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I would still encourage you to read book 2. With his "Dark Forest" theory the author has basically explained the famous Fermi paradox. (At least, he did for me.) Even if he didn't do anything else, IMHO, it still would be a great contribution.

I don't believe Netflix will do something good with it. It's no doubt that Hollywood and other western studios can make great movies and series but every time they try to do something "Chinese," they always flop.

So let's wait for S2 and S3 from Tencent!

@gatalito, I agree with you that the series is more interesting than the book. I also agree that the book could be a little boring sometimes. But it's difficult for me to accept your harsh critique of the book. After all, the book has been translated into many foreign languages and there have been millions of copies of this book sold around the world. The book also received several important awards. It's difficult to imagine that a bad book could do that.

You also wrote, "The book stops with a cliff hang and at a plot point that doesn't have that much potential in order to resolve to something interesting." Well, I also couldn't agree here. I read book 2 (but not book 3 yet) and I can say that it is probably more interesting than book 1 (IMHO) and it connects nicely to the events in book 1. I encourage you to try to read book 2 as well.

I don't really want to argue about the social system in China. All I wanted to say that the series in question does contain a lot of critique of the Cultural Revolution era. I'd say that in the series it is done on the level that is accepted in the modern Chinese society. And it looks like quite a reasonable approach to me.

Hi gatalito, I hope I didn't make any mistake and above you indeed replied to my comment and not to "nix52". (I had some doubts because you wrote "mentioned on your review," but it was not me who wrote the review, "nix52" did.)

Anyway, I read the book before and I almost finished watching the series. (Just finished the 26th episode.) That's why I compared them in my comment above. Since you haven't finished reading the book, I shouldn't be giving you any spoilers. I just wanted to say once again that even though in the series they removed some scenes, they are still giving us enough insight into the reasons why Ye Wenjie became disappointed in the world around her, which eventually led to her betrayal. So please just watch the series and I hope you'll see it. And they also did keep some unpleasant scenes related to Cultural Revolution in the series (even though not all of them). So I personally didn't see a big problem in the fact that some most unpleasant scenes were removed from the series.

If you continue watching you'll see that some characters (Ye Wenjie in the first place) say pretty harsh things about how things were during the Cultural Revolution. So it doesn't look to me that the topic of Cultural Revolution is a taboo subject for makers of this TV series. They only removed some unpleasant events and personally I'm glad they did. (I didn't enjoy reading about them in the book too.) Otherwise, the thoughts of Ye Wenjie about the madness that the Cultural Revolution brought about are all preserved here and it is shown that it was precisely these thoughts that led her to her betrayal.

To me, Li Yitong and Bai Lu look completely different, I don't see any similarity.

It's possible that they will show it later. The sequence of events in the series is different compared to the books and personally I like it more this way. And judging from episodes 10 and 11, they are not trying to sweeten the pill and are not afraid to show the gruesome things that happened in the Mao era.

kjpjqgw wrote: "Three Body" means three suns.

Not quite. "Three Body" actually refers to a well known physical problem, called "Three-body problem." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem. This problem doesn't have a solution. A partial numerical solution is possible, but it is unstable. A very-very small change in initial conditions could result in a drastic difference of the outcome. The world of the Trisolarans (with 3 suns) in this book/series is a vivid illustration to the three-body problem. They couldn't predict their future precisely because the three-body problem doesn't have a solution.

Thank you for the explanation. I think it makes sense.

If it was really clear to you, could you please explain? (Under the spoiler, of course.)

Yes, I have similar feelings in this regard.

I'd say a metal entrance door with a peephole would be an improvement... 😀😀

Looking at the correlation charts at d-addicts.com, my guess would be that the stuff related to Wu Miao's murder is in the next sub-plot, not in the current one.

According to qq.com, 22 episodes are already available. Not sure how many of them have been translated into English so far...

Well, 18 episodes are there for sure. The rest could be just previews.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm not homophobic, but I don't like watching this kind of stuff.

Who is that? Give us a name, please.