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The problem with ‘3 Body Problem’ (english.elpais.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Cultural, for sure. I had to tough it out for the first bit, only really liking the detective. But then when all the main characters got replaced over and over, I began to see humanity as the main character, collectively, and then I was hooked, which I'm sure was the intent as the story spans >!all of time in the universe 2 times over,!< It's worth revisiting.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Other direction dude... 2nd dimension. Also that spoiler was for a reason.