Anyone else watching? The first scenes are so disturbing to me. Mob violence by anti-intellectual zealots against a physics professor. I just started it. Yikes.
3 Body Problem on Netflix
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 1, 2024 6:03 PM |
Turn it off, fool.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 25, 2024 11:33 PM |
Episode 5 is a 100/100 masterpiece.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 25, 2024 11:37 PM |
The first five minutes were so disturbing to me I had to turn it off. Maybe I’ll try it again later.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 25, 2024 11:38 PM |
That first scene is violent but very important in understanding why she did what she did.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 25, 2024 11:39 PM |
The scenes set in China are great and that's about it.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 25, 2024 11:39 PM |
Well, they did give it a good review in the NYT today.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 25, 2024 11:44 PM |
[quote] Anyone else watching?
Someone else is watching because it’s being discussed in the below-linked thread.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 26, 2024 12:38 AM |
Thanks R7 even though it's not a long thread.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 26, 2024 12:49 AM |
Fucking brilliant. I've read the 1st book, and about 2/3rds of the storyline is directly from the book's plot. Elements that the writers added I think really helped to focus the story (the book is great but at points gets extremely deep into the weeds of the physics/cosmology elements.)
And the opening is pretty close to the historical facts - China lost it's fucking mind during the Cultural Revolution. 15 year olds were charged with purging anybody with an education from public life for "non-revolutionary thought", which also mirrors the civilization development in the headset narratives.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 26, 2024 4:20 AM |
That ship scene was something else.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 26, 2024 4:31 AM |
Will it get a season 2?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 27, 2024 3:54 AM |
Will it get a season 3?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 27, 2024 3:56 AM |
Book 2 jumps 400 years later to the arrival, so I imagine they'll want to take a whack at that.
Don't know how the viewing numbers have been yet, though.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 27, 2024 12:43 PM |
Just finished episode 5. Love, LOVE this show.
I think it will become a slow burning big hit for Netflix
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 29, 2024 9:43 PM |
Episode 5 really was the best.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 30, 2024 2:35 AM |
I couldn't watch the beginning. Years ago, I had a grad class about China so I knew the history of what was happening, and it tore my heart out to see it. If you don't know anything about the Cultural Revolution in China, it's definitely worth reading about. The way anti-intellectualism is proceeding here in the U.S., it will be good to know some history of it.
Maybe I'll give this show a try later.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 30, 2024 3:02 AM |
Communism kills. We know.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 30, 2024 3:12 AM |
EP5 was fantastic. Had to go to bed but can't wait to start watching the last episodes.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 30, 2024 3:34 PM |
There are some very disturbing parallels between contemporary American society and Mao's Cultural Revolution in China with regard to academics and "intellectuals."
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 30, 2024 4:25 PM |
There are parallels between the Cultural Revolution and cancel culture on campuses. Not allowing freedom of speech for anyone who doesn’t share the hive mind opinion on racism, gender etc. for example. The right of course has its own crusades. Fortunately, there is enough commitment to individual rights in the U S to avoid anything similiar to China. I’d be more worried about the left though. They control “elite” colleges and are better at brainwashing students.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 30, 2024 4:36 PM |
Just finished this. Like r18, I saved the last 3 episodes and binged them this afternoon. Wonderful first season, ending on a provocative note.
Looking forward to season 2, if Netflix allows.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 30, 2024 8:50 PM |
I'm in the middle of episode 6. I'm still really enjoying it. It is interesting on several levels and is quiet complex, which is what scifi should be.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 30, 2024 8:58 PM |
Can someone give a quick summary about what’s it about?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 30, 2024 9:01 PM |
Sure, R23, a Chinese woman sends a message into space then we all die.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 30, 2024 9:03 PM |
R23, you see there are these three bodies and they have a problem. Hilarity ensues.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 30, 2024 9:04 PM |
R24 😳
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 30, 2024 10:07 PM |
[quote]Ye Wenjie is an astrophysicist who sees her father beaten to death during a struggle session in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She is conscripted by the military because of her scientific background and is sent to a secret military base in a remote region. Her fateful decision at the base echoes across space and time to a group of scientists in the present day, forcing them to face humanity's greatest threat.
It is a fairly faithful version of the first book in the trilogy, with lots more caucasians.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 30, 2024 10:12 PM |
I think the story jumps the shark at Episode 4. No spoilers, rather I can say it's been flirting with kitschy tropes so far but Episode 4 destroys all verisimilitude and it becomes fully pulpy B-movie alien mishmosh. Not even fun.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 31, 2024 8:53 PM |
And I thought episodes 4 and 5 were best.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 31, 2024 9:03 PM |
No accounting for taste.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 31, 2024 9:19 PM |
I loved the show R27 even if it had been all in Chinese. As a matter of fact it may have worked better for me in subtitles since all actors these days mumble and whisper and you need subtitles anyway. SMH
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 1, 2024 1:33 AM |
[quote] Communism kills. We know.
Almost as much as capitalism!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 8, 2024 12:15 AM |
Communism creates nothing, R33.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 8, 2024 12:49 AM |
^^but mass death, gulags and entire countries being prisons.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 8, 2024 12:50 AM |
Just finished watching this -- although the middle episodes were a bit bogged down and I could have lived without the whole "unrequited love" bullshit.
Looking forward to Season 2, but in the meantime, I think I'll give the Chinese version a whirl. Thirty episodes! That one might take awhile.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 8, 2024 1:19 AM |
r36- Holy cannoli- it's on Peacock!
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 8, 2024 1:30 AM |
[bold]Netflix's 3 Body Problem Will Be a 3-Season Series[/bold]
The Hollywood adaptation of Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past will do like the original books did and go out as a trilogy.
Before the month of May ended, Netflix revealed it’d renewed 3 Body Problem for more seasons. At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear just how long the show would go on, but the streamer has now officially revealed that fittingly enough, it’ll cap things off after two more seasons.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 1, 2024 5:10 PM |
[quote] Not allowing freedom of speech for anyone who doesn’t share the hive mind opinion on racism, gender etc. for example
What about “don’t say gay”? What about “climate change” being forbidden in state documents? What about “woke”?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 1, 2024 6:03 PM |