The Three-Body Problem

The casting is great and really fits my imagination when I read the novel (except that Shi Qiang needs to be a little more muscular). The story was beyond imagination, really epic, and it's not about one single country or one single culture, you can see every nation, every race united together when facing danger. The TV series tried to make everything the same as the book. One star was deducted because the pacing of story telling, all the flashbacks and neon lights scenes are a bit annoying and confusing, when not everyone knows the background of the story. Although the novel itself was arranged in this way, I think there should be some adaptations when you making it a TV series.

Loyal to the original work, restored most of the content, and made a small part of changes aimed at film and television. Except for the segment of the unscrupulous reporter, which is disappointing, other segments are very pleasant. In particular, the part about Hong'an Base starts from the original work and is higher than the original work. Even those who have not read the book "Three Bodies" can easily understand the plot with a little scientific literacy and curiosity. This film and television work may be an opportunity for you to understand "Three Bodies", Liu Cixin and science fiction works. It is very good to compare the animation of the Bili Bili version.

Give it to the Chinese themselves to adapt the work of their most beloved sci fi author to the silver screen almost word for word that they need 30 frickin' episodes to tell the whole story. I myself appreciate greatly the effort they pulled that you can see the love the directors and writers put in this project, contrasted to what their western counterparts do when it comes to adaptation these days. Need to work a little bit on the cgi parts tho, hope this show kills it at least in China so they may get the movie budget if the studio greenlits the adaption of the next two books, which I really hope they do. This is quiet frankly a fine alternative to the self-insert, politically driven hollywood projects, and yes, I have no intention at all to follow the netflix version of the adaptation no matter how much they put their budget into it (well, maybe just the trailer).

I just finished watching the 30 episodes of Three Body by Tencent. Loved it immensely. The main actors are fabulous. The production values are excellent. And, the story hews to the book very well.

Many will observe that the pace of the story seems slow at times, though I found it to be more of a zen experience in those episodes. In the end the series delivers the goods.

There are some a few odd quirks in the version released for English subtitle readers. The most odd is the occasional sudden insertion of completely out-of-context music, overwriting dialog and all other story sound. I've read that some copyright issues were being covered up, but boy did they do a sloppy job. A shame given how much work went into the production.

I particularly gained insight into the people of modern day China. It was revelatory to see how similar their daily lives are like mine/ours in the West. Even their views on politics and life were quite liberal and enlightened.

Highly recommend!

The only good thing about the Netflix adaptation is that it led me to discover this series. I read the books not long ago and thought that there weren't any adaptations. Those three books became one of my favorite science fiction sagas ever. So I was eager to watch the netflix adaptation, but alas, it was a massive disappointment. Now, I stumbled on this adaptation and watched it, and this is how you do a adaptation. 30 episodes that respect the viewers intelligence, doesn't rush, takes its time building scenes and plot points. Has no unnecessary melodrama and unfunny "funny" moments. Doesn't waste the viewers time, but doesn't butcher anything from the source material either.

The characters are all good and believable. No academics that act more like teens and dress and look like models. No dumbed down science or boring exposition.

The only cons, which are small cons, yhat i hve is that sometimes the special effects look too fake, the camera angles sometimes look like low budget, and the soudn design sometimes is too digital, but all those things happen so sapringly that it's more like nitpicking.

This is one of the best adaptations i've ever seen, and it's because it respects the source material, just like the 4 first seasons of GOT, when the show was good, and it respects the viewers intelligence, not trying to preach or educate. Instead, leaving the viewer to form its own opinions amd conclusions. I recommend this show and the boooks to everyone that likes scifi. You can read the book first or watch the show first. It's not gonna make much of a difference, that how good of an adaptation it is.