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ACE means trump card.

From the perspective of combat power alone, Ace's performance in the TV series is completely in line with the audience's psychological expectations of an ace warrior.

After all, he was fighting a super beast!

The ferocity and power of the super beasts have been fully demonstrated in the first episode.

Black King, who once gave Jack a headache, was beaten to the ground by the super beast Belokon with three punches and two kicks. The super beast Belokon was also easily eliminated by Ace, who appeared later.

But combat power doesn't mean everything...

Ace is very strong, no one can deny that. But the second episode that aired later revealed the immature side of the young fighter.

The Yabo people fused the eggs of the ancient chameleon and the eggs of the cosmic pterodactyl to create a new super beast, King Gamera.

The TAC team went to destroy it.

After the conventional weapons failed, Beidou and Nan Xizi merged and transformed into Ace to face King Gamele. Just then, a woman with her child knelt down in front of Ace, begging him to let the monster go.

It turned out that this woman's husband was the construction worker who had been sucked by the strange egg before.

Everyone thought he was dead, but I could hear his shouts. He is still alive, inside this monster...

Ace used Ace's ears and Ace's eyes to find the construction worker and heard his voice.

His condition is amazing...

The physical body has been annihilated, and the consciousness has been assimilated by King Gamele. It can be said that he is King Gamelei, but King Gamelei is not him.

Help me, I don't want to die!

The man's cry for help put Ace in a helpless situation. His compassionate heart made him unable to bear harming King Gamere. But King Gamere was controlled by the Yabo people and had fallen into a rage.

Asshole, what are you doing?

Master Zhengming smashed his helmet to the ground and cursed angrily: Everyone will sympathize with his experience, but this is not the reason for us to condone him harming other people.

Ace is in a dilemma.

Captain Long Wu looked at Ace meaningfully and accepted the order from the Defense Force Staff Headquarters. He decided to use high-intensity bombs to destroy King Gamere at all costs.

The bomb went off!

The Game Thunder King was unscathed, but a large crater with a diameter of 700 meters was blown out of Jiangchuan City. Countless people are displaced and their eyes are blind.

Only then did Ace react, put away his undue kindness, struggled to break away from King Gamere, and destroyed him with the Metalium Ray.

The mother and son from before burst into tears as the monster exploded into powder due to Metalim's light.

The young warrior was confused.

He may have great power and be able to defeat monsters or super beasts. But pure force cannot solve all problems.

Ace, is he really worthy?

The theme of Ace's story is growth. The proud man from the Kingdom of Light, faced with the scheming Yabo people, gradually grew into a unique ace warrior.

Game Thunder King is just the beginning...

In order to show Ace's immaturity, there are many similar scenes in subsequent episodes. It wasn't until he was slapped by the first generation that he experienced his subsequent transformation.

Of course, this is not to disparage Ace.

This is just to make Ace's image more grounded. In addition to shortcomings, he also has advantages.

Courage, pay attention to feelings!

Let’s not mention courage. When you ridicule Ace as a “group-destroying engine”, don’t forget that his courage is also worthy of praise.

The key is to value feelings!

When the Ultra Brothers VS the Leo Brothers, the first-generation Jacks had weak souls and were ruthless, and it felt like they had used up all their energy. Apart from bullying Astra, Ace hardly ever did anything to Leo.

This is worthy of praise!

Compared with the previous game Jack, Ace has implanted more thoughts about humanity and also added a lot of entertainment. This is the scriptwriter Ichikawa Mori's understanding of the pair of heroes, and it is also the main plot line throughout the early and mid-term.

Unfortunately, conflicts arose later on.

After leaving behind the classic line A passionate heart cannot be annihilated, Ichikawa Moriichi said his last wish and said goodbye to the Ultraman series and never collaborated again.

Ace is a classic and the plot is excellent, there is no doubt about it. The original Ace had lower ratings than Guiman due to fierce competition with Toei.

But it's different in Pengda.

Jiangchuan Satellite TV chose to premiere the show at 7:30 p.m. According to common sense, the competition for ratings during this time period is particularly fierce.

But this is Ultraman!

Sandwiched among a bunch of period dramas, costume dramas and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas, Ultraman is like the most handsome boy on the street. How can he have any competition?

The audience is completely different.

Therefore, there is no pressure on Ace's ratings. With the novel innovation of double transformation, the premiere ratings were 13.01%, surpassing the predecessor Jack in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, the second episode dropped.

Although the decline is not large, a decline is a decline after all. After only a few minutes of commercials, many viewers had already changed the channel. If it were the third episode 24 hours later, wouldn't it fall even more?

The results were unsurprising.

When the third episode was aired, the ratings had dropped to about 11%. Fortunately, when the fourth episode was aired, the ratings curve stabilized.

Probably, this is the ceiling.

The glory of the first generation is destined to be an unreplicable miracle of the times. To be able to obtain 11% ratings five years later, there is no doubt about Ace's strength.

it does not matter!

Ultraman's IP has been established, and the ratings do not affect the value of the entire IP series.

Meng Lang pays more attention to audience feedback than illusory data curves.

Judging from the comments collected on major social platforms, the audience generally accepts Ace's new setting. Including super beasts, space hybrid experts Yabo people, TAC team and so on.

The only controversial thing is probably the new two-person combined transformation.

Fusion transformation is acceptable, but your transformation device is a ring! It was also specially designed to look like a wedding ring. Combined with the recent news about a North American boy cheating on 19 girlfriends, the audience was immediately speechless.

The starring role is not a big problem.

In the Ultraman series, it has become a habit to use newcomers. Looking at the entire entertainment industry, Yang Zhe and Lin Fangmin's looks are not too low.

Acting skills are a plus!

As for the supporting characters, they were much better. Each of Ace's TAC members has a distinct personality. Especially Master Zhengming, he is simply too popular.

Wu Yu's performance was perfect.

In order to play Master Zhengming well, he gained weight and studied many Taoist classics. During the filming period, he became almost like an ordinary Taoist priest.

This kind of professional performance is matched with his excellent acting skills. In addition, the role of Master Zhengming is positioned as a funny person in the play, so it is strange that he is not popular.

Poor Yang Zhe...

He was obviously the male protagonist, but Wu Yu stole the limelight. Ace's first broadcast was so popular, but no manufacturer came to him to shoot commercials.