Science Fiction

I guess the possible saving grace here would be that the books are finished. They did a good job adapting what was already there for GOT - that's to say, made very entertaining and engaging TV.

Was going to post this :)

I'm willing to be surprised by something good. But I'm not holding my breath.

Sounds like the enders game series. I wonder why so many things fall off at number 3, and why we can't be sated with one good story.

The third book was so bad. I loved the first and actually enjoyed the second (it was the first time i heard about "the dark forest" theory), but the third just annoyed me.

From the moment the MC failed her task because of her motherly instincts or some bs like that to the last 100+ pages that were just the author masturbating over his ideas of how ultra high-tech-civilizations could develop, there was nothing that made sense or was really compelling about it.

You missed nothing stopping midway through book 3.

Yeah, the author is really good at coming up with fun ideas but also comes up with a lot of meh ideas that he is equally enamored with, and as the series progressed the editors seem to have grown increasingly ineffective at cutting out the meh ideas which made large swaths of the books a bit of a slog. When I read the third book I skimmed through a lot of the slog so I'd forgotten how much of it there was, but when I tried listening to the audiobook I had to give up because there was so much slog and it a lot harder to skim through in that format.

If I had to speculate on the reason for this, I'd say it was because the author and/or the series became so popular that the editors were to afraid to really push back in the later books; I've gotten the impression that this is actually a pretty common phenomenon in the publishing world.

I love Dune! Both the 1984 version and the new one.

Well what they adapted from the books was good, the problem came when there was no more books.

But I agree, not a lot of confidence. Worst that can happen, I'll be surprised for the best.

I’m willing to be surprised by something good, even if it’s not faithful to the books.

Books vs television are such different media, and the high production costs of science fiction seem to drive towards adaptation for a mass audience.

Yeah, I was excited for this until I saw who was making it! I'm going to give it a shot, but like you I'm not confident it will work as a TV show. Maybe if they did book 1 + book 2 as the first season.

Yea, it is nearly word for word a 1:1 copy of the book. I think the parts in the 3 body game are the most fun.

However, they did leave out some of the violent parts of the cultural revolution. I suspect the CCP didn't want that on TV. They also have some rules about showing the deaths of "innocent" people so they changed some people from the books from normal people into murderers and rapists which is a bit weird.

I did, and I enjoyed it immensely. The actors were impressive, especially the one portraying Shi Qiang and Ye Wenjie.

Wherev can you watch the Chinese version?

Yeah, I'm in the 3/4 episode. Seems good. But its easy to get lost in the plot.

Netflix disappoints me so frequently! Now before watching a show I have to wait for 2 seasons to see if it gets cancelled. Then only watch.

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.

Uh, aliens and space magic maybe?

I've been excited for this because of my love for Sci-fi. I did not read the books but I did read the synopsis on Wikipedia so I know the premise. That being said, had I not done that, I would have no idea what this is about based on the trailer. I love the visuals though!

I don't think there is much concept of necro posting here. At least not while the activity level is as it is. Better than making a bunch of identical posts.