Advertised as being from the creators of ‘Game of Thrones,’ the new Netflix series has been tagged with a misleading label that weighs a lot and means little
    • Schal330@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The article didn’t really have any substance. To sum it up: “3 Body Problem shouldn’t have been associated with GoT. The book is better. Don’t like it? Watch Battlestar Galactica!”

      90% of the time book to movie/TV adaptations have an interior outcome, but the standard of the content produced is still great in its own way.

      I haven’t read 3 Body Problem, but I did enjoy the show. I’m looking forward to another season.

      • Kit Sorens@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Read the book please… The trillogy* is on Audible. Some truly terrifying stuff. Like, >!living in a dying universe that was once an infinite garden because of the dark forest attacks that flattened spacetime into fewer dimensions, which could happen again.!<

        *the last book (or some 4th book, I forgot) isn’t written by Chixen Liu, but they liked it so much they wrote off on publishing it in the series as a means to wrap up some critical questions.

        • Dkarma@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          I don’t get why that’s supposed to be scary. Oh no 4th dimension smush and instant death…

        • nik9000@programming.dev
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          7 months ago

          I listened to the first one on audible a while back and didn’t like it so much. I had trouble connecting with the charcters. The ideas were good and from what I hear about the next ones they are even more fun. But maybe it was a translation thing. Or a style thing or a cultural thing. It felt more like Clark than Card. I feel like the show made an effort to make the characters easier for me to connect with and I appreciate that.

          The article does have a point for me though- linking the Game of Thrones folks in the marketing feels like a mistake. I don’t trust them.

          • hansl@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            From what I heard, even in the original Chinese the characters are badly written. Liu Cixin just doesn’t know how to write compelling characters.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It’s well acted but kind of campy at times. Like ok aliens couldn’t find a closer planet? If they can live in space for 1000 years they dont really need our planet and can just find another one.

      Once they realize we are “dangerous” it’s time to change course and find a less threatening planet.