Depressive Screenwriter

"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" was different from Su Yan's other dramas because it required special effects. The entire ten-episode plot was filmed early on and sent to the special effects company for production.

Honestly, I guessed that the ending of Su Yan's drama would be very heart-wrenching, but guessing doesn't necessarily mean you can prevent it.

It's like the visual novel "Clannad"; all new viewers have heard that it's a tearjerker before watching it, but when they actually see those scenes, they still cry. The so-called psychological defenses often don't work.

Especially with a plot combined with excellent special effects.

In Yumi Shinozaki's opinion, the quality of "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" is stronger than many S-level dramas in the history of Xia.

Although she doesn't know the level of the competition, Yumi Shinozaki certainly believes in Su Yan at this time.

Before the broadcast of "Black Gate" on Sakura TV at 8 PM, the TV station's ratings were soaring.

Other TV stations at the same time could clearly feel that their ratings data was much worse than usual.

After half an hour passed,

The first episode of "Black Gate" successfully finished broadcasting.

The reputation of this work, as many industry insiders had guessed before its premiere, was surprisingly good!

Tens of thousands of viewers scored it that night, and it swept away all industry doubts with an ultra-high opening score of 9.2.

The next day at noon, the first episode's ratings of "Black Gate" came out.

5.03%

Although many film critics and media outlets had guessed that this S-level drama might break 5% in the premiere ratings after its broadcast,

The entire market was completely boiling after this result actually appeared.

After two years, Xia has finally produced another drama with ratings exceeding 5%.

The media also started.

["Black Gate" premiere ratings break 5%! The veteran screenwriter proves he's still sharp after several years!]

Sakura TV breaks all doubts! The biggest move after Akasaka Yoshishi took office as the head of the production department, "Black Gate" has a clear goal: to aim for the annual ratings crown!]

["Black Gate's" premiere results make the so-called genius screenwriter Su Yan a laughing stock in the industry. His two years of effort, the highest achievement is far from the premiere results of "Black Gate!"]

[The comments that Sakura TV's production results were embarrassing after leaving Su Yan disappeared overnight! Last quarter, "Rain of Shanghai. Continuation" strongly won the quarterly crown. This quarter, "Black Gate" will defend the quarterly crown for Sakura TV, and may even win the annual crown!]

[Explosive, "Black Gate" premiere ratings break 5%, genius screenwriter Su Yan may become a clown!]

[The feud between Sakura TV and Su Yan, from Su Yan's departure from Sakura TV last April, continued until April this year, the head-to-head confrontation between the two S-level dramas. "Black Gate" has already made the first move. Can "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners," which premieres on Sunday, keep up with its opponent's offensive?]

After "Black Gate" on Sakura TV had slightly better results after its premiere, the media's opinion completely changed.

The media just didn't want the situation to be chaotic enough.

When Su Yan was strong, they ridiculed Sakura TV.

When Sakura TV had achievements, they belittled Su Yan. Either way, they got traffic.

These media comments made Su Yan's fans a little angry, but everyone couldn't find a point to fight back.

The first episode of "Black Gate" was indeed exceptionally good, and the score of 9.2 was also solid.

If the subsequent episodes are also of this quality, then 5.03% is just the beginning.

When this drama ends, the ratings will definitely increase a lot.

At this time, many of Su Yan's fans were also a little nervous.

Although they didn't think that Su Yan's full-strength work, "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners," would lose,

Especially losing to the S-level drama of his mortal enemy, Sakura TV.

However, the 5.03% premiere rating of "Black Gate" did make many viewers a little panicked.

After all, the highest rating of Su Yan's previous work was only 4.78% in April.

Of course, if April had a higher production cost, and could be broadcast on the three major TV stations, it might not be worse than the results of these S-level dramas, but those are all "ifs."

Before the premiere of "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" on Sunday night.

No one knew what would happen after the premiere of this drama.

At 8 PM on Saturday night, the first episode of "Nanmeng" on Shanghai TV premiered.

After the premiere of this drama, it replicated the grand occasion of the premiere of "Black Gate" the previous night.

Even the reputation of this drama was much better than "Black Gate."

Tens of thousands of people scored "Nanmeng" 9.3 on the night of its premiere.

At noon on Sunday, the first episode's ratings of "Nanmeng" came out.

5.01%.

The ratings lost to "Black Gate" by a slight margin, but the score and reputation were stronger than "Black Gate."

The two dramas can be said to have their own merits.

After this data came out, the entire market was not right.

Generally speaking, the premiere results of S-level dramas will be around 5%, but not every one has this quality.

Some dramas with slower first episodes may have ratings of 4.6% or 4.7%, which is also normal.

However, in this quarter, three S-level dramas premiered at the same time. Just like chess, the competition for ratings is the same.

It is also unrealistic to expect the later reputation to improve and then the ratings to reverse.

That would require other dramas in the schedule to be bad.

For this kind of quarter with three S-level dramas premiering, if the ratings and reputation are lost at the beginning, it is geometrically more difficult to increase them later.

Now the premiere ratings of two S-level dramas have exceeded 5%.

It would be embarrassing if the premiere ratings of "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" did not exceed 5%.

It belongs to falling behind from the beginning. Now the pressure has come to "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners."

Su Yan's fans on the Internet have been anxious since the afternoon.

"Don't go out and have fun tonight! Support the premiere of Edgerunners."

"That's right, it's making me excited. Although I usually criticize him, we can't let Su Yan lose face at this time."

"I'm watching both Black Gate and Nanmeng, and they're really good!"

"I don't think it's as good as April, it doesn't have that flavor, I don't know why the ratings are so high."

"There's no way! TV dramas are a capital game, and the actors' investment, main creative lineup, broadcasting platform, and publicity efforts all affect the ratings. April's broadcasting platform was too poor, and the investment cost was too low. At that time, the only big-name actor in the crew was Shen Liqian, who hadn't acted in a TV series for a year, and the work was broadcast on Qingkong TV. How can it compare with the two S-level dramas now?"

"That's right, you let Su Yan remake the drama April, or film the second season of April, and let Su Yan and Shen Liqian play the male and female leads. Invest 60 million in the second season of April and broadcast it on Zhongxia TV. I estimate that the premiere ratings will explode and kill Black Gate and Nanmeng!"

"That's true, Kaori Miyazono's popularity is too strong. Half a year after this drama ended, it can still rank in the top three on the list of popular TV drama heroines."

"Anyway, our fans will definitely fully support Su Yan. But if Cyberpunk: Edgerunners wants to have good premiere ratings, it depends on the strength of this drama. See how many passerby viewers it can attract to stay."

"Everything depends on 8 PM tonight."

"Although I know that the old thief's works are strong in the later stages. But I really don't want to see the old thief eating deflated again. Can this drama explode as soon as it premieres!"

Su Yan's fans usually criticize him in various ways, but they don't pretend at this time and clearly express their support for him.

The web broadcast page of "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" was launched early on Xingxia.com, which is controlled by Zhongxia TV. Su Yan was forced to open a certified account on Xingxia.com again. At this time, the number of fans has exceeded five million, and the comment area has tens of thousands of comments.

Four of the top ten hot searches on the website are related to Edgerunners.

As the time approached 8 PM, the ratings of Zhongxia TV also increased steadily.

Yue Kaicheng drank a glass of cola and looked at the time on his phone.

It's almost time.

After the health product advertisement of Zhongxia TV ended, the screen paused.

A burst of noisy electronic sounds and light pollution appeared.

Under the night, neon lights are dazzling.

The impassioned and rhythmic BGM matches the indifferent eyes and muscular body modification of the cyborg on the square.

Yue Kaicheng's expression showed interest.

He had never seen cyberpunk works before, but in order to watch this drama, he deliberately learned about this element.

In the future technological world, government organizations disintegrate, and the contradiction between the high-tech world and the low standard of living gives rise to contradictions and tragedies. The eulogy of the characters' fate is the highlight of this kind of drama.

This kind of theme is not very popular in Xia.

But everything will go from unpopular to popular.

Maybe Su Yan's drama will make this element popular?

While Yue Kaicheng was thinking about a lot of things, the opening plot of this drama quickly started.

The muscular man who appeared at the beginning was a cyberpunk psychopath.

Through the dialogue of the narration character, Yue Kaicheng understood what a cyberpunk psychopath is.

To put it bluntly, when constantly replacing the organs in one's body with mechanical prosthetics, the human spirit will also have problems. The more organs are replaced, the more likely the person is to experience mental illness symptoms and lose themselves.

And this muscular man has completely lost himself, and even indiscriminately kills in the center of Night City.

This plot is a bit cool.

The actions of the muscular man who became a psychopath are fast and ruthless, without any hesitation, killing people like chopping melons, with a kind of chaotic and distorted beauty.

In order to take care of children's senses, the pictures in the TV series will not be particularly bloody. Su Yan will not show shots of eyeballs and brains as much as possible.

However, the work that killed a large number of policemen in the city center in less than two minutes at the beginning is indeed enough to attract people's attention.

Fighting scenes do not pick viewers, men, women, old and young, are easily attracted.

Soon, a technique of pulling the camera away made Yue Kaicheng know that the scene just now was the protagonist David at the prosthetic doctor's, experiencing the memories before the death of the cyberpunk psychopath through the brain implant chip and something called black super dream.

Including the pain he felt when he went crazy and was shot dead in the city center!

After this kind of setting came out, Yue Kaicheng became interested.

Can you still see the memories of dead people?

This technology is too interesting.

Next, the perspective shifted from the background introduction in the first minute to the protagonist David.

A poor student at a famous school in Night City.

His mother is an office worker. Although the salary is not small, it is extremely difficult to support her son to go to a famous school and maintain living expenses.

In this city, money is everything.

And the mother's biggest expectation for her son David is that he can be successful in the future, graduate from Arasaka Academy, and become. A superior person!

Very realistic, very blatant setting.

Without pretending, there is no gentleness, kindness, respect, thrift, or concession.

No character has the ideal of benefiting society.

In Night City, if you don't have money, you are an insect, if you have money, you have everything.

Criminals kill and rob on the street in broad daylight, and crime and police violence are everywhere.

Prosthetics, power, weapons, as long as you have money, even if your body is shattered and only your brain is left, you can survive.

In the first few minutes of the plot, Yue Kaicheng had a rudimentary understanding of the cyberpunk world view.