Thoughts update:
One of the couriers in the first season, Hebo Thought, a little black brother with a dialect accent, did not appear in the second season. I have always wondered, such an interesting character and a good friend of the heroine. . Why didn't it show up immediately? Wikipedia has always given the statement "no explanation for it", but after checking the settings carefully, Hebo Thought often cites scriptures and babbles about it. It is an ancient religious sect in Haiti and Dominica. Its origin is one of Islam. American variant. So now that I think about it, there are two reasons:
(1) Cameron and Erger saw the hostility to Islam in the United States after the 9/11 incident (as in the anti-Indian, anti-Chinese, Japanese after Pearl Harbor incident, etc., etc.) ), or Fox TV itself was under pressure, worried that the "glass-hearted" American audience at the time couldn't bear these details related to Islam, so Hebo Thought's role was directly erased.
(2) Hebo Thought's actors themselves believe in Islamic Central American sects. After 9/11, the US foreign policy tightened, and the actors could not get permission during the second season, so the roles were erased. . . But this is unlikely, because his actor later played an FBI agent. . But I haven't checked what year this drama is. .
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"Doomsday Black Angel", my favorite cyberpunk sci-fi drama in my childhood, just found out today that many of the settings have paid tribute to "Blade Runner". Of course, that's not what I meant to say, but I've been wondering why two seasons ended. Now see a piece of quoted news from wikipedia. . . [Writing in his book The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, John Kenneth Muir said it was necessary for Cameron to set Dark Angel in the future because the prosperity of the US in 2000 "offered little possibility for crime, squalor and other societal problems ". While criticizing certain plot elements in the second season as contributing to the show's downfall, Muir said that larger factors in the ratings drop were the September 11 attacks, the Enron scandal, and the depletion of the US government's surplus, which changed Dark Angel's "futuristic vision of recession in a Third-World America" from an interesting, far-fetched premise to a "depressing reminder that things could still get worse". [5]] Only then did I know that in the final analysis, the world described in the play "Black Angel of the Last Days" is too dark and too bad. In the United States at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attack, the public must not accept any form of cyberpunk's dark prospect, and the official must hope that the public will cheer up instead of losing confidence in the existing political order——this is It is a brand-new "political correctness". In order to cater to this kind of mass psychology, Fox TV downgraded "Black Angel of the Last Days" to "Death Friday". . . It also indirectly or directly affected the fate of the third season of the show.
But in fact, "Doomsday Black Angel" is not alone. . . Another TV series "Pasadena", which was used by Fox to fill the ratings vacuum after "Black Angel of the Last Days" was driven away, also followed in the footsteps of "End". Although "The New Giants" itself is a soap opera, the main line of the plot is It's rather dark and cynical in tone. . . And this just happened to be inconsistent with the tastes of the Americans who were shocked by the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the time, so "The New Giants" was cut off by Fox before even one season (13 episodes) (only four episodes were broadcast) was broadcast. .
Some people say that this is a problem with the quality of the creation of "Black Angel of the Last Days", but the problem is that not many Americans (especially the young audience of "Black Angel of the Last Days") watch TV series on Friday night. It is difficult to say that it will not seriously affect the quality level of creation.
In addition, the second season suddenly turned its perspective on a large number of "mutant species (genetically recombined military products of the Sphinx)", perhaps to cater to the general patriotism of the Americans at that time, and the belief in the Middle East crescent religion. Wait for the fear of "outsiders"—speaking of which, this is really Fox? Considering how much Fox later wrote against politically correct, outside Variables, films and TV themes ("Shield" and "American Strange Tales") that are not necessarily different from our race, the TV series produced by Fox TV will always be at the forefront of paying tribute to sensitive social issues, even if the series is transferred to the week. Five death periods. . . Or, for the second season of "Black Angel of the Last Days" at that time, its main story line not only catered to the atmosphere of Americans' fear of foreign races, paganism, and high patriotism at that time, it was also difficult for the younger generation of audiences to have no audience. Let's continue to maintain at least the viewership rating with the support of Falai. . . Only, maybe James Cameron never thought Fox would actually cancel season three.
But let me tell you. . . The fans of these "Black Angels of the Last Days" drama in the United States are not strong enough, not enough ashes. ?Since "Doomsday Black Angel" has been transferred to the death period on Friday, shouldn't it be better to get together and continue to chase the show? Increase the ratings for the second season and make the third season possible, instead of not watching it on Friday and Saturday TV, just run out to play? The loyalty and enthusiasm of American drama fans are not enough. Seriously, we should learn from the enthusiasm of TV drama fans in my great heaven. As long as idols show up, Monday, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 will not affect the huge amount of support for idol's works. .
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