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Netflix's '3 Body Problem' Has Chilling Social Media Parallels

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Re: Netflix's '3 Body Problem' Has Chilling Social Media Parallels

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Post by tappaseater »

_hao wrote: post #7

For a person that has read the books a couple of times (and loved the Tencent show) the Netflix version is so shallow and lacking nuance that I barely finished it. Benioff and Weiss have picked some "wow" moments from the book without any understanding of it or the emotional and existential weight of it all. As an adaption it is extremely poor. There are some good actors in it, but they are all wasted and not given e…

It is poorly written, with some atrocious dialog. I watched it all because the story intrigued me, but all I kept thinking was, "The last season of GoT was shit for THIS?"

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Post by acadavid79 »

walterbell wrote: post #10
cyp0633 wrote: post #4

I recommend everyone who enjoy the story to try the TV series by Tencent, especially for original book lovers. The Netflix version is somewhat a glimpse.

Where is the best place to watch that outside of China?

You can find it in Prime Video.

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Post by GoodJokes »

_hao wrote: post #7

For a person that has read the books a couple of times (and loved the Tencent show) the Netflix version is so shallow and lacking nuance that I barely finished it. Benioff and Weiss have picked some "wow" moments from the book without any understanding of it or the emotional and existential weight of it all. As an adaption it is extremely poor. There are some good actors in it, but they are all wasted and not given e…

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Post by M95D »

_hao wrote: post #9
shrimp_emoji wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a much more superficial note, you gotta love the casting decisions too. Make the Chinese people ultra trendy diverse and make the terminal cancer patient whose brain is being scooped out and shipped to the aliens the only white guy. ;D

Honestly, I think the actor who played Will (him being Yun Tianming) was the closest to his book counterpart as a character. He was the best part of the show for me. For example, I'm sure Benedict Wong can play Da Shi because he's a very good actor, but in this show the character is utterly ruined. He's not the glue or the do-it-all no bullshit policeman that he's supposed to be. Yu Hewei (Da Shi from the Tencent sho…

> Also the Netflix show suffers a lot for being only 8 episodes.

And they wasted most of that with cancer drama instead of aliens-are-coming drama.

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Post by FanZhen »

walterbell wrote: post #10
cyp0633 wrote: post #4

I recommend everyone who enjoy the story to try the TV series by Tencent, especially for original book lovers. The Netflix version is somewhat a glimpse.

Where is the best place to watch that outside of China?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMX26aiIvX5oCR4bBg2j0...

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

_hao wrote: post #9
shrimp_emoji wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a much more superficial note, you gotta love the casting decisions too. Make the Chinese people ultra trendy diverse and make the terminal cancer patient whose brain is being scooped out and shipped to the aliens the only white guy. ;D

Honestly, I think the actor who played Will (him being Yun Tianming) was the closest to his book counterpart as a character. He was the best part of the show for me. For example, I'm sure Benedict Wong can play Da Shi because he's a very good actor, but in this show the character is utterly ruined. He's not the glue or the do-it-all no bullshit policeman that he's supposed to be. Yu Hewei (Da Shi from the Tencent sho…

Haha. I actually thought Da Shi was pretty spot on, but maybe I was spellbound by the fact that they cast the same exact actor for him that I cast in my head when I read the books! :D Gruff Chinese detective guy? It had to be the detective guy from Contagion.
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