Netflix's Three Body Problem: An Extremely In-Depth Review 

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“…comes from string theory and so probably has no basis in real science.” BRUTAL

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I vastly prefer the Tencent version, but man, the decision to bring up the Death's End section to straighten out the timeline and its setup and the foreshadowings that came with it have been really well done. I think they've overdone a lot of the character related stuff but Will's part was absolutely phenomenal imo. Best depiction of the "You're special to me and I know I'm not that special to you but that doesn't make you any less special to me and I'd do anything for you but won't express my feelings cause I think you'll be happier that way" feeling I've ever seen on screen

The "universe winking" is great in that later scene when Saul is talking to Ye Wenjie and explains that even though people all over the world saw it, it had to be an illusion, one of the first hints that humans are not helpless in the face of the Trisolarians.

TV Show runners just don't have the balls to respect the viewers' intellect.

The "physics is broken" part, I agree with you that their actions might have been a bit exaggerated, but it's not just "because experiments are giving random results" - The Turkey story that is in the books and adapted in the Tencent version actually gives some insight into that: The reason for their despair was the possibility that there is NO WAY to understand what is actually going on in the universe. They felt like they were like those turkeys, that even the best of turkey science could never predict that they're actually just being bred for slaughter. It does make sense for a passionate scientist to feel some level of despair at that prospect. In fact it's one of the most memorable things about the book for me. The adaptations' straight up just muder a bunch of scientist is way less imaginative and boring... and also probably wouldn't work very well, science is a huge collaborative effort, they would have to murder a LOT more people for generations, hurting their chances of achieving their desired state of conquest.

I thought the suicides were because other Scientist were seeing countdowns, or things like that too. That kind of psychological horror would do awful things to people

41:45 I do have to say that I think that’s the point of that scene. We’re put in Auggies place, she doesn’t really know what’s on that ship either. She’s just letting military use her equipment. And then she gets into those ruins and personally experiences how her choice killed hundreds of innocent children. It’s supposed to be unexpected and gory.

So in an interview the creators said they're doind just the three books. They dont have any intention of doing the fourth and they said Netflix doesn’t even own the rights to that one anyway. Another interesting tidbit they dropped was they said under the contract they signed with the three body rights holders they were "only allowed " to do the Chinese parts in the past and modern day had to take place somewhere else. Apparently the Chinese rights holders wanted another version to be set more in the west

I think the random results is way more demoralizing than you make it out to be. At first I'm sure the scientists were excited to discover what was going on but you cannot fit any model to random noise so eventually they would lose hope in the field. I agree that it being like an epidemic felt very exaggerated but it's pretty devastating to have your entire field of study disappear after investing a good part of your life into it.

To echo a couple other comments, the "physics is broken" thing goes deeper than random results. (To an extent, randomness is expected in quantum physics anyways so it's not like that's a new thing.) Not that the show does a good job of portraying the nuances there-I had the same gut reaction of "new physics? Scientists would eat this up"-but on reflection I don't think the *concept* is unreasonable. The issue isn't that the understanding of physics was broken, it's that the *process* of science was being broken. Sure, you get weird results on an experiment, publish a paper... Now what? There's no way to achieve peer review because nothing is replicable (because it's being sabotaged). You have a flood of nonsense papers that are never used for anything, because they can't be. There's no underlying law or pattern to identify, so any attempts lead to running in circles. Lack of progress and meaningful outcomes leads to defunding, eventually, for the entire field-particle accelerators ain't cheap. In the face of that species of obsolescence, I can absolutely see utter despair overtake an alarming number of scientists. I don't know that it singularly kills all the top scientists-that may be a projection of Eastern honor and work culture to the rest of the world-but the morale hit would certainly be meaningful at the least. Other methods could also make up the difference too (countdown vision to undermine self-confidence, or just straight up murder as you said).

It also seems like they are having Auggie take on some of the characteristics (and role) of AA from Death's End. We'll have to wait til later seasons to see for sure but I think that is what they're doing.

19:40 - When I found out Benedict Wong would play Da Shi, I was pretty happy because he's who I imagined in that role when I was reading.

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As someone who has neither read the original book nor the Chinese live action adaptation, I went into this show without any expectations. Some of it I liked, some of it just seemed kinda off or rushed. However some things really stood out to me, and by far the best (and most heartbreaking) was the exceptional writing and acting around Will/Jin: They both play it so genuine, I was legit sobbing in that one episode. I also think they truly thought about how Will would feel as his condition worsens. As someone who is chronically ill with a condition that may or may not at some point in my life deteriorate my body rapidly without warning, I resonated a lot with Will and his musings about his life and decisions. Heart wrenching, but in a good way. But then, the scene that truly broke me was the one where Jin asks for the seeds to be included, subsequently seeing it all fall apart and (presumably) being told that those seeds were the crucial tipping point. And to her it's not only a failure to succeed in a mission, it was a failure towards her last tether to Will. Honestly, superb writing that just twists the knife so well. As for Auggie's scene, I can see your point that this one went too far the other way with the kids. But at the same time I think it was a good example of how, even when trying to persuade ourselves that we're doing it for the right reasons, we can cause harm to whom we least expect and that more often than not "the enemy" is not one homogenous group of bad people and I think it solidifies Auggie's conviction to repent in any way she can. To which I gotta say that another scene that I just LOVED was her publishing her work and basically make the patent obsolete. Gating stuff behind patents that disproportionally hit marginalized people/areas has long been an issue and for her to just rip it away and make it accessible to everyone? Just beautiful. On a lighter and pettier note, I honestly enjoyed the scene with Auggie and Jin at the bar at the start. I know how many say it's more tell than show, that it gives off the image of scientist superior - you are a pleb - but at the same time, I've seen so many women (myself included) just minding their own business wanting to chat, just to be interrupted for no reason and therefore getting rebuffed like that, gave me joy :')

The imaginary girlfriend part in the book was really weird but something about it worked for me and I felt connected to it in a weird way. Im glad they cut it though, the plot point would not have worked in the show at all. Edit: I will defend Redemption of Time. It isnt perfect, and has plenty of issues, and some of the characterization seems a tad bit off, however it feels like a love letter to A Remembrance of Earths Past. One that got the attention of the original creator. I dont think of it as cannon though, but it does explore some interesting ideas.

In general, I agree with most of your points, though of course not all. One thing that stands out to me is your comment about foreshadowing the paper boat and fairy tales: I assumed that was exactly the point of it in the book. She only knows to look deeper into his fairy tales for hidden messages BECAUSE she knows it's a lie, which implies that there is a different reason for him to tell them to her. If they truly had shared fairy tales as children, there would have been a reasonable chance she would have just accepted it as a sort of fulfillment of an emotional wish to relive that. Only because it was such an obvious lie did it work to get his true message across with 100% certainty!

So many people miss out on the point of the first bar scene. It's not meant to show them as smart yet cold and unable to connect to people. It's meant as a counterpoint to the Cultural Revolution: even in a free society, humans are shitty to each other - like the guy who goes up to hit on them when they are clearly not interested, does not get the hint that they aren't there to meet people (they're there to catch up because it used to be their chill hangout spot), and then was clearly about to make some very sexist assumptions about what they do for work. Maybe you've never been hit on by someone who doesn't take no for an answer and demeans you, but I think that scene resonates for many, many women. And it's not just some kind of "men bad" feminism either - the first intro we get to that scene is an embarrassingly un-self-aware woman singing, and then either she or another woman (i forget which) really gets up in their personal space when she picks up her drinks at the bar. I'd even go so far as to say that it's foreshadowing for (or reference to) the critique of overly indulgent utopian societies post calamity in the second book.

The reason it bothered me that Auggie looked like a super model is that she (actress) had no other qualities that justifies Netflix's choice of hiring her. None of the other characters look especially pretty, regardless of their jobs, so seemed like Netflix really wanted her character to stand out from the rest. I think the fact that the "lead female" has to look like a super model is more misogynist. Also her acting / the writing was not convincing me that she is a scientist, it just looks like Auggie is trying very hard to act smart. It seemed to me like Netflix choose her because they wanted a pretty lead female instead of a actress/actor more fitting for the roll. This is not saying a scientist can't look like a super models, its simply saying you still need to be a good actress regardless of your looks. also saying that the character is meant to be unlikable is just an excuse. You can still be a good actor/actress and have good writing even for characters that are meant to be "unlikable".

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The mental seal is The important catalyst for the government to awaken Baihai/Raj and give him command of a ship. But it can honestly just be introduced by a random scientist and then debated for the same effect while saving time. However, I am going to miss Bill's wall breaker reveal.

I like your overall point about what the writers were going for having all main characters be life long friends with each other. Ultimately I feel like it's an odd element to try to bring into a story that's about all of these different people from around the world drawing on human experiences to try to understand these greater concepts. I think back to the Trisolarans using historical scientists to relate their own problems, or the Aboriginal man in Australia in the 3rd book relating the experience of being colonized. I think that theme is kinda at odds with this whole "dynamic group of friends" they've all put together, and I hope it focuses more on splitting them all apart rather than having them share another AirBnB by the beach again lol.

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As someone who read The redemption of time, the themes and concepts it dwells in are endlessly fascinating and on par with the original trilogy. However, its treatment of previous characters are arguably lackluster, but as someone mostly invested in the big ideas I remained hooked throughout the end.

33:30 the self offing we see at the start of the show has nothing to do with the science but the San'Ti/Trisolarans are still involved.

I just finished the series and except for the scientist who jumped into the accelerator, I didn’t think any of the others were caused by despair over science. (And even then, I thought maybe she had a countdown.) It seemed more like they were going insane from the countdown/the countdown being the literal cause. Maybe even whatever they were shown after the countdown. If there were scientists that died unrelated to the countdowns, that detail was completely lost on me.

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I was waiting for this!! Will watch it later tonight

I really liked the Netflix show, I feel like a lot of the changes worked really well and I'm excited for season 2

I think you got the suicide plot in the Netflix series wrong, and this is just how I saw it. Okay, the Tri-Solarins have demonstrated the ability to manipulate human environment. With the visors, what they did the Auggie and how they went full comic book villain with Thomas Wade. The scientist who jump in the 1st episode was the daughter of Ye Wenjie who discovered her mother's real plan and probably understood what the Tri-Solarins wanted all along. With Auggie they just straight up threatened her but she couldn't tell her friends she was seeing a countdown clock before her eyes because that sound like mental issues. And we all remember the scenes when they confronted Thomas Wade. So what they told me is that maybe a lot of physics principals being upturned could have been upsetting but the Tri-Solarins were also applying other pressures to push them in that direction. I don't think the show was clear on the Tri-Solarin;'s motivations for wanting the scientist dead, I don't remember them referencing it. (I could be wrong, I only watched it twice.) My impression from everything in the Netflix series was that the Tri-Solarin's pushed them to it. And I realize that I am colored because I have read the books - and hated all the science theory in it, especially The Dark Forest which was so colonialist European in it's thinking I kept trying to make sure the author was actually a native from China - and I knew their motivation for wanting scientist gone before they arrived.

I really love Luo Ji imaginary girlfriend plot from the book. But I agree, it only works in a written story.

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Darnit, I STILL have to read these books!

Only a scientist would think that scientists are nice people lol

I enjoyed it, so that's enough for me to say that it didn't suck 🥰 Excited to hear your take though!

Love the ' it's not the end of world'. Definitely going to watch more of the Chinese show now, have read the all the books and you do a great comparison. Thank you.

regarding the idea of a photon being an entire civilization, there's an animated film called "Horton hears a who!" i recommend to watch. its story has a similar idea and made a deep impression on me.

Amazon dropped the ball by not getting dubbed versions of the Tencent Adaptation in several languages.

This doesn't have to do with anything, but I just want to say that when I first had heard of the title of the show, I thought that it was a murder mystery about finding three "odd" bodies.

about the "physics is broken" plot line, my take is that the in the book it is more philosophical. because the data are random, the cause-effect logical chain for human being to understand the world is broken. and that is the philosophical basis of physics and science.

I think the problem for us non western viewers is that this a story written from a Chinese perspective and have all of the nuances and traditions of the characters ripped out and pasted to London is a really lazy way to adapt a novel from another culture. Fellow youtuber AvenueX did a really well deep dive into a Chinese perspective of the Netflix three body problem why it wasn't well received within China. I really didn't like how they race swapped important characters to westerners in a age when we lack good Asian representations. Netflix turned Ye Wenjie from this nuanced but strong willed women into this angry and spiteful villain, turned Da shi from this down to earth cunning cop to this random bodyguard with no personality, and race swapped positive Chinese characters like Luoji and Zhangbeihai. It just feels incredibly disrespectful as they turned this beloved Chinese epic into a generic hollywood popcornflix. I think there is a clash in values between western audiences and the Chinese perspective of the original trilogy that the screen writers unfortunately didn't try to bridge.

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Hey man, nice video. However, I must say, I completely disagree with your take about that flickering star illusion. Light pollution in big cities part is true and it hurts my suspension of disbelief too, however, an entire sky blinking out of nowhere is literally a cosmic horror show. Starting from simulation theory, it either implies there might be something between us and the starts that cuts all the vision or the literal lights of the universe went out for a second. Consider this, I am a nitpicker too and didn't know anything about the books and didn't know what to expect. It was quite exciting to speculate what it could be (as the show has a serious science fiction setting) until they explained it. Note: I just watch the season last month and gave it a solid 7 out of 10

Ah, perfect. Now I can stop thinking about maybe watching this show.

I'll come back and watch this one I've read the books and seen the show.

You are right in the representation of the game. Yet the shortcut of the science itself is the problem with it. I read these books like 5 times now? and never found it boring or the game part annoying. But immediately noticed that Netflix’s show (again) thinks that the audience is dumb. Not just here. They simplify everything. As you said, there is no opposition in the traitors. The behavior of the scientists is really bad. And of course they had to look good. No, you are not right, this super model look was really outstanding. I’m not the one who jump on this but as Doctor House said: he hired Alison for her looks. 😁Elisode 1 season 1… As for the cut out of the Chinese part is one of the biggest mistakes. It’s one essential aspect of the book and that could give 1/3 of the season- we didn’t need the second book yet. It’s incredibly important and I just watched and didn’t understand why they did that first.. then I saw the full twist to a western style story. Of course Netflix had to do that too. This book is Chinese, period. The behavior of the characters (being badly portrayed or not) is typical Asian, not western how they react. There is no hope or at least not that big as usual, this book as Merphy Napier says a sci-fi horror. I would not say that but her emotional reaction is this and she is not really wrong.

Spoilers... . . . . . I think the choice to put Auggie as the Ding Yi character is the best option, but perhaps not as Ding Yi. Ding is a physicist and Auggie doesn't have the same qualifications. If they can find a way to work her into the scene it would work well, and would also allow Saul/Luo Ji to become Swordholder without the baggage of a wife and kid, who don't have any future relevance to the plot as a whole. It also does not make sense to have Auggie as AA. AA is Cheng/Jin's expositional bridge to the future. However, this brings up consequences for the ending. If there is no Auggie, or if Auggie is stuck with Will on Planet Blue (AA and Yun), then who is with Cheng/Jin while they discover the death lines? Raj/Zhang? That would require him to survive the battle of darkness. This would end with Jin and Raj together in the pocket universe while Will and Auggie (or whoever plays AA) stranded on Planet Blue... all this kind of works together nicely with the actual ending where Cheng/Jin and Will/Yun never reconcile their true feelings, and gives the goldfish scene massive weight.

TV shows are much better at adapting books, IMO, to better and worse effect depending on the adaptation. I can't imagine how terrible a 3PB movie would be. Way too short a format. Great video! 😃

Honestly I liked it at the start but the ending kind of felt drawn out and kind of dissapointing

great review thanks, i have seen both tv versions and read the books, i agree the chinese version is better than netflix even though i have to read subtitles, cant wait for season 2 and cant wait for season 3 of wheel of time and rings of power but they can keep the acolyte

I was very pleasantly surprised by the Netflix adaptation and happy that they seem to be ready to complete the story. The Tencent adaptation is immersive once you've adjusted to its glacial pace but I doubt I'd have been interested if I hadn't already known the story.

Auggie is irredeemable. She walked into her company's cleanroom without gowning.

your chinese pronounciations are really good

Yeah that scene with the nanomaterials really upset me.I wasn't ready to see all those kids dying and I had an anxiety attack after

Yes

Yes. It sucked. Can’t wait for season 2 of the Chinese version 🤷‍♂️

我不确实是不是翻译的问题，但是刘慈欣对书中的内容很严谨，很多科学家的“自杀”是来自于降临派的杰作

Having models pretending to be top scientist just broke my immersion to much. Shredding and mixing character's stories didn't help. 15:17 - oh fuck off.

great review, thanks, i also enjoyed all 3 adaptations up to date, and the books being my fav, and i agree the chinese adaptation is better than the netflix version even though i have to read subtitles , cant wait for season 2 of both versions , and cant wait for season 3 of wheel of time, cant wait for rings of power either, but i will not be watching a second season of the acolyte except to see just how bad it is, its the only reason i sat through season 1, and it was maddening , insulting.

The music sounds like they tried to copy Succession and Westworld.

China still has dowry for women. Written under that culture, I can't see any misogyny. Rather, it's revolutionary in equality.

I loved this show as a book reader i think they did a good job

NF adaptation wasnt so bad. Liam Cunningham & Benedict Wong are playing their part perfectly, the visuals are very good, Sophona is waifu material, however Augie needs to go... now.

I'm really happy with the changes they made to all teh characters, I felt like the books had about 4 "real" characters in total and the rest were just lifeless puppets. Case in point, when reading I didn't care for Yun Tianming or his story at all, while in the series I connected with Will Downing so much. The ending of Episode 6, where he purchases the star, resonates with me so much more than the equivalent in the book.

D&D Utterly fudged the two most important pillars apparent in the Netflix show: 1 the dilemma of technological advancement between competing species, and 2 the alien psychology that is meant to plausibly not understand lying or fictional characters: 1_ Sophons could have destroyed the nano-fibers directly during their alpha test; there was no need at all for Augie to get phantom visions of numbers, have the sky blink for her, be visited by that ETO woman or any of it. Simply breaking her fibers would humiliate her and possibly end her career 2_ The San Ti must be credited with giving the ETO virtual reality tech - and the sword woman is a representation of a San Ti - so they absolutely 100% know what it is like to alter their appearance to mislead, entrap and manipulate (just like the Big Bad Wolf does to Red Riding Hood - the Sword Woman is to the VR players and Wade) So it ultimately works directly against the two main concepts that could have been very fascinating if not butchered and contradicted. You eventually get to this at 28:00 but don't you think this makes the San Ti MASTERFUL storytellers rather that utterly oblivious to fiction? You say the fictional/ disguised / representational little girl makes a lot of sense? It makes sense if you're telling a story YES, but it DOES NOT make sense if you're telling a story about an alien race that don't know what stories are.

24:30 I dont know if i want to ask, but who?

The suicides made no sense if it was just "physics is broken." But, it made me relieved that I'm too "stupid" to understand what it meant. I am relieved that there were other reasons. No one commits suicide because of one factor of their belief system has changed, unless that is literally all they have. I'm a therapist that worked in suicide prevention for 15 years ANd I have a HUGE math learning disability, I like physics but literally need it explained to me in a story or I won't get it. So, I appreciate this video!

Great review. For me it ultimately always comes down to vision and scrutiny. The book author has plenty of time, understanding, and love for the story to make appropriate adjustments and story beats befitting the book format. This is hard to reproduce when bringing in a huge team. It’s an issue with games, shows, and movies. Ultimately the movie or show can be great; it just happens to not be. There are plenty of adjustments and changes to the story of Dune and Foundation series in their adaptations but it takes a lot to make something good in any case.

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Auggie will become Saul's wife (Zhuang Yan) and then she will take on Ding Yi's role and will be killed during the droplet attack and this traumatizes Saul and will serve as his motivation to enact his final Wallfacer plan. This makes narrative sense on a raw emotional level and fits with D&D's traditional style of storytelling. It will also lead to Saul's future solitude years as the first Swordholder.

I enjoyed it as my first exposure to the series. I enjoyed the books far more, and im hyped about this chinese series, hoping to find it subbed and watch. I agree about Yie. 3 body just made me see her as akin to a school shooter, but the books showed her as more complex. Really looking forward to the original adaptation, especially since i consumed the audiobooks and the names were difficult to keep track of fully without a visual representation. Purely because im not used to chinese naming convention, i found it harder than russian names lol, my very own three syllable problem 😅

The books give a 2001: A space Odyssey and Hitchhiker’s Guide kind of vibe.

Great video, one of the more balanced takes on the show I've seen. One disagreement - I really liked (at least the opening parts of) the Luo Ji imaginary girlfriend storyline. I took it as a bit of a dissertation for how the author thinks books should be written, and I thought it was a good way to really hammer home how screwed the humans are.

I was very skeptical going into the Netflix adaptation but I was pleasantly surprised. I completely agree that Da Shi was a bit fumbled in the show but the character that really bothered me was Raj Varma. It is clear that Raj is supposed to be Zhang Beihai but not only are they very dissimilar in terms of personality, Raj also doesn't seem to have the sense of duty and singular purpose that drove Zhang Beihai. I have always viewed Zhang Beihai as a sort of fifth, secret wall facer in that he has a goal and works towards it without sharing any details of his plans with anyone and I just don't see Raj accomplishing this. He isn't shown to have that level of intelligence, subtly, foresight or zeal. He is just a follower, doing what he is told and he even seems to have a petulant streak.

I’ve not read the books (yet) and not seen the Chinese adaptation but the Netflix version seemed a bit cheap. I watched it all and then forgot about it.

The idea that Auggie is too good looking has nothing to do with misogyny. Dismissing it as such is just a weak approach to your argument. (I don't like what you said so I'm going to call you a name and drop the mic.) My wife (and engineer) actually pointed out the reason that her good looks are not typical for top end scientists. The main reason is that looking that good is hard work. How much does that actress work out? How closely does she watch her diet. How many hours in makeup did she spend before the shoot each day. People at the top of their fields in things like science and engineering just put their priorities elsewhere. Only so many hours in a day.

I don't think I really enjoyed the netflix adaptation at all. Making all the main characters from the books part of the same friend group in 21st century Britain is just stupid to me. Everything about the netflix show was just so flat. The cinematography, the lighting, the music, the writing. It just fucking sucked

I have seen many people who loves though the Cultural Revolution say the struggle session was very accurate. The 3BP podcast interviews multiple people who loved though that and they said they show nailed that stuff

Obviously it’s not bad, why would you even suggest that

Agree with your take on the characters.

I think there's a little more to the "Auggie is too hot" criticism than misogyny (tho that is a part of it online unfortunately). To me it just kinda pulls me out of it when a lady whose colleagues are self-deleting, whose friends are very sick or being violently deleted, who is inexplicably seeing a countdown in the corner of her vision while a mysterious stranger is telling her to stop her work, always looks like a team spent hours on her hair and make up and outfit. It kinda reminds me of cars in racing games not being allowed to look wrecked up because the brands don't want their cars presented like that. In the book I felt like Wang was ragged, sleep deprived, desperate and strung out, and Auggie just fails to deliver that for me and part of that is that she always looks like a ton of effort was poured into her appearance.

i absolutely love the TEn Cent adaptation. perhaps if i hadn't seen that first, I would have liked the netflix version better.

Call me crazy but bro looks exactly like that one guy in the news 💀

Does the book explain how the first alien, that can't lie, contacted is going to lie about humans contacting them to its fellow aliens?

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Constructive criticism: I don’t mind jump cuts, but your editing is very jarring and difficult to listen to because when you do a jump cut, the audio from the following clip starts early and it always sounds like you are interrupting yourself… I know jump cuts are to remove any awkward moments of silence, but this is the opposite problem. Please leave a moment to take a breath.

I always felt like it was pretty obvious Auggie is Wang Miao and Cheng Xi combined but that's largely due to the unlikeableness of her character which would fit the unlikeableness of Cheng Xi in the book. Though I guess if you didn't see her as unlikeable then that parallel isn't really easily followed

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As someone who as done research and interacted with real scientists, yeah, no scientist is killing themselves over random or what we would all "null" or "negative" results. They happen all the time in science as a result lot of many different factors. They are frustrating as a scientist because negative findings are difficult to package as a high-impact publication. But if every scientists is getting negative findings, then you also confirming negative findings in your area of study would be interesting. Widespread negative findings would lead to such a flurry of theorizing and research to seek out more accurate models of the universe, and the enthusiasm would probably not die down for many years. The only people i could possibly see being distraught would be very established eminent figures whose lives, careers (and self-worth) would be rendered significantly less valuable.

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Thomas wade played by liam cunningham was really good.

it's not 5 adaptations - tencent version is 1st book, animation covers 2nd one

Tbh the Game Of Thrones writers are actually pretty great at coming up with original material, David Benioff actually has some very well written books under his name, like 25th hour and City of Thieves (seriusly an amazing historical book). But tbh, I' m like one of the three people in this world that actually kinda likes the final season of GoT when I binged it last year for the first time, so lol. I think Three-body problems plays to their strenght a lot, they always have been great dialogue writers, expecially with drama about group dynamics, and they way they re-structured this book was also pretty interesting. They really felt confident they will be able to "get to the good part" after laying down all of the pawns in this first season. Takes a lot of balls imo

Them even explaining that they had Sophons, that they only had 2, the limitations- is pure plot and dumb imo but maybe I missed something

I would have said it was GREAT if you had asked me right after episode 5. But after that... YEEESH

They white washed the whole thing.