Except for some special features, most of the stories tell nothing more than a growth story, that is, what we want to see is the reaction of the protagonist to specific events and conditions. The artistic creation is condensed, and it should often be a collection of many human characteristics in the protagonist.
I want to see Alex's efforts in the V-2 class, and want to see his interaction with Claire under the premise of huge inequality in status. It doesn't take too much space to realize it, just a few shots, and the screenwriter But let us understand all of this in a blunt dialogue - this is actually understandable, and it is probably the only way to express it with images, and it is also very cost-effective.
But clearly it can be done better.
Pilot explained Alex's character at the beginning: he is a timid and fat young soldier who does not follow the usual path, often violates regulations, is not afraid of authority, and can deal with emergencies calmly. Although a little reckless, he is still a bit Guys with obvious self-willed minds - American TV shows are full of similar characters. After that, Michael's corresponding punishment of Alex's caning also conforms to the principle of obeying the rules as determined by the angels, and Alex does not seem to have been caned for the first time - then the first fragment that breaks the rhythm appears: Rysen appears, Stopped Michael's whipping, and confessed that Alex had rescued Claire in the dialogue with Michael.
Seeing this, I'm already WTF.
Yes, it is very economical to use dialogue to explain the antecedents, but it makes the audience feel that there are too many things to explain, the amount of information is quite large, and it is very boring. And he is actually the lucky one with great luck.
Does it look familiar?
90% of male protagonist stories are roughly this kind of setting.
Michael used these words to describe Alex: Undisciplined, strong-willed, passionate, mercurial, Good. It’s true that so many traits are concentrated in one person—
contradictory, but not showing unity.
Then Jeep and Michael told Alex the most illogical thing in the entire show: I want you to grow up in a difficult environment, learn your skills, and grow up to be an upright person, (ready to bear the burden of saving later The responsibility of human beings. At the end of Pilot, this concept is finally completed.) ——I
love you, so I will let you bear the pressure and the pain of being abandoned, and you can grow up only after suffering setbacks.
What a bastard theory.
The only person who can come up with such a genius idea is the inhuman Michael.
Jeep, who can agree to implement this idea, needs to be beaten with a whip.
The whole play took more than 3,600 minutes in 8 episodes, and it failed to shape the character Alex well. I didn't see the expected struggle, I didn't see the expected struggle, Alex was sleepwalking from start to finish, and the plot was horribly rambling. Alex has no demands of his own - Season 1 ended without me figuring out what he wanted; no act of rebellion against the "ordained life" (and wanted to run off with Claire in the first episode Delphi, the city of freedom, then left Claire to escape alone in the third episode, and then didn't show it); the decision-making power was not enough, and the screenwriter did not know why Claire's line was written so wonderfully, so what was presented was a Unattractive protagonist.
I don't know what kind of audience such a male lead would attract.
The screenwriter does not know what to write, the director does not know what to film, and the actor does not know what to act.
It was not until the season finale, Beware Those Closest To You, that Alex would become a father, that he finally came to his senses and faced his responsibility head-on: to defeat and destroy Gabriel.
But he still didn't show Alex's hesitation or his change, and he accepted the fact that he would be a father quite calmly [(Gabriel told him that he should not have been stabbed by Alex after conception. ?), here is another incredible place near the end of the season]. And after Michael left, he still insisted on doing what he planned.
I can only speculate on my own that the editing of episode 8 has greatly disrupted Alex's psychological and behavioral continuity.
Determining the rationality and logic of this play is undoubtedly an embarrassing thing for oneself.
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