I fully agree with Heigl’s complaints about the writing for her character that season. They truly made Izzy seem insane and it couldn’t have been fun to act. On the other hand, you just don’t shit on the writers of your show in public, even if it is justified.

I’m sorry, but at least in those crazy pulpy circumstances she behaved and responded like an actual human being. They made her go full psycho in Season 4. It was terrible writing that could not have been fun to act. Should she have kept her mouth shut and not publicly air her grievances with the writing? Absolutely.…

Yeah she definitely could have been a little less blunt, but she wasn’t wrong about the writing for her character that season. They basically make Izzy come off as insane and offputting, taking her from one of the more likable characters on the show to one many fans came to loathe.

The end of the 2nd episode made me a believer too. I never was a fan of GoT, and while I liked the 3 Body Problem books a lot, I didn’t know how they could be adapted, especially because all of the characters were kind of flat and they were so dense. That moment, which is kind of the KEY moment of the entire series,…

Well it mostly tells the full story of the first book along with incorporating plot lines from the two sequels. The Oxford group feels irrelevant to the story now because most of those characters come from the sequels (albeit partially in the same timeline as the first book). They all become the main plot for the rest…

They didn’t split Wang Miao into five characters if that’s what you mean. Wang clearly maps onto Auggie, and by the end of the series it’s clear that the other Oxford Five characters except Sam from GoT are all versions of characters from The Dark Forest and Death’s End; namely Luo Ji, Cheng Xin, and Yun Tianming.

I would argue the way they approach this adaptation makes the material of the novel work for TV. While there are some characters who cross over between books, most of the time each book features a totally different set of main characters and barely touches on characters from previous novels. The key success of this…

Thankfully the show took your advice. The first season mostly gets through the main plot points of the first book (and while they do simplify things, they mostly capture what makes the book interesting conceptually) while also weaving in plot lines from The Dark Forest (for example, the season finale is titled “The…

While the interpersonal drama and, especially, some of the actors involved in said drama, could have been better, I still think that worked better for a tv adaptation than a bunch of flat cipher characters with no connection to each other which is mostly what you get in the books.

Sounds like someone still hasn’t gotten over the fact that GoT had a shitty ending. While they could still fail to stick the landing here, at the very least they don’t have to invent an ending to an unfinished book series like they did with GoT. The books already have a pretty decent one that doesn’t leave much room…

6.45 on IMDb and 55% on Rotten Tomatoes is hardly “universally panned”. I never really got into GoT, but pretty much every season but the last (and to a lesser extent, the penultimate one) was universally acclaimed. Their big problem was when they had ran out of pre-existing material to adapt.

In their defense, Game of Thrones wasn’t bad (I was never a real fan, but I could appreciate the quality) when they were adapting existing material. It only went truly off the rails when they had to make things up themselves. This series already is complete (and there’s not much possibility of a sequel because it ends …

Yeah if anything it’s less self-serious than the books.

This season covers elements from all 3 books, although I’m pretty sure most of the first book is covered. The big deviation is with the Oxford 5 which is comprised of analogues to characters from all three books that exist around the same time. The show gives them a connection to each other, which honestly helps.

That seems more like an aesthetic issue than a scientific one.

Keep watching the show. It becomes clear that there is more to the suicides than just “physics is broken,” especially with the Vera character.

There aren’t many planetary systems, if any, closer to us than Trisolaris. Aren’t they supposed to be in Alpha Centauri?

While Redemption of Time was fanfic, it was signed off on by Liu Cixin (maybe under duress) and it suggests the Trisolarans (San Ti in the show) were essentially insects no larger than a grain of rice. That would track with tardigrades.

That was my first thought when I read the actual article. It 1000% seems like a hit piece drummed up by the awards PR team for a movie in danger of getting knocked off the Best Picture bubble in favor of May December. Fualaau’s feelings about the film are likely genuine and he’s entitled to them, but they do seem to…

As another commenter mentioned it’s pretty obvious why they wouldn’t have received their money yet. They don’t want to spoil the ending so winners typically don’t get their prize until after the finale airs. Also, given the amount of money to be transferred there’s a lot of paperwork required (a lot of paperwork that…