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Severn is still in intensive production.

The fourth episode of Reply MAX is currently being filmed. The monster that appears is the spaceman Godhra.

In this episode, Ultra Glasses were robbed once again.

Of course, this is the original script.

In Meng Lang's version of Seven, the Ultra Glasses were robbed once, which proves that these things are not foolproof. There is no need to repeat this scene in future episodes.

Tsuburaya liked this section very much.

It's either lost or stolen or robbed. Similar plots can be seen in most Ultra works.

Let’s not talk about the deep meaning of Tsuburaya repeating similar scenes, or whether he wants to use the loss or robbery of the transformer to lead to some plot. From the audience's perspective, this kind of plot is really unpleasant.

Why not lovable?

There are two reasons. First, the audience is brought into the perspective of the human body. If the human body is robbed, the audience will have an awkward feeling of being robbed.

Secondly, the length of the unit drama is limited, and Tsuburaya cannot fill in too many side plots in the limited time.

If Seven was a TV series, the scene where the transformer is robbed could be told in a longer length, instead of being robbed and retrieved in a hurry, leaving the audience confused.

Severn is probably the Ultraman whose transformation has been robbed the most times, not even one of them. Throughout the entire Ultra series, there has never been an Ultraman who lost his transformer as frequently as Seven.

Maybe this is his biological son.

Severn is Eiji Tsuburaya's masterpiece and his most ambitious work.

Ultra Q does not have a huge hero concept, and the first generation left many regrets due to insufficient funds. During the Severn period, Tsuburaya Company's finances were greatly enriched, and Eiji Tsuburaya relied on Severn to realize his ideals and ambitions.

Unfortunately he failed.

With an independent world view, unique styling design, and even naming it Ultra Seven, what Eiji Tsuburaya wants to do is not a sequel to Ultraman.

But in the eyes of the audience, this is the Ultraman sequel.

Because of this conflict of ideas, Severn's ratings dropped again and again during its broadcast period. It had a fantastic start in the early stage, with the ratings stabilizing above 30%, and then gradually declining, reaching the lowest level of only about 16%.

Although the average ratings are still as high as 26%, it is an indisputable fact that Severn starts high and goes low.

Meng Lang didn't want to conflict with the audience.

The independent world view was eliminated, and Severn was integrated into the Earth-Land of Light world view from the early stage. His name is Ultraman Seven, not Ultra Seven, nor Superman.

At the same time, he also added many fighting scenes to Severn's dramas.

There are too few fighting scenes in the original version.

Tsuburaya wants to tell good stories and gain audience support through excellent stories. For this reason, the most essential fighting part of Ultraman is sacrificed, and sometimes there is no fighting at all.

That’s not to say that it can’t be done this way. If the story is told well, the audience will also buy it. But the premise is that the story you tell must be a story that the audience likes.

The audience didn't like Severn's story.

Anti-war, full of metaphors and irony, exposing the darkness of human nature and exaggerating the atmosphere of terror.

After these elements are added, the viewers who know how to watch will not like it, and the viewers who like it will not watch it. Failure is inevitable.

Meng Lang didn't want to tamper with the classics, but his butt determined his head.

Sitting in his position, the thing to consider is not winning in the future but living in the present.

Uncle Tsuburaya has proven with actual experience that the so-called winning in the future is nothing more than living a miserable life now, which will only become worse in the future.

Bullshit winning lies in the future, Meng Lang doesn't believe this.

Fans who are willing to pay to support are real fans. Fans who are unwilling to pay and just pay lip service to support, no matter how many there are, will be of any use.

The positioning needs to be clear.

Meng Lang's positioning of Savin's TV series is to provide sub-oriented content, leaving adult content to Savin X.

In his version of the Seven TV series, the IQ of the people in the universe has been greatly weakened, the elements of conspiracy have been greatly reduced, the ugliness of human nature has been put into the dark, and the human beings on the bright side are still great and upright.

But the Nonmartian episode was preserved.

This is a classic episode of Ultra's works!

Screenwriter Tetsuo Kaneshiro added elements of neon local discrimination against his hometown in the drama about the Nong Malte people, making this drama one of the Three Problematic Works of the Showa by many fans.

Coincidentally, Meng Lang also wanted to express what Jincheng Tetsuo wanted to express. It's just that the place he wanted to metaphor was not the hometown of Jincheng Tetsuo, but another area.

I will write the script of the Nonmartians!

After saying this, Meng Lang handed over the studio to Yan Tao, who temporarily supervised the filming while he began to add some new things based on the original Nong Malte people.

We are brothers from the same mother!

The Nongmart people said to Captain Tongshan: A long time ago, humans were invaded by aliens. In order to avoid annihilation, some people hid under the sea.

Don't be related to humans!

Captain Tongshan raised his gun and sneered: Even if what you say is true, you are still our enemy!

What do you want?

Ultraman Seven will destroy you!

The Nongmart man cried and laughed and said: So, you would rather trust outsiders than your own people?

Ultraman is not an outsider!

Captain Tongshan emphasized: He is a partner in upholding justice in the universe and a friend of us humans!

Is that too ironic?

After Meng Lang finished writing the script, he sat in the office without saying a word for a long time. He felt that the irony was too obvious, so he deleted the scene where the Nongmart people actively recognized their relatives and changed it to Zhu Xingtuan learning about it through Saiwen's memory.

Captain! That's our brother! Zhu Xingtuan dissuaded.

The captain pushed his hand away: It was before, but not now!

That's much better.

After all, it is not good to generalize. On that island, there are bad guys like Captain Tongshan who embrace Ultraman's thigh to fight against the Nongmaltes, and there are also good guys like Zhu Xingtuan who have awakened to the concept of the same race.

After two days of hard work, the script was finally revised.

The Nongmalte people are also human beings, but when humans were invaded by aliens, some of their own race entered the seabed and turned into this weird appearance.

Although their appearance is different from humans, the same blood flows in their bodies. Even if the Nongmart people are technologically stronger than humans, they do not want to conflict with humans.

But relying on Ultraman, humans are not afraid of the Nonmartians. On the contrary, with the help of Severn, they challenge the Nonmartians on the bottom of the sea.

A series full of metaphors and satire.

Meng Lang didn't expect anyone to understand, but as long as one person could understand, his goal would be achieved.

The outcome of the Nonmart people was not to be wiped out by Severn and humans.

However, under Zofi's restraint, Severn realized his mistake and moved the Nongmartes to a living planet full of water near the Kingdom of Light.

The ending is not dark.

The ending is too dark. After all, the audience is mainly children, so we can't leave a shadow on their hearts.

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