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I have started watching suits. Only about 10 years too late. Itโs hard to find interesting shows that I donโt need to supplement with phone browsing.
My partner is watching the 3 Body Problem at the moment, truly some hard sci-fi. I want to but my attention span is dismally tiny. I'd be better off reading the books I reckon.
The bits I've seen indicate it is really good! Rare for me to stand there and read the subtitles for as long as I did haha!
I also like finding smaller YT channels (100k subs rather than 2mil subs) in niches that are interesting. There's a channel called Ants Canada thats made like a weekly serial about his HUGE terrarium ecosystem: he has a few different species of ants, mantis', lizards, spiders, crickets, etc and does introductions or culls (culls as in he accidently put in some vegetation that had fire ants and had to figure out how to get them out before they fucked the other animals). Anyway! It's good!
IDK what my point was... I just also have issues keeping my attention on a movie or show ugh
I smashed through 3 body problem, loved it. I tried the audiobook a year or so ago and it was far too dense, had to give up quite early. I think it is translated from Mandarin too so it can seem a bit clunky. The tv series I find a lot of fun though. I don't think you need to pay toooo close attention, just enjoy the ominous spooky vibe!
I don't mind janky translations, should read what they did to Vampire Hunter D after the first two books. Man, that was a jank-ass translation. (I'm pretty sure it was VHD, but it was some Japanese anime novel (not a manga) I grabbed from the library 20 years ago haha.
My partner found a streaming site, so I don't need to sub, I may put that on my other screen today while I colonise Mars haha
The 3 Body Problem trilogy books are far superior to the show. Recommended reading for any sci-fi enjoyer.
That does tend to be the case with books adapted to TV/film. Looking at you, Eragon and ATLA.
Tangent: LOTR is the exception imo, Peter Jackson and crew did a great job in adapting a fictional history tome into a movie. Getting rid of Tom Bombadil was a good move, despite him being so cool in the book.
I'll have to pick the books up and give them a read, I liked what little I saw in Wikipedia. Thank you!!
No need for Tom in the movie, the movie viewer take his place as the out of time, out of place witness to the world.
When we watch the trilogy, we are all Tom Bombadil hehe
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I enjoyed 3 body problem except the cancer stuff. Donโt need that when Iโm trying to unwind. Was that it or is there another set of episodes coming? (Or a book to buy)
I think what's out is it for now, not sure if they'll do a second season.
But the show is based on the first book for the trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past (the books in order are The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End). I think they were released in China around 2008 onwards, and translated to English early 2010s. Critical of China surveillance and control, but hard sci-fi. That's about all I know besides some plot points here and there picked up from the internet.