Television is different. It requires the screenwriter to constantly stuff things into it, unfold the auxiliary stories, and constantly create climactic bridges. Taking into account the possibility of rebroadcasting in seasons, a coherent and inseparable drama series needs more content to fill.
Humans around the world have fallen into a coma at the same time and have seen images of the future, which in itself is indeed an attractive selling point. Just relying on such a slogan is enough to make people unable to resist curiosity, but it is not enough to ensure that people will maintain long-term interest. How to tell a good story from this selling point is the real key.
This may be to increase the shock, so the screenwriter set up to make seven billion people around the world fall into a coma at the same time, but such big scenes and big propositions are not so well controlled. Assuming that such an event really happens in our reality, we can imagine what kind of impact it will have on the order of our entire world. There will be all kinds of short-lived and long-lasting things, and people will fall into extreme panic. It may be as before if nothing has happened to study or work in a muddle-headed manner. People often think about trivial matters no longer. People may start to think about all kinds of issues that they usually scorn and reflect on their lives like a philosopher. Thinking that this is the eve of the end of the world’s future life and indulging in carnivals, or at least not suffering from gains and losses as before, it will be less than the butchers in the market that you will be cursed for a long time with one or two pork. When people are in panic, various religions and Cults will also take advantage of the momentum. Some organizations and groups will take advantage of the opportunity. The global state machinery will be on alert for war. Leaders of various countries will gather together. Scientific researchers from various countries will also gather together, which may lead to war or It is possible that the ongoing war that is going to happen will disappear in people's sudden awakening. From the perspective of the episodes that have been played, apart from occasionally and mechanically mentioned in the dialogue of the characters in the play, the screenwriter has not positively described the shockingness of this global common event of all mankind in other places. The ground is fully utilized, which is a waste. What we have seen is that there is only one FBI investigating such a huge incident that affects all of mankind. In fact, this is not much different from ordinary detective dramas.
But it doesn’t matter. After all, this is still a very attractive big maze, even bigger and clearer than the lost maze. I just hope that the screenwriter can justify himself in the process of showing the maze, don’t use one maze to cover the other. Mi Tuan's hand came to perfunctory. We have seen a lot of dramas with mystery and anticlimax. We also believe that creating a weird and mysterious atmosphere is certainly a skill, but an unexpectedly reasonable process and result of solving the puzzle is a test of the screenwriter's skill. It is not easy to have a convincing and amazing explanation for the seven billion human beings falling into a coma, but it is not very difficult to discover the suspenseful plot developed in it to create an exciting atmosphere. The plot of foreseeing the future in the play contributes to the creation of suspense. Of course, this is a bit familiar, just like the fortune-telling of the blind philosopher in the film and television works of ancient costumes, and the omen seen in the crystal ball by the prophet’s prophecy in the fantasy works. The outcome seems to have been determined but there are still variables in the process that can easily attract people's attention. (In fact, there is another prop that seems to be familiar to make suspense, that is, the daughter of the hero in the play. Children are commonly used props to create a weird atmosphere in movies and TV.) Many incompleteness are revealed in the future scenes that people foresee in "Future Flash." For dangerous information, the two agents involved in the investigation are life threatening. Among them, NOH will be shot three times on Consumer Day. This is like a time bomb hidden in the bedroom. Such a plot setting is actually not. Very innovative but a typical means of stimulating the audience's nervousness.
As a TV series, because of its space, it can still be filled with a lot of things in the past, and sometimes such idle pens may even cover the main line of light. Whether the future is destined to be unchangeable, will there be other variables because of our indomitability? In this play, the screenwriter should play with the helplessness of dormitory theory or the inspiration of struggling to change destiny, or more in-depth philosophical thinking. Both have natural advantages. In short, it seems that the future of this "Future Flash" is quite exciting.
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