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Given the subject matter of the books - I wouldn't want to touch the production of these. And that's sad.
This seems a bit too conspiracy-minded. The article notes that it's likely a colleague who poisoned him. Besides, why would the Chinese government go down that route when they already have the power to censor and direct the production?
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If you want to further the point provide a counterexample, otherwise it will just sound condescending But I'm all ears on how alien civilizations will engage in costly missions to completely wipe civilizations out of their reach
I aimed to sound funny not condescending and, obviously, I failed. Groups wiped just because, would be the jews, the armenians and a long list actually (1). You could argue that some of them is because territorial fights, but is it not that also the reason of the "Three body problem" aliens? About why alien civilizations could decide to engage in this kind of thing: if you are paranoiac enough you can frame it like a…
I agree, it's not a conversation for Christmas Eve, and thanks for actually explaining your point.
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I also don't get the cult status. The setup in the first book is pretty engaging, the trisolarians are compelling antagonists, and i loved the power plays resulting from Dark Forest theory... But the storytelling just falls flat in books 2 and 3, with the overlong story-within-a-story and the needless romance plot. The... relativistic stuff (lets call it that to avoid spoilers) at the end didn't do anything for me at…
With any luck this is the magic a bunch of professional TV producers will bring. GoT TV series was dramatically better than the books because so much of the bollocks was cut
Looks like you havent watched the last few seasons.
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This seems a bit too conspiracy-minded. The article notes that it's likely a colleague who poisoned him. Besides, why would the Chinese government go down that route when they already have the power to censor and direct the production?
As if you need to be conspiracy-minded to think the Chinese government will straight up assassinate you for pushing the wrong message.
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As if you need to be conspiracy-minded to think the Chinese government will straight up assassinate you for pushing the wrong message.
That's the point. They don't need to be covert and use poison.
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With any luck this is the magic a bunch of professional TV producers will bring. GoT TV series was dramatically better than the books because so much of the bollocks was cut
> GoT TV series was dramatically better than the books because so much of the bollocks was cut Looks like you havent watched the last few seasons.
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There’s a long section on the excesses of the cultural revolution. The Chinese originals reordered the plot (and its reverted in the English translations) to diminish that aspect of it a bit.
It's not taboo to criticize the cultural revolution in China.