Just finished season one of 3 Body Problem which is being hyped so much. We watched one, sometimes two episodes a day. But while it was interesting, it just didn't grab me for some reason. It was easy to stop and wait another day to watch the next episode.
This was inspired by a series of books written in China. Those who have read the books say it is a fairly good ...
Just finished season one of 3 Body Problem which is being hyped so much. We watched one, sometimes two episodes a day. But while it was interesting, it just didn't grab me for some reason. It was easy to stop and wait another day to watch the next episode.
This was inspired by a series of books written in China. Those who have read the books say it is a fairly good adaptation, but being compressed into just 8 episodes you have to read between the lines sometimes.
There are a lot of unexplained things happening and many of them we will have to wait for season two to understand. The basic story is that an alien civilization is coming (in 400 years), but using faster-than-light communications they seek to influence things happening on Earth to pave the way. What is not clear at all is that there is evidence of some very advanced technology being created on Earth and we don't know who could be aiding the aliens by building and using it. At the same time, there is an effort to keep our scientists from making advances in technology that might be able to stop the aliens.
I feel like I'm rambling a bit here, but that is what watching this is like. Season One is as much of a mystery as a sci-fi show, with more questions than answers. The series is very much about ideas and I think that part of my ambivalence about it is that they have packed a lot of information into each episode. And so it's easy to sort of get lost trying to process what you've just seen before they move on to another scene.
Why "3 Body Problem"? This refers to the difficulty of calculating the orbits of 3 bodies (earth, moon, sun for example) exactly over long periods of time. You can do 2 bodies easily using Newtonian equations. but add another and the reality begins to drift from predicted. But when you have a planet and the masses of two stars involved, orbits can occasionally get very chaotic. So this can refer to actual orbits or just an impossible problem to solve.
it also refers to an immersive video game that is used to recruit humans to help the aliens.
The series does have very high production values and many of the visual effects are impressive!
The writing team for the series is the same duo that did Game of Thrones. So lovers of the book are holding their breath to see if they will screw this up like they did the ending of GoT. Also, there are five actors you will recognize from GoT in this show.
Worth watching, but you will have to wait a while for many answers.
Or... watch the Chinese version named "Three=-Body" on Amazon Prime.
In comparing the two, most of the questions are indeed answered in 3 Body Problem, but sometimes very quickly without a lot of detail. The pace is so fast, you can miss the importance of some parts. For example, scenes that are given 15 minutes in this show are given an entire episode in the Chinese version.
