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The Problem with “The Three-Body Problem”
I don’t often do reviews, but when I do, they’re not usually in my blog, but they are very opinionated. You have been warned. Okay, so it’s more personal observation than actual review, but there you have it. I promise to keep it short. Ish.
I’m talking about a new (as I write this) television series, airing on Netflix, that starts with a book. Previews proudly announce that it is from the “creators of Game of Thrones” (which I never watched). If you follow any of this stuff, then you probably already know I’m talking about “3 Body Problem,” based on the book by Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin, which started on Netflix a few days ago. Fun fact, the book is called, “The Three-Body Problem,” and not “3 Body Problem,” as Netflix has titled it.
For reasons which will become clear in a moment, I almost didn’t want to watch the show. Nevertheless, I watched the first episode on Friday with my wife, and it is, in many ways, very different from the book even while keeping a lot of the same core concepts in play. This is actually a really good thing because the book, to me at least —…
