Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Biggest criticism is valid in that the characters are not great. What's funny is they're still an improvement from the books where the characters are only a vehicle for the hard sci-fi plot and are even more 1 dimensional.
Yeah, three in and I don't really care about any of them, especially that Auggie woman.
Wong from the MCU is the most interesting so far.
The virtual worlds are nutty enough to be funny.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
The Cixin Liu books are fascinating. Quinn's Ideas Youtube channel also does an excellent series of videos on them. Very much worth watching.
So after having watched the season, did the books have a minor researcher who was ok with the aliens taking over?
Were all the characters there but gender/racial swapped, or did the show actually invent characters just to representing?
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
YesNo but some were. Almost everyone in the books is Chinese as you would expect from a Chinese author.
To answer one of your other questions. The aliens in the book don't understand lies and deception because their thoughts are all open to one another so they can't lie.
Ah, makes sense.
I accidentally spoiled myself by checking around reddit and discovering
Spoiler:
the aliens were actually being deceptive about the countdown and some.other things, never got the details but the takeaway was they could technically lie to lessers who lack telepathy, but Red Riding Hood was beyond them because as you say they would never deal with liars, as they read each others mind and would see right through it, and thus they had no concept of deception based cultures
I probably won't read the books and wait on the Netflix seasons, am already knee deep in another series "The Culture" (Would love to see how the Idirons, Shapers, or Culture would deal with the Trisolarans video game.)
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
As someone who doesn't have much time to invest in TV shows, is this worth the investment?I do love sci-fi..
It's only ok tbh, the story is great, acting is fantastic, and...
That's all I can say without risking a ban.
You know what you'd like it and wouldn't see the flaws I do because we are very different people. 😀
Originally posted by Patient_Leech
As someone who doesn't have much time to invest in TV shows, is this worth the investment?I do love sci-fi..
It's a slow start 1st season but it will eventually be very hard sci-fi like Foundation.
It's flawed. As I said earlier the characters are not great because they were poor in the books as they are really just to give context to the story.
Definitely has some extremely unique moments.
I don't know, I thought the chinese woman was great, the left wing nutjob was interesting, the Game of Thrones guy was likeable, most of the characters weren't deep but still interesting.. maybe that's because I was binging on Ben 10, characters are not that shows strong point.
Haven't seen foundations but have read the books, and heard they seriously ruined Salvor Hardin.