Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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After the two episodes were finished, although the official ratings had not yet come out, real-time ratings with a certain degree of error could already be seen online.
The crew of “Today With You” was already celebrating their success. The producer flew to the city where Lemon TV was located and invited Fang Jun out for a drink. The two of them had a great time and had already agreed on further cooperation in the future.
Even Wu Yuedi and Huo Hanshan, who had always been at loggerheads with each other, temporarily put aside their conflicts and considered continuing to promote the Wushan CP.
They looked so happy that they didn’t know that a gust of wind blew through the platform for discussion, causing waves to rise slightly and the boat suddenly turned a corner.
In the late night forum, the night owls were still awake. Although they left their own marks in the posts about preventing sudden death every day, they just kept collecting them and never used it once. As always, they became more and more excited as the night went on and began to discuss seriously.
When the show was aired last night, a large number of complaints about “Today With You” emerged and were deleted one after another. Most of their topics were blaming the degree of modification of the adapted drama, which made it impossible for them, the book fans, to recognize the relationship between the book and the original work except for the name of the protagonist. However, this statement did not receive much support, after all, fans could always find ten thousand and one reasons to oppose it.
“Don’t you know about censorship? How can a violent teenager pass the review? Do you understand rationality?”
“Adaptation, adaptation. How can it be called an adaptation if it’s not changed? And isn’t this changing the book for the better? Anyway, I think it’s good!”
“Does having read the book make you superior? People who haven’t read the book find it interesting anyway. My grandma/my mom/my dad all say it’s good!”
After all this talk, the book fans went back home. The fans of this novel were not too fanatical. As it was published a long time ago, many of them had become “Buddhist” youths and did not like to argue with the aggressive fans.
After the fans and the internet trolls all dispersed, what surfaced late at night was the topic that everyone was most concerned about at the moment.
Am I the only one who thinks Shan Jiao is too wilful? I really don’t understand, do little girls nowadays spend their parents’ money without thinking? Don’t they know how hard their parents work to earn money?
Reply to the poster who deleted the reply next door: Why don’t you say that Dong Jianqiang is stubborn? He was fired and instead of just admitting it honestly, he swelled up his face to face the fat man, and then blamed his daughter for being too demanding? Funny, right?
A question that has puzzled me for a long time: I want to ask everyone whether they know how much family property they have? This is from a confused OP who was taught by his parents that his family would not be able to afford food anytime soon, but has bought a house with the support of his parents over the years.
Does anyone pay attention to Sister Dong? It’s so tragic. Her rebellious son makes me want to slap him in the face. He still stands on the side of his father. Do you know how hard his mother works?
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People who suddenly opened the forum after playing for a day were confused and at a loss. If the name of the forum was not clear, they would have suspected that they had gone to the wrong place. After flipping through several posts and missing the hot topic, they discovered that the real culprit was the TV series “Mountains Behind Mountains” which premiered tonight.
Was this TV series really worth discussing?
Their exclusive online broadcasting rights were signed to Deepsea.com. In order to keep up with the discussion, netizens who clicked on the video curiously found out after watching for ten minutes that it was just a preview and they had to become VIPs to watch the entire video. After hesitating for a while and cursing, they were influenced by the late-night shopping impulse and silently chose to buy the video, and began to enjoy the distinguished membership treatment.
As soon as they finished watching, they rushed back to the “battlefield” and began to roll up their sleeves and discuss passionately about parents and children, consumption, resignation, infidelity… This series of issues were usually the most concerned issues. Everyone held different opinions, and they discussed until dawn.
It was not until nearly five o’clock that the netizen who went to bed early and got up early got up and saw that the forum, which was still full of debate, had fallen into a long silence, so he posted a message in confusion.
Why…I can’t find a single post discussing “Today With You” on my homepage?
This post went straight to the bottom, without even a reply from the bored entrants.
In the following two days, the hot searches and marketing accounts started to beat the drums and enthusiastically launched big-character posters, praising the incomparable good results of “Today With You”. What does it mean that the first broadcast broke 1 and nearly 2? It can aim for 3% and compete for the annual ratings championship!
At this time, they only saw the beautiful numbers in the ratings and the seemingly decent topic discussion, but they did not notice the negative reviews below.
“It’s too boring, isn’t it? I feel like the plot is flat to the extreme, and the protagonists don’t have any CP feeling at all.”
“This is the first time I’ve seen such a split plot. The roles of the male and female protagonists are not harmonious at all. It’s like they are competing with each other for who has more weight. You show off and I show off.”
“Even my mom, an old lady who’s not picky, can’t stand watching this. I really don’t understand who is watching this kind of crappy show. Is there something wrong with Lemon TV’s taste in movies?”
But not long after this big-character poster was issued, the silent “Mountains Behind the Mountains” sounded the clarion call for counterattack.
Day 1: “Today With You” had a viewership rating of 1.73%, and “Mountains Behind The Mountains” had a viewership rating of 1.21%.
The next day: “Today With You” had a viewership rating of 1.75%, and “Mountains Behind The Mountains” had a viewership rating of 1.61%.
The ratings of “Mountains Behind the Mountains” were closing in step. On the third day, it was basically the same as “Today with You”. On the fourth day, it exceeded it by 0.1%. On the fifth day, it directly crushed the 1.15% ratings of “Today with You” with a rating of 2.2%.
This was a hearty counterattack battle, with word-of-mouth, ratings, and discussions all crushing the other. So far, “Mountains Behind the Mountains” had become one of the only two TV dramas with ratings exceeding 2% so far this year. It had only been aired to the tenth episode, and it was rising at an astonishing speed.
I have to wait another weekend to watch “The Mountain Behind the Mountain”. I suspect that Dream Entertainment is against us. Can’t they broadcast two episodes every day from Monday to Sunday? I recall how boring it was every weekend when I was watching “Tomorrow”.
Can you believe that we had a quarrel last night because of this TV series? If it wasn’t for Dong Jianqiang’s acting that made the three of us cry, we probably wouldn’t have reconciled today.
Isn’t anyone paying attention to the ratings? “Mountains Behind The Mountains” has now broken 2%! Let’s take a gamble, is there a chance to break 3%!
As for the “Today With You”, which had never been discussed, its ratings had already dropped to 0.5%. No one was interested in it. The fans of Lemon TV felt sorry for its misfortune and were angry at its lack of efforts. They angrily scolded the top executives of the TV station for having holes in their brains and choosing such a crappy drama to ruin the reputation of Lemon TV’s Golden Theatre.
Fang Jun, who was full of energy and vigor just two days ago, was now in the director’s office, being scolded so hard that he couldn’t even raise his head.
“So, Ms. Lin from Dream Entertainment came to our station before, but you didn’t receive her. Did you read the materials she gave you?”
Fang Jun didn’t dare to speak.
“Okay, Director Fang, you’re amazing. As a film purchasing director, you’ve lost even the basic sense of aesthetics. Can you afford the losses of the station? The prices for advertising investment in the next quarter have plummeted now. You’re really capable!” The director was scolding with saliva flying all over the place, and Fang Jun could only nod his head like a chicken pecking at rice.
After being scolded, he was directly marked as “unable to handle heavy responsibility” by the station director. He walked out trembling, wiped his face, and immediately called the person who had called him a brother before: “How did you promise me? You said that your film is of high quality. Let me tell you, if you cheat me like this, you won’t be able to get good resources in the station in the future, even if I, Fang Jun, am incompetent.”
After hanging up the phone, he transferred his emotions to the other party. His mood had not yet improved. When he walked into the office, he found a document that had just been placed on his desk. He sat dejectedly on the chair, as if he had lost his parents. The document clearly stated that from today, he would be demoted from film purchasing director to deputy director, and his immediate superior would be the colleague with whom he had always had a lot of conflicts before.
One wrong step led to everything going wrong.
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This summer, “Mountains Behind the Mountains” had become a truly national hit, and several of the memes in it had become catchphrases that everyone talked about.
Dong Jianqiang who was too concerned about his reputation, Dong Danjiao who didn’t know how much money he had, the iron fist that warned Sister Dong, the cheating and trouble-making Xiao Lajiao…
Under the Weibo posts of several leading actors, almost all of them were related to the plot of the drama.
Just like Sister Dong’s son Lin Lin, his Weibo was flooded with messages every day: “If you dare not be nice to your mother, give me the address and I will teach you a lesson.” There was even one time when he, who was already a college student, went to pick up his younger brother from school, but was grabbed by the sleeve by the parent of a student next to him, who said in a serious tone: “It’s not easy for your mother to raise you, you have to understand that.” This caused a lot of hilarious jokes.
In the office, Lin Meng and Chen Aiming were reviewing the materials needed for the next shoot when Xiao Wang rushed in excitedly, like a gust of wind.
“Boss Lin, good news!” Her eyes sparkled, “Two pieces of great news!”
Xiao Wang cleared his throat and said, “The ratings for the finale of “Mountains Behind the Mountains” which aired last night are out. It’s 3.78%, the highest rating this year!”
“What about the other one?”
“Also…” She put the invitation in Lin Meng’s hand, ” ‘The Path to Immortality’ has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Newcomer! We are invited to attend the award ceremony in two weeks.”
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