| Time-travel phenomenon is just like a colorful dream, beautiful but momentary. Though the heat waves of time-travel come and gone, it still rendered an undeniable influence on Chinese television industry and formed its unique aesthetic characteristics. The following article will be based on aesthetic theories, doing a deep aesthetic reflection on this short-lived TV phenomenon, exploring its aesthetic value, and criticizing its shortcomings and limitations of the aesthetic level. From the morphological perspective, time-travel TV series is a blend of tragedy and comedy that contain both beautiful and audio-visual presentation, as well as a plenty of aesthetic appeal. The aesthetic dynamic of the time-travel TV series mainly presents three characteristics, in terms of the needs of chasing new divergent, desire of freedom, and deviant taste. The game-like aesthetic and the special time-space setting bring significant innovative aesthetic effect to the TV series. At the same time, this article also analyzes the aesthetical limitations of time-travel TV series, the absence of its real aesthetic feeling, and the lack of its humanistic connotation due to its size-fits-all theme. In addition, this article will also illustrate the different approaches for time-travel TV series in enhancing their own aesthetic taste. |
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