re: 3 Body Problem - Netflix

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That’s how I want it. Just like the book. I don’t give a crap if there isn’t one white person in it if the books are that way. In fact I don’t want to see a white person in it if the books are written that way.

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I’m not mad at you for that. The closer to the source the better. Sounds like you should try Amazons version too. But I think it’s safe to say that the person I was responding too, who didn’t know anything about the source, wasn’t upset because there were two white people added, he just didn’t want a black and Indian guy in there. So make it diverse, but just in the way I want.

The books are amazing. Legit awesome books and that’s coming from someone who’s not a big reader. I got sucked in.

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The closer to the source the better

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Good rule for all cases.

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That’s how I want it. Just like the book.

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Set entirely in China, filmed in Mandarin with subtitles? Personally I am glad they adapted it for a western audience.

Not every adaptation of a novel needs to be 100% accurate to the source. The Three-Body Problem is not LotR. Moving the setting from China to Oxford makes sense IMO.

As for the show itself, I watched it over the weekend. I thought it was good for the most part, but the structure of the season was a little odd. Felt like there were elements in the second half of the season that really would have made more sense in the first half of a season 2.

Just finished it. I also read the trilogy so I was scared that this wouldnt live up to the books. I thought they did a really good job. Yes, they westernized the characters but I don't have any issue with that.

Show and Book Spoilers:


1) The nanofiber attack on the boat was cool as frick. I had no idea how they were going to depict that visually and it was better than I could have imagined.
2) They should have spent more time explaining the sophons. They should have spent time diving deep into the creation of them - especially the consequences of their failed deployments to Trisolaris.
3) Really enjoyed all the bug references throughout the show but I do not like how they handled the 'You are bugs' scene. I'm not sure what they could have done differently but reading that in the book gave me chills.

Overall thought they did a phenomenal job and looking forward to the Dark Forest adaptation.

Finished it.

Just when I think 'someone' has things figured out & the humans have a winning hand, the San-Ti reshuffle the cards.

Still have questions though. About the Sophons. Tatiana. And how the San-Ti can affect stuff in real time despite being light years (100's of years physically) away.

This quantum physics stuff is reminiscent of Foundation.

I think it’s good. And they are doing the best they can to include the science. The books are so intense with the science that I think you would lose the audience with all of it.

As some have said, the Auggie character is a little annoying. And the wallfacer should have definitely been a younger Chinese dude. But I don’t hate the character they are using.

Maybe we need a spoiler thread.. because surely this series doesn’t end like the book, right?

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And how the San-Ti can affect stuff in real time despite being light years (100's of years physically) away.

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Quantum entanglement - Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance.” It’s a phenomenon where the quantum states of two particles become entangled, meaning their states are correlated even at large distances. Research has shown that state measurements of entangled particles at the same time will yield the same results even if those particles are so far apart that they “communication” between them would have to happen faster than the speed of light. This has led to some speculation that FTL communication may be possible using quantum computers that are entangled with one another.

I’m not a theoretical physicist, but my understanding is that current consensus says transmission of actual information at faster-than-light speeds is still impossible, regardless of entanglement. The issue is that you can’t force a particle into a specific state (which you would have to do in order to actually communicate any information) without breaking the entanglement.

Interestingly, I’m not sure that FTL communication is actually necessary for the plot to work. A sufficiently-advanced quantum computer/AI would presumably be capable of “taking the wheel,” so to speak, and reporting its findings/actions back to the San-Ti with normal transmission delay. Not that it really matters.. it’s science fiction after all.

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Auggie sucks as a character and the actor playing her is worse.

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She’s the biggest problem by far. Just horrible casting, nothing about her felt like an authentic scientist

My second biggest critique is I wished they had spent more time on the science elements. They went pretty quick through a lot of the stuff that made the first book great… the nanofibers, the quantum mechanics, and the multiple dimensions were all critical, central elements to the underlying story of what amounted to a mystery novel. The series really flew through those things, to the point that it felt more like using a scientific backdrop to march straight towards an inevitable outcome. That’s more of the mindset of book 2, which is still great in its own right. But in book 1, it’s a long time before the inevitability of the conflict becomes clear… and the infusion of scientific concepts to build the mystery to get there is what makes the story so great.

It’s admittedly a high bar to get to in a tv series though. I might try the Amazon Chinese version to see how they cover the science side… those were my favorite components of the book



6/10 overall for me. Entertaining enough, and I’m glad they took the swing at something ambitious. But the bar was set too high for me by one of my favorite books, and this didn’t reach that admittedly high bar