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As a new series of FOX radio's key marketing this fall, "Alcatraz" has no shortage of ambitions-"Lost" was created by the past Created by JJAbrams, the most mysterious and infamous prison in history: Alcatraz, plus the theme of time travel that JJAbrams is best at: 256 criminals who mysteriously disappeared from Alcatraz 50 years ago and 46 jailers returned to the world. Together, these have suffocated the appetite of fans of the show, making the show aroused heated debate before it even started. After the airing of five episodes, "Alcatraz" has gained momentum, and FOX Radio has also moved forward, re-adjusting the broadcast plan for the entire March, and suspended the eight-season master drama "Doctor House" for January. Give way.
It can be said that most of the attention that "Alcatraz" arouses comes from the name of the screenwriter JJAbrams. Back then, when "Lost" was released, whoever competed with each other, both science fiction fans and non-sci-fi fans, were all lost on the unnamed island in the South Pacific that seemed to never get out of it. JJAbrams has turned the shuttle of time to the point where it is godlike. With the small island as the center of time and space, it takes six years to interpret an ordinary plane crash into a piece of ancient legends, religious beliefs, unknown mysterious events, science fiction, soul immortality, and the past. The future, emotional entanglements and other elements that people desire to see in sci-fi suspense dramas are merged together. Although LOST still leaves us with many unsolved mysteries until the end, this movie takes sci-fi, suspense, and emotions into incredible The "sacred drama" combined with plot logic is still a milestone in science fiction suspense dramas.
Looking back at "Alcatraz" from "Lost", Abrams still played his sci-fi suspense card, from the mysterious return of the former prisoner Jack Sylvane on Alcatraz Island, leading to the bizarre disappearance of 302 people on Alcatraz Island 50 years ago. The FBI has an exclusive department for the investigation of the Alcatraz incident, and the heroine who was responsible for investigating the murder of Sylvane’s former deputy warden EB Tiller and Dr. Soto, who specializes in Alcatraz research, met unexpectedly. The two sides were cooperating to arrest and constantly appear in the crowd. While the criminals of the original Alcatraz island in China, they are trying to find the truth: what happened on Alcatraz island 50 years ago? How did the 302 islanders achieve the 50-year span, and why they are now being put back one by one.
The difference is that "Alcatraz" abandons the traditional sci-fi suspense drama series on the main line of the plot, but adopts a unit to solve the case. In each episode, the heroine and Dr. Soto jointly capture a missing person. , Introduces its background and story 50 years ago through constantly flashing images, and then Hauser, the head of the mysterious department of the FBI, will detain the arrested personnel back to the mysterious underground prison. This arrangement has advantages and disadvantages. It is good for maintaining the enthusiasm of the audience. Each episode of the story can have a small ending. It will not repeat the mistakes of many sci-fi suspense dramas that have lost most of the audience after one season. It is extremely difficult to pursue and struggle for a long time under a major mainline. The downside is that the audience has been able to predict the direction of the episode. If the current episode model is followed, there must be at least two or three hundred episodes of "Alcatraz".
This kind of plot arrangement is quite similar to "4400". In 60 years, 4400 people who mysteriously disappeared suddenly returned to the earth. The National Security Agency established a department to investigate this incident and gradually discovered that these people who returned to the world have different superpowers. , 4400 people with superpowers disappeared that year and the reasons for their return now become the main thread throughout the play.
The similarities in the opening of "Alcatraz" and "4400" make people worry that its plot development will go up and down like "4400". Even though the mystery of the mysterious disappearance is solved, it is also because of the plot that was not sufficiently explored in the later period. As well as the hasty ending, he became one of many fallen American dramas.
To sum up, although the fans’ response has been mixed and the prospects of "Alcatraz" are not bright, in the five episodes that have been broadcast, the screenwriters have buried a lot of suspense in a timely manner, such as the FBI investigation team. Lucy and the doctor in the underground prison were both people from Alcatraz back then. How did they travel back without changing their appearance? The heroine’s grandfather is a criminal codenamed 2002 on Alcatraz Island. In the memories of several missing persons who have been captured so far, this dear friend is indispensable. Whether he will be the key person to thread the needle, he and the heroine at the beginning of the episode Is the encounter of fate or intentional? Some of the criminals who crossed back were assigned the task of obtaining the mysterious key, and what would the mysterious dungeon on Alcatraz island opened by this mysterious key look like? In addition, the match between the beautiful detective and the nerd doctor in "Alcatraz" is equally exciting.
Eight years ago, "Lost" redefines sci-fi suspense and pushes the IQ and appreciation of drama fans to a new level; eight years later, we have reason to give JJAbrams the same as the "Alcatraz" he built Trust, because, in the post-Lost era, reproducing the classics is the shared responsibility of screenwriters and fans, and there is a long way to go.
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