The Three Body Problem trailer for the new Netflix adaptation is out. I must say I am very skeptical of this one. This being one of my favorite books I have my doubts that they will do it justice. I'm sure it will be visually interesting and everything, but that's not really the point. Especially not for book 1.
I recently watched both the Tencent live adaptation as well as the animated adaptation of The Dark Forest and sometimes I feel like these books were better left on paper. The live show wasn't bad or anything it just has a different feel to it on screen that's hard to understand.
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As someone that's always looking for more science fiction content, I'm looking forward to this. The game of thrones guys did a good job when they had someone else's written content so this might actually be pretty good.
I'm very weary. The books where very China centric, understandable being written by a Chineese author, and fear a white washing.
Also, even though I loved the books, there was something... odd about them. I'm not sure if it was something lost in translation, or just that some of it felt. IDK over simplified, childish? I think it's a combination of all of them, and I really wonder what they'll have to do to make a TV Show from that source material to have mass appeal here in the west.
I had a really hard time with the first book and eventually gave up--quite a rare thing with me. I felt like the translation wasn't working for me, but that's a hard thing to judge without actually finishing the book.