The title is half serious and half joking. This article has a lot of spoilers!
Writing this review does not want to discuss the so-called metaphorical issues of race, refugees, etc., nor do I want to comment on the steampunk setting style. I just want to say a little about the content of the plot.
1. The three plot climaxes of the dark and gray murder case on Carnival Street
First of all, the drama is indeed a bit "slow". The first three or four episodes seem to be talking about "interracial love (love and hatred between the male protagonist and the elf female protagonist) + the work of the male protagonist (as Borg’s Righteous detectives, overcome all difficulties to investigate bizarre murders one by one)". The content is a bit plain, and it is easy for people to abandon the drama, but you must keep watching it to find the wonderful.
From the fifth episode onwards, the deep connection hidden behind the murder case has been smoothed out by the protagonist Philo. It turned out that the elf singer who had his stomach taken out of his liver was his mother, and the director of the orphanage was the one who helped him conceal his half-elf identity, and the doctor at the autopsy was the one who cut off his wings—all murders Related to him. Is the murderer someone who wants to kill him, or his father who wants to hide this "forbidden love between man and elves"?
At this point, the plot gradually became more exciting and reached a small climax.
However, things are not as simple as the actor imagined. The real murderer was not to cover up his father in the past, but came at him from the beginning. The murderer wanted to kill him from beginning to end. This is again related to the witch’s prediction that the Prime Minister’s wife has been repeating at the beginning of the plot. The prime minister’s wife chose the "countryman" as her husband because the witch said that the country boy would become a "great man" and his son Would be greater than him.
Now, her husband has become the prime minister of Borg, the noble power of tens of thousands. But her son has always been an ineffective dude. She suddenly discovered that her prime minister's husband had an illegitimate child. So, will the "greater son" in the prophecy be the husband's illegitimate child? In order to solve this terrible hidden danger, she used the secret technique (dark gray monster) she learned from the witch to create a serial murder case. The purpose is only to find out who the bastard is and kill.
The plot is now close to the end of the first season. When the audience thought this was the biggest plot climax of the season, they realized that the initiator of all this was not the prime minister’s wife, but a neglected "little girl"-Borg Sophie, daughter of the leader of the opposition (opposing the acceptance of alien refugees). Everything stems from the "blackmail letter" she sent to the prime minister's wife-the letter mentioned that the prime minister and the elf had an illegitimate child.
Therefore, if the first climax of this "dark gray monster" murder case was that the actor Philo found out that everything was related to his own life experience, the second climax was the discovery that the murderer seemed to be "crazy for prophecy." Mrs. Prime Minister, then the biggest climax is that it was a little girl who was ignored by everyone who provoked all this.
2. Chaos is a ladder and reading gives you wisdom
Why did Sophie provoke this series of things? Because of "chaos is a ladder" (the famous quote from Littlefinger in Game of Thrones), only by disrupting the current situation can the originally unknown person have the opportunity to climb upwards and allow her to hold the scepter. Sophie knows the power of chaos, so she wants to create these chaos and benefit from it. (Sophie’s original words in the play are chaos creates opportunities.)
It turns out that the biggest villain is not the Prime Minister's wife, but this girl who has been very "dark" since she appeared on the stage. She wants to be a person who can change history, and she wants to build a dynasty of her own. What gave her such a magnificent ambition for a young girl like this? What made her such an aristocratic lady who was kept at home by her father with such a deep scheming? It's reading! Hahaha~
When Sophie appeared in the play for the first time, she was arguing with her father (the leader of the opposition). She heard that the university began to recruit girls and wanted to go to university. She wanted to go on an adventure like when her father was young (heavy Walked along the way her ancestors walked), but her father refused her request, instead let her stay at home well and read the book if nothing happened. Sophie said angrily, " She has read all the books, twice! "-Therefore, reading is the fundamental reason for her to have such "wisdom".
Another interesting "setting" in the play is that the protagonist Philo is also a "reading book" person, and the elf heroine Vinette was the administrator of the largest elf library when she was in the country of elf! At this point, we found that the three most capable and intelligent people in the play are all people who love to read! Hahaha~
3. Where is the future for the three young couples in the play
At the end of the first season, a lot of foreshadowing and fascinating plot trends have been planted. What is the fate of the three main characters in the play for the next season?
A pair of young family heirs temporarily in charge of the scepter -the dude Jonah who succeeded her father as prime minister, and the dark woman Sophie who succeeded her father as the leader of the opposition. What kind of policies will they adopt to manage this Borg country in four crises? What kind of resistance will they cause for their aggressive pursuit and isolation of aliens at the end of the first season?
Where will the rich sheephead and the noble lady of Borg who have temporarily escaped from Borg go? At the end of the first season, their love affair was discovered by the noble lady's brother, who stunned his brother and escaped from Borg by boat. In the second season, will you explain where they went? Will they come back? What will happen to their "forbidden love"? Will the Sheephead be the key figure in the final overthrow of the precarious Borg country?
The male and female protagonists temporarily isolated in the carnival street -human and elves mixed male protagonist Philo, elf female protagonist Vinette, how will they fight for their fate? Are they trying to escape from Borg and start a new life as they originally planned? Or is it secretly organizing alien forces to resist the "policy of apartheid and racial repression" of the Borg administration?
4. Other settings in the play worthy of attention
The interracial love between man and the elves/goatheads; the male protagonist’s identity as a mixed race; the land of the elves is occupied by humans, resulting in a large number of elven refugees (it is an allusion to reality); terrorist attacks by the underground religious organization of the goatshead ...
"Carnival Murder" is dressed in a fantasy drama, about those sharp social contradictions, the content is very pornographic, the male protagonist is very handsome, it is worth watching.
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