The China episodes are great.
The London ones are bizarre.
The reason is less obvious than you think.
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Netflixs adaptation ofThe Three-Body Problemalternates between two controls.
They fret over whether the solutions and alliances proposed are compromising their ideals.
Theres one obvious thing to blame for this dissonance.
In adapting Lius trilogy for the screen, the producers David Benioff and D.B.
Liu, however, has come up with a different answer.
The inhabitants of this foreign planet can be boiled or frozen at a moments notice.
What happens as a result of all this extra-ness is a dampening of Lius best creations.
In the book, the nanofiber slicer represents an ingenious extreme measure to an extreme problem.
Rather, he seems more interested in providing a solution to a mathematical problem in world-historical terms.
But what if this undertaking itself is the moral act?
As a result, their moral problems mainly take the form of banal trolley problems.
How would it happen mechanically?
Modern storytelling has different priorities: interiority, reflexivity, individuation, and so forth.
A similar structural problem flares up in migrating stories from non-liberal, non-democratic societies to liberal democratic ones.
All alien-contact stories are allegories of contact between two ways of doing things.
Can you tell the person you love that you love them in time?
Ye Wenjies daughter was the teacher.
Wade is a character fromDeaths End, and Salazar is an analog for Wang Miao.
