Three Body Problem (English Remake/Netflix.)

[Guy Gardener]

3 Body Problem.

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Multinational cast, Chinese subtitles, and at least 4 hold overs from Game of Thrones.

Hard science vs A damn bloody slow alien Invasion.

Remember The Big Chill? A group of college friends meet 20 years later, and two of them are sad that they never went to bone town together? That's this but with Aliens who made a VR video game and we can blame everything on Chairman Mao being an anti-science prick.

8 episodes dropped yesterday, very enjoyable.

Anyone watching?

 

[Q2UnME]

Yes, I binged 7 of 8 episodes yesterday. Though not familiar with the source material, I thought the acting for the most part is very good, story unfolds at a rather slow, but deliberate pace. Pretty hard sci-fi, so the dialog and concepts get fuzzy at times. Production values are off the charts for the most part, but wonky VFX took me out of it one time (really, how hard is it to do a convincing CGI chimpanzee in 2024?). Over all, very entertained and will finish up what's available tonight. 8/10

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Are spoilers OK in this thread? There is already another 3BP thread.

ETA: One thing that the series gets spot on is that physicists can be a bunch of annoying, arrogant dicks.

Spoiler: Me, being an arrogant dick ex-physicist

I thought that communicating with Alpha Centauri would be impossible from Inner Mongolia (most southerly latitude 37.4° north) given that the declination of that stellar system is 61° south, but it seems the Sun is a magical radio wave resonant amplifier. Initially, that irritated me the most. However, it also seems it's not implausible. See https://scifi.stackexchange.com/que...em-does-the-suns-amplification-of-radio-trans
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com...lectromagnetic-waves-in-solar-type-iii-bursts
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-19195-3

Meanwhile, there are rumours that signs of ET communication were found in the Seti@home data. There's even a rumour that some images were decipherable, which would be astounding. There's a large bag of NaCl over there. Help yourself.

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[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, started last night and It's way better than I was expecting. You don't often get big cerebral sci-fi anymore, and it's refreshing for something to take a chance.

 

[theenglish]

I'm a little confused by some articles about the show. On the one hand there are a number of articles calling this series DOA with little chance of a second season, let alone a third-- and based on what I'm reading here, the show should probably need more than that to do justice to the books. And then today I read a couple of articles discussing the phenomenal streaming numbers of the show. Is it possible this is not doing as well in North America as hoped, but is pulling amazing numbers world wide?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Possibly not USA-centric enough for an American audience with too many "foreign" accents and settings? Possibly requires too much concentration and application of prior knowledge and intelligence? Certain political and religious sectors aren't going to like it for quite a number of reasons. Perhaps we should not speculate as it would cause too much controversy.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I'm a little confused by some articles about the show. On the one hand there are a number of articles calling this series DOA with little chance of a second season, let alone a third-- and based on what I'm reading here, the show should probably need more than that to do justice to the books. And then today I read a couple of articles discussing the phenomenal streaming numbers of the show. Is it possible this is not doing as well in North America as hoped, but is pulling amazing numbers world wide?

First of all, it's Netflix. Netflix has always been hard to read when it comes to how successful something is, as they've dropped seemingly successful shows at 3 seasons, or even less. So, who knows. But I for one am glad it's not a hollywood-ized version of something changed for the North American market, and I'm having a blast with it.

Spoiler

Maybe it's me, but I had strong Apple Vision Pro vibes when they first showed off the VR. Apple should get the VFX people and the actors to make Apple Vision Pro commercials.

 

[Skipper]

First of all, it's Netflix. Netflix has always been hard to read when it comes to how successful something is, as they've dropped seemingly successful shows at 3 seasons, or even less.

Yep, it's not just how many people watched that show, but how many new viewers signed up to the platform to watch it.