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As a fan of the books, I appreciate how the series captures the essence while offering fresh perspectives.

For the ones that read the books, keep in mind, it’s “Based on” not an “adaptation of”…. Even so, as someone that totally fell in love with the books (and author), I really enjoyed Netflix’s take on this amazing story and looking forward to it continuation.

Death's end is so mind bending. I hope they end the show the way the book ends.

I think the problem with the series is the oversimplification of characters. Taking Ye Wenjie as example. She and her experience are the highlights of book one. Her desperation, her hope (example when almost dying giving birth to Yang Dong, then saved and kindly treated by the villagers), her regret (for starting the ETO and lost control, just like another mad culture revolution), her redemption (inspiring LuoJi). While now she becomes just a flat character filled with hatred. This book series has so much more to dig, that if they did it justice, it could hit a much higher level rather than now being just average, because they wanted to swallow too much in one go.

the general consensus seems to be that people who read the book think the show is trash because they changed it up a bit. but anyone who hasnt read the books think the show is amazing. i think people need to get over the fact that not everything has to be a 1 to 1 adaption. that would make things boring.

Loved the show. I immediately got online after finishing the last episode and read what happens in book 2 and 3 and holy shit does the story get absolutely fucking bonkers.

You can compare Netflix version with Chinese TV version which was more closely related to the original book.

As a Chinese, I now understand how the French felt when they saw the movie Napoleon.

as a reader of the books, I think everything is moving waaay too fast and the tone is nothing like the story should be, but I am just glad that the story is still respected. Hopefully season 2 slows things down and isn't afraid to take risks because, season 1 was the most "netflix-ified" example I've seen in a long time.

I just finished watching the series yesterday. I went blind. I have not read the books, I'm not even much of a sci-fin fan but I really liked this series. I totally understand and respect that some book readers may have found this a little too fast-paced. But honestly, with me having issues with very short attention span, I really liked its pacing. It's no bullsh*t straight to the point. As a regular audience, I don't care about the deep diving tidbits, that will surely make me bored. Hope this gets Season 2 and get to the end.

I watched the series and haven’t read the book. This is one of the most intriguing stories I have come across in this genre and a fascinating one. Although the last few episodes a bit slow in my opinion compared to the scintillating initial episodes, i binge watched it. I am all set to read the triology

I think this show was a cool way to adapt the books. I love them, but this difference take is a great way to make the show fresh for readers, while keeping the ideas in tact.

It’s really annoying that this wasn’t well researched enough to include the fact that Jack is absolutely a character in the books. Tianming has a friend from college that owns the beverage company. Y’all need to watch Quinn’s ideas … the differences between the show in the bucks cannot be pointed out in 13 minutes. There also is multiplayer mode in the game , what are you talking about ?! my biggest issue with the show is that the cop isn’t playing the game like he is in the book. Tatiana is shen yufei

Having read the novels and watched the shows I think they did a good job of transforming it into a watchable TV series.

I read the OG chinese version. The author struggled with storytelling and character development until the third book. Considering it was his debut work, I can forgive this, especially since his strength lies in explaining physics, which I love. Although Netflix excelled in storytelling, but fell short in explaining most of the concepts behind alien technology, which the book delves into with great detail.

In case you don't know.. you can also watch Chinese Version of 3 Body Problem... It's more detailed and focused on the MC..

Overall, I thought it was a decent adaptation. I was hoping to get a Sophon zoom meeting between old Ye and the original San Ti who tried to warn her. I really thought that would have been an amazing opportunity for a mountain top swan song conversation. Far better than just Tatiana. I really thought Tatiana was going to say "before you go, there is someone who wants to talk to you...."

I am halfway through the 2nd book and it truly is a difficult text to adapt. There are long dissertations about science, military strategies, mathematics or even love (Luo Ji and the writer), to summarize everything to turn it into film/tv language must have been hard. I don't like some changes that have been done, but I think it's a dynamic ans well crafted show. I still haven't seen the Chinese version.

I personally think this movie is made for people like me, and my friends, who can't really understand all the science part. My sister and I, for example, couldn't really understand what happened in Auggie's scene when she shut down the lab, what was nanofiber, etc. We only understood it in episode 5. Maybe it became more difficult since English isn't our mother tongue. But for ppl like us, despite our limited understanding, we enjoyed the plot. I personally looked up for more explanation online and it didn't take away my initial enjoyment of the show.

In my university we have Chinese exchange students and I talked to some of them about this. They do not like the Netflix version and told me in china they made their own version and it is better

This series is an incredible storytelling achievement. It takes you on an amazing journey that stays true to its original story. More than just an adaptation, it deeply explores what the future could hold, including the chance of meeting beings from other planets. It asks big questions about whether we should try to contact aliens and what we need to think about if we do. The series also brings a unique kind of fear, not from scary things but from the huge, mysterious universe around us. This fear, mixed with wonder and the unknown, makes the show more than just entertaining-it's a thought-provoking look at what lies beyond our world and how we fit into the vastness of space.

I was skeptical about the 3 body problem, but fortunately my daughter recommended it to me. I am a big fan of science fiction, not science fantasy or even worse pure fantasy passed off as Sci-fi. This series impressed me! (Something that has not happened in a very long time.) They did not go light with the science part...when I had to explain the 3 body problem (Newton's problem) and what the WOW signal is, to my wife, that was a good thing. Now I hope that Netflix will continue with the series. I will read the book after that.

With all the adding, cutting, shifting, shuffling, etc. all the characters and events, I think the show is more appropriate to be labeled as "inspired by", not adaptation.

The mediums of episodic tv on screen and published novels are very different and require ‘adaptation’. I always use the example of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. Yes, they are different and the film made changes to the book. But as a result, they are each superior stories, within their own mediums.

I think re-imagining the characters was a good move so there is some continuity and characters to follow throughout the whole story. In the books almost none of the characters except for a handful (Wade, Lou Ji, Ye Wenjie, Cheng Xin, Yun Tianming) are really developed. A lot of characters appear for a bit and then vanish from the story never to be seen again. This would make for very confusing TV

To me it seems they really only made three significant changes but that did cause some ripple effects: i) they "UKified" the characters and location, ii) reorganised the story so it's mostly chronological and iii) made some minor changes to help the audience with some of the physics and political explanations. Better than a lot of book adaptations and in some ways a definite improvement for a wider audience.

Tldr - the book has important philosophical ideas, big thinking and almost reads like a sci-fi horror unlike any other. The author takes some liberty with fringe science but has put alot of thought into how things might play out like a 'what if' sci-fi scenario and the answers tend to be logical and terrifying. The TV series is more like a good action sci-fi interspersed with drama. It removes alot of the philosophical aspects and simplifies the hard science. It is a different experience altogether. I would say the TV series simplifies the books alot let's say from a level of 10/10 down to a level of 3/10. This is why book readers feel the show is not good. It also gives it a Hollywood feel which removes a sense of realism the book delivers. This is unfortunately just a safe play on what Netflix viewers want. Big actors big explosions and CGI. It's entertainment for TV and not meant to be fan service anyway. Takeaway: if you like big ideas, esp sci-fi please read the book first. If not, the TV show is good enough to explore core concepts from the book. (but you'll need to pay attention as core concepts are sometimes mentioned or explained very briefly - eg. My wife missed a min of dialogue and completely misinterpreted the rest of the episode. Even the important events happening to important characters sometimes aren't acted out in a scene but just mentioned in dialogue between other characters so it's easy to miss.) I think if the TV series started of as a thriller mystery, evolving into horror and then the struggle against hopelessness and dread... That would better convey the book. The best style would be that of Hannibal, contact, and Chernobyl series. Maybe a little bit of that xfiles vibe at the start when it was still a mystery before the antagonists were revealed.

I've read the first book and watched the show. I do like the show brought in additional characters in the show. Making the show true to the book with only 2 people would not have made for a very good show in my opinion. I really didn't like jumping all over in the timeline in the book, i think the linear in order way works much better. The additions Netflix has added is what makes the show more entertaining for me.

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The description of the original work is far more shocking and reasonable than Netflix series.

I find it interesting of the alterations Ken Liu made in translations. For example, the title of the 3rd book was translated as "Death's End", but the direct translation of the original title is "God of Death Lives Forever". The meaning is vastly different, and I think the original title fits the story better.

The quality of the episodes drops off around 4-5. It feels like it was suddenly directed, edited, and written by a completely different group of people. One scene in particular had insane microphone peaking on one character.

Rooney such an awesome addition. The only 1 of the Oxford 5 to drop-out but is nonetheless successful. Probably the happiest one too.

I highly recommend reading the books, they are deeper and make more sense. To be honest, the Netflix adaptation of the Three Body Problem seems very simplified to me, with flat characters and atrocious dialogue. Everyone who says it's just a few changes hasn't read the books at all.

IMO, In the TV show, some characters are too fragmented, the pace of storytelling is too fast that some scenes needs more emotional build up. And some details I think it’s not necessary. Break up Wang Miao into couple of different scientists is a cool idea. But the downside is, it’s really hard for the audience to memorize and relate to so many different characters all at once. Another character I think it’s not adapted well is Yang Weining, Ye Wenjie’s husband. In the book, he loves Ye, and he is probably one of the few people who truly cared about Ye and remind her of the good side of humanity. Thus, when Ye killed him, you can tell there is a struggle and conflict in her action. Which made both characters deeper and gives more dimensions. However, in the TV show, Yang seems to be another person who betrayed Ye by stealing her discovery about the sun. Which in my opinion made the character much more boring and cliche. I also don’t like they added that little NPC girl in the VR game. She keeps screaming “save me” that at some point it becomes annoying. I guess the Show is trying to tell us how cruel the three sun problem is, but I think everyone gets it, and keeps repeating that girl is just not necessary. Another detail I noticed is, in the scene when the universe winks at you, the show took it quite literally, by just flicking the stars. Which seems a little cheap as if you are playing a PPT slides. While in the book and Chinese TV show, the so-called universe winks is actually a wave or radiation that only can be detected by using scientific methods and equipment. Which I think it’s much clever and also will shock scientists even more.

I think to tell a good adapted story, we need to move away from 8 episodes a season! The least should be 10 and maximum 12 or 13. Packing too much in too few episodes is usually a series killer😢

Both are good. Actually like the show more. My only gripe is how localised all the characters are. Would have preferred to see the story spread across the globe.

For people who liked the books or thought the tv went too fast or changed too much, try the Chinese series adaptation. It was much closer to the books and season 1 is 30 hours covering just the first book.

As a bug, I just had to read the trilogy first...then I watched the Netflix series. The books are so much more detailed and demanding, keeping my curiosity at a fever pitch. The screen version changes lots (grrr) and spoon feeds the narrative (but I still liked watched season one).

Thanks for useful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤

As a long time book fan, I loved the show It does everything I could ever hope for in a tv adaptation❤

Love the show. Its pretty damn accurate to the books all things considered, not a 1-1 direct translation but all the story beats are there. Damn im glad they didnt fuck it up. DnD may be shit at writing completely new stuff (game of thrones late seasons) but they can adapt books pretty damn well.

I liked the adaptation of Tianming into Will, the connection with Jin and Jack's testament. It makes more sense than the book version, which feels very forced.

I'll say that the series is not that faithful to the books in terms of a few things but the ideas and I think they did a good job at recreating it. I would like to describe the show as terrifyingly beautiful!

Watched the 1st episode, ended up binging the whole season. Really incredible concept

You missed out the single most important point: the inane and contorted “joke” that Saul is told at the end. That was most avoidable. I does not capture the nuance of the axioms used in the books which are based on game theory and the Fermi paradox: humanity’s need for survival in the backdrop of a chain of suspicion, and technological explosion coupled with a need to expand within a universe with finite resources. Together they form the basis for cosmological sociology and set the groundwork for guessing at the nature of the dark forest. The joke is stupid and contains only one aspect of the problem: if you make yourself known then you will be attacked. Retrofitting it to what later happens in the books is like trying to desperately fit a square peg into a round hole. One must ask the question: why do show runners and wannabe writers think they can write better than an award-winning author?

Read the books when they first became available. I perfer the Chinese Version over the Netflix one.

Simply mind blowing...

Personally as someone who didn't know about the original book, I really like the way how they changed and directed it. It was a lot of fun to watch and some characters were entertaining. Only downside for me was the last episode that had almost no story or meaning at all. I understand that they should keep story for the other seasons but it felt quite pointless.

I love the show. And now it makes me wanna read the book.

Have not read the books, but watched the story on Netflix. I can hardly wait for the second season. I may read the books after the last season.

i've read the books and as you said there are lots of differences but for the show i liked the adaptation. it was a hard work to do and they've done it. Producers did well. Second season will be much much harder imo. i hope they can complete it.

The fact that the show barely touched on the human computer, omitted the formation of the moon and the creation of the Sophons is just bizarre. These were incredibly cinematic moments that I assume were left out because the creators thought the audience was “too dumb”.

Haven't seen it yet but I did put it in my list. I really didn't know what it was about from the previews, but I have a better understanding now after watching this video. Cheers 🍻

I like listening to how all you English-speaking people struggle to pronounce the X sound in Chinese

I recommend watching the Chinese movie series (San Ti / Three Body) with 30 episodes, covering the 1st book. It's much more detailed than the Netflix series, with many scientific explanations, and the events follow the original book, I think this is the new king of sci-fi! It's a pity Netflix provided money for only 8 episodes, this was not enough to tell the story properly, it was just scratching the surface, they could not go into details, depths of the phenomenal story.

In the book the flicker of universe is not in visible wavelength, but only observable in frequencies. Here they made it flickering to human eyes LOL

I hated Netflix depiction how the Universe flickered, they actually went and flickered all the stars what human eye can see in our skies, like it was some lightbulb turning on and off, that is really a dumbed down version. However the tencent chinese version, the flickering of the universe was depicted by measuring cosmic waves fluctuations, that is a much more scientific way of showing it.

The Netflix delibrately cut off an important scene during Ye's father's murder, from the original book: "The supreme directive: fight with words, not with force!" Ye Zhetai's two students finally made up their minds and shouted these words. They rushed over at the same time and pulled away the four little girls who were already in a semi-crazy state. It makes a big difference because this sentence showed that Chinese leadership didn't encourage violence during the cultural revolution, and Ye Zhetai's death was an accident in which the four teenage girls lost control.

Sophon is my favorite character, her voice makes me to relax.

I like how they’ve split the key characters from the novel series into the Oxford 5 and makes the adaptation such that I think they can keep these characters in future series. Whereas the books introduce new charatcers for different things since the timescales in it are large. And I love da shis dry humour which is similar to the books

Having read the books and not knowing any of the science, I have to say the tv series is super enjoyable. Im not into details and explanations, which the book had a lot of. I did get confused on trying to match the characters to the ones in the book though. Great adaption for americans!

I 100% agree with the changed made in the Show, this makes it easier to relate and also more coherent.

LOVE IT - so Netflix had bloody better continue!

those are some changes, I'm gonna need to watch the joseph quinn's ideas videos

I think the first season is meant to be a hook to get people interested before throwing complex explanations on them. Kinda like what Dark did. The first season was more of a mystery-thriller than an apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic sci-fi series. Establish the world and the characters first and tell the story through their perspectives and explain things after. I haven't read the books but i think Saul would be the one making sense of things for audience. He didn't have a big role in the first season but his character was setup pretty nicely for things to come.

Jack is the stand in for Yun tian Ming’s successful businessman friend that gave him enough money to buy Chang Xe a star which comes into play later

its got a fair rating now but I'm sure it'll go down soon to 60s or 50s. the book was hard to get into, but I tried.

Both and no, I don't think it's trash. Because unlike the wheel of time the people involved did everything they could to make it as truly the book is possible. The main problem people don't get is transferring a book or books onto TV and to hook an audience and hasn't read it. You can't be as cold and unattached to characters. To make up for the lack of narration and knowing what's going on before the characters do as you do. You read, they have to bring it parts of the storyline from the next book or the third for it to make sense cuz you don't have the all-knowing viewpoint of a reader

First 4 episode were very good. Last 4 were a bit uneven. I’m definitely intrigued to see where it goes. Never read the books.

I read the books then watched the show. The show is way more digestable. Those are good changes that simplify storytelling without changing the story itself. Can't wait for the dark forest theory to pop up ;d

The book is simply mind blowing and one of a kind. I use the TV series as visual images which I think NF has done a good job of.

I have one question still lingering in my mind after finishing the Netflix series... What REALLY happens when the "countdown" reaches zero? Does the affected people die or gets killed? Auggie stopped at 1 minute, but when she restated the nanofibre project, the countdown disappears. And the final scene with Wade in the plane hints at torture, but death?

I JUST SAW ONLY NETFLIX SHOW. IT WAS WONDERFUL AND I LOVED IT. ❤❤I HOPE NETFLIX WILL NOT CANCEL THIS SHOW😢

Loved the books and the show. The changes were necessary for the adaptation to screen.

I LOVED THIS SHOW SO MUCH!!!!! I´m definitively going to get the books! 😍😍😍

ugh, I knew they were going to take it out of China. That was my biggest reservation to this show. I knew they were going to make it more western.

The Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem" has left me with a sense of unfulfilled potential. The original novel, while not brimming with characters of profound depth, offers a canvas ripe for exploration. These figures, primarily serving as narrative devices within the intricate plot, present a golden opportunity for the series to delve into their complexities and enrich the viewing experience. Regrettably, the adaptation opts for a path of least resistance, focusing on superficial drama and romantic entanglements rather than the nuanced character development that could truly captivate an audience. The series' portrayal of Ye Wenjie, for instance, simplifies her into a caricature of evil, ignoring the chance to unravel the multifaceted motivations and historical context that could make her a compelling character. This one-dimensional depiction is symptomatic of a broader issue: the adaptation's reluctance to delve beneath the surface and explore the rich character arcs that could reflect the novel's deeper themes. The missed opportunity is palpable. With more thoughtful storytelling, the series could have transformed these narrative tools into fully realized characters, each with their own struggles and growth, mirroring the broader existential questions posed by the novel. Instead, the focus on easy character tropes and melodramatic subplots feels like a letdown, especially for fans who were hoping for a more profound exploration of humanity's challenges and choices when faced with cosmic-scale threats. In its current form, the series trades the novel's intellectual curiosity and grand ideas for a more conventional, albeit less impactful, narrative. It's a stark contrast to the original work's invitation to ponder our place in the universe. The adaptation, in trying to make the story more accessible, has perhaps inadvertently stripped away the very elements that made "The Three-Body Problem" such a thought-provoking and groundbreaking piece of science fiction.

I loved the books because they took on amazing scientific ideas and really made me think about them as I read. The shortcoming of the novels is that they had poor character development. The Netflix show fixed that.

Honestly, Netflix did really well. Liked this show.

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I'm a fan of the books but really like the changes and direction of the show. Whereas the books have no real character depth or development - they only stand to act as a common thread between all the disparate but brilliant ideas - Netflix has made the characters actual identities with relationships. This is pretty important for people that haven't read the books. The people I watched the show are not science buffs and have no interest in reading the books, but they love the characters and what is happening. ...I told them to hold on!

For the adaption to the screen viewer, the VR headset, quoted by the scientist on the shows, is 100 yrs ahead. It's super contradict to the books that the SenTi refused to give tech/knowledge to the cult (quite logical, don't you think?). In the books, the Senti have very clear agenda to kill all the human. with the power of sophon in the shows, it's easily to wipe human on earth easily just now. IDK, maybe the aliens in the shows would be different.

The ending of Netflix's version was just Daenerys burning everyone with a dragon.

I've got so many questions having seen the first season. How did they make the stars blink? How did they make people see numbers? Why numbers disappeared? Why did they allowe opening the hard disk with information about Sophon? If they informed about their arrival, why would they reveal their ever presence? Why did they try to inhibit human tech advancement and then just let it happen? How did Sophon appear in the plane as a woman, making the man see his dead body? (Especially "why" given that she said that he was a part of their plans...) If they wanted to conquer the Earth, why wouldn't they just shut down the internet or electricity and let people exterminate themselves in their savage instincts of survival? In 400 years, they would find a perfect paradise to settle 🤷🏻‍♀️

i liked all the changes and combinations. Cleaner and easier. I did, however, really disagree with changing Vera's father and the fact that her mom killed her dad, kind of. it adds true meaning to the scene at the end where she's going to throw herself off the same cliff.

They UK-ified all the chinese characters in the book, except the chinese villains😂

I just hope they don’t change the way the wallfacer meets his with cause in loved how he described her in the book so the detective could finde her.

I really wanted this show to be good, but it has like 1 cool scene and then it's all dialogue. It felt too cheeky, group of genius friends and all their drama, and then they make the comfort pot smoking black friend boring as all heck and they try to give him an important role for basically hanging out with his cancer friend. If they have these "super computers" the size of protons that can hack everything, including peoples minds in real time why wouldn't the Asanti just blast every nuke off, nuclear plants malfunction destruction, etc. I know they try to explain it with fiber wire but the "Aluminum" ship scene was kinda funny.

As currently China has issues with espionage, cyber attacks and mass spying It’s hard to swallow a Chinese military leader as 1 of 3. Also the space effort without either Russia, or NASA/ JPL makes it a hard swallow. I was hoping that risking Cho would stay. Her character was refreshing and strong.

What surprised me most was the critique of revolution China in the tencent version, I remember watching it thinking "how is this allowed in China" 😂

Would’ve liked the non linear storytelling, adds flavour imo

Where should i start reading after finishing season 1??

First 3 episodes of the show were promising, but then deteriorated into a hum-drum drama thereafter

After reading book 1 and now book 2 I prefer the netflix series and the changes. At this point I'm reading the books just in case it's cancelled so I can see the concllusion

I refuse to watch because D and D will just screw it up like they do everything else. I don't want to be disappointed.

Thanks for this review. I read all three books and loved them so much! 📚 Fascinating story telling. 👍 Looking forward to watch the series, but I hope, they did not ruin it. Probably hard to live up to the books.

Too bad Liu Cixin didn't know about the analytical solution to the three-body problem by Karl Fritiof Sundman. Run that on the Sophon computer and leave earth alone.

The show is pretty good. I enjoyed it as a regular sci-fi series. I tried to forget about the books while watching it. The show is like Americanized Chinese food. It comes with the American flavor everyone is familiar with. Nothing wrong with it, but the book though, it's f__king mental.