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Netflix's Three Body Problem is Unwatchable (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by puff@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

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It's like someone asked ChatGPT to turn the book into a dumb anglo sitcom.

-Every character is emotionally immature, spiteful, and sassy. None of the 'friends' act like friends. None of the characters talk like real people. They're constantly insulting or hitting each other. It's just embarrassing. The actors have nothing to work with.

-All the major twists/reveals are shown in the first two episodes. No suspense, no build-up, no pay-off. Rushed is an understatement.

-Single characters from the book have been unnecessarily split into multiple new characters adding nothing to the story.

-The story is a cosmic horror but comedy and romance have been forced in for no reason whatsoever except as filler, which is even more mind-boggling because they've essentially rushed all of the good stuff in the book to make room for unfunny jokes.

-Apparently they could barely afford any sets and extras, so scenes and locations that are supposed to be bristling with sights and people just feel oddly empty. Even the special effects feel muted. The budget is just weirdly limited, and the show looks much cheaper than the Tencent series.

-Almost all of the science (which is the interesting stuff) has been gutted from this science fiction.

I hate anglo slop. Where is the kino. Tencent pls adapt The Dark Forest.

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[–] Cottenlai_Zhou@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it assumes that at least one in many has a destructive response. I think the assumption is that most will hide, but the risk of a single civilisation being aggressive forces everyone to assume that anyone they meet is aggressive.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you start shooting brown dwarfs at your neighbors everyone is going to gang up on you and you're going to have a bad time. The idea that communication between critters that have all built rocket ships is so impossible that we'd never be able to communicate strikes me as more of a "STEM people don't read" problem, I odn't think Anthropologists or sociologists or linguists would ever have come up with this idea.

[–] Cottenlai_Zhou@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dark Forest doesn't say communication is impossible, it says communication is dangerous. Dark Forest doesn't imply that every civilization is evil and genocidal, just that the risk of exposing yourself to a potentially dangerous civilization is too great when the cost is existential.

Anthropologists and sociologists and linguists study humans on earth, not unknowable aliens in the vastness of space, I don't see how their expertise is relevant. Again, Dark Forest rests heavily on (a) existential threats, and (b) acting effectively blind. These aren't situations we face often or really ever in human history.