#three body tencent

[taniushka12]

EVERYBODY GO WATCH THREE-BODY RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!

here's the entire show in vik with both spanish and english subs (and some more) and here's the full playlist on yt (unfortunately only w/ eng subs) (and if you have amazon Do watch it there)

if you watched the netflix version I Thoroughly recommend watching this (the chinese version) at the very least because you can fit a lot more things in thirty episodes than fucking... Eight. I Would Guess

and if you haven't, it's a hard sci fi show that starts with the suicide investigation of a scientist that claims that Physics Doesn't Exist (in a long list of scientists that are killing themselves for the same reason), and mainly follows a detective and a scientist he managed to rope into the investigation as they try to figure out what the fuck is going on. At the same time we see flashes and later full flashbacks of a woman, the mother of the aforementioned first suicide victim, in 1979 at the aftermath of the Chinese cultural revolution (this is important)

The show is slow paced at first but when it gets going it gets going, and is thick with scientific theory and philosophy. If you're interested even a smidge in anything I mentioned this far Please consider checking it out 😭😭

[xinyuehui]

alright I just started watching netflix 3 body problem, it's so western and white humour (bc it is western produced duhhh)

I'm only half way through ep1, it has this weird uncanny "woke women agenda" going on. We gotta admit Liu Cixin is probably not the best at writing women characters, or many for that matter of fact. I get that netflix is trying to diversify this whole story, there's a bunch of snarky "clever" kind of dialogues, if they thought Li Cixin had too little women in the story, they should just change the gender of them (which they did) and move on. But then they have this weirdo in a bar asking what the women do for a living... then men commenting on how good a woman looked at a funeral and gossiping about her boyfriend as well 😅 there's also dialogue directed at a woman saying "are you two fighting right now...or fucking? Oh! Fighting and fucking..." mate, I am uncomfortable, HELP!

AND YE WENJIE HAS SEX(implied) WITH BAI MULIN - literally what was the need for this!!!??????? THIS TOTALLY CHANGES HER ENTIRE CHARACTER PHILOSOPHY

[reaperlight]

Several Sentence Sunday

I was tagged by @kingofdarkness00

Here, have some crossover...

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Mu Xing looked up from the book she was pretending to read while trying to stall for time but knew that was rapidly dwindling.

The library would close soon, and she was waiting--

"Hey uh, so you're on this thing too, right?" A too loud voice suddenly asked her in English.

"Huh?"

Xing jolted when the man approached her. She'd been on edge for several hours now.

He was a white man in a leather jacket with messy dark blonde hair. He was a bit short but with well defined muscles, like he worked out.

"Oh hi! I don't think we properly met. I'm Eddie Brock with the Daily Globe. We, I mean I was wondering if you could help me? See uh the Globe sent me here but I'm afraid, um, not too great with the language and I wanted to make sure I got this right--" he asked haltingly, going back and forth between English and Mandarin.

Ugh, Americans. They go to another country and expect everyone to accommodate them.

Still it was a welcome distraction considering--

"Did you know you're being followed?" The man asked softly in Mandarin.

She met icy blue eyes that were filled with genuine concern.

"That lady over, no, don't look. She's been staring at you for this entire time we've been here, like at least the last ten minutes--."

No, Xing well knew she was being watched, being followed by the one the man had noticed. It had been hours. But--

"How did you know?"

"Like I said, I saw your press badge, thought I recognized you from the conference. I'm a reporter too. I wanted to look at those same materials that you checked out but I couldn't help but notice--"

Now that he mentioned it, she remembered him--the foreign reporter who came in late to the presser looking lost. He was probably harmless... Or at the very least he probably was not working for THEM.

"...I'm just like getting really bad vibes about all this you know? Did you want us, I mean me to walk with you?"

Xing knew the woman very likely intended to kill her. Because she knew too much. But would they still try something with a potential witness around? It would likely just be delaying the inevitable and get this man killed as well.

She should try and get rid of him, or least give him an out.

"I um... I have a boyfriend."

"Oh uh... me too. I mean, I'm not looking for anything like that here. I just thought as like a professional courtesy. Safety in numbers, right?"

Xing swallowed "...They'll kill you too."

The man's jovial demeanor became serious.

How much was an act and just how much did he know?

Who was this man? Could she even trust him?

But given the situation she didn't really have another option.

"All the more reason not to leave you alone with her then. If it comes to it, I think I can take her..."

That bravado would likely get him killed...

"I believe she's killed before."

"Noted. Shall we?"

Well she tried. And admittedly she would feel better with company.

"Yes, let's."

As he accompanied her to the parking lot her misgivings returned--she sincerely doubted they'd care about one extra body...

"...You really don't want to get mixed up in all this, Mr. Brock, it's dangerous."

Xing couldn't help but notice how often the man often paused at odd intervals as if listening to someone respond before replying to her.

He said he had troubles with the language and true he often stumbled with pronunciation and yet it seemed he rarely stumbled with understanding her. Maybe he had a Bluetooth or a translator in his ear? That seemed likely given his tendency to mutter to himself in English. Either that or the man was disturbed--she hadn't entirely ruled that out either.

"You know they'll target you too..."

"It wouldn't be the first time." The man grinned, was it her imagination or were his teeth just a little too sharp?

"That's how we know we're doing our jobs right, as reporters?"

She liked him, despite herself, despite the warning signs. There was an inkling now. "Bad vibes" as Mr. Brock had called them that perhaps her companion was more dangerous thst the assassin who pursued her. She wasn't sure yet if that was a good thing or not but again she had little options at the moment.

Xing smiled back tightly, "...Your Chinese is truly atrocious."

"I know, I'm sorry. Our foreign correspondent, the really smart lady they usually send for these things, got sick with the flu. My bad for padding my resumé but I guess they really needed a body to send."

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Tagging if you wanna do it...

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[secunduszephyrus]

Three-Body / 三体 (2023)

[aceinthetrap]

Tencent should replace the title LOVE GAME IN EASTERN FANTASY with fanmade Rebirth of the Evil Little Orchid

[borealing]

hi! I was wondering if you knew of somewhere streaming three body with english subs? I just finished the first book, looked at the netflix version, saw they seem to have split wang miao into three americans????? and now I'm scrolling through your three body tag and the chinese show looks incredible but I've never tried to find cdramas online before and don't even know where to start! thank you ☺���

HELLO THIS IS FANTASTIC NEWS TO ME yeah that's why I haven't watched the netflix version yet 😅 apparently they completely removed the cosmic horror element which was, to me, one of the most compelling parts! the tencent version of three body is incredible but unfortunately since it aired a while ago its slightly harder to find for free online now.

It's on YouTube here! https://youtu.be/CzHJK4Qsrow?feature=shared on the MiGu channel, it looks like its been taken off the Tx channel for some reason? Still the same show, still amazing!

You can also get the WeTV app and the episodes are there if you get vip ($5.99 per month, cancellable at any time). These are 4k just in case you want to see Zhang Luyi (Wang Miao)'s face in superimpressive detail lol

I hope you enjoy, please feel free to make posts and @ me i LOOOVEEE three body im always happy to talk about it :3

[cosmicsociology]

ShiWang is probably like the 00Q of Three Body Problem

[luyi]

Yu Hewei as Shi Qiang in Tencent's THREE-BODY | 三体 (2023) Episode 1.30 (Kun's 77/∞ Three-Body gifsets)

[accio-victuuri]

「 I AM NOT HERE 」 clowning post part iv. aka the main candy compilation now that we have the whole song. here’s part one & two & three for reference which are very short ones.

before we dive into the cpns, i wanna congratulate yibo for another exceptional song! the lyrics are so good and his voice??? his voice??? you all know the part i’m talking about— it’s singer yibo!

let’s start with this ⬆️⬆️⬆️ i think the side by side photo is self explanatory. you have xz drawing the mountains and yibo integrating himself into it and became the mountain himself. i like this whole concept of him being in nature, being all around this person even if he is not there physically as himself. this is so special too considering we always clown about them loving camping & hiking — and other outdoorsy stuff. it may be that nature reminds yibo of those happy times they spend together exploring that environment.

now let’s move on to a very yizhan-y interpretation of the song…

1. some fans have pointed out that it’s 2000 days since the 12.28 tencent starlight awards where they were together. it was post-cql and them going into new roles — a start of well, more complicated times, but they had each other. i don’t really believe too much in these anniversary cpns but i will just leave this here.

2. comparing the water theme & mountains from xz’s photoshoot before that had us all going 🥵🥵🥵, it matches the imagery from yibo’s song.

3. the official description of the song provided by music platforms gave a solid perspective of what it is all about & it’s not far off what we think it is when the teaser/s came out.

“I" is rooted in this land, connected by veins, and time and space are close to each other. "I" live in symbiosis with the mountain, breathe with you, and experience the ups and downs of life. We go through the ups and downs with all things, so the green mountains are flat, and "I" is always present.

I am here, a dialogue with the world. I AM NOT HERE, but I will always be there. This is what "I’m here" is all about. So darling, DON'T BE CRYING, Because this song is a symphony between you and me.

Let me just sit and think about this. It’s such a beautiful meaning. Their love goes beyond the romantic and it’s real. You can see it all around you.

4. Time to dissect the first half of the lyrics 🎶

Many years later // Where will I turn back and look? // Holding flowers I've never seen before // Facing toward you

this reminds us of their first meeting in the field of flowers. out of all the things he can start with, why this? also the graphics for xz’s album is an eternal flower. if we look at it further, it’s more than the literal sense too. the flower he hasn’t seen is this new feeling and having this one person that is became so important to him. the first line is also telling, cause it’s like he is looking back at that moment, many years later, out of all his time, that time is what he wants to recall.

Waving my hand // Don't stay on the lonely island // I'll become a small boat to take you to find the oasis

we knew of this line already and it’s still so romantic. it’s this person who is alone but wyb wants to take him away and help him find that oasis. oftentimes, people tend to have that selfish type of love where they want the other to be isolated. but yibo is not like that. he wants to take the person outside, see the world and fins that happiness together. and him being a small boat is too cute! like he knows he is not that strong but he will do his best to make a difference in his (xz) life and give him freedom & happiness.

My heart enters the mountains / My body sinks into the sea / All to reunite with you and return

the integration of himself with nature. how he has to sink into the sea so he can reunite with that person.

5. second part of the lyrics 🙌🏼. just a disclaimer that he had someone working with him to create this song and the lyrics, but that doesn’t mean he had 0 input. we all know how yibo is at this point and something as personal as his year-end song definitely had his approval with every line.

Falling, scattering into dust

And then being reborn

Pointing at the fireworks

in the sky, never fading

Are you there?

You just need not cry

You just need to bloom

And I will never leave

Don't be crying x 3

You don't need to wait

I'm here

I'm here

Don't be crying

i am weak for that first line, the thought of scattering into dust and being reborn. that’s some eternal love right there! we have reincarnation cpn at some point in the fandom so that feeds into that. the idea of yibo believing in that kind of love, never ending, not even in death makes me feel some type of way 🥹����🥹

next up is the imagery of fireworks. something he seems to be fond off per that video ybo shared before. also connect that to when xz was watching the fireworks during shooting wrap.

then it moves into him telling the person to not cry, you just need to bloom and he will never leave. I have explained the very real cpn about this whole crying thing before and it’s such a sweet sentiment! it’s a simple and honest promise, i will not make you cry. you just have to do what you want. yibo is there and will support xz as he succeeds (blooms).

and the last part is the nail in the coffin. you don’t need to wait, i’m here.

well who do we know at some point said that waiting is romantic?

hmmmmm. xiao zhan 🥰🥰🥰🥰

waiting. this word is very charming, it encourages people to expect. if you told me, someone is waiting for me, i would feel very moved. whether it’s my parents, or my lover, i feel that “waiting” is a very romantic word; to have something beautiful in the future waiting.

so this is yibo’s answer. you don’t have to. I’m here.

I hope everyone is having a fun weekend right now! listening to this new song, watching ETU and later follow yibo along at an event 🥂

-END

[oscargender]

I must not get angry at the netflix three body problem adaptation. Hating a new adaptation just because it’s different is the little death that brings total destruction. I will face the casting choices. I will permit the anglicization to pass over me and through me. And when I have watched the final episode I will turn my inner eye upon the tumblr 3 body problem tag to revel in the reactions of the other. Where the loathing has gone only a ‘meh it was fine’ will remain.

EDIT: I FINISHED THE SHOW AND I THINK IT WAS A BAD ADAPTATION. WATCH THE TENCENT OR MINECRAFT VERSION INSTEAD

[dilirebas]

To be clear, I thought the Tencent adaptation of the Three Body Problem was pretty bad.

But the Netflix adaptation? It simply doesn’t need to exist. Taking a Chinese story about Chinese people living in the aftermath of a particular moment in Chinese history, but turning it into a story about white people? What’s the point of that?

If you want to tell a white story so badly, there are already so many interesting sci fi novels about white people that you can adapt. No need to whiten up this one.

[stan-rabelais-et-diderot]

Small thoughts on the Netflix Three Body Problem adaptation

1) We are making it international" they said. They replaced all the international collaboration, the counsel of world leaders that we see throughout the books with... two British dudes deciding everything by themselves, not accountable to anyone. They managed to make it less international than the book. But more than that, they perverted the very themes Liu Cixin wove into his books, the very ideas the books revolve on: group mentality & collaboration versus the individual, banal or exceptional. The Netflix show removed the very notion of collective, of group mentality, without which there is nothing to contrast individuality against.

2) They made Ye Wenjie an unrecognizable shell of herself. Her back is not held up straight. An old Ye Wenjie, cursing, sloushing, moving to England. Is it really Ye Wenjie? It bothers me so much that they could get away with saying this is Ye Wenjie. This is not her.

3) They "simplified" the science to a point where nothing is explained, nothing can survive through any kind of analysis of the logic of the things shown & the actions taken. Just one example, because I’ve seen the headset being praised for looking “cool”. It’s not cool if it’s at the expense of a logical plot. The futurist headsets we are shown imply that either 1° the Trisolarians are able to send sizable physical objects [which they physically can't, the limit to what they could send through space is clearly explained, it is the two protons they did send Earth] or 2° the Trisolarians shared schematics of advanced technology with the ETO, letting them to develop the headsets. But that is the one thing the Trisolarians would never do, as their entire plan rely on humans’ technology not being able to develop any further than it already has.

4) I thought it was gonna be lesser than the Tencent show. I didn't expect it to be so utterly lacking on all front. If there was one point of worthy comparison, one point where I expected Netflix to do a good job, if only to show they had a bigger budget, it was “the” boat scene. Tencent spent 25% of their budget on that scene, so I expected Netflix would try to make their boat scene more spectacular, better on a technical level, to show that the US special effects are undefeated or something. I would have never expected that they wouldn’t even try to compete. That scene happened in the episode 5 of the Netflix show & it’s underwhelming. It has no gravitas, but of course it can’t have any gravitas, it’s not the culmination of the collaboration of humans across the globe, demonstrating that they can fight back & achieve greatness when they are united, of course it can’t be the same when it’s just 10 British people working in isolation. They didn’t just do something underwhelming on a technical level, they did something underwhelming on a narrative level. Just like the scene with the insects, the culmination of the Tencent show had no weigh & no impact when done by Netflix.

5) The misguided belief that somehow an American show could show Chinese history (the cultural revolution) to an international audience better & with more accuracy than a Chinese show to a Chinese audience because of the censorship in China is laughable. An international audience would need more context to understand a historical time that they or their parents didn’t live through, but that’s not what Netflix did. What they showed was mildly violent & shocking to be sure, but not very accurate to the content of the book. They cut out a lot of plot, but they could have done that, simplified it without stripping it of context or changing the story so much it resonates wrong. I'll just give small examples:

on the stage when they condemn Ye Wenjie's father (with microphones in front of a huge audience???) they keep saying "lies", which makes no sense, that's not the logic, the charge is propagating western propaganda, upholding western values & a capitalist way of thinking, not lying (see the end of page note on that point).

they call Ye Wenjie comrade during her time at the Red Coast (in the book [& in the Tencent show] her status as a political dissident & therefore NOT a comrade is emphasized, stated explicitly. If you don't understand the social implication, let's simplify & say that being a comrade is like being a citizen, not a comrade, not part of the group, not trusted).

Netflix Ye Wenjie unironically says: "how awesome would it be if China was the first [country to make contact with aliens]". She says it, mind you, not in front of the political commissioner because she is asking for something & need to butter him up, no, she is just enthusiastically patriotic? She is shown to be enthousiastically patriotic toward China & LATER she sells out the planets to the Trisolarians.

The inconsistencies are not only baffling deviations from the source materials that display a complete lack of comprehension of Ye Wenjie as a character, as well as an astonishing disregard for the accuracy of the ideology of (Mao-area) communism & the history of Maoist China. They didn't show a lot of content, so they could have easily avoided making such basis mistakes.

What really pisses me off is that I keep seeing press pieces saying that the Netflix version “doesn’t shy away from showing”, “won't censor” the part of the story taking place during the Cultural Revolution, sometimes outright saying it as a reason to watch the Netflix version over the Tencent one, implying to the readers the Tencent version is heavily censored, when in reality the Tencent version spend a lot more time than on it than the Netflix one, showing how bad it was, in an accurate way, very close to the content of the book. The political rhetoric fallacies, the bureaucracy, the hypocrisy, how miserable everything is, is shown very well.

[Disclaimer, I'm not Chinese, it's not my culture, it’s not the country I live in. But in France there are Maoists, so I’ve learned just enough about the history of Mao & the Cultural Revolution to hold very negative views about it. In reverse, in a very racist, sinophobic way, many Westerners think Chinese people can’t think for themselves if they don’t hate every single thing about China & they lump in the country, the people & the Xi Jinping administration. It’s absurd to ask other people to hate their country, to have no pride in anything from their country. What hypocrisy, in every country, nationalism is taught to us from the time we first attend school. Patriotism is a requirement, it’s ingrained, internalized in all of us. We can be critical of our country’s history, of our government, or many things & still find pride & love for some things. I know that’s the way I feel about France.]

Censorship does exist in China, it’s exist materially in a way that differs from the Hays Code in the US in both the scope of its autority & its function. It is enacted by a governement agency called the NRTA & everything that airs on tv has to be clear by the NRTA first. A clear guideline is not provided, we know what passed it, creators know what didn’t, so to a lesser extent we know what doesn’t passes NRTA censorship: graphic violence, nudity, sex, ghosts (or BL since 2021...) et caetera. It would be dishonest to pretend that the topic of Cultural Revolution is a taboo that cannot be spoken about, as if the current administration has a positive view on it & would therefore not allow it to be criticized. What is censored (as far as we know, what is different from the book) in the Tencent show is the opening scene, a very graphic violent scene. That’s it. It’s censored, probably more for the violence than anything else. Some people find it disappointing, but the symbolic meaning of that violence in not hidden in the narrative & the event are instead visually & auditory implied in a short flashback at the end of one episode.

NB) In the opening scene of the Netflix show (the same one that was cut on Tencent), the political tribunal has someone accusing: "Lies, all lies!". But lying is not a political charge. It sounds ridiculous. They just had to follow the book, they didn’t have to understand communism, but no, they had to come up with things themselves... My best guess it that the creators didn’t realized that "lying is bad" is a cultural value that is not universal.

I don't know if "lying" is a big deal in China, but I know it's not a big deal in my culture & in a Marxist/communist political context, lying is just not "a thing". They are a lot of charges you can get in a political tribunal:

-individualist behavior,

-liberalism/imperialistic thinking,

- lack of self-criticism (Maoism famously has the three principles, one of which being the practice of self-criticism so you/we can do better).

-deceiving the masses with xx propaganda [so they don't revolt when they would if they knew the truth], that’s as close to lying is a political charge can get,

-aspiring to bourgeois comfort [that can mean profiting of other people's labor, not doing enough or not wanting to sacrifice your life for the cause],

- treason & of course

- being counterrevolutionary / working against the revolution, are the two big ones !

Can you see what is not on that list ? Lying is not on that list.

[f1lmilton]

so i'm halfway through the netflix three body problem and.... unpopular opinion but i really like it?? and this is coming from someone who read the original series in chinese + watched the tencent series version. i think that this adaptation does such a good job addressing key points in the series and even though they condense characters, all the important points are there and it's not too draggy. i understand that one main reason why a lot of people don't like it is because it's "white-washed", but i mean, the original series is literally a story about humanity???? if they're gonna write a whole show based on ALL 3 BOOKS, it can't just be set in china and have all the characters be chinese if it's about saving humanity right...

[secunduszephyrus]

Three-Body / 三体 (2023)

[protoindoeuropean]

nine people i wish i knew better

i was tagged by @tomirida, thank you!!

favourite colour: green 😌

currently reading: in the middle of a bunch of stuff: still somewhere in the second part of Foundation and Empire by Asimov, reading the Journey to the West whenever i'm on the bus (not often these days) ...

last song: demolition group & helena blagne – dež (i didn't know she had it in her tbh!)

last film: honestly don't remember, idk if i've watched any other film after conclave (the motion picture, not the real thing) back in january

sweet/salty/savoury: i'm a sucker for sweet stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ made some great milchschnitte last week 😋

last series: three-body – tencent tv, the 26 ep. anniversary edition. i tried the original 30 ep. version and got as far as 8 episodes in and it wasn't going anywhere so i dropped it. then i read somewhere that a) it picks up after around ep. 10 and b) that they corrected some pacing issues for the anniversary edition, cutting out some unnecessary stuff, and redid some editing, so i started off again (from ep. 5 onwards ≈ orig. ep. 8) and it's indeed better

my issues (x x) with the original work remain so i'm not sure how much i'll appreciate it being faithful to the book lol, but i do feel it's better as a tv series than as a book. and i want to compare it to the netflix version (this is themain driver behind watching tbh, i wanna see the chinese version turn out to be the better version lol). in any case, the jury is out

tea or coffee: (usually black) tea with milk (and cinnamon; though less often these days)

working on: ha ha, well—

i'll post about it in a month, probably

i'm tagging @bogfox, @eastern-bloc-party, @formerbogbody, @jonnystrebor, @mica5fowl, @morska-trava, @olive-martini, @urkraft, @wooden-turtle, tbh idk who likes doing these things or not—consider yourself tagged and @ me if you do😌

[silviakundera]

So Netflix really went and whitewashed Three Body, this is happening. 😒

It's honestly not even worth investing any emotion in, even my anger.

At least Tencent is delivering a quality adaption and all episodes are available for free YouTube. Good acting & writing in a production that actually gave a shit about this epic sci-fi series. Is any adaption perfect? No. But they made an effort and cared about the source material. I can't get behind what Netflix is doing - they could have cast it properly and kept the setting chinese. Audiences can handle non europe and america settings, I swear.