Recently, because of the constant mention of Philip Dick in the timeline, I found this show to watch. By the way, I took a look at the corresponding original story, which is very convenient, because there is a new version of the TV series tie in, and each chapter is also accompanied by instructions for adapting the screenwriter. I haven't read it all, but the overall feeling is that the format of the adaptation is small.
For the most part, the adaptation of the first episode is very good, inheriting the concept of mind-reading from the original book, but changing the background setting and perspective. In the original work, the government has used mind readers to establish a highly monitored society, so the resisters are very weak and can only resist secretly. The shielding tool set in the original work is a head ring, a thin wire, wearing You can hide it with a hat. Mind-readers want to use their special abilities to become superiors.
In the episode, the background becomes that the government is trying to establish a monitoring system of mind-reading, the public resistance is very fierce, and the mind-reading people are also discriminated against by society. In this context, the headband becomes a mask, symbolizing blatant disobedience, and many original plots of the screenwriter are laudable, especially from the perspective of the mind-reader, who is brought by the mind-reading function. distress, discrimination and exploitation.
The setting of the show is theoretically more conflicted and more diverse. The final trend in the original book is species evolution. The mind reader thinks that he is an advanced human being that has evolved, but it turns out that he is infertile and unable to reproduce, just a short-term aberration. And there are people who can block the mind reading in the drama. If the evolutionary trend, this could have developed into a war of three races. But after such a grand setting, the series finally moved towards the mutual trust of a man and a woman, and settled on love. Really can only sigh with emotion, the pattern is too small.
The second episode saw me full of black lines and confused. An old woman wants to go to earth before she dies, and the earth is a non-existent planet, the captain decides to choose a planet to deceive the old woman in order to make money. The record about the earth in the original book has been wiped out. The information about the earth is like myths and legends. The old woman heard the story about the earth from her grandfather and believed that her grandfather came from the earth, but this is just speculation. What is her grandfather telling? This kind of earth story is not detailed in the novel. It is uncertain whether he is really from the earth, whether he is telling his own experience or a legend. The old woman's yearning for the earth is not actually a yearning for the known history of her ancestors, but a yearning for mythological fantasy, a yearning for the unknown. At the end of the story, a coin picked up by the captain implies that the planet they randomly chose to deceive the old woman may be the real Earth. The Earth has become that way because of the exhaustion of energy, which is a kind of gesture to readers. Warning.
However, the adaptation of the series was completely released, and it really stated that the earth has been destroyed, the solar system has been destroyed, and it has really gone to another planet. On the other hand, the grandfather and grandmother of the old woman have actually become people from the earth and have a real history of the earth. This makes the whole story illogical. It is completely understandable for a person to be obsessed with myths, but indulging in the past of his ancestors may only be someone like Murong Fu who dreams of an emperor. And the relationship between the male and female protagonists is even more incredible than I can understand. Why does the male protagonist dream of the female protagonist's grandfather's bicycle? Are they an inexplicable entanglement caused by the fate of the previous life? The male protagonist decided to die with an old lady he just met because of this dazed past life? Ah, I don't understand. It just makes me feel like this story has turned into love again, tacky and stingy.
In the third episode, the logic is even more unreasonable. The original is about the emergence and impact of a rift in time and space, where another world replaces the one we know, and we ourselves change without knowing it. The adaptation of the series attempts to create a basis for the existence of the parallel world, but this reason is completely deviated from the basis of physics, and the logic of the operation of the parallel world is also completely idealistic, and the people in it are like gods. So in the end, the plot has completely become a pot of chicken soup. If you have love, you can conquer everything, change the world, and open up parallel spaces. It's just that the love in this story is not love, but family.
The fourth episode is so different from the original that it can be regarded as a completely new story. Except for a little shadow, it has almost nothing to do with the original. The episode is a mixture of passion, crisis and selfish choices of a derailed middle-aged man, and finally changed. Become a woman's revenge Shuangwen. There are a lot of weird sci-fi elements in the picture, but they are not themes, just embellishments.
Although I've been picking on faults, I still gave it four stars. You can still watch it when you have time. Many of them are really inspiring. Of course, it is recommended to read the original book. The story of the original book is short, but the themes contained in it are very large and profound, and they are not out of date.
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