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All of the less than stelar reviews kind of confirm my feeling: Most of the characters are bland and uninteresting, the plot sometime super slow, on other parts rushing through it like there is no tomorrow.
Overall, I would rate it at 3/5. Watchable, but not a show I probably will ever revisit or hold my breath for season 02.
by Greyhound posted 4 days ago
@Kanga
Thanks.
I guess I may as well sink my teeth into the book, in that case, since it's a long time commitment either way.
by Kanga posted 4 days ago
Greyhound said:
@Kanga,
I've only watched the Netflix version.
Since you've watched the Chinese version, could you, please, elucidate if it goes past the same point in the story than the Netflix one does?
I'm curious about the Chinese version, but it's 30 episodes long, so it's a big commitment.
So the Western version also goes into book two in the trilogy with its 8 episodes while the Chinese 30 episodes only covers the first book but it does that while following the book near perfectly and I prefer that. The negative of this approach is that.. maybe it's not entirely interesting at all times in those 30 episodes because there is parts of the book that is repetitious to be frank and when it's on the screen then it feels even longer.
The Western version covers all the major points/happenings, it doesn't really miss anything important so I'd say for all intents and purposes it's a good adaption, better than I expected and better than what we normally see in this kind of adaptions. If I have to point to the negative then it's obviously not the book and at times I was confused in the 8 episodes because it just so quickly jumped from happening to happening.
1x2! There's a lot to like, but what I really loved was...
...Jack Rooney trying the VR headset for the first time. So good.
Awesome acting!
by Greyhound posted 5 days ago
@Kanga,
I've only watched the Netflix version.
Since you've watched the Chinese version, could you, please, elucidate if it goes past the same point in the story than the Netflix one does?
I'm curious about the Chinese version, but it's 30 episodes long, so it's a big commitment.
by Kanga posted 5 days ago
I've watched both the Chinese and the Western one now, I've also read the book. The western one is not as bad as I feared and once I got past the first few obligatory homosexual characters I kinda like it, the fragmented storyline kinda works tbh, it has advantages but in the end I preferred the Chinese version.
As for not showing China's dirty past. This is perfectly true but we don't show e.g. leftwing terrorism or the countless casualties during racial protests in western media either. Civilizational bias.
by fassy posted 5 days ago
Yeah, I can't really put the finger on it. Just not my thing, I guess.
by lighton posted 5 days ago
Interesting! I've only watched 1x1 so far and really enjoyed it. :)
Thankfully, they showed the brutality of Chinese history - not sure if the books also cover that (in a similar way), but for some reasonthe Chinese version* of this show managed to hide that history completely. ;) Glory to the CCP! :cool:
*It was partially good, but overall too Chinese for me to be able to complete.
by fassy posted 5 days ago
Absolutely not my thing... sat trough the first 4 episodes and while the intention and development of the story line is pretty obvious (I did not read the books), the whole storytelling is confusing and fragmented.
I do not enjoy the mix between China in the 70s, modern day England and the VR world. Especially the VR world scenes are boring and make no sense at all
And I don't like ANY of the cast.
Will give it another episode or two, but just because I invested already 4 hours and want to see what will happen now. ;)
Still, I'd argue the show is overhyped and does not deliver up to that promise.
I think the review on https://mashable.com/article/3-body-problem-review-netflix sums it up pretty well. Same for https://popculturemaniacs.com/3-body-problem-review/ or https://www.tvinsider.com/1127419/3-body-problem-review/.
All of the less than stelar reviews kind of confirm my feeling: Most of the characters are bland and uninteresting, the plot sometime super slow, on other parts rushing through it like there is no tomorrow.
Overall, I would rate it at 3/5. Watchable, but not a show I probably will ever revisit or hold my breath for season 02.
Thanks.
I guess I may as well sink my teeth into the book, in that case, since it's a long time commitment either way.
I've only watched the Netflix version.
Since you've watched the Chinese version, could you, please, elucidate if it goes past the same point in the story than the Netflix one does?
I'm curious about the Chinese version, but it's 30 episodes long, so it's a big commitment.
So the Western version also goes into book two in the trilogy with its 8 episodes while the Chinese 30 episodes only covers the first book but it does that while following the book near perfectly and I prefer that. The negative of this approach is that.. maybe it's not entirely interesting at all times in those 30 episodes because there is parts of the book that is repetitious to be frank and when it's on the screen then it feels even longer.
The Western version covers all the major points/happenings, it doesn't really miss anything important so I'd say for all intents and purposes it's a good adaption, better than I expected and better than what we normally see in this kind of adaptions. If I have to point to the negative then it's obviously not the book and at times I was confused in the 8 episodes because it just so quickly jumped from happening to happening.
Chinese media and censoring of historic events in China
https://forum.next-episode.net/viewtopic.php?id=11837
...Jack Rooney trying the VR headset for the first time. So good.
Awesome acting!
I've only watched the Netflix version.
Since you've watched the Chinese version, could you, please, elucidate if it goes past the same point in the story than the Netflix one does?
I'm curious about the Chinese version, but it's 30 episodes long, so it's a big commitment.
As for not showing China's dirty past. This is perfectly true but we don't show e.g. leftwing terrorism or the countless casualties during racial protests in western media either. Civilizational bias.
Thankfully, they showed the brutality of Chinese history - not sure if the books also cover that (in a similar way), but for some reason the Chinese version* of this show managed to hide that history completely. ;) Glory to the CCP! :cool:
*It was partially good, but overall too Chinese for me to be able to complete.
I do not enjoy the mix between China in the 70s, modern day England and the VR world. Especially the VR world scenes are boring and make no sense at all
And I don't like ANY of the cast.
Will give it another episode or two, but just because I invested already 4 hours and want to see what will happen now. ;)