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I feel like this is an unpopular opinion but I was incredibly unimpressed by this show, it felt like peak techbro scifi to me.
The characters acted like comically simplified caricatures of human beings, I could not get through it.
That's how the original was written, too. Actually, I'd say the show is an improvement in the characters.
It reminds me a lot of golden age science fiction. Fantastic, imaginative story. Characters that are complete cardboard. The third book is basically "women can't make the hard, necessary decisions that men can" so that's going to be fun to see how the show does it.
The third book is basically "women can't make the hard, necessary decisions that men can" so that's going to be fun to see how the show does it.
Yes, I didn't get that far but I sensed vibes of this kind of suffocating betrayal of a genuine interest in the human condition early on in the TV show.
I don't like the show so I don't want to slap anyone in the face with these words but I also have a hard time seeing this any other way shrugs
Leftism and femininity are portrayed with a childlike understanding by the TV show in my opinion, and honestly I think at times the TV show seemed like it was struggling to even differentiate between the two in the first place it seems to have so little interest in actually engaging with different perspectives.
It genuinely alarms me how many people unironically love The Three Body Problem TV show and books though and excitedly recommend them to me without conveying any of this context (I live in the US). I don't say that lightly, it is one of those moments where you surface from the cult you are stuck in (that you yourself are still hopelessly devoted to in so many subconscious ways you are yet unwinding) and realize how warped everything is from reality or a basic understanding of the human condition.
We are drowning in a complex toxic masculinity, one that extends just as easily to women and people who do not identify as men and it intertwines with colonialism, jingoism, xenophobia and a host of other -isms that participated in foreclosing my generation's future.
If you like the show I am not trying to dunk on you, I am part of the same delusion, this is just one instance where I can perceive said delusion clearly. Art is many things and The Three Body Problem has many other parts to it that you may find enjoyable that aren't related to this, no judgement I am just pointing out how far US society has decayed through the context of this particular show.
yeah the general premise of the aliens, biology/tech, and their motivation is intersting. But the story built around it is lacking.
so, not exactly surprising that the GoT showrunners didn't do much with it.
You are not wrong. I was utterly baffled as to how this book/show got so popular. spoilers It lost me when it was decided the best way to retrieve a sensitive piece of computer equipment from a large ship was to slice the ship and everyone on it into ribbons using invisible fucking wire. What the fuck? It's OK tho, they're gonna stop the alien invasion by firing a guy's frozen head at them from a billion billion kilometres away. Stupidest shit I've seen in some time.
It doesn’t matter if it is unpopular or not, Three Body Problem sucked.
Agreed. I read the book right before watching the show. The show seemed to add a whole bunch of characters and filler arcs just to pad things out.
I can’t think of a single episode of television from the top of my head that is as overrated as Battle of the Bastards. If you look at the disastrous series finale, you can see the cracks of its demise starting to appear in that episode.
More reasons to ignore this shitty reinterpretation of the epic book series! Showrunners really destroyed the original story.
What's wrong with the actors cast here?
Lack of any similarity to the original characters of the story.
I feel like thats inevitable given the bulk of the cast from the original was Chinese, and this is an American reimagining.
Yeah, I expected more from Netflix. Giving it to Dumb and Dumber sealed the deal for the show being horrible.
You expected an exclusively Chinese cast?
No, the books do have some western characters.
I mean, okay, but you expected the bulk of the cast to be Chinese?
Yes. Anything wrong with that?
It just doesn't sound like a realistic expectation for a reimagining of a show in another country. It would be like expecting an American Squid Game having a primarily Korean cast. Or each version of Money Heist to be based on Spanish cast.
Did you also expect it to be entirely in Mandarin?
Yeah, I guess my mistake was that at no point did I read anywhere that it’s a reimagining. If I had, I would have set expectations accordingly that it’ll be exactly what it is - a horribly mangled version of the original.
Also, have you seen the one season of the original that was made by a Chinese production house? It’s available freely on YouTube. Yes, it’s wholly in mandarin. But it is soooo good!
I thought it was amusing that they were being produced basically concurrently. I've enjoyed both the books and the one season of the show, but I feel like I've experienced it and I'm ready to move on.
Having read the books and (presumably) watched the Netflix show, do you think the Chinese version is done well enough that it's worth another journey through the same story?
So… the Netflix show is nothing compared to the original story. Sure, it’s got the plot points and a lot of graphics visualizing the game. But it also melds characters together and makes a poor show of the storytelling. Plus, knowing the showrunners, I wholly expect them to shit the bed even more somewhere down the line.
I read the books and watched the Chinese version and the tv show did a splendid job of visualizing the details, the ethos, the characters. Worth a watch, even if trudging through the subtitles was a drag.
Original story suck too