> What do y'all make of Netflix's 3 Body problem? I find it a brave project, given well-established U.S. tastes in video and movies. It can be said to courageo

> What do y'all make of Netflix's 3 Body problem? I find it a brave project, given well-established U.S. tastes in video and movies. It can be said to courageously appeal to an audience not proven to exist. > I never thought the books could be replicated for television, but I have to admit — this is pretty good work all things considered. I agree it's pretty good work, but I don't think the original books are represented, much less replicated. This is commonly said about adaptations, certainly true here. I avoided disappointment by not expecting the book narrative to appear on the screen. Personally I hope this project succeeds in finding a sustainable audience. I say this because rather than pandering to low taste (insert obligatory H. L. Mencken quote here: "Nobody ever went broke ..."), it instead { aspires to / imagines } a higher taste and intelligence than most Netflix fare. But a few notes. The scene in which people are sucked away from the ground by an unexpected gravitational change (i.e. a tidal force) isn't physical. I understand sci-fi grants some license, but not for things as quotidian as the relationship between pedestrian and sidewalk, both of which would be sucked into the sky together in a realistic portrayal. As to the commonly misunderstood property of entangled particles that they grant instantaneous communication over any distance: It's not so. Entangled particles don't violate causality. Again, it's sci-fi, but when you employ as a plot device a named property of real physics, there's a certain obligation to portray it accurately. But the Netflix creators aren't solely responsible -- one of these errors (magic entanglement) is in the original books as well. On the other hand, the nanofiber slicing / Panama Canal ship sequence is a must-see. Even if you plan to complain that Three Body Problem can't really be made into a video, watch the ship-slicing sequence first, then lodge your protest. Although it depicts massive loss of life, the care the producers took to get it right deserves praise for realism (about something unreal). When I read the ship episode in the original books, I could picture it but naively thought there was no way it would ever be attempted by video producers, much less done well. Wrong.