【Who the hell is this kid?! Where’s Ren Shu?!】
【Chi Yi? No, this second season can’t be about him, right?!】
【Is this still directed by Lin Feng? Why does this male lead look so ugly???】
【Where’s Ren Shu?! What happened to my awesome Ren Shu?!】
【No way, he can’t have just died after five years, right?!】
【Hahaha! I knew it before the second season premiered! This season is going to flop, no doubt about it!】
【I’m so done with these haters! The second season just premiered, it’s normal that Ren Shu isn’t here! He only appeared in the latter part of the first season!】
【Exactly! I doubt they even watched the first season! The first season was mainly about Shui Ze You, with Ren Shu as a side character!】
【Don’t listen to those haters, Director Lin Feng won’t disappoint us!】
【......】
The second season premiered,
everyone was looking forward to seeing how Ren Shu would be after five years,
but instead, it began with a frightening flashback,
and then, a new face, an unfamiliar actor, appeared.
When viewers were all thinking they were watching the wrong show,
they checked the summary,
and they realized the second season’s cast list had been completely revamped!
The male lead, listed first,
wasn’t Shui Ze You, nor Ying Shan Ren,
but a newcomer named Chi Yi,
followed by Shui Ze You and Ying Shan Ren as the second male leads!
This unexpected change,
made many fans worry,
that the second season would be ruined,
because everyone was clearly here for Ying Shan Ren, here for Lin Feng,
if the cast had been changed, their roles reduced,
and the storyline altered,
the ratings would plummet!
So,
while a large group of haters were celebrating in the comments,
there were also loyal fans trying to control the narrative,
after all, Ying Shan Ren wasn’t exactly a typical male lead in the first season,
more like a side character with slightly less screen time than Shui Ze You,
and at the time,
no one had any strong opinions on the screen time,
therefore,
the viewers, upon reflection, calmed down,
they chose to trust Lin Feng to bring them more surprises!
Afterwards,
the story of this new male lead, Chi Yi, slowly unfolded,
especially when he used his special belt to transform into a Kamen Rider for the first time,
the fans cheered again,
and some storyline fans began to guess Chi Yi’s identity!
【If you ask me, looking at the opening scene of the first episode, Chi Yi is probably the little boy who was adopted by the Amazons!】
【More than that! I think he's totally an Amazon kid!】
【True! He wouldn’t be able to transform unless he was an Amazon kid, right?】
【You can't say for sure, remember Kamen Rider Sigma from the first season? He was originally human, but he was modified to become an Amazon!】
【Looks like the new male lead's identity isn't simple!】
【But I still prefer Ying Shan Ren, Ren Shu! This kid is too much of a pretty boy, just like those in Chinese dramas!】
【Yeah, yeah, I just want to see that manly, brooding, and charismatic old man!!!】
【Hey, hey, hey, look, it seems like this girl is going to turn into an Amazon too!!!】
【......】
As the first episode drew to a close,
viewers noticed Bai Ben Cai Nai, playing Wei You,
had a strange armband on her arm,
looking similar to Chi Yi’s Amazon belt,
unlike the Amazon armbands in the first season!
But when viewers saw Wei You activate the armband and transform into a Crow Amazon,
they were excited!
This was the first female character who could voluntarily transform into an Amazon in two episodes!
And it looked like she had some self-control,
making people wonder,
was she also a Sigma Amazon?
An Amazon made from a human corpse?!!
The growing number of mysteries drew the audience in,
and after seeing Wei You’s fierce fighting moves,
many viewers exclaimed that it was the cleanest, most impressive female fight scene they had seen in years!
In those costume idol dramas from before,
the fight scenes were either flying around,
or just a bunch of fancy moves,
or using a stunt double,
but Wei You’s fight scene,
every frame showed her face, confirming that it was her doing the action!
This naturally made the viewers excited!
Some viewers even suggested Lin Feng start a “Lin’s Team”
specifically to teach actors in Chinese entertainment how to do action scenes!
After all, if Lin Feng could train a female actor,
training those pretty boys would be even easier, wouldn’t it?
Of course, many viewers thought this was too optimistic,
because not every actor could handle the hard work,
many just want to get by, collect a paycheck,
and would never be able to handle the strain!
If Lin Feng actually took on teaching actors in Chinese entertainment,
he’d probably get bombarded by mindless fans the next day!
Therefore, many viewers believed Lin Feng should stay away from the unclean actors in Chinese entertainment and just keep making good films,
saving the entertainment industry, forget it! It’s a waste of time and energy, not to mention easily attracting mindless haters!
As the first episode drew to a close,
a more important piece of information,
exploded in the comments!
Because viewers saw,
after killing the Amazon who had caused havoc at the wedding,
Chi Yi actually walked up to Wei You,
his expression strange, his eyes filled with a hint of flirtation,
and his inner monologue!
“You’re the first human who hasn’t made me want to eat you…”
The video comments were instantly flooded by the viewers!!!
【Whoa!!! Chi Yi is actually an Amazon?!】
【No, bro! Isn’t this girl an Amazon? No, right?! Is this guy just imagining it?】
【I’m getting a bad feeling about this! I have a feeling these two are going to fall in love!!!】
【The sister above is right! I feel it too!】
【Crap…isn’t this a suspenseful, bloody, violent, special effects show? Why are we adding a love component!】
【I’m throwing up…This is the kind of trashy plotline every director loves to add, why?!】
【I just checked the theme for the second season, it’s “Boy and Girl”, I feel like the second season is centered around these two…】
【Don’t say anything else, I’m unfollowing this show, I can’t watch this…】
【Seriously, same here, if they really fall in love, why make this dog-blood plot, I definitely won’t watch it!】
【What are all these two-faced people in the comments doing? We’re only on the first episode, you’re complaining about Ren Shu being gone, then you’re complaining about them falling in love, you’d think the show had already ended!】
【Love it or leave it, if you don’t like it, then leave! Stop acting like you’re better than everyone else!】
【......】
The growing conflict in the comments
began to send 《Amazons》Season 2 trending,
especially the word “falling in love,”
overtaking the upcoming Olympics, becoming the number one trending topic on Weibo!
Many viewers expressed their protest against the plot,
they went to the official Weibo account for Dongriyang and bombarded it with comments,
they went to Lin Feng’s Weibo account and left comments,
they went to the comment sections of the main actors and vented their frustration!
The reputation of 《Kamen Rider Amazons》
from the highly anticipated premiere of the second season,
to now,
over half of the audience disapprove and give bad reviews!
Many companies who were envious of 《Amazons》’ popularity were about to burst with laughter,
their grins reaching their ears!
When the main and supporting cast of the second season heard about this,
they all looked extremely worried when they arrived on set the next day,
until they saw Lin Feng, as calm as ever,
they finally relaxed a little.
“Heh…what’s going on? Why are you all so nervous?”
Lin Feng smiled, seemingly not worried at all, but rather satisfied with the current situation,
“I said yesterday, don’t worry about what people say outside, if you can’t handle it, just delete your Weibo for a while. This situation won’t be over in a day or two. Don’t let these small matters affect your acting, okay? Alright, get ready, let’s start shooting episode seven!”
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