger [Liu Yifei] with points.
Xiao Ting slightly surpassed Li Xiaoyao who loves PC, while Zhao Linger was far ahead of all the actresses.
In terms of costumes and props, because of Xu Kun's fluttering butterfly wings, the scores of both sides did not differ much.
Hairstyle: Tianjian , Xianjian .
Costumes and makeup: Tianjian , Xianjian .
Props: Heavenly Sword , Immortal Sword .
Scene: Tianjian , Xianjian . Most martial arts dramas these days are cheap and cheap from Hong Kong and Taiwan, but these two dramas have broken away from this narrow framework, so the ratings are naturally not that low.
As for the scenes, it is actually biased to only look at the early stage. Liu Haibo invested all the saved funds in the two scenes of the martial arts conference and the cliff decisive battle.
But these two are plots in the middle and late stages, so when evaluating the early stages, Tianjian suffers a loss.
In the end, Tianjian's overall rating was only points, while Xianjian got a rating of points because it hadn't started to mess around in the early stages.
This rating of points is not low.
In fact, even if we put aside the "anger" of gamers, few adults at that time thought that "Legend of Sword and Fairy" was an invincible drama.
And because it was not initially broadcast on satellite TV, even though it was broadcast from the beginning of 05 to the end of the year, the overall ratings of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" did not make it into the top ten of that year.
Even if limited to the niche of costume dramas, "Legend of Sword and Fairy" only ranked fourth in overall ratings.
At that time, there was only one true god of costume TV dramas, and that was "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties" starring Huang Haibing, Nie Yuan and others.
This TV series, which first aired in late 03, topped the ratings for costume dramas for two consecutive years in 04 and 05.
"Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", which was also popular from the end of 03 to 04, could only come in second place in 04.
In 05, "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties" still topped the list, and the second place was "Sister Beauty" starring Jia Jingwen [also premiered in 03], the third place was "The Yang's Generals" starring Su Youpeng, and the fourth place was "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".
It was not until 06 when the popularity of "Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties" was exhausted that it was replaced by Liu Yifei's masterpiece "The Return of the Condor Heroes".
Back to the topic.
Xu Kun naturally read the reviews in these magazines and newspapers, but after reading them, he felt much more at ease. After all, the plot that was criticized for being old-fashioned was actually the real killer of Tianjian.
In the current costume TV dramas, there has never been such a male protagonist who is evil to the end. When the "mystery" is revealed in the middle and late stages, who dares to say that the plot of Tianjian is old-fashioned and lacks innovation?
On the contrary, it’s the character…
Xu Kun was not sure about this, and he didn't know whether the audience's impression of him would decrease after Xiao Ting revealed his true face.
However, what he did not expect was that before the subsequent plot twists, the battle between the two swords had already experienced a reversal.
On the sixth day of the broadcast of "Legend of Sword and Fairy", which was when Tang Yu Xiaobao had his first competition with Li Xiaoyao, the situation gradually began to change.
There was no obvious fluctuation in the ratings of "Legend of Sword and Fairy". Although a considerable number of gamers had already defected at that time, they were only a small group of people after all and could not affect the overall situation.
But the ratings of Tianjian began to rise significantly.
This is because as the plot gradually unfolds, Xiao Ting's various "sweet" methods of pursuing his wife, as well as his domineering and strong attitude when facing his enemies, have attracted more people to join in.
This part actually has a bit of the flavor of a domineering president, and it was quite lethal to the female audiences at that time.
But the long-haired cameraman insisted that this was a victory for the pectoral muscles!
He certainly had reasons for saying this, as Xu Kun has indeed exposed his chest more often in recent episodes.
However, the first time that Tianjian really became popular was when Tang Ruoxuan sucked out the venom for Xiao Ting.
This scene sparked heated discussions both online and offline. The main topic of discussion online was: Based on visual observation and reference objects nearby, is it possible to calculate the distance from Tang Ruoxuan's knee to Xiao Ting's root?
Taking advantage of this trend, the Xianjian forum and major gaming forums also started a wave of pulling down and criticizing others.
However, the main argument at this time is that Li Xiaoyao was ruined by the TV version. The fake Xiaoyao who visited the brothel to anger his sister Ling'er is no match for the domineering Xiao Ting!
Of course, the slogan "Tang Yu Xiaobao, get out of here" is indispensable - after all, there are many people in the game who like Anu, and seeing Tang Yu Xiaobao and Anu flirting with each other is just as frustrating as a husband committing a crime.
That’s why Zhang Bo had so many posts to delete during this period.
The first thing that offline audiences began to pay attention to was Xiao Ting's chest muscles with special effects.
Especially the housewives who made up the majority of the audience, many of them wished they could replace Tang Ruoxuan when watching this scene.
After watching it, I couldn’t help but discuss it with like-minded people. If there was no one around me who was as good as me, I would recommend it to my girlfriends, either explicitly or implicitly.
During these sharing and discussions, the topic of "distance and length" gradually seeped into the discussion, adding new "specialties" to many female viewers' fantasies about Xiao Ting.
As a result, Xiao Ting's "reputation" quickly rose, and he completely left Li Xiaoyao behind in popularity, just like Zhao Linger's cliff-like lead - the former was only limited to female audiences, and the latter was only limited to male audiences.
It was also from this day that the ratings of Tianjian surpassed that of Xianjian in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and it was firmly ahead.
(End of this chapter)
