Just finished this. First 4 episodes were excellent, then they took the foot off the gas. As it progressed from there, it became clear that there would be no resolution this series!
I think the characters have all been pretty good, Auggie is perfectly watchable in her underthings :)
However, I don't understand why they are sending a 'human' towards the aliens. I don't understand how a nuclear bomb can accelerate a 'sail', attached to something in tow, the 'wires' and capsule which must also be capable of withstanding said nuclear explosion...300 times). That idea was a non-starter. I can tell you that from watching every single episode of TNG recently.
I also don't understand why if they want to take someone out, they don't just bounce one of those proton thingy's around inside someone's brain to mash it up.
Why don't they create a huge electromagnet to trap the proton thingy, or creat a powerful negative electric charge, using Liam Cunningham as bait. So many questions... :)
It's all been reasonably well done though, shame to lose 'Jack Rooney' so early, but at least the lovely Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brian from TNG ) made it to the last ep.
Were Brad Pitt and Rosamunde Pike really involved in this? Ah, just read it's their respective production companies.
Interesting series, hope it's renewed.
by h3ctic posted 11 months ago
Loved it 5/5! :D :D
by lighton posted 11 months ago
:D
by paisley1 posted 11 months ago
lighton said:
Finished it! Really enjoyed it, I give it slightly more than 8/10. Now Netflix... better renew it! :)
@paisley1: The way it was explained, it was plausible to me that they didn't have the option to speed things up.
Yet, to me it was explained away like when a fairy godmother says "if you're not home by midnight you'll turn into a pumpkin", and from that scene on, all I could think about were all the empty planets they could colonize between us and them, and all the spaceships at S12 Tonopah Test Range that could get them here faster. ;)
Scholars believe that 1.5 million to eight million people died in “abnormal deaths” in the decade from 1966 to 1976, while more than 100 million Chinese were affected by the period's upheaval.
Any discussion of the Cultural Revolution, a political movement that Mao Zedong started in 1966 to reassert authority by setting radical youths against those in charge, is heavily censored in China.
It's not surprising that fans of the book may have heard of the Cultural Revolution, but they don't have a concrete idea about the atrocities that the Communist Party and some ordinary Chinese committed. That's why the reactions to the Netflix series are concerning to some Chinese.
Yes, every good dictator likes the population lacking knowledge where it's not "appropriate" - nothing to see (or question) here, folks, move along!
Great show, totally hooked, lots of fun, but not sure it makes much sense...
I agree with all the above, I haven't read the books but I enjoyed this series.
by lighton posted 11 months ago
Finished it! Really enjoyed it, I give it slightly more than 8/10. Now Netflix... better renew it! :)
@paisley1: The way it was explained, it was plausible to me that they didn't have the option to speed things up.
by paisley1 posted 11 months ago
Great show, totally hooked, lots of fun, but not sure it makes much sense...
...because the technology of the sophons is so much more sophisticated than just designing a better hyper drive/warp drive, that they could've just created some sort of FTL to speed up the whole 400 year space flight, and even found other uninhabited planets to live on, also there are so many other alien races that are smarter than us in our galaxy, Giorgio Tsoukalos would have a field day with this show! :D lolz
One of my coworkers said the TV series was hard to track because it's so different from the book, where Ye Wenjie, Wang Miao & Shi Qiang's storylines were spread throughout an ensemble cast, but the TV series is better than the book, produced by the guys from Game of Thrones with a spectacular budget.
Why hope? See https://next-episode.net/3-body-problem:
3 Body Problem Will Return For Seasons 2 and 3:
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/3-body-problem-renewed
I think the characters have all been pretty good, Auggie is perfectly watchable in her underthings :)
However, I don't understand why they are sending a 'human' towards the aliens. I don't understand how a nuclear bomb can accelerate a 'sail', attached to something in tow, the 'wires' and capsule which must also be capable of withstanding said nuclear explosion...300 times). That idea was a non-starter. I can tell you that from watching every single episode of TNG recently.
I also don't understand why if they want to take someone out, they don't just bounce one of those proton thingy's around inside someone's brain to mash it up.
Why don't they create a huge electromagnet to trap the proton thingy, or creat a powerful negative electric charge, using Liam Cunningham as bait. So many questions... :)
It's all been reasonably well done though, shame to lose 'Jack Rooney' so early, but at least the lovely Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brian from TNG ) made it to the last ep.
Were Brad Pitt and Rosamunde Pike really involved in this? Ah, just read it's their respective production companies.
Interesting series, hope it's renewed.
@paisley1: The way it was explained, it was plausible to me that they didn't have the option to speed things up.
Yet, to me it was explained away like when a fairy godmother says "if you're not home by midnight you'll turn into a pumpkin", and from that scene on, all I could think about were all the empty planets they could colonize between us and them, and all the spaceships at S12 Tonopah Test Range that could get them here faster. ;)
The Netflix series showcases one of the country's most successful works of culture. Instead of demonstrating pride, social media is condemning it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/business/3-body-problem-china-reaction.html
Scholars believe that 1.5 million to eight million people died in “abnormal deaths” in the decade from 1966 to 1976, while more than 100 million Chinese were affected by the period's upheaval.
Any discussion of the Cultural Revolution, a political movement that Mao Zedong started in 1966 to reassert authority by setting radical youths against those in charge, is heavily censored in China.
It's not surprising that fans of the book may have heard of the Cultural Revolution, but they don't have a concrete idea about the atrocities that the Communist Party and some ordinary Chinese committed. That's why the reactions to the Netflix series are concerning to some Chinese.
Yes, every good dictator likes the population lacking knowledge where it's not "appropriate" - nothing to see (or question) here, folks, move along!
The article links to
CHRONOLOGY OF MASS KILLINGS DURING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION (1966-1976)
https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/chronology-mass-killings-during-chinese-cultural-revolution-1966-1976.html
I agree with all the above, I haven't read the books but I enjoyed this series.
@paisley1: The way it was explained, it was plausible to me that they didn't have the option to speed things up.
...because the technology of the sophons is so much more sophisticated than just designing a better hyper drive/warp drive, that they could've just created some sort of FTL to speed up the whole 400 year space flight, and even found other uninhabited planets to live on, also there are so many other alien races that are smarter than us in our galaxy, Giorgio Tsoukalos would have a field day with this show! :D lolz
One of my coworkers said the TV series was hard to track because it's so different from the book, where Ye Wenjie, Wang Miao & Shi Qiang's storylines were spread throughout an ensemble cast, but the TV series is better than the book, produced by the guys from Game of Thrones with a spectacular budget.