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Three Body
Feb. 14th, 2024 08:17 am
A few weeks ago, my friend Mary told me there was a Chinese TV series that she'd enjoyed called Three Body. And I went, 'Wait! Is that based on Liu Cixin's novel The Three Body Problem?' Mary said it was. She also said she hasn't read the book, but the forums say that the series is very close to the novel.
I've been evangelising The Three Body Problem now for more than a decade. It's one of the best, craziest sci-fi novels I've ever read (it's the first book of a trilogy - they're all good). And something you should go into knowing absolutely nothing about. Nothing. There's a trailer available on youtube but that contains too many spoilers. DO NOT WATCH IT unless you already know.
So we watched the series. And it was interesting because I've read the book and my husband hasn't, so he was getting the New Experience while I was spotting all the foreshadowing.
The series is indeed very close to the novel. It looks great too - the production values, cinematography and direction are beautiful. There are a few changes that make the story more visual, and one or two things I don't recall that I think were probably the Chinese censors getting in there. It's thirty episodes, and there's a period in the middle where the pacing feels a little slow (the SO was complaining about that; I agreed but it wasn't enough to actually bug me).
Anyway. It is good. Three Body is on Amazon Prime in the US, or available via other means like boat sites if you prefer not to give money to Jeff Bezos.
Interestingly, Netflix are releasing an English language adaptation of the book in March and the trailer for that contains fewer spoilers, but still too damn many.
Three Body was released in January of 2023, and I don't know if they're planning to adapt the other two books, but if they do, I'll be there.
I've been evangelising The Three Body Problem now for more than a decade. It's one of the best, craziest sci-fi novels I've ever read (it's the first book of a trilogy - they're all good). And something you should go into knowing absolutely nothing about. Nothing. There's a trailer available on youtube but that contains too many spoilers. DO NOT WATCH IT unless you already know.
So we watched the series. And it was interesting because I've read the book and my husband hasn't, so he was getting the New Experience while I was spotting all the foreshadowing.
The series is indeed very close to the novel. It looks great too - the production values, cinematography and direction are beautiful. There are a few changes that make the story more visual, and one or two things I don't recall that I think were probably the Chinese censors getting in there. It's thirty episodes, and there's a period in the middle where the pacing feels a little slow (the SO was complaining about that; I agreed but it wasn't enough to actually bug me).
Anyway. It is good. Three Body is on Amazon Prime in the US, or available via other means like boat sites if you prefer not to give money to Jeff Bezos.
Interestingly, Netflix are releasing an English language adaptation of the book in March and the trailer for that contains fewer spoilers, but still too damn many.
Three Body was released in January of 2023, and I don't know if they're planning to adapt the other two books, but if they do, I'll be there.
