3 Body Problem: Best Show Ever Made? 

...from a very extinguished gentleman

Did you mean to say thought-provoking?

@@Lean_Dad Wooosh

Hello, Police please. Yes, there’s been a murder.

i think he might using sarcasm?

Slightly worse than 3 Men and a Baby then?

not quite as good as Aronofsky’s Pi

So this is the sequel to "2 and a half men" and the origin story of "12 angry men"? Or did I get it wrong? Should I watch them in release order, or plot order? Damn watching stuff requires a PhD, these days! Much effort.

...and that confirms what we all knew: 2001 is the greatest movie of all time. I'm ignoring 10,000BC in my movie database. 2001 it is.

Just kidding it's really Citizen Kane and there have never been any movies made with names >Citizen Ka.

thank you for describing my current problem with the algorithm

it doesn't...

Oh it does. They like to insert right-wing videos into my feed when I'm very, very, very clearly not that and spend most of my time on political left YT. Could it be the Naz history documentaries doing it? No irony there though...that's just an outright correlation at this point, isn't it?

I watched one (ONE) TV movie on Pamela Smart this week because I was overwhelmed with choice on my Shield Pro and I decided to watch a trashy crime movie on YT at 1am instead and now half my home page is Hallmark movies and things from 8-11 years ago. They're punishing me on purpose.

@@taranullius9221 For me I had a bunch of old videos in history from 2015 and older that I assumed was deleted when I deleted all history long ago but it somehow reappeared and gave me weird suggestion for a long time. When I cleared that, it got a little bit better but I still get some right wingers and I think it only has to do with my location and time when I watch videos

I'd rather watch that series.

two words: wood chipper

@@erco9167 I like it, but a bit cliché. How about one of those rotary pencil sharpeners?

@@mattegan3439 cliché or proven classic? ymmv

@@erco9167 damn it, you got me there.

😂😂😂

The thing he is reviewing is really good, but he saw it and did something creative with it.

It’s not good. It really isn’t.

​@@neilwilson5785I thought it was awful. The first couple episodes were great and it suddenly jumped off a cliff of shitty exposition and ridiculous drivel.

@@chenzenzo what was drivel about it?

@@CraftyArtsthe aliens (for no reason at all) told the humans they have rounded science on earth and are coming to take over the world. (But wink, you have 400 years to catch up…) WHY WOULD THE ALIENS TELL HUMANS THEIR PLAN???!!!

That's the one with Dumbledore.

@@drewmalesky9869 Dumblewhore and the pantry of secrets.

​@@drewmalesky9869I thought that character was in J.K Lewis's the fox, the which, and the Dumbledoredrobe or was that the cross over with Sony?

@@notmyrealpseudonym6702 yes?

@@drewmalesky9869 no?

I think they thought that giving her a bob with bangs will compensate for a crazy amount of surgery on her face that is about to come alive and jump at you

​@Ira__L yeah, i saw her before pictures, the amount of work done is a lot. She might turn into Madonna in a couple of years

This is the perfect review for this show!

Who’s Chrissy Nolan?

This deserves way more likes 👍

Depends...on your season point of view 😂

This quote applies to literally anything.

yes, nothing can be more riveting than soft porn with swords and sandals.

@@JamieAlice92 A lot of shows are worse than even late season Game of Thrones. What made people mad about GoT is that it went from great to terrible.

@@user-gk2wg1du7d it was just a tongue-in-cheek comment dude. It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.

Been there. At least you figured out the right way to deal with it. Just get high and laugh at the stupid shit you're boyfriends into, I've done the same with mine.

yes, a tv show featuring tik tok is peak existential dread.

The Tencent version suffers from the usual suspects of regional programming (though much less than its peers) and it punches really hard above its weight. It's frustrating because it feels like we're simply incapable of getting a good adaptation of this book due to its subject matter, dense subject matter and slow-burn pace. If American producers refuse to see the value in the show due to outside political drama, it's hopeless. There's some things I can even agree are interesting ideas for an adaptation but the complete removal of all mystery and all actual discussion of theory is unforgivable. It had to air on CCTV which was a blessing for its budget but a burden for the padded runtimes, heavier censoring and other typical Cdrama problems. I don't think it quite replaces the book, but I adore the attention to detail and what they did to get the book to screen. I found the cinematography striking and I admire how hard they leaned into the slow-burn existential dread as this poor scientist gets gaslit by the universe itself. There's more possibility for other adaptations of the Dark Forest and Death's End and maybe they'll be decent, but none of the books captured my attention like TBP due to its historical fiction background and its exploration of generational trauma, and it feels like it'll be forever lost when it comes to screen. That version did get a director's cut that cuts down the series to 26 episodes with slightly lesser censorship, I've heard good things about it so far.

Thanks for this share. I'm still some way through the Chinese 30 episode series. I'm on episode 10 thereabouts.

@@Iron-Bridge For anyone incapable of figuring it out themselves, and I know there are because look at the government they voted for...it's all on RU-vid for free. Yay.

@@LoveProWrestling The RU-vid version has muted audio, I recommend avoiding it. AFAIK WeTV has both cuts while the original is on Prime Video (UK), Peacock (US, dub or sub), and Viki.

I think they all competed and at least 3 tied for top place.

Hiptang

Thank you, thank you, thank you.... thank you. I've needed someone to affirm my distaste for the bastardisation of the books by DB Cooper.

Watch the Chinese version.

what are the highs of scifi?

@@sebastianb.1926 Personally my favourite isn't Jupiter Ascending.

I thought it was great

Episode 5 was the end of book 1 where it reveals the Sophons and their lockdown on human research. And the fact that they're 400 years away. That's why it felt like a crescendo. Episodes 6-8 were the beginning chapters of the next 2 books, since they have overlapping plots. Episode 8 ended with The Wallfacer Project being announced. Season 2 will be about The Wallfacers coming up with and implementing their plans over the course of ~200 years.

4 body problem was better.

@@CarrotConsumer 5 Head problem best hands down

@@jimmyeveryman6418 you clearly have not heard of the 6 Ears problem

@@jimmyeveryman6418 Is that before or after Six Men Getting Sick?

@@anchorlightforge Perhaps investigate the 'one petite girl and five large men behind the couch problem'. The ending is really something.

The ability to lie is dependent on opacity of thought and communicating in composed language.

I didn't finish the third book. Second had a perfectly good ending and third one just tried to do too much. Also I had by that point grown tired of how Cixin can't write women characters at all.

@@MammaApatotally agreed. the main character made me facepalm so much. and he pushed things too much. It would be better if he kept it a little more simple. The beauty of first two books is that they are actually relatively simple in terms of main mystery.

I couldn't enjoy it due to its core premise. Too doom and gloom for my tastes.

Eh. I think the premise is dumb. Stuff like a scientific discovery making scientist commit Harry Carey in droves. That's something dumb people think about smart people. Nobody likes quantum mechanics, so Einstein got cranky, but he didn't try to go around tasting gun barrels.

Yes, agreed, the last book is literally apocalyptic, and the protag is deeply flawed.

It can get better, yes. If it’s cancelled.

@@polyestermammoth740 I don't want that personally. It's not a perfect show, but I appreciate it. I would highly recommend the books.

The drunkenness appears to be new.

It's not real bad but it's certainly changed to appeal to a wider audience.

DO NOT ANSWER.

They kinda smushed a few things together to speed the plot along. Fat was trimmed.

No, it's pretty excellent really. In some aspects it was even an improvement over at least the first book and yes, i've read all three books and thoroughly enjoyed them.

​@@wietzejohanneskrikke1910 Doing a good job of tying the books, which are pretty disconnected, together. It has much the same problem as Foundation, another surprisingly good adaptation.

I'm wondering that too...

It's a dumbed down adaptation of a book, so you decide.

You should be able to work that out from the sarcasm

@@mrcontrarian1416 medically speaking, I can't really tell sarcasm though.

If he liked it, why would he go through all this trouble?

At least made it to the title screen after the introductory scene. Might continue another day.

Don't give up. 3 body problem is actually quite good.

​@@wietzejohanneskrikke1910 Not bad at all. Spy thriller and alien invasion yarn in one neat package.

You made it 1 more episode than I did. I think the true winner was the person who never watched a second. Apparently the 5th episode has some amazing death scenes but I just couldn't wait it out.

You made it 3 episodes further than I did. (I was contemplating restarting my Netflix, but then sanity saved me).

A very solid, and rather disturbing, show.

considering the show actually uses dialogue and scenes from the books almost exactly.. I doubt that. If you really want to watch disjointed details.. read the book.

you must be new here

It was quite short.

Read the books. Blows both out of the water.

I like the Tencent series, but I feel like it was slightly stretched. Could have been maybe 26 episodes instead of 30. The ship-cutting scene was awesome.

Where can I watch it? I was able to catch some good Chinese series in BiliBili, but usually old ones, pre 2020.

@@aheroforfun6401 Sooooooo there actually is a 26 episode cut that came out a week ago (called the "Anniversary Edition"). You know, for *unrelated* timing reasons. And yeah, the truth about CDramas is they're subject to a bit of a market struggle for funding. Padded runtimes are very common due to production problems-- your angel investor may demand a cameo role you have to accommodate, your show's value is based on commercial break time meaning more episodes means a better budget, and content laws are extremely tight (hence why the show is missing Ye Zhetai, said scenes were filmed but couldn't clear ratings). So it's a balance of the vision and the checkbook, as always. There's so much working against the Tencent version and I'm utterly shocked by how brilliant its cinematography, score, and its transferral of the actual book concepts to screen were. It's one of the most faithful screen adaptations I've seen in my life and I love it despite its flaws.

​@@mattegan3439watch shows, then read the books, you get to enjoy both then. If you read the books first then shows or movies can never measure up

It's good.

It's definitely bleak.

The show ends in a hopeful manner compared to what comes next