The 3 Body Problem Is Painfully Boring

[@JM-co6rf]

The smart people never say a single smart thing

[@PowerScissor]

I can't believe not a single person on the set, on the crew, or the editing team didn't say anything about giant way overdone lip injections and how they look so silly you can't take serious anything the character says. I was waiting for a scene saying the character was recovering from a massive bee colony attack, with a world record number of stings to the lips.

[@JM-co6rf]

@@PowerScissor actual LOL

[@gunjchowwiwat8357]

It's a chinese novels anyways 😂

[@DrFrankNStein-sf2ww]

"The smart people never say a single smart thing" ... most of the time the smartest thing to say is nothing. You don't argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. (Mark Twain) If you mean the so called "smart" people in this Netflix-Series ... i 100% agree with you.

[@numalesoybea1348]

This show has the same audience as Inception Dull and boring, and designed to make people dumb people feel smart

[@maxmai33]

'you are bugs' on screens make people worldwide panic, while they were so cool about universe blinking and say it's fake

[@lennysmileyface]

Yeah the fat dude was such a dumbass. Yeah bro the stars blinking which is physically impossible is just a scam lmao.

[@ashifarman4813]

😂😂

[@AlleluiaElizabeth]

Really funny that saul’s “it was a deep fake” was actually correct, tho he couldn’t possibly guess the how.

[@joed180]

@@AlleluiaElizabethThat make me irrationally angry. Like, A DEEP FAKE USING WHAT?!? A screen covering the planet? You don’t need a “deep fake” to make convincing stars and having them blink. Guy doesn’t even know what a deep fake IS

[@loyh5269]

@@AlleluiaElizabeth they were probably toying with all of their eyesight

[@Incomudro1963]

I enjoyed the slow pace of the series. It reminded me of the way films used to be before too much reliance on cgi and action.

[@mwe8414]

Yeah same

[@9KariKiri6]

Its fast compared to the Chinese series. Many things were just glossed over

[@loyh5269]

yeah same, it has near perfect phase. the showrunners knows what they are doing. like there is no need to rush and most of the scenes feel like a set up to something big. I dont even know why it got 7/10 in imdb. its most definitely an 8.5 to 9

[@loyh5269]

​@@9KariKiri6I think the glossed over are deliberate. they are tsking their time

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

The most painful thing to watch is smart people being written by 'dumb' people.

[@jeffreyspinner9720]

Benioff and Minute Weiss are Dumb and Dumber, as proven with the last two half seasons of GoT. I honestly hope they accidentally fall into a vat of boiling oil and stay alive for as long as possible. Their destruction of that well loved show deserves the most severe penalties, like: NEVER WORKING AGAIN producing anything. But this will make them disappear for 5 more years too. Ffs, who's penus (sic) did they suck to get work again, seriously... If you want to watch the real show, though subtitled because the Chinese made this the right way already: Three-Body (Chinese: 三体) is a Chinese science fiction television series adapted from the novel The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin Look that one up. I enjoyed it until the unsatisfying end...

[@michaelebert9163]

having just read the book.. the level of scientific jargon to convey these are "smart people" is about on par with the book. So pretty accurate to the book.

[@MoodusOperandi]

So true. I think Reaper used this quote in other reviews, so this might be a common observation... unfortunately.

[@dogwklr]

It's the AOC effect, appear smart but be as mentally advanced as stale jizz on a keyboard

[@jerryormston3916]

That means nothing.

[@jadeolin8514]

"This show is what dumb people think is smart..." That is simply perfect, and sums up basically everything hollygarbage pukes out at us anymore.

[@dreamypupper4080]

..this was based on a book- this isn't hollywood

[@YouLoseGoodDay]

​@@dreamypupper4080ever heard of an adaptation you dunce prick?

[@atlanteum]

It sounds like a 2-Body Problem: Benioff & Weiss.

[@martina-dd6vb]

These two are always the problem lmao

[@atlanteum]

@@martina-dd6vb "The tests we ran came back positive. I'm afraid your show has Benioff & Weiss. I'm sorry. There is no cure."

[@RoxanaLorenaD]

😂😂😂

[@TheStanley1000]

​ Why that ?

[@atlanteum]

@@TheStanley1000 You have to ask?

[@joelmayhew-i5q]

It generally sounds like a cool concept, it's a shame it got made by Netflix

[@bricksmith1515]

It’s a shame you can’t think for yourself because it’s an amazing show.

[@archangeloflies4022]

​@@bricksmith1515It's a shame that you can't connect three neurons because he right this show have been made for dumb people who want to feel smart.

[@bricksmith1515]

@@archangeloflies4022 it’s a shame you have a narrative in your head that you go with that you created. Is interstellar made for dumb people who want to be smart? How about Dark on Netflix? Or it just another story meant for entertainment ( yes, yes it is) lol. If I couldn’t connect three 3 neuron’s I wouldn’t even be able to watch the movie …. the conversation wouldn’t even have started….. 😐

[@archangeloflies4022]

@@bricksmith1515 Oh my... I didn't want to be mean I know you watch the Netflix show have you at least watch this video completely? Probably not because he explained logically where is the problem... I would love so bad this show be as good than you seem imagine it to be and i just start the book for this reason and i have some hope but for the serie even though it for entertainment they can do it without taking people for idiots

[@bricksmith1515]

@@archangeloflies4022 you mean what HE thinks the problem is. every one has their options about shows, He just dramatizes everything and has on “political agenda “ lenses on when doing so. Let go of your expectation to hate it then then maybe you will lol

[@Awakened_Mucacha]

They only proved that the writing in GoT's good seasons had nothing to do with them.

[@body187j3x1]

However the GOT producers even managed to mess up three body, which is a fully complete novel, unlike GOT, they messed up by making up their own story and not following the book plotline, which wasnt finished yet by the author.

[@TheHarshil]

Omg yes, the dialogues are Bing Bang Theory level. Kinda surprised its the same creators as game of thrones

[@body187j3x1]

@@TheHarshil the source materials are not from the directors of game of thrones, the story is based on a chinese sci-fi novel.

[@WhatDemocracy]

Shows great... you should watch it before you judge

[@Inbraneinthememsane]

@@TheHarshilhow is that surprising? GoT became garbage the minute they didn’t have any book to base it off any more

[@berserkasaurusrex4233]

Personally, the most believable thing in the show is Keiko O'Brien being the destroyer of humanity.

[@szlothh6339]

3 body problem is a pretty complex book so im not surprised it didn't translate to the screen well. in an age where people love to throw around the term "media literacy" the actual amount of thoughtful interpretation is so... limited these days

[@reikowallach2465]

There is a chinese TV-show from last year produced by Tencent that actually does a decent job. It's not great but it was much better than the Netflix version.

[@GiantBoarMonster]

Pretty sure 'media literacy' as they use the term, just refers to their insistence that you swallow and believe their propaganda. It's an euphemism for believing bullshit.

[@dars5229]

It seems like they took things from the book that were actually pretty smart and logical and then made them stupid for TV. Like, the aliens communicate by light pulses so they have no concept of deception. And in the book they study to try to understand this and use it against humanity. But in the show they just go "Lying is a thing that exists?! I don't need to hear more, screw you!"

[@reikowallach2465]

@@dars5229Yeah that was so incredibly lame, almost the worst scene in the show. The Trisolarans don't trust us because we're warlike, fast at scientific development, and because it's not worth risking their continued survival regardless of how we get along. They wanted a planet in a stable orbit that supports life, they didn't need to know anything else about Earth before they decided on global genocide.

[@WickedScott]

Eh.

[@adamheywood113]

Ah yes, D&D's first production since Thrones. What could possibly go wrong?

[@cptrelentless80085]

Other than that one that died after they left thrones

[@adamheywood113]

@cptrelentless80085 Metal Lords? They served as exec producers, Weiss I think was the writer, but they would have had little if any creative input as producers

[@user-ly2ll5od1r]

Well, nothing can go wrong because nothing went wrong because the show came out a week ago and is great and everyone likes it. Am I missing the joke? Is this channel supposed to be some kind of satire? Everybody here sounds like an npc grifter buzzword lingo bingo card.

[@syldarikitsune]

how'd This ending's landing stick?

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@adamheywood113 maybe a Star Wares movie/show/whatever that was cancelled

[@MrXperx]

I really disliked the pretty girl. There was nothing to her character other than being pretty and she seemed to whine a lot for being one of the supposedly foremost minds.

[@MeanOldLady]

And her lips took up 1/3 the screen & were so punchable.

[@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845]

I like how the black character basically tell her that.

[@KingCharles-o6z]

Especially in the scenes where she’s supposed to be stressed out. It’s just cringe

[@Benji567891]

she was so badly cast.

[@saucebauss7964]

Her character in the book is a guy I think so they changed it in this show so that feminists can be happy

[@Lulustucru2393]

0:40 '' They have finally crawled out from whatever shithole they have been hiding in " Bruh 💀💀

[@spyciarz170]

this sin't even that hard

[@WladyLP]

i dont get it

[@namenloss730]

The panama canal scene is from the books. There are supposed to be trained men on the ship. More than just 1 hard drive

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Yep it made sense there, here they never explain it, also they make the stupid scientist lady feel all bad about her invention being used to kill... when all those people on the ship were traitors to ALL humanity, who want to help aliens come and kill everyone.

[@IbraNNB7]

thats why TenCent is much better

[@Daniel-rp7nb]

It’s supposedly because they literally dont know who/how many people are on board - but infrared scanning and regular surveillance would discover this - and all I could think is that the HD would never survive or be found after the ship is cut up - how did they possibly find it?

[@namenloss730]

@@Daniel-rp7nb in the book it doesn't matter. it's an excuse to move the plot forward

[@vitaly2432]

In the book, the author explains that the data can be erased quickly in case of alarm. So they had to come up with an effective way to neutralise everyone on the ship. If any of the disks were to be damaged, the data would still be recoverable (because the nanofiber strings are extremely tiny). By the way, I don't remember any mentions of families with kids living on the ship in the book.

[@Hank..]

I hope aliens never get access to modern movies and shows. One look at shows like this and the aliens might decide to kill us out of sheer annoyance.

[@SuperFlawless2010]

Please. I cant wait any longer.

[@bananian]

So pressing the button is a logical choice afterall. 😂

[@DrFrankNStein-sf2ww]

Or they would get scared by our horror movies. Believing that only impossible ghosts and immortal monster, or aliens with tech that defies the laws of physics are considered to be a threat by us humans. Could make them think twice. 😉😜😇 LOL

[@jshasan865]

Lest the whole show finish then you'll say " I hope every alien sees this "

[@namenloss730]

They gave a power boost to the sophons in the show that creates a plot chasm

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Yeah if they could do this, then the boat assault would have never worked as the sophons would have shut down the nanofibers...

[@Justowner]

@@SwiftNimblefootHow exactly would the sophon have shut down the nanofibers? They're just very small, ultra strong strings.

[@moe5020]

@@SwiftNimblefoot but the San-ti have no interest in doing that as they abandoned them because the concept of lying threw them for a loop or they simply had no furthur use for them.

[@InfernalBl4dez]

@@SwiftNimblefoot Except it was explained that they didnt want to protect the ship anymore after learning about lying, are you fucking retarded?

[@Daniel-rp7nb]

@@Justownerthey were being controlled by computers - and by people who could have been tricked

[@AlphariusOmegon618]

"Netflix adaptation" The poor bastards never even had a chance...

[@carlosrivas1629]

bullcrap people like Reaper feed on your confrimation bias. he is lying his ass off. or he did not pay any attention.

[@StillLateToTheParty]

Sad but true. One point though, I don’t buy the aliens not understanding metaphor, seeing that their primary means of communication is a VR game that is a METAPHOR for their own planet’s problems. They say they can’t abide lying, yet their represent their own form as a Ninja lady, which is clearly meant to conceal and deceive, which is… a LIE. Also calling humans bugs is another metaphor. And none of the smart people in charge realize this or call the aliens out on it…

[@hailyrizzo5428]

a metaphor is a representation of the truth. lying is to misrepresent the truth. the representation of a ninja lady is like presenting a picture or translating themselves into a 'language' that the humans understand. if i translate a language your don't understand into a language that you can comprehend, does that mean i am lying to you?

[@StillLateToTheParty]

@@hailyrizzo5428 You just explained the whole point of the Red Riding Hood story.

[@hailyrizzo5428]

@@StillLateToTheParty both elements are present in the red riding hood story. the fairy tale itself is a metaphor or to be more precise an allegory. however, the actions of the wolf by disguising itself as the grandmother is a lie or deception to 'misrepresent the truth'. i have to say the line of dialogue by the scriptwriter where the San Ti said the story is a 'lie about a liar' is wrong. the scriptwriter got too cute pushing the hyperbole too far. it is an allegory about a liar.

[@williamstriker2299]

Their use of a VR game as a metaphor doesn't necessarily mean they understand or engage with deception in the same way humans do. Instead, it can be viewed as a form of utilitarian communication, the same way a professor might show students a video and ask them questions to impart an idea. The ninja lady is also a form of utilitarian communication. The same way gore is censored to prevent disgust. When asked why they used that form, they told the truth. Same with censorship. A black bar over nudity doesn't deceive you that there is no nudity. The aliens eventually DO learn to deceive in book 3 of Li Cixin's book. Lastly, calling humans bugs is arguably not a metaphor. It could be a literal evaluation of human life from their perspective. And it's a learned term from a human anyway. They did not come up with that metaphor even if they didn't mean it. In the book, the aliens are incapable of deception, not exactly metaphor, although it has a hard time understanding metaphors, they are capable of using them in conversations. Which is why they understood the "joke" that Ye Wenjie was saying, was not a joke, but a method to defeat them. And why they immediately knew Saul had to die. I think the writers mistook the alien's incapability of deception for incapability of metaphoric language. Which was not in the books so a lot of parts seemed contradictory.

[@ldmt1995]

The ninja lady herself explains that they learned deception from studying a human brain that was sent to them.

[@Gringosaurus]

I stopped at the bar scene near the beginning when I saw the blonde being rude because you know how they are 🙄 and I said “watch some idiot white guy will interrupted them and try to pick them up.” And right on cliche, boom, there he was but their intellect scared him away. I was done.

[@blenderheadxyz2418]

Yeah, I don't get, why they put such blunt bs into everything. Those "feminists" are on a revenge trip and not interested in a change. Change would mean, evolving. What they do is just immature.

[@ng2603]

Ha that's exactly when I stopped too. Bad writing is insufferable

[@Antechynus]

Your not the only ones, me too.. unwatchable.

[@majortree]

Same

[@Frank221-7]

Same When i saw that i think, "here we go again" 🙄

[@Goochen]

In the book, the wallfacers are put to cryosleep and woken periodically to carry out their plan over the 400 years, if i remember correctly. They will have no doubt censored a lot because the book was written from a very chinese perspective with some aspects and views that go against the sort of politics Netflix would approve of.

[@cptrelentless80085]

This is what took me out from the first book - what kind of science was Mao's China doing, in isolation from everyone? The Chinese tech boom where they stole everyone else's IP was 2005+

[@RealReaper]

but in the show the sophons can hack all electronics so they would just turn off the cryogenic machines

[@Goochen]

I guess the Netflix show is stupid but we knew that. Supposedly the Chinese adaptation of the book was better. @@RealReaper

[@type3gaming851]

​@@RealReaperin the books sophons can't do all that hacking stuff they've shown in the series. The show fucked itself over trying to create shock value from the scene by creating this plothole.

[@APDM_Analysis]

@@RealReaper The sophons in books cannot hack electronics, they can only affect sub-atomic level particles and at best trigger some 1 and 0 in a computer chip, not possible to attack all electronics

[@justanaverage1762]

the ship part made sense in the books, as if at any sign of attack the ship owner would have destroyed all the data, but they made it into a stupid red hard drive with petabytes of storage in the movie for no reason, also the ship was not supposed to be filled with children

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

It was filled with children to make it SAAAD and people would yap about how horrifying that scene is while doing npc dialogues

[@justanaverage1762]

@@HYDROCARBON_XDyou already know that only only produces entertainment for soulless poc lovers and soyboys, what did you expect? a faithful representation of the book? i'm surprised they did not replace luo ji with a sassy black trans woman, i'm sure they proposed the idea to their executives

[@literalspaceglider]

@@HYDROCARBON_XD exactly

[@ericmiller5603]

I’m tapping out before the end of episode 2. Quite a chore to get through that much!

[@OnTheEdge86]

It's not a faithful adaptation of the books. The aliens can see and hear everything, that's why the wallfacers have to plot in their heads. Their plans can be carried out after they're dead, or they can be cryogenically frozen. The wallfacer program is one of many strategies and tried and abandoned. The wallfacer plans do overlap, one can obviously impact the others. It gets abandoned and chalked up as a failure but later reactivated and does end up working as a detterent ultimately thanks to one good idea. The staircase project is a gamble that aims to establish contact and learn about the aliens. The aliens abandoned the traitors because they didn't think they needed them anymore and they fear being lied to. Humanities armies get pummeled, and the milky way gets falttened by another race altogether, we don't exactly "win". The aliens don't want to blow up our nukes and wreck the planet because they want to live here which is made clear in the book and the show to be fair, their own planet is doomed to end at some unpredictable future time, because of the 3 body problem. The charcaters were changed from the book significantly, Auggie is a male Chinese applied physicist and the protagonist of the first book, instead of the insufferable snarky mexican super model with the constant pout that we have to put up with in the netflix show. There are plenty of other changes, too many to get into, they fucked it.

[@Bryan-d8j]

Yes, they had to take a chinese series of novels full of chinese characters and sell it to a non chinese audience. And there already is a chinese three body problem series out there as well.

[@OnTheEdge86]

@@Bryan-d8j I watched most of the Chinese show aswell, it was a bit too long for me at 30 episodes and a bit weird to watch. I'm in favour of making changes when adapting for TV in general, and you really have to with these books, but the Netflix changes were shit. I can see from the comments here that people had a lot of the same issues that I had. The charcter changes were poor and typical of Netflix, apart from Wade. Auggie especially was insufferable.

[@Dacre1000]

@@Bryan-d8j You mean the same chinese series of novels full of chinese characters that have been sold already to non chinese audiences around the world like candy? Yeah, sure, they "had".

[@Hunpecked]

@@Dacre1000 There are countless people who haven't read the books but might sit through a TV adaptation, if it's pitched correctly. That said, I don't think Netflix pitched it correctly.

[@sweetness583]

lol I got annoyed with her constant pouty expression too

[@Dem0man1108]

"its a piece of shit" LOL

[@ganndeber1621]

Succinct and to the point. God it was awful

[@androski5247]

I did love the sense of mystery the first 3 - 4 episodes had, but the moment they had the reveal in episode 5, the second half of the show was the characters hammering on the exact same point for 3 hours straight, it got boring so quickly, wish I spent my evening doing anything else.

[@piellamp]

I justwatched the first 4 episodes and i found it really boring so far idk why i keep watching🤷

[@isakmloyeni920]

I also liked the first episodes, but then it is fading a little as i watch on

[@ChristianCalson]

The 'millenial' cast are so diverse and so dull and self centered and UN-qualified to save the world. It makes the books characters more 3 dimensional than ever.

[@vismayavijoy4818]

All of them including the dying one is insufferable at best. Everyone is an emotional mess that can't even save themselves rather save humanity😏

[@travian821]

@@Ty_Djal Luo Ji has a reasonable arch, he is only insufferable at the start.

[@travian821]

@@Ty_Djal Saul didnt change at all in the show, he was ok at best.

[@mixelplik]

@@Ty_DjalWho will stick around to see it? I predict a cancellation.

[@SML01]

You sound like an idiot, addicted to culture war slop😭, keep moaning.

[@loyh5269]

lmao what? I thoroughly enjoyed most of it. you guys are not serious at all. the show is great

[@ericgarcia4745]

A group of self appointed intellectuals asking the aliens to come and take their resources...I live in the western world so this story makes sense 😂

[@namenloss730]

not really. A woman, actual intellectual, who has lost everything to human cruelty and wants humanity to die. Wang jie and a narcissistic eco terrorist. Evans not "self appointed intellectuals"

[@Shineinpoverty]

👍

[@Soniti1324]

In the case of both this show and real life, not mere 'intellectuals', but full on communists.

[@sidneysun3865]

It’s really funny you got this impression. In the book, the alien is a metaphor of usa/west who is a looming threat against China and is blocking the science developments of China.

[@namenloss730]

@@sidneysun3865 no it's not

[@namenloss730]

In the books, the sophons are limited in their ability, they can't affect everything on earth at the same time. They are only there to fuck with any advanced physics research to prevent theoritical physics progression.

[@sofaking9404]

Worst part is they fucking show it as the computer manipulating particle accelarator results, but they don´t explicitly say it so it seems it can do fuckall.

[@namenloss730]

@@sofaking9404 yeah they made it overpowered as hell yet essentially passive it can take down all computers on earth simultaneously. Our civilization would collapse in weeks with that

[@akeelyaqub2538]

@@sofaking9404they literally do say it in the show. Very clearly, if you didn’t get it then thats a you problem.

[@StyxxOfDidymos]

The sophons do far more than,that you should reread the books.

[@namenloss730]

@@StyxxOfDidymos i remember spying, messing with scientific instruments and that's about it i do not even remotely have the time to reread those massive books

[@hisousihou]

I didn't expect so many people to express their love and appreciation for Netflix's version of The 3body, and I'm in despair

[@akeelyaqub2538]

Cos most people dont form their opinions on whatever some youtubers opinions are. Dont be a f*cking sheep.

[@muhammadshehryar3344]

"went into hiding, and crawled out from whatever shithole they have been hiding in ' made me spit my tea out! had me in stiches fml 🤣

[@discordantduck1808]

you had me at weiss and benioff. why anyone would ever put these two jokers in charge of a creative project ever again is beyond me. i don't think I've ever seen a fall from grace quite like what GoT experienced..

[@elgerifico]

Because they're Jewish. There, mystery solved.

[@paull4858]

Cool it with the antisemitic remarks

[@YellowshortsUFC]

@@paull4858what lol

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Networking... they know people... and the system is too screwed to filter them out , there's no one in the system anymore with talent so they get hired

[@adaptivegamer9905]

Don’t be surprised mate. Nowadays you fail upwards in the industry, I mean look at all these directors, writers etc. that constantly put out dog shit that completely fails & bombs yet they keep getting new roles or projects. Even promoted! It’ll take a serious felony charge for them to get fired or no work.

[@therealdeal3866]

The eight worst words anyone ever wants to hear about their writing: “ I don’t care about any of these people.”

[@theandroids]

2 episodes in and I had to just come and watch a youtube video lmao I was like not going to waste 8 hours on this. Makes sense that this is so dumb considering the writers.

[@ploppill34]

As soon as I saw Samwell Tarley I started laughing and it took me right out of it

[@Njbear7453]

Is that the fat guy from moonfall?

[@matthiasthulman4058]

​@Njbear7453 he was also the Fat Guy in Game of Thrones lol

[@NineSun001]

@@Njbear7453 Well, he plays the fat guy in every movie he is in, so yes.

[@Beware...OblivionIsAtHand]

@@Njbear7453 Do you know him from that random movie, but not from GOT? lol

[@Njbear7453]

@@Beware...OblivionIsAtHandnope never watched

[@LTDANMAN44]

this show taught me that all the smart scientists of the world chain smoke, are heavy drinkers, do drugs, and cuss like a sailor.

[@ArwenUndomiel406]

Why does modern writing have to suck SO much and for so long?

[@Senumunu]

the US is occupied. thats why.

[@mixelplik]

DEI-ESG-Woke. Take your pick. 50% diversity requirements take precedence over actual talent. They are hiring people based on race, gender, or affiliation - not actual talent. That's why.

[@sexy1018]

What even is "modern writing" ? Also when the current era still gets stuff like Arcane, Invincible, Baby Reindeer, Kipo, Dune, Monkey Paw, Minus One, the Spiderverse movies, Love Death and Robots, The new Fallout Series, Shogun, X-Men 97, etc, I am pretty sure that good to great modern stuff still exists. People should stop acting like everything sucks now and that bad writing is some new phenomenon

[@Senumunu]

@@sexy1018 of all this nonsense ive only seen Arcane. and the writing there... the mother of the black council girl is a literal sex tourist orc, Jayce is an emasculated loser compared to league, the undertown is le struggling but two pipes down the line there is a huge ass tree with a clean environment, Jinx has meltdowns at the exact point the plot demands, Vi is le tough girl shaped by prison but the second she is out its "Jinx :( *sad voice" there was so much nonsensical music video style writing in that show. absolutely bad.

[@ganndeber1621]

White people bad. DEI rules everything

[@TheLifeofNerd]

Why don’t the aliens just use the Sophons to remove the humans

[@BlancheCooperCooper]

in book, sophons can't do that. thet can't controll the screen or automobile

[@TheLifeofNerd]

@@BlancheCooperCooper thank you. They should’ve stayed true to the book lol

[@BlancheCooperCooper]

@@TheLifeofNerd and another problem in the ship, evens don't have time to escape(in tv show,he has enough time to broken all the data) he just be sliced without sensitive time

[@gilgameshkingofheroes5903]

​@@BlancheCooperCooper That confused me in the show. I was constantly wondering why the Aliens don't mess us up way more.

[@CouchCit]

I just couldn't really get past so many characters ignoring the VR headset, from the detective guy taking a ridiculously long time to link it with the string of weird suicides, to accepting that all of these intelligent people used it despite there being no device or manufacturer info on it whatsoever., and not knowing where it came from. Its just too far outside the realm of believability.

[@body187j3x1]

the chinese version of this is more logical, the VR equipment and graphics more down to earth and believable.

[@hannahbaxter8825]

It was so bad, I didnt care about any of them and it just went nowhere. It also seemed like a thinly veiled lecture about climate change.

[@ganndeber1621]

and how bad white men are

[@PallezZoroast]

lmao, Evans is literally a radical environmentalist and bro died the most gruesome death imaginable, while being depicted as a disillusioned alien worshipper, how tf is this about climate change

[@meraj5393]

​@@PallezZoroast This either watched show through KZbin or thinks that In real life humans didn't cause climate change.

[@robbythecuban]

@@PallezZoroast”how is this about climate change?”……. Are you serious??! You obviously didn’t watch any of this, because…… the ENTIRE PLOT HAPPENS because of environmentalism and one woman’s disillusionment with the human species. It’s not even “thinly veiled”; it’s painfully “in your face” about it!! SMH….

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

@@meraj5393 We didnt. Exacerbated, yes. Caused, absolutely not. You ever heard of an ice age?

[@slumberous861]

i live for the "its a piece of shit" at the end of these vids 😂

[@lokay7233]

Mathew perry asking "why" is my favorite clip. The edits in these video's are peak fire bro

[@The_Wolfram_Heart79]

It’s fookin classic! 😂

[@julitakamaki4386]

I love Laszlo.

[@jonbaxter2254]

@@lokay7233 Mine is Batman's grumble as he spins his head.

[@NineSun001]

It is the only thing, that gives me joy in life...

[@pfoxroberts]

Just to quantify what a mess this series is, some budgets: Dune part 1 - $165M Three body problem season 1 -$160M Godzilla minus one - $15M So for the same amount Netflix could have almost made Dune, or made the best godzilla film in decades ten times over. Instead we got special effects that would be bad in dr who, soap opera character dynamics, and one or two neat scifi ideas (which I assume all came from the novel) but were almost entirely buried by the ludicrous plotholes and idiotic character actions.

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

Forward Unto Dawn - just under $10m.

[@lepidoptera9337]

They paid how much for this mess??? Seriously. Wow. Just wow.

[@725ken]

You are aware the reason Minus One had such a small budget was because the animators and staff were heavily underpaid and overworked, right? If everyone involved was paid properly it would be a lot more than that. Even then, the director himself said that he wishes the budget was $15 million so it was even less than that.

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@725ken Ah, so that movie is a labor of love, while this thing was just for profit grudge work. It shows. ;-)

[@725ken]

@@lepidoptera9337 I don't doubt there was some love in making the movie but I would think most of it would be extinguished from the long working hours and tight deadlines. Perhaps you're joking around but the japanese film and animation industry isn't exactly incomparable to a sweat shop.

[@blackwellchronicle]

Just watch the original Chinese version. It’s a 100% closer to the book. But best of all it’s free on KZbin 😊

[@drew_gordon]

Have you ever read a book that isn't about wizards?

[@drew_gordon]

*spoiler* the aliens never arrive and the solar system is destroyed by another species, a few humans survive. Now you don't have to embarrass yourself by reviewing bad adaptations of classic books.

[@Fauwkes]

Why exactly are you saying this?

[@AnonymousAnonposter]

He mostly enjoy capeshit.

[@kathrineici9811]

Tbh a show depicting the communists as the petty brutal tyrants they were is shocking to me

[@skiddwister9143]

Preach it, sister. Truth rising to the top is getting heard to find.

[@dannyjaspersen7889]

When you see it first hand your entire life it almost writes itself

[@orwhynotrandom]

Yeah first time ive seen the cultural revolution for what it was brutal mass execution of teachers and the educated

[@galvanizedgravitas]

🤣 "coming to culturally enrich the planet."

[@MeanOldLady]

like muslim invaders...

[@ganndeber1621]

They are all doctors and engineers

[@NPFederation0]

With diversity

[@Argomundo]

3:00 so literally just the opening scene from ghost ship

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

Dude, that scene came out of nowhere and freaked me right the F out when I saw it for the first time. Absolutely brilliant.

[@ctackins8874]

Yep yep yep!

[@caseyhart4999]

Wow it really is the opening scene of ghost ship lmao. Good movie.

[@SuperFlawless2010]

Pleasant flashbacks unlocked )))

[@ha-kh7ef]

ok what about it?

[@ashleybrooke2087]

The fridge logic of the nanofiber sequence bothered me as well. There are so many much easier, less destructive ways to obtain the data they were after. It's another rule of cool thing where storytelling is sacrificed for the sake of spectacle.

[@mariodrv]

Just read the books guys.

[@ametuergamer1524]

Is that the one made by liu cixin?

[@user-ly2ll5od1r]

Jokes on you, the audience of this channel can't read.

[@WickedScott]

overrated

[@user-ly2ll5od1r]

@@banhammer3904 No, they don't sound like garbage. Garbage books don't win massive awards that are exclusively reserved for prestige stories. "generic alien invasion" is enough proof that you know jack shit about the books because there's no fucking invasion in any of the 3 books. The books literally end with both civilizations getting destroyed by a 3rd party civilization from trillions of light years away because they are advanced to the point where "invasion" is an ancient term to them.

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

just watch the anime lady's .

[@gnarl12]

The wire cutting scene is pulled directly from the book and is explained in the book as the only way to kill everyone fast enough to make sure the HDD can't be erased or destroyed while not hiring the HDD. On the book they calculate where the HDD is on the ship and how much space you need to give it clearance

[@technoruffles7747]

So the book is dumb as fuck too. Got it.

[@cyborghobo9717]

​@@technoruffles7747so a fuck is smarter than you, always knew it .

[@BlackWing117]

@@technoruffles7747 Maybe think about it for a second, before calling it dumb as fuck.

[@Ree-rr1js]

​I do not think he's capable of that lmao ​@@BlackWing117

[@MrCrisisZ]

I thought this was the coolest kill scene on a ship since the movie Ghost Ship. It was epic.. I liked the show.. too many haters out there looking for a reason to be annoyed.

[@sash7048]

There's like 5 plot points that you got wrong and complained that they "don't make sense"

[@michaelsegriff3362]

Well, let’s hear them. Until you elaborate, we can assume you’re just another full-of-$h** zero on YT.

[@dogwklr]

Can you explain?

[@sash7048]

​@@dogwklr 2:08 It's explained he's the leader of some big intelligence agency (I forgot which one) 2:50 the video is claiming the violence is to get more attention a la GoT but it was in the original book 3:20 he says the SAS would be better but that's not true as explained in the show 3:28 he says he "hopes the hard drive will somehow not be destroyed" but the actual reason is that hard drives can be fixed easily, especially if they're cut precisely by the scifi wires in the show. Also hard drives won't get major damage from water, so it falling into the river is not a concern 6:06 is just flat out something that never happens in the show. 9:11 "technology that can do anything except this apparently" when fast travel is like one of the hardest engineering problems ever. 10:30 The organisation was laughably incompetent at everything in the show except for the one lady who they remain in contact with. 12:25 The supercomputers can't stop all progress, they can only do 2 things at a time, this is explained in the show. 13:00 is not at all mentioned in the show. It is a plot point in the book though, makes me think that the creator of the video just read off wikipedia... 13:30 the brain is there just to make sure the aliens don't blow up the ship before it can take a picture of the fleet 14:00 same as 13:00

[@sash7048]

Honestly 6:06 13:00 and 14:00 are so wrong that I feel like the creator of this video didn't watch the show properly

[@louisuchihatm2556]

Narrator of this video is clueless.

[@jaredbezes7806]

FINALLY!!! Someone said it. This was sooooo boring

[@varonvan6336]

It’s supposed to set up the juicy parts you can’t just rush into something as complex as the three body problems. The books are the same way.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

@@varonvan6336 If it takes EIGHT HOURS of screen time to set up the “juicy” parts, that is a trash show. I’m not eating slop for eight days just to have cake for one meal.

[@hulkmad27]

it hard science fiction what did yall want karate fight like john wick?

[@varonvan6336]

@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access it’s not bad I enjoyed it. It’s a good westernized adaptation from the books. I just don’t think people get the bigger concept and how cool of a story it actually is. You’ll just focus on the politics.

[@vismayavijoy4818]

​@@varonvan6336 you are acting like no other scifi serieses were ever made. A slow series could be fun if it had good writing & tense settings. This show lacked both & on top of it had really unlikeable main characters. I was watching it in 1.5x & it was still slow, if a scifi series can't be engaging idk what else should. Book being a slow burner ain't even an excuse too, reading is different from visual experience.

[@bugsy742]

Jesus Christ I was pulling my hair out and my missus loved it! seriously I’m re thinking my fkn life choices right now! 😮

[@Lydia-Frost]

Was she high? Sleepy? Distracted? Bad memory? I only made it 4 episodes in. 😐

[@N1CH0_N1N3]

Weak.

[@theothergameygamer]

It's not only the idiots that wrote the script - try reading the book.

[@ganndeber1621]

I gave up very quickly. Awful writing

[@capt.badmindon2391]

Thanks Reaper. Hours of my time not wasted. Back to Shogun.

[@hollygolden9673]

Yea! I am loving Shogun!

[@pacolate1285]

In the book she wants humanity to die

[@virtualalias]

Was already pretty skeptical of contributing to the popularization of Chinese media. Helped that it bored me to tears almost immediately. Gender swapped the bar scene with the staggering intellect of the very fancy important ladies and still found it smug and unlikeable.

[@lepidoptera9337]

A bad novel is a bad novel in any language and by a writer of any nationality. That the author is Chinese is merely incidental. He's just not a good author and that's that.

[@JeffEpstein28482]

@@lepidoptera9337 Lol, the book series is the best sci fi work in the last 20 years. What the hell are you smoking? Go back to watching Spider Man.

[@JeffEpstein28482]

You should get used to the popularization of Chinese media. Soon, we will replace the US as the hegemon of this world - you better be ready for that.

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@JeffEpstein28482 Let me give you some attention, then. ;-)

[@halohaalo2583]

​@@JeffEpstein28482it is good but also overrated to some extent

[@jkpoeqd]

17:29: The series it not a faithful adaption. There have been made many changes making it worse. For example: 18:25: The sophons are not overpowered in the novels. They can spy and manipulate collision experiments, but not inferfere with the macroscopic world at all. They certainly can't hack electronics and don't unfold over the Earth. In fact the second book even calls both out to be stupid. 18:42: Exactly what happens in the books. The universe flickering happens in the infrared spectrum, so only a single person with special glasses sees it happen. The message "You are bugs!" is only displayed with sophons to a single room of people. No sophons unfold over Earth. The aliens don't care about impressing bugs and prefer to rather let scientists go crazy without anyone believing them. The series tries too desperately to impress and too less to actually set up and explain. For example: 15:42: They won't as there is hibernation. But it's not even mentioned and only crammed in out of nowhere in a single scene before. 15:56: Because in the novels you do already know a lot about the aliens. Again most of it was just left out.

[@iamarugin]

It looks like the author of the video don't even know, that books exist.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Thanks, I too pointed this out. The chinese show does all this so much better.

[@14112ido]

But isn't the scene where the universe flickers in the book is because the sophon unfolds and manipulates the radiation?

[@chazdoit]

@@iamarugin He does he even said he doubts its a faithful adaptation, and he turns out to be right, D&D made the alien super computers brutally overpowered compared to the books

[@travian821]

@@iamarugin Yes, Reaper doesn't know anything about the books but is ok, the idea of a show is to draw more people into the material. And the show is doing a bad job at this. The series is at best a 6/10 or a 5/10

[@jaredkaiser3097]

Liam Cunningham always get a pass for me because he was in Dog Soldiers...the best movie ever made

[@dars5229]

He's great in everything. One of those actors that you'll put up with a shit movie for. (Not that Dog Soldiers is shit, but you get what I mean.)

[@Njbear7453]

Just watched Perrier’s bounty the other day, a fun one!!!

[@GinisisDroid]

Don't forget his recruitment skills from GOT,, Foooook 😂

[@DoctorDave5]

I’m long overdue a rewatch of Dog Soldiers. Thanks for the reminder 😁👍

[@mrstephenpariah]

​@@dars5229Dog Soldiers is shit, though.

[@LRich-hg3hu]

They made the movie dumber than the book...which *is* an accomplishment of sorts.

[@shadowjack239]

I just had three out of body experiences listening to the bloody awful plot.

[@moe5020]

so you haven't actually watched it lol?

[@shadowjack239]

@@moe5020 I can tell the filling of a turd sandwich by the smell. I don't need to eat it to find out. lol.

[@SambuBaba-rw4pf]

Yeah it was crap, i literally only saw the CGI bit and fast forwarded all the drama(too much). And I had to Google each time I watched an important scene to know that I wasn't the only one who thought how dumb that was

[@yohane2787]

Retard

[@Noperare]

"Aliens can not lie" press X to doubt HARD

[@axelg5]

I mean in the book they definitely couldn't.. at first. They communicated through light, so all their thoughts would be broadcast for anyone to see. No concept of lying at all. Obviously, thanks to learning about lying from humans, they adapt.

[@CouchCit]

They can't lie, yet one goes out of its way to say it's a pacifist from their species. Kind of an odd way to ID yourself if you don't comprehend the concept of misdirection/lying. I haven't read the books but perhaps the aliens who initially responded aren't the same ones on their way to Earth.

[@cyborghobo9717]

We'll start fro where that you are not the benchmark of genius on earth and everything true is not a parroting of your points. In a similar way humans are not the benchmark of intellect and every othe intelligence in the nature does not have to operate in a similar way. In terms of computation deception is a very costly operation for all involved parties equally so in terms of energy preservation it is very irrational especially when the environment makes the cost higher.

[@Mark12434]

They are a species that can't hide their own thoughts from each other and evolved to think collectively via telepathy. How would they know what lying is??

[@SilverSkitty]

@@axelg5that makes so much more sense than the way the show portrayed it

[@HolyDiver79]

Its wild cuz it started out pretty compelling for 2 maybe 3 episodes then fell off a cliff for the flatest finale to a season of show ive ever seen… and the nano fiber boat scene is hands down the dumbest thing ive ever scene in cinema history

[@ganndeber1621]

I bet she can make some awesome cheese sandwiches or cheese on toast with the nano bollocks

[@jackychan9236]

If they follow the book faithfully, Earth actually got destroyed somewhere down the line because of human stupidity lol

[@lynnchance8219]

As it was written

[@setsunatenma9467]

And by another woman no less.

[@justanaverage1762]

because of women ingenuity actually

[@radhiadeedou8286]

Why tf would you say that?

[@horatiohornblower3757]

Well, it was actually because of Humanities desperation. Sending out the signal that led to the downfall of Earth is what saved Earth from the Trisolarans. Humans also "cast the spell" on the Trisolarans homeworld which we witness the destruction of as well. Once Earth was marked as a target, the Trisolarans could no longer settle there because they were looking for a new home. Humans won in a sense instead of Earth getting taken over by Trisolarans it gets ripped out of 3d space entirely and shoved in to the second dimension never to be seen again.

[@mrunderwood5270]

12:26 the sophons cant disrupt all of science just molecular science. Thereby making the results of the experiments to be random which in turn makes it impossible for that branch of science to move further

[@mrunderwood5270]

The sophons can't manipulate the brain

[@Hunpecked]

@@mrunderwood5270 What happens if a sophon unfolds in somebody's brain?

[@Sajuek]

@@Hunpecked They still only have the mass of a single proton. So nothing.

[@Hunpecked]

@@Sajuek In the book a basketball-sized sophon responds to air pressure and the touch of the Princeps. A planet-sized sophon shaped into a parabolic mirror by a higher dimensional civilization nearly burns down the San-Ti capital with a sun-powered heat ray. Proton or not, these things substantially impact the macro world. My guess is the head would explode.

[@Sajuek]

@@Hunpecked I am aware. The sophon, regardless, has the mass of a proton. It cannot "explode" anyone's head as it cannot push against anything with any amount of force. You would experience drag if you push against it, but that is only you pushing against the air. It cannot push against you as it can only create an equal and opposite reaction in line with its mass, and with the mass of a proton it does not have the strength to effect you physically. This is actually specifically explained by the Trisolaris science consult in the very scene you are referring to. So I am not sure why you are confused.

[@meris8486]

Ye sending the message was her seeing the worst in humanity and deciding that they were unworthy to govern themselves, that surely something else must be better or annihilation is fine to her. It's an act of despair.

[@LRich-hg3hu]

I've heard the Holocaust explained similarly.

[@Dathmual]

@@LRich-hg3hu You are lack of understanding of books. You should read the books to understand why Ye do this. Otherwise you cannot understand why she help Saul to win the war. Ye is not a bad guy or a good guy. Ye is a complex role. Author Cixinliu has talk about this.

[@noneofyourbusiness5326]

Why is there such a lack of writing talent in entertainment today?

[@Njbear7453]

It’s really disturbing

[@Atlas-hu9wk]

Laziness?

[@Aedrion-]

Because the industry is impenetrable to new talent.

[@Senumunu]

its an incestuous industry. there is no real free market in who gets hired.

[@ThomasJaa.]

That's what people who can't write say

[@Alteori]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 As someone who loves this show it DEFINITELY has some issues. A lot of the characters are so annoying and it felt like they were stuffing way too much in a little too fast, and even though I like Auggie, she hardly took any accountability, but I love sci-fi, dimensional, and alien stuff so I'm biased in liking it 😅 Your review is so hilarious as always 💗

[@tkmair6559]

Watched 20 minutes of 3 Body Problem. Immediately asked Google - does 3 Body Problem suck? And brought here. Thank you Reaper, this video helped a lot! I does suck! And now I know why.

[@MrMoridinalthor]

I've never read the book, but a coworker described it to me and it didn't sound like it would translate to TV well.

[@user-ly2ll5od1r]

it would translate extremely well to tv, as is evident by the fact that 2 shows exist that millions liked apart from.... this guy and a couple others I guess.

[@lokay7233]

​@@user-ly2ll5od1r millions lol 😂

[@Atlas-hu9wk]

​@@user-ly2ll5od1rNah, just see how it gets canceled by the lack of viewers.

[@namenloss730]

the books each follow mainly one character and have their thoughts at all times. they had to turn that into dialogue to some degree.

[@berserkasaurusrex4233]

I'm reading the book, and I wouldn't say it translates well to written text either. It's not terrible, but it's more of a chore than it needs to be. Greg Egan has covered somewhat similar material, and if anything is even more dense, but better executed. Might be a West/East translation thing, though.

[@Sunny-uj9wf]

And San ti are also bugs compared to the silicon aliens later mentioned in the book😊

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

The nano fibers scene makes much more sense on the book since all the people on the ship were people with firearms and guards,but instead in the show they just added children and normal people to make it SAAAD even though the nano fibers there wouldn't be needed because there are pretty much no military in the ship

[@spartan120_3]

To whomever sees this comment, watch the review done by Quinn's Ideas, the KZbin channel that introduced me to the Three-Body Problem the sequel books by the Chinese author Cixin Liu (the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy). He goes well into detail for the books and shows. Give his channel a look to get a review with actual experience on the Three-Body Problem.

[@freelancenerd4804]

I made it 35 min. Sorry for ur loss but thanks for the review

[@godofnumbersakausername5226]

Original book: Everything makes sense and they make extremely smart plans. Show: Remove the extremely smart part and replace with plan with no reason and only plan because they decided they were smarter then the original creator.

[@unholychazer]

3 body problem? More like the 3 brain cells problem.

[@WeOnlyEatSoup]

Saved me 8hrs. I found the book dry also, but good

[@varonvan6336]

Form your own opinion

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

@@varonvan6336 I’m not wasting eight fucking hours of my life to have a fleeting opinion on a mid-to-garbage show. No

[@user-ly2ll5od1r]

@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Accesshow do you know it's "mid-to-garbage show" if you haven't even seen it? 95% of people who've seen it - liked it. There's no need for this revisionist history bullshit. This channel and it's audience are so pathetic jesus christ why does youtube algorithm keep deciding to push this grifter garbage on to me???

[@LoudAngryJerk]

@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access no one's asking you to waste the full 8 hours. But you can form an opinion on how interested you are in the concept well before the full run of the show.

[@paull4858]

The books plot is just as convoluted especially in books 2 and 3

[@thegustavobox]

This show absolutely butchered the books

[@Shoutatclouds]

The scene is in the book. Its legit.

[@stephenmeier4658]

Thank you for this! I sat through this at the behest of my wife, and was astonished at how stupid it was. It made me lose my faith in contemporary Chinese sci-fi, to be honest

[@trapozlite4487]

Chinese people are stupid, what else is new

[@ganndeber1621]

Why would you have faith in it in the first place. China the gold standard of modern free thinking literature

[@codyswan4918]

Just finished watching the first season. Loved it!

[@goncalopereira4361]

I loved it, I'm into every concept they talk about. opinion differ a lot

[@louisuchihatm2556]

The creator of the video is clueless. His criticisms reeks of ignorance.

[@WhiteGuyWithAutism]

It's okay to like things. Literally, nobody said you couldn't.

[@user-xj3ve7wt8k]

Damn great show.

[@kingdomcitizenship5613]

Seems like Netflix is trying to push this so hard

[@bowantoia8536]

I was gripped,, so make your own mind up. Lol

[@RitikButVideos]

My first thought when I saw the San-Ti’s ability to control all tech was "So they are gonna use it in the next episode to cause chaos by making all electronics stop working right?" Then the next episode rolled around and I was like, "oh... so they used that over powered ability only once huh. Neat."

[@洪健然]

Sophons can only affect the micro level, not the macro level. At a macro level, everything else is used to scare people

[@RitikButVideos]

I just thought it was dumb because the San-Ti could've set humanity back like hundreds of years (which is what they wanted to do in the first place) super easily by shutting down the use of all electronics... which they demonstrated they can do in episode 5. They didn't though... why? So the plot could happen lol. @@洪健然

[@Sunny-uj9wf]

@@RitikButVideosthey can’t. They only control light

[@Sunny-uj9wf]

@@RitikButVideosSan ti isn’t advanced enough compared to the silicones later mentioned in the book

[@Sunny-uj9wf]

@@RitikButVideosplease read the book. San ti don’t know how human beings work, same as humans don’t know how San ti function

[@5daysastranger]

This show has so many plot holes, inconsistencies and scenes that are genuinely stupid; that i've lost several million brain cells just by watching it.

[@Twist_UAP]

How? Did you watch it with your eyes closed? Plus, this is all just set up for the next 2 seasons

[@seekerhooligan781]

Twist.. 5days is right, and writing a show that has no solutions or logical endings is simply bad writing. Tv seasons, movies with sequels, all still need to have a beginning, middle, and end, or it's just lazy, shit, writing

[@Twist_UAP]

@seekerhooligan781 give me an example because I saw barely any plot holes, but I also know what is coming in the next season because this is all just getting set up

[@Zett76]

@@Twist_UAP Ah. "Just a setup season"... how we love them.

[@Twist_UAP]

@Zett76 oh boy you have no idea what is coming, this could be the greatest show ever created. I loved the first season and we haven't even started.

[@jocelantonettetenoc5996]

I'm sorry but why does the thumbnail looks like Shang Tsung just woken up from his sleep?

[@numalesoybea1348]

“They are now on their way to Earth to culturally enrich the planet” You’re a funny guy aren’t you

[@dp2901]

I'm watching the 30 episode Chinese version alongside the NF version and I get where you're coming from Reaper.

[@Knightwingofbludhaven]

I feel so bad for Benedict, watching Marco Polo seeing him command the scene as the great Khan larger than life, I fee like he is never again given the opportunity to own the room.

[@gilpetperdon9831]

No it isn't, you just expect there to be action in every scene. Go watch mission impossible.

[@kacornish1]

It’s too much for those with “TicTok” brains to handle.

[@thisdrinkinglife]

that makes zero sense............every woke cliche you could think of.......except a cripple, give over...............lol - its for fucking tiktok

[@NoahSprague]

I didn't wanna watch it after the got rid of the cop Shi Quiang literally the best character as a cop who has the more basic outlook on the situation and despite his rough personality he actually is the rock that keeps the characters stable when they believe all hope is lost

[@Lydia-Frost]

Netflix has a way of killing off all of their most interesting characters.

[@Hoopaugi]

Besides a couple scenes, it honestly was a shit adaptation that cut way too many corners to cram too much shit into the 8 episodes. Many of the complaints you had were either due to these two clowns doing some adapting™ or they just decided to skip way too much of the background for why things happened the way they did. A good example of that is the cultural revolution era stuff, that takes up a good portion of the first book and is pretty much the starting point for the series. The woman whose name I cant remember who ends up inviting the aliens over is fleshed out way, way better in the book, where as in this it really just boils down to "I was mistreated so fuck everybody else"

[@ExpertContrarian]

I stopped immediately at the bar scene. I already knew exactly what would happen before the white male even showed up

[@IannisMaragakis]

Thank you. Fucking on point.

[@KingDingDong69]

That’s crazy

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@KingDingDong69or is it sane

[@KingDingDong69]

@@ExpertContrarian crazy cause that was the only cringey woke scene in the show, I’m glad I got passed that, I still find the books superior to the Netflix adaptation but it wasn’t bad at all, the show peaked at episode 5 with some good build up throughout. Wasn’t boutta let politics and wokeness ruin a show for me. I just ignore shit like that in shows, but I can understand why you would drop it just off that scene, it’s hard to ignore when they shove that shit in front of our faces all the time🙄

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@KingDingDong69 pretty crazy that you think having standards is crazy. That is most definitely not the only thing anyways. It’s the entire show as you can tell by the cast. I don’t see what’s crazy about being against hateful ideology. Not to mention the nonsensical plot that I thankfully missed out on

[@peterlancester5494]

It is everything but boring. Of course they could have make this and that better. But never let the perfect stay in the way of the good.

[@yoyomama99]

no, i agree with him. Please differentiate premise and narrative. The premise is, yes, anything but boring. But the way they go about the narrative is painfully boring.

[@thisdrinkinglife]

its insufferable

[@ganndeber1621]

Its DEI driven tedium

[@unnf9971]

Thank You so much Reaper, for pointing out how much of a waste of time would it have been for me to watch this shiet. Much love, Brother!

[@louisuchihatm2556]

If you enjoy mind bending concepts, 3 body problem is probably one of the best out there on that department. You'll be genuinely amazed that a single mind can come up with these astonishing ideas. (Am talking about the trilogy - Remembrance of earth's past. 3body prob is the 1st book) Having watched the series then read the trilogy, I can confidently say that the narrator is uninformed. He understands so little about the series & his ignorance is clearly visible in his criticisms. His opinion is objectively invalid. He has no clue of what was happening at red coast guard, no clue of Ye W. motivations, no idea of what a sophon is, no idea why SanTi does not comprehend lying etc etc. If you are yet to watch it or also have no clue like the narrator, I advice you to take your time & prepare to get blown.

[@pepegalego]

It follows the events in the book better than other shows like Foundation, however, it has been diversified to such a point that is does become irrelevent. From one guy to half a dozen does go over the top.

[@yarabokin]

I actually thought this was pretty good. Enjoyed it and looking forward to the next season