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Any other nerds as stoked about 3 Body on Netflix as I am???

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:36 pm
by Kage_ar
If I had not had to work on Thursday, I'd have set an alarm to get up in the wee small hours to begin watching as soon as they dropped on Netflix. It was like when my kid would go to the bookstore at midnight to get the new Harry Potter installment, I was that giddy with excitement.

I'd read enough ahead of time to understand the changes made by the screenwriters, and there was only one omission in the first episode that made me grind my teeth. For those who know the novel, the pool table demonstration would have helped those who have not read the novels IMHO (I think the Chinese TV version did an excellent job of that scene).

Anyway, I have no one IRL to talk to about this stuff, so, wondered if any of my invisible friends wanted to talk about it.

Re: Any other nerds as stoked about 3 Body on Netflix as I am???

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:39 pm
by Obi-Wan Kenobi
Banned for mentioning IRL.

Re: Any other nerds as stoked about 3 Body on Netflix as I am???

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:29 pm
by Doom
I don't know what that is...except for the unsolved problem in Newtonian mechanics of course.

Re: Any other nerds as stoked about 3 Body on Netflix as I am???

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:24 pm
by Obi-Wan Kenobi
Not just unsolved, but unsolvable, at least in closed form.

I have no idea what Kelly is talking about either.

Re: Any other nerds as stoked about 3 Body on Netflix as I am???

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:34 pm
by Doom
The general problem is unsolvable but there are many special cases where it can be solved easily.

Re: Any other nerds as stoked about 3 Body on Netflix as I am???

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:48 am
by Kage_ar
With all of the nerds here, I'd think someone else would have read the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel (the first of a trilogy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three ... em_(novel)

Re: Any other nerds as stoked about 3 Body on Netflix as I am???

Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:54 pm
by Obi-Wan Kenobi
The Hugos and Nebulas are no longer markers of a good book. Often, they are quite the opposite.

Re: Any other nerds as stoked about 3 Body on Netflix as I am???

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:43 am
by aussie_aussie_oi_oi
Book was incomprehensible.
Series is wonderful (just finished 5 of 8).