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3 Body Problem
2024 · TV series · 1 season
Created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Alexander Woo
Science FictionFantasyMysteryDrama
Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.
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I remember reading the letters of Cicero about Gaias Julius (Later known as Cesar) how he complains how the he and his gang is acting all amoral and wearing ridiculous scandalous clothes, waring the togas in provocative feminine fashion.
There are accounts from all over history of how "the times were more thoughtful and moral in the good old days" But here we are, thousands of years later, still complaining about the younger members of our species and how they will bring ruin to us all. Perhaps they will, but it all seems so human to complain about that.
I remember the art of the 90s - when my part of the world got access to marvelous pieces like Thunder in Paradise, Barbed Wire, American Ninja, Bay Watch ... at the time it was considered the pinnacle of art by teenagers like me, and despised by my parents. But at the same time we had things like The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption, Leon ... We remember the good stuff and the forget the fluff.
There are some real gems being created all the time, maybe not always from Hollywood but human creativity soldiers on.
The Good Place, The Expanse, 3 Body Problem, Horizon Zero Dawn, Expedition 33, Project Hail Marry. There is a constant stream of incredible thoughtful stuff being produced - books, games, movies, essays, videos, podcasts - the medium might change but humans always try to find ways to discover, understand and express the world around us in novel ways, one just needs to listen/watch.
Apple seems to have a no-nudity policy more or less (or at least, minimal nudity).
I dunno. Sex is part of human existence so it shouldn’t be off-limits for media IMO. But the sort of perfunctory thing where every show on Netflix or HBO has to have some nudity in the first couple episodes was a bit annoying. I don’t mind the lack of nudity in Apple’s stuff. There’s a balance that Apple falls on the “overly conservative” side of, though.
What’s adult mean to you? Nudity, violence, I dunno. Severance considers things like self-identity and the fake personalities, and fake social constructs of our workplaces… it seems more adult to me than a gangster or cowboy story.
I also quite like Pluribus, it feels like actual sci-fi (in the same way 3 Body Problem from Netflix does, actually—legit sci-fi, not action heroes in space).
Ah. Looks like I completely missed or forgot.. Wikipedia has this in Episode 5
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_Day_(3_Body_Problem)
> The avatar details how crippling Earth's scientific advancement will prevent humans from technologically surpassing them before they arrive
Nobody Wants This; Bridgerton; Wednesday; Man on the Inside; 3 Body Problem; Emily in Paris; the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender; Love, Death, and Robots; How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast); Is It Cake?; Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney; and some others I’ve definitely had conversations about outside my own household.
Arcane was a pretty big deal and it was released on Netflix and TenCent.
They also have continued series that originated on other networks, including Unsolved Mysteries and Black Mirror.
I know several people who watched Cyberpunk: Edgerunners on Netflix and are excited about the upcoming CDPR and Netflix project set in the Cyberpunk universe.
I’ve had recommended to me and have recommended to others quite a few of their original movies. You might like 6 Undergound if you’re looking for an action movie.
I don't buy it. That's clearly the sun until it reaches that red line and then it shrinks and disappears. I've never seen anything like that happen in the sky. Moon or sun. It's super weird.
It's kind of a fun synchronicity though as just after seeing that video, I watched episode 2 of 3 Body Problem where the same sort of thing happens!
The 3-body problem trilogy (Rememberance of the Earth's past). My first sci-fi novels ever - the Netflix show sold me and these novels compelled me on a whole new hard sci-fi rabbit hole.
Presumed Innocent (preceeded by the Apple TV show of same name). Murder mystery. Loved it.
Tie-in novels from videogame franchise:
- Deus Ex: Black Light
- Devil May Cry: before the nightmare
I've also started Marvel Comics in anticipation of Fantastic Four and the whole Secret Wars storyline it will build up.
Couldn't finish a single non-fiction this year, but enjoyable so far:
- Zero to One
- When I say no, I feel guilty
- Designing data-intensive applications
You're lucky, I find something like <2% enjoyable to actually give real attention to. For that reason I watch basically 0 TV or movies anymore.
And feels like the less I watch, the less I can watch anything without immediately being annoyed at cheese, cheapness, and mostly just plain unrealistic characters or dialogue (which really and truly is 99% it seems like of shows).
I need either high art or a slice of life. Ghibli or Satoshi Kon for anime, stuff like Kubrick in film, or Mad Men for TV. Mad Men especially was my turning point where after that show I couldn't stomach much else.
Call me elitist. I watch lower quality YouTube stuff much more easily (at low attention), but once you're trying to sign me up for 30 minutes or more I just give up.
Tried watching the 3 Body Problem on Netflix and in just the first scenes (cultural revolution + the scientists convo on God) were so full of cringe. I kept it on as background a bit but petered out after a few episodes.
Netflix released a new TV show, 3 Body Problem, based on Liu Cixin's "Remembrance of Earth's Past" novel trilogy.
It comes from the creators of Game of Thrones and a top Google search trend for sci fi watching on streaming.
One of the streaming services has released a TV series called the 3-Body Problem based on a Chinese authors book series that features the name (as a book or series title).
The TV series poses a four body problem early on (three suns and a single planet).
> What do y'all make of Netflix's 3 Body problem?
I find it a brave project, given well-established U.S. tastes in video and movies. It can be said to courageously appeal to an audience not proven to exist.
> I never thought the books could be replicated for television, but I have to admit — this is pretty good work all things considered.
I agree it's pretty good work, but I don't think the original books are represented, much less replicated. This is commonly said about adaptations, certainly true here. I avoided disappointment by not expecting the book narrative to appear on the screen.
Personally I hope this project succeeds in finding a sustainable audience. I say this because rather than pandering to low taste (insert obligatory H. L. Mencken quote here: "Nobody ever went broke ..."), it instead { aspires to / imagines } a higher taste and intelligence than most Netflix fare.
But a few notes. The scene in which people are sucked away from the ground by an unexpected gravitational change (i.e. a tidal force) isn't physical. I understand sci-fi grants some license, but not for things as quotidian as the relationship between pedestrian and sidewalk, both of which would be sucked into the sky together in a realistic portrayal.
As to the commonly misunderstood property of entangled particles that they grant instantaneous communication over any distance: It's not so. Entangled particles don't violate causality. Again, it's sci-fi, but when you employ as a plot device a named property of real physics, there's a certain obligation to portray it accurately.
But the Netflix creators aren't solely responsible -- one of these errors (magic entanglement) is in the original books as well.
On the other hand, the nanofiber slicing / Panama Canal ship sequence is a must-see. Even if you plan to complain that Three Body Problem can't really be made into a video, watch the ship-slicing sequence first, then lodge your protest. Although it depicts massive loss of life, the care the producers took to get it right deserves praise for realism (about something unreal).
When I read the ship episode in the original books, I could picture it but naively thought there was no way it would ever be attempted by video producers, much less done well. Wrong.
Apparently there is Chinese TV show version of the 3 Body Problem; a friend of mine who liked the book a lot watched it and said it's really good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Body
> the public supports of the strike amounts to ... wanting new TV shows and movies
Nobody in my social circle has taken any notice of it, because movies and TV has become so bad that none of us watch them anymore. Dune was the last Hollywood movie I watched, Oppenheimer and the next Dune are the only movies I’m looking forward to watching. There’s nothing on TV that I watch. I’m somewhat looking forward to the 3 Body Problem adaptation, but I’m expecting it will be bad.
As far as I’m concerned they can stay on strike forever. Let somebody who can do a better job replace them.
The 3-Body Problem: A new movie adaption by PornHub.
I have been waiting for the 3 body problem film. Last I checked it was delayed, with just the trailer released.
Will check out the wandering earth. Thanks.