First of all, I read the original after watching the episode. To my surprise, the series sublimated the text of the original novel. The series was adapted into a detective story similar to Blade Runner 2049 in search of self-existence, but the original book does not actually have such a big ambition.
The Officer K in this story, Adam Robert Reilly, should be the absolute core character of the story, but it is a pity that the adaptation of the heroine Cassie's story has made the narrative deviated to a certain extent. The original book was written in the first person of Adam / Rob. Cassie does not have an independent story line, and the series adapted another novel (Cassie's story) from the original author into Rob's story. Cassie's story is not strong enough to form an intertextuality with Rob's main story, but the length is too large, so it becomes an embarrassing existence that interferes with the audience's sight.
In fact, the idea of adapting Cassie's story to enrich Cassie's personal image is good, because in the end Rob and Cassie parted, and they were also saying goodbye to their past self, and the two set off each other. Rob and Cassie's tacit understanding and feelings stem from their sharing of shady past and secrets, so they must break away from the past as a new starting point.
It's a pity that Cassie's story was not well told at the beginning, so that the entire Cassie story line seemed a bit redundant. I have been puzzled for a long time about what shameful dark secret Cassie has. It is not her fault that her parents died in a car accident. Lexie seems to represent the dark side of Cassie, but I haven't clarified the two identities of Cassie / Lexie for a long time. What do they represent.
The problem is that Cassie's normal status is not "not dark" enough to be in sharp contrast with the "dark" Lexie. After Cassie was rushed by Rob to regain the identity of Lexie as an undercover agent, she should have shown two completely different roles before and after, but until Lexie shot Daniel and the game ended, I didn't think she had anything to do with Cassie before. It's too different, except for some frivolous pretending to be deliberately in front of the four students.
In the first episode, Cassie and Rob interrogate a pregnant girl, which is the beginning of Cassie's personal image portrayal (the previous is mainly the portrayal of Rob), and Cassie's countdown behind the glass curtain wall, the girl collapsed, very quickly conveyed such a message to the audience : Cassie is a very scheming and ruthless woman. Before Lexie appeared, Cassie snatched the bad guy's clothes. . .
I think the appropriate script should look like this: Under Rob’s humiliation, the pregnant girl cried into a mess. At this time, the gentle and kind sister Cassie opened the door and quietly stopped the smug bad man Rob, and then handed the girl a tissue. Patiently comfort her and set up the image of a kind, gentle and good woman Cassie to the audience. Then, in the fourth episode, Cassie and Sam went to the hospital to visit a pregnant girl who was revenge. The girl resented that she had seen through Rob's humiliation. They were arranged by the hypocritical Cassie, and then it flashed back that Cassie(Lexie) was in the glass. Counting down behind the curtain wall, when the girl collapses, our audience will be surprised and impressed by the two-sided Cassie just like Sam, so that the double-sided image of Cassie / Lexie will be established.
It is precisely because the double-sided Cassie’s character image is very vague and lacks tension, the character Cassie was ruthlessly robbed by the four supporting roles of college students in her story line, resulting in a considerable deviation in the entire narrative. As a result, when I was watching the last episode, I was still thinking about what happened to the four college students (in fact, it didn't matter at all). In contrast to the story of Rob and the Devlin family, the Devlin family of four is actually more than the four college dramas, but the focus of the audience will still not depart from Rob, because Rob's character creation is very successful, and one pick four is not a problem.
The intersection of Rob and Cassie's story lines is also problematic. Rob and Cassie have an abnormal close relationship. They nourish each other's dark side to achieve mutual dependence. Cassie is an accomplice of Rob's persistent obsession with retrieving Peter and Jamie's mistakes. Rob allows Cassie to become a Lexie who is ruthless and disregarding life. The two people are in a mutual poisoning relationship, so in the end Cassie chose to have an abortion and return to Sam's normal family. In life, Rob conceals his deep love for Cassie and starts life again. But after Rob and Cassie broke up and broke up in the episode, Rob got stuck 20 years ago. The mistakes got deeper and deeper. Cassie’s undercover playing with fire ended with human lives. The illusion given to the audience was that they needed to stay together to live a good life. It weakens the meaning of the last two people's separation. A more reasonable script should be: Cassie helped Rob continue to forcibly investigate the disappearance case for 20 years, which caused the people involved and Rob himself to become more and more painful; and Rob allowed Cassie to be Lexie until Cassie awakened after killing someone. I was too wrong when I came here.
Rosalind finally revealed Rob’s secret identity, smashed his merits and jobs, forced away his beloved Cassie, and severely damaged Rob before leaving, but it was Rosalind that allowed Rob to truly survive for twenty years. Freed from the obsession. The adaptation of the character Rosalind is very important. Rob saw clearly his own situation as a survivor in her story, and found the meaning of his existence: in fact, he is just an ordinary person (the same tragedy as Blade Runner 2049 (;´д｀)ゞ), "suspects", "surviving children" and so on are all labels that the outside world puts on themselves. This is not done in the original work.
Unlike the original Rob who notices the dressing of Rosalind and Cassie, he will romantically flirt with women, he will go home regularly to visit his parents and help wash the dishes. The character portray of Rob in the drama is a lot of "straight men", never Describing amorous feelings and crying, women have first-class skills. Only after Cassie's special reminder will they know that they will buy flowers for their mothers. I thought it was a male screenwriter who adapted the novel of a female writer into this, but when I looked at the information, it turned out to be a female screenwriter. I really admire the screenwriter’s dedication in characterizing. After all, Rob in the series is burdened with a painful fate to seek the meaning of survival. He should be such a person. Just like Rob in the original book, he is not suitable for being as yuppy and comfortable. .
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