#trisolarian

[davidwatkinswriter]

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu - Review

The blurb: 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China’s Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang’s investigation will lead him to a…

[anthony-samaniego]

two-body problem

[bahoreal]

this is going to be relevant to exactly zero of you but good omens three body crossover where gabriel and beelzebub go to alpha centuri and end up on the trisolarian planet

[ainelane]

Ender dragon sparklez, witch kara, cyborg x33n, and ive decided that pete is also included. But pete is just a really determined human.

[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 revolves on, group mentality, collaboration versus the individuals. 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 make it 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 us is clearly explained, it is the two protons they did send us] 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 developing 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 of 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 to show 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 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 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 (I wrote an end of page note to explain 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, they say explicitly she is NOT a comrade).

Netflix Ye Wenjie unironically says: "how awesome would it be if China was the first [country to make contact with aliens]". She says it, not in front of the political commissioner because she is asking for something & need to butter him up, she is just enthusiastically patriotic? Yes, before 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, 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 times we first attend school, it’s a requirement, it’s ingrained. 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,

- being counterrevolutionary / working against the revolution, the biig ones !

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

[wangmiao]

I tried not to post Shiwang stuff, but they (the official capacity) just keep giving me reasons to do so. Today, Three-Body community's weibo account posted a quiz that can test which Three-Body character you are. It's not a general personality test. They actually ask you a series of questions on what you'll do in the fight against the trisolarians. It's unfortunately not very feasible to translate because you'd get different questions when you pick different answers.

But anyways, I tried it multiples times and got quite a few different results. What caught my attention was one version of the character descriptions for Wang Miao and Shi Qiang both have a part that describe their interpersonal relationship. That's something other characters don't have (at least not for the ones I've seen). Not even canon lovers like Ding Yi and Yang Dong. And not for Luo Ji either since he should be thankful for Shi Qiang's existence as well. So I'm certain whatever this is, it's meant for Wang Miao and Shi Qiang ONLY.

Translation of Wang Miao's description:

"Honestly, you once were someone with a fragile heart, but your rational mind can eventually help you conquer your fear. At a crucial moment, you can even be the key player to turn the situation around. You love your work. You not only can gladly endure all the hardship, but also thought of dying for the cause. But luckily, there's always kind people around you who love you. Even living at the end of the world, your life is filled with hope and sunshine every day."

Translation of Shi Qiang's description:

"You act faster than you think. You instinct is higher than your logic. No matter what you trust your judgement. Facing enemies, you are like the devil. But when facing friends, you have a soft side. Even though you try to hide your kindness and softness most of the time, those who truly know you all know that you didn't turn into someone who's cold."

I honestly didn't think they'd bring out my Shiwang feels with a simple personality quiz. BUT THIS IS JUST TOO MUCH FROM THE OFFICIAL CAPACITY AGAIN. Shi Qiang is someone who loves Wang Miao, and Wang Miao is someone who truly knows Shi Qiang. Shi Qiang gives his kindness and softness to Wang Miao, and Wang Miao's life is filled with sunshine and hope...

[dyonisia96]

I made a drawing for Erasure, an amazing short audio where Narvin tells Leela a truly heartwarming story-

(This may be a false advertisement XD Check it out, it's very good!)

I was also inspired by the Three Body Problem and how similar Time Lords and Trisolarians are. Both very advanced civilizations, with powers that vastly go beyond the ones many others have. And if you make the mistake of being noticed by them, or you start being a threat just by existing, Time Lords really have no mercy

[shiwang]

ok. this is extremely out of character. but what if wm is a 恋爱脑, so after sq got radiation injury, he promises to trisolarians that he'd stop his research but in return they need to cure sq. in the end they just elopes and be completely selfish, and don't give a shit about what's going to happen to earth...

ps. do you guys want to know the craziest thing that wm did in fanfic to save sq xD...

[sparrowsabre7]

Why do Weiss and Benioff insist on making their adaptations more gratuitously violent? In GOT they added rape in scenes where there was none, and in 3 body problems, they add a bunch of innocent kids to a mass slaughter of Trisolarian supporters. No need for it.

[grayrazor]

A couple episodes into Netflix’s Three Body Problem adaptation. So far, it’s closer to the book than I was expecting. Set in Britain instead of China, but a lot of characters have the same names and backstories.

Was amused by some of the additions, like a version of the Three Sun VR game with a Renaissance English skin instead of an ancient Chinese one.

Kinda weird that they say it’ll take 400 years for the invaders to reach Earth. Even with an Orion or Daedalus Drive you could do Alpha Centaur to Sol in less than a century, and the Trisolarians/San-Ti are presumably far beyond that.

[onequeermushroom]

i read the books in german and there they called them trisolarians. now idk if calling them san ti is from the original chinese, from the english translation or from the show, but if it's from the original i kinda with they'd kept it for the german

[thecosmiccircus]

Book Review: 'The Three-Body Problem' by Cixin Liu

I must admit that I love horror, so I thought The Three-Body Problem was about hiding three bodies (naturally, right?). Wrong! The “three-body problem” is an actual physics problem that deals with the movements of three celestial bodies in relation to each other as they move through space. Their movements are very chaotic and impossible to predict. This is bad for the Trisolarians, an alien race…

[bahoreal]

im relatively (?) sure you guys dont know chinese but i was reminded of this meme and it sure is how im feeling about ted lasso final episode

[mainsdj]

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[female-malice]

kill yourself

another trisolarian troll trying to sabotage my research and disrupt my ideas

why don't you go dehydrate yourself