>>217326717
>some tard talks into his phone for 2 minutes in his car while loudly eating a chicken sandwhich in the parking lot of mcdonald's
100,000,000 views
>200+ million dollar show involving hundreds of professionals from set builders to computer graphics artists taking years to craft each episode
100,000 views

>>217326717
>no one watch
I watched

What's the point when a much better Chinese adaptation came out just a year before this one?

Hope S 2 & 3 will be kino. The books are.

>>217326794
>Chinese adaptation
you can't tell the characters apart they all look the same

>>217326717
the casted botoxed supermodels to play the supposedly smartest expert physicists in the world, i could not take any of this show seriously

id classify this as comfortable slop. it's so stupid, but oddly compelling. as far as zero cultural impact. I agree. the only scene I remember from it is the ship getting split in half with nanofibers.

>>217326717
They niggered it.

>>217326717
I eagerly await season 2 and search for updates about it regularly

>>217326717
Real answer
>How many people sign up for show?
>How many people just stay on and forget to cancel their subscriptions after?
>How many people watched the show, were about to cancel, but started watching the next "big" show, after this one ended
>How many of them watched a few episodes, didn't like it but were watching other shows we introduced
>How many people renewed a membership
The list goes on, I work in marketing data and the main criteria of whether or not a show was profitable is 1. How many viewers/new subscribers it brings in (and returning subscriptions), but most importantly 2. How many viewers might not like the "big new show" from point 1, but will get interested in "suggested for you" or "things you think we'll like". The main goal is subscription retention, the second being new subscribers. These are how shows get made and cancelled, and keep going, and are deemed profitable or not. I'm not fucking joking.

>>217326931
yet the male scientists look like complete losers. curious

>>217327945
No you don’t.

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>>217326717
It was all worth it for this empowering scene

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>>217326717
>sloppfied western IDE strong wymen propaganda
You know they had to purposefully ruin it before people realize how good it really is on the other side of the world

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>>217328410
i immediately stopped watching after this scene. it nearly made me throw up.

I know people who watched it but they're all boring people with shit taste in tv shows.

>>217328115
Why would anyone think you're joking? Nothing you said was that outlandish or unbelievable

People in science circles liked it. They didn't love it, because it's dumbed down for a general audience. But they liked it.

>>217328531
It's gratifying for a person with a background in the sciences, because it's almost as if it's popularizing science and making it more accessible for the average person. We love it when people off the street are even slightly excited about science.

>>217326757
People know the film and TV industry despise them, anon. Nobody wants to watch their drivel no matter how many professionals came together to create whatever thinly-veiled woke slop we are expected to hork for next.

You can only treat the audience with contempt for so long... maybe all the actors, directors, and producers shouldn't have decided to become activists too. People hate activsts lol. Especially celebrity activists.

>>217326717
the chinese show is better

>>217328410
Are you implying this wasn't in the original Chinese novel?

>>217328473
Yeah, I don't know what purpose the scene served.
It certainly didn't do any favors for the protagonists.
I kinda wish that random guy was the protagonist; he seemed chill.

>>217326757
>>some tard talks into his phone for 2 minutes in his car while loudly eating a chicken sandwhich in the parking lot of mcdonald's
Link?

>smartest man in the world
>cast a black guy who smokes weed, is lazy, and not smart at all
>*takes hit of blunt*
>"it was a deep fake"

World's smartest man.

>what if aliens are... le bad?
this shit was dead on arrival.

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Gort is better

>>217329047
Report of the week

i watched but i forgot what happened
someone got shot
and there was a little girl character in a simulation with bad cgi or something

>Why didn't I watch this?
The title, Three Body Problem.
Sounds an awful like 'Everything All At Once" which I also didn't watch.

I don't watch anything with pretentious book sounding titles. They're always shitty long drawn out dramas with blue-green color filters, and sassy black cops solving mysteries that don't really go anywhere.

>>217329724
In the book he’s Chinese, not black. But he is kind of a fuck up at first. But he has a revelation and really grows as a person and becomes very important for humanity’s survival.

>>217326717
There were good parts to the show.

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>>217328410
>wow that sounds awesome
>I’m a forklift driver at a warehouse and collect funko pops
>wanna have a threesome?

>>217327882
How much? Are we talking The Witcher levels of niggerfication? I wanted to watch this but that put me away...

>>217331092
Most of the characters in the show are white British, Indian, or black. In the book they are mostly Chinese with like one white and one Latino. And an aboriginal Australian later on. The show hasn’t got to his part yet though.

>>217331092
>>217331245
Actually the head lady at the UN might be black in the book just like the show. I don’t remember though.

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>>217326717
I read the books and the dark forest.
Should I give the show a try or is it going to upset me?

>>217326717
>take something that is established and popular
>writers/showrunners: I know better, I'm going to change everything about it
>produce shit
every fucking time.

>>217326794
wait wait so we have now two different show adaptations of the three bodies problem? Which one do I need to watch then?

>>217331276
don't speak china

>>217331258
let me put it this way. I read the books and while the characters are a big part, the core of the story is the events that happen. For whatever reason, the writers decided that the show was about the characters and their connection to each other. Also intrigue and mystery just because.

>>217329001
Nigga the female scientist in that video is a Chinese male scientist in the novel.

It cannot be understated how much the series raped the original in everything which leftists typically cry about - it raceswapped, genderswapped and nationalityswapped almost the entire main cast lmao.

>>217329001
No I don't remember that and if it was in it it wasn't conveyed this way.
What I know from what I heard is that all the kino characters from the book were removed like the hardcore chinese cop so I'm not gonna bother.

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>>217328410
>I can't wait to go to a bar talk about my super science work!

>>217331258
There’s some cringy scenes like >>217328410 and combine a few characters together, but overall it’s a decent adaptation. It is in chronological order though, so they have some stuff early on that isn’t until later in the books. But I think that decision makes a lot of sense. I think what changes there are are reasonable for the change in medium from book to show.

>>217331309
>but overall it’s a decent adaptation.
you have shit standards

>>217329747
Yet one alien nigga working as a long distance spotter is the one who warned humanity, for no personal gains.

>>217331321
I think it makes a lot of sense to make it in chronological order and to combine some characters like the “wall breakers” who seem to all be rolled into the redheaded chick.

>>217331353
chronological order, sure, that makes sense. What they did with the characters was pants on head retarded and unnecessary. Any adaptation that changes the bones of the original is inherently bad.

I tried to read the book and it was ass

>>217330999
Based
>>217331271
True basically. What is the most successful faithful adaptation?

>>217328410
>is this 7/10 showing genuine interest and kindness towards us?
>better immediately mog the fuck out of him with a 50 word job description of whst we do, discouraging further interaction
There are women out there who unironically think like this.

>>217331476
the first season of the last of us and GoT

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>>217331276
>so we have now two different show adaptations of the three bodies problem?
3 if you include the animated series

>>217331496
>GoT
Maybe through like season 2? I think they were already beginning to diverge from the books at the end of 2 and going into 3.
>Last of us s1
I have little familiarity with the source material, but wasn't the casting inconsistent?

>>217331309
>combine a few characters together

Don't they split the main character into like 3 or at least give other characters shit he does. If not make the lead character a woman.

>>217331537
I meant both first seasons of those two shows. Casting wasn't inconsistent. Pedro did a decent joel. The potato face didn't look the part but by the end of the season she did embody Ellie despite not looking like her. The show strayed a little but for the most part it did 1:1 adaptations of major story beats.

>>217331553
I don't recall the season too well, but what I remember hating about it is that they linked all the main characters together. The oxford 5 or some shit. It was stupid. I can't even remember which character is which in the book, but all the swapping ruined it for me.

>>217331276
The chinese version is 1:1 book adaptation of the first book, it's 30 episodes long.
The Netflix version is 8 episodes long, with mixed character swap (black people/main chara is now a girl, the usual netflix), I dropped it after the first episode but from what I read it here, they did a rushed adaptation of the first book and went into the second book too.

>>217326717
I wish they kept the fat snack guy

>>217331587
>they did a rushed adaptation of the first book and went into the second book too.
that was probably the only smart thing they did but they still did it wrong. I remember the scene where they launch the guy's brain into space, the way they did it it was supposed to be this huge suspenseful moment but it felt flat and stupid to me. Like they kept focusing on this one NASA faggot the whole time...show fucking sucks.

>>217326717
It was fine & great, Except the lead actress, so fucking obnoxious, I just wanted to aliens to wipe the human species out and start over.

WHAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT OF MURDERING THE OLD CHINK LADY?? WHY CHANGE THAT PLOT POINT????

>>217331591
Oh, I forgot the dinosaur gets him at the waterfall
What a bitch

>>217329001
I just finished reading the first novel. It definitely wasn't.

Another major change was skipping a lot of the ETO content, iirc netflix version didn't even acknowledge the adventists/reformers/etc.

It's hard to recommend either the netflix or tencent version though. Obviously tencent if accuracy is important to you, but chinese TV production is obviously a decade or two behind US. Acting in both isn't great, Wade in netflix is probably the only standout character, while Da Shi in tencent is great while his netflix actor feels like a miscast.

>>217331674
Yeah Wade is great in the Netflix version.

I was drunk and saw Netflix pushing it when it was released. Thought I’d just pass out to it… but I laughed so hard at how ‘silly’ it is, can’t think of a better term… like a shotgun blast of batshit plot points, almost indistinguishable from parody in a way. Was a good night, desu.

Got me to read the novels, which are wonderful, and probably my favorite sci fi of the past 20 years. But that initial experience of catching this bad adaptation was worth it. Have no faith in a season 2 even though it’s covering the good shit.

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>>217326717
Don't give a shit about this, but the weird name reminded me of another show.

Can't remember the name, wanted to watch it but didn't. I think it was originally a Polish (or some other Euro show) and its about a hospital were creepy supernatural shit happens. I think they did a remake for American TV, not sure.

Thanks if you know the name of it.

Chinese adaptation was better but people here are too dumb and propagandized by the American state department to ever consider watching it.

>>217329879
>Gort is better
Klaatu Barada Nikto!

>>217331944
>Bad pacing
>amateuristic filming and direction
>contains every single cliche of the worst of slope soap operas and melodramas
>some of the worst sound mixing I've ever heard
>randomly dubbing over characters with random other voice actors in the middle of monologues

You're either a shill or a retard, either way you should kill yourself.

The books are bad, the chink series is bad, and the netflix series is bad. They are all bad, chinks are incapable of creative thought.

>>217330274
>Three Body Problem
It's just the name of a real physics unsolved problem that is somewhat poignant to the premise.

eeaao was taken from a shitty internet meme or something

>>217331258
The story and characters were heavy Netflix'd
Do your math

>>217331378
>>217331353
>>217331321
The author is a bad writer, and after he finished every book he realized he actually hated the characters he wrote so he made up new characters for the next book. This was the only way to do an adaptation for TV. It is actually kind of funny how the characters just get worse as the series goes on. There are some good side characters in book 2, and a single good character in book 3, but the main character of each book just gets worse from the already low point of book 1. Cheng Xin might be the worst written character I have ever seen in any media ever. Most books don't get movie or tv adaptations, and there are far more deserving books than this shit stain of a series.

The only reason it got as big as it did was because western publishers were pushing it during the mid to late 00's because everyone was trying to get in on the economic rise of china by sucking their dicks with things like culture. It is why that stupid Cirque du Soleil chink ripoff was plastered on every single billboard across America. This series was literally the best they had to offer and it isn't even worth the paper it is printed on.

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>>217332229
The books are good. Cheng Xin is a good character. A lot of people don’t understand her character and what she represents.

>>217332292
oh my. that's some terrible writing. i hope this is just translated poorly.

>>217332307
The author is fluent in english and is credited in the translation of the book. He himself even says the english version is the definitive version of the series.
>>217332292
>I know Cheng Xin kinda sounds like the word "love" in chinkspeak so I am going to wrap every single one of her actions into some hamfisted metaphor about love.
No we understood the character perfectly.

>>217331276
the chinese one is cheap and long, but it actually has good sci-fi content when it does. you can tell the guy who wrote the books is really into it. narratively its a little stupid, but all the alien stuff is nice.

The "teardrop" moment will be the cliffhanger to season 3 of the show as D&D call it the "Red wedding moment of 3 body problem"

If they could have sped up production I am pretty sure normalfags will be enamored with the show if they see the teardrop moment.

To be honest I liked the third book the best because the "dimension decay" was genuinely novel and a cool concept to think about a downward spiral of constant escape from higher planes.

>>217326717
Despite the mostly dogshit casting I really liked it. 2 year wait between season 1 hurt its momentum but fuck it, shows are rarely popular from the first season anyways so it makes sense for them to do it the way there are to gauge if it even works with 1 then work on 2 and 3 at the same time

>>217326717
The books are retarded btw

>write book as an allegory for Chinese people destroying humanity to warn others
>destroying scientific progress, slowly invading over 400 years, even self insert character giving warning
>gets past censors
>people are too stupid to understand the message
>write third book spelling out that book is written with message intended to bypass censors
>still gets past censors
>people are still too stupid to understand the message
I think we need to start looking at how many chinks are involved in particle reactors.
These books were so fucking disgusting. Seeing into the bugman mind. "If we can't all survive nobody can." The hypercompetent leader guy running things tries to save humanity after the crazy bitch woman dooms the entirety of earth again, but she says stop; so he immediately turns himself in and is executed. This is like 3 sentences. It's farcical. The crazy bitch isn't responsible for killing humanity because 'people chose you to be in that position'.
If you want a reason to absolutely hate China these are the books.
Also the ending is aliens destroying the universe, then a scoreboard pops up saying which species survived as if that's a win.

I like how the books get conceptually more complex every entry. The first book was honestly a bit retarded and merely written to keep the reader's attention with constant suspense and the timer ticking down, but the concepts aren't actually interesting.

Book 2 is the perfect "dunning kruger" deep sounding bullshit that normalfags fall for. So the 2nd book is the one that everyone talks about and people say is their favorite. It's the rick & morty "I fucking love science" (But I can't do calculus) crowd praising this entry.

The third book actually comes up with legitimate insightful and novel stuff that makes you think and sticks with you. However it goes way over the heads of most people reading it as they don't proper grasp the implications of dynamic laws of physics and the straight up horror it implies. This is the true masterpiece of the trilogy.

The writers previous show pantheon did have some cultural impact and was 4ch disclosure x kino
Sadly it got cancelled early

They dont spend 20m to make TV
They make TV to spend 20m

>>217332730
You're actually right but it was because it was written and published during the Jiang Zemin period of China in 2006 which was the time with the least censorship ever in China so he kind of got away with it.

A couple of years ago the writer actually got Jack Ma'd. After reappearing after a couple of months of being a "missing person" he suddenly retracted all of his subtle lines about it being allegory and claimed that it doesn't reflect the CCP and their policies at all and that it's "a simple sci-fi story".

I really appreciate you noticing these things however. This is a vital piece of Chinese literature that will survive the test of time whenever the CCP inevitably fails and collapses.

>>217332730
Agreed

>>217326931
Everyone on the show is ugly, intentionally so.

>>217332738
I agree, but also think the first two books are needed to set up the third.

>>217329997
that guy is doing performance art, though.
the whole point is the disconnect between his persona and what he is reviewing.

>>217332292
lmao that's the part I mentioned where the dumb bitch that destroyed humanity is told it's everyone else's fault for allowing her to do it.

>>217331514
Is this the one that never got released, or another?

>>217326717
>Netflix

>>217332730
This. The books are great purely as a look into the mindset of the Chinese, the greatest heroes they have are a guy who manages to convince the entire world he's a drunk deadbeat retard and then pulls a 4D asspull chess move to win anyway, and a guy who just openly lies about thinking humanity can win in the hopes that he'll get frozen so he can hijack a spaceship and flee before the ayys arrive.

>>217326717
It's too Chinese.

>>217332993
She never did anything wrong though. If she did push the button, humanity would be doomed. And that's what exactly happens anyway. And the crazy general threatening the government was never gonna work anyway. I guess that's the point; MAD only works if both parties agree.

>>217326717
I don't even know what this is.

>>217332229
>The only reason it got as big as it did was because western publishers were pushing it during the mid to late 00's because everyone was trying to get in on the economic rise of china by sucking their dicks with things like culture.
Certainly it couldn't be that 21st century western scifi is all dogshit, of course not.

>>217326717
Two things
1, The book is a hit in changland because almost nobody in China writes scifi (and after 3BP success it remained the same due to chang retarfed censorship)
So while the west enjoy their rise and fall of scifi trends for decades, three chinky problems is just another drop of water in the ocean for western market
2, The series is China’s core, aka it represented perfectly chink mentality
it is almost 100% the retelling of China’s 100 years of shameful display but with scifi lens: the Earth is China, primitive and hopelessly outmatched, and the ayys are foreign powers (if the Sophon bot being a katana-wielding japanese woman isn’t already slapping that to your face)
It also pinned the “dogs eat dogs” worldview chinks love so much all over the places, ends justify means, killing billions is ok as long as it archives your goal, and the woman to is basically the representation of western liberal ideas are mocked like a retard
Those are harder for western audience to relate to, who enjoy superiority and prosperity in most of their modern history and can spare a more sympathetic ideology.
So conclusion, you whitebois are the aliens in this story, of course you wouldnt like it