> The Tencent one is fairly close to the book. Not really? It both overexplains simple concepts (e.g. the billiard table scene) and underexplains important con

> The Tencent one is fairly close to the book. Not really? It both overexplains simple concepts (e.g. the billiard table scene) and underexplains important concepts. The Netflix show just has awful writing, and only cares about visuals. My favorite example of bad writing is the very last scene, where three characters are having a conversation, then one of them suddenly gets up and says "let me show you something". So they drive for (seemingly) hours, apparently in perfect silence, only to get out of the car, look over a field, and deliver a handful of pithy lines, followed immediately by "okay let's go back". (For book readers: this is the "bugs vs. humans speech"). Anyway, they're both ephemeral garbage. I guess 3BP will be like Dune, where it takes decades for a decent adaptation to show up.