Zine Tseng is perfect casting. Perfect intensity, perfect looks, perfect coldness. I have no clue if the rest of the show will be good but Zine Tseng has got Ye Wenjie down pat! I got chills from a few lines! ...idk I have not heard of her before and might be too optimistic. I look forward to her performance though! Ye Wenjie is one of favorite characters.
Nice irony that Paskistani origin actor plays an Indian origin person who’s father played a pivotal role in victory over Pakistan. Great to see such varied talent.
This series is an incredible storytelling achievement. It takes you on an amazing journey that stays true to its original story. More than just an adaptation, it deeply explores what the future could hold, including the chance of meeting beings from other planets. It asks big questions about whether we should try to contact aliens and what we need to think about if we do. The series also brings a unique kind of fear, not from scary things but from the huge, mysterious universe around us. This fear, mixed with wonder and the unknown, makes the show more than just entertaining-it's a thought-provoking look at what lies beyond our world and how we fit into the vastness of space.
Yep, I haven’t read the books yet but looking at the Wikipedia synopses for the books alone, it takes away all the Cold War era espionage elements, the story behind the main Chinese characters father being murdered due to the complex sociopolitical situation in china at the time and so on and has simply diluted the story into a conventional alien invasion storyline. This could have been on the level of Dark on Netflix, the books have more in common with Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan rather than pulpy low budget tv sci fi.
No, she’s a horrible miscast. She can’t act, and she doesn’t fit to an astrophysicist, maybe as a narcissist model or a high end hooker. Plus her huge handsome squidward lips are distracting. Can she even close her mouth or the Botox stuck them open permanently?
I'm looking forward to see all the long faces in 2026 when you learn this show is either cancelled, or turned into an unfaithful nonsense (GOT, Altered Carbon, Witcher, etc etc etc)
I'd like to see another version of this story, Oxford 5 maybe the Wang Miao in the book, I don't mind if they make it 5, but don't ruin the soul of the story, pls.
They are not new characters. They are characters from book 2 and book 3. This first season is not the adaptation of book 1 - as I can see - , it's the adaptation of the Common Era.
From what i read in interviews, the purposely added these 5 characters to make the story more global. Otherwise, the story would be too much Chinese setting, which would make it harder to sell especially for Netflix and western audiences.
Well, we never actually "see" the Trisolarans in the books, so I doubt we'll see what they actually look like. They're represented as humans in the VR game. We're told very little about their physiology.
@@charlesajones77 I'm thinking about the epilogue chapter's when their folding atoms into higher dimensions. I guess it won't be shown how they cap earth's science by giving chaotic readings from this like our hadron collider. All of the other vr stuff will work. I wonder if we'll have everyone dressed up as the scientists like Isaac Newton or they'll cast other people 🤭
2:54 "I don't think we've ever seen something like this on TV". 1. We did, darling, we did. 2. We don't like the cast telling us things like this. Please let us to judge ourselves. 3. Netflix is not TV.
Thomas Wade being so old is the only thing that really makes me afraid. Introducing characters from book 2 and 3 in the first season was a pleasant surprise for me (since I like them all). I am looking forward to it. I hope it works.
@@Phsilva777 yeah that’s what I meant. I agree that in this period he should be younger, maybe in his 40s. Although he does go into hibernation, he would stay awake more than the other characters.
She is horrible to the point of so bad it's distracting. It's rare to see such bad acting make into the final edit. Rest of the cast I thought did great.
These might become the wallfacers it sounds like. I think its a good ide to condense the plots and ideas into 8 episodes since netlfix is obsessed with having 8 episodes of shows 🤷♂️
Eiza González Reyna is so beautiful, so sexy, I love her so much, I hope she becomes the real protagonist next season, I’m really looking forward to it. I hope Cheng Jin will be played by someone else next season, I don't like her.
And? The opening will be faithful and strong... So reviews will be good. NF usually trashes a show in season 2 or 3. Show me a budget and organization plan and signed contract to prove NF is committed to cover al 3 books, and nothing more, and faithful to the books - that'd give a proper preview and review of the show.
Tatiana fills some of the role of Shen Yufei (member of the ETO) but it's not a 1:1 adaptation of the same character. I assume she is a potential wallbreaker as well, maybe the only one in the show.
I enjoy the concept and story line but the young main actors and actresses didn't act well. They didn't sell me with their performances but the grisled vets and young ye wenjie AMAZING.
Chinese in China do not need Americans to represent them or tell the rest of the world how Chinese are like. They are doing it themselves with Tencent. No matter what Netflix does, China will call it whitewashing so might as well not worry about it.
@@marlamorales8298 The diversity isn't an issue her horrible acting is and I'm Mexican, lmao. Diversity in a cast doesn't mean the acting is great wake up. Jess Hong on the other hand carries the show.
This trilogy is a bit ho hum for serious hard scifi fans. The CCP had a lot to do with its inexplicable popularity (I truly don't know what people see in this series of tired tropes and cardboard characters. Also, the underlying communist themes can be a bit on the nose. Its not a bad series..... It just isn't as good as the hype. Not even close. Plus, there's also the funny biz with the author and the communist party. Someone in the CCP Culture dept. deemed that china must have a great scifi series to rival the great sci fi from the West and this is the poor bugger they chose to write it). There are so many far better sci fi novel series that could have been adapted first. Netflix gotta keep their real overlords in the CCP happy. I hope it doesn't end up as truly awful as some of the other scifi on Netflix. I wonder if they'll do the 3 books of 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' as 3 films, or whether they'll jam it all into this one film?
You need serious therapy if you truly think so. Three Body Problem serious starts off with a detailed depiction of the Cultural Revolution that the Chinese government desperately wants people to forget. Yet here you are pointing fingers at everything Chinese and accusing it of being CCP sponsored. How delusional and brainwashed.
In fact I’d argue decent sci fi is so hard to come by these days, I’ll take a slightly derivative, more scientifically grounded, amalgamation of better works over most of the lackluster lifeless offerings available today. I’d argue the bias and push from the CCP is there but Cixin Lu and his publishers aren’t stupid, they interweaved the controversial communist murder of the protagonists father in the first book into a non linear revelation so as to evade censorship. In an interview with the New York Times the author vaguely accepts communism and authoritarianism in the country because those liberties aren’t what China wants and something along the lines of stability and prosperity. The CCP doesn’t practice true left wing communism it’s more of a thinly veiled government regulated society than anything else. I’d like to see a source that hints that the book and the author are an industry plant by the CCP.
Are you by any chance a rejector of globalism and unity between foreign adversaries? Because that a prominent theme in navigating the extraterrestrial crises in the books, I understand it’s just corrupt governments shanking hands for “the greater good” and whenever it is convenient but internal politics in the novel also nicely address the valid disunities, now this computer engineer science nerd doesn’t flesh out this social commentary as well as a sociological champion of literature, but it’s enough. Frankly, I enjoy reading things I don’t fully agree with as an outsider not from a major P5 nation. Really broadens perspectives and makes me understand why I disagree with certain opinions. I suggest you do it too without dismissing it in its entirety.
the actresses who played ye wenjie were both incredible
Dude young Ye was still SOOOO in character in this interview 😂
Zine Tseng is perfect casting. Perfect intensity, perfect looks, perfect coldness. I have no clue if the rest of the show will be good but Zine Tseng has got Ye Wenjie down pat! I got chills from a few lines!
...idk I have not heard of her before and might be too optimistic. I look forward to her performance though! Ye Wenjie is one of favorite characters.
Marlo, Rosalind and Zine SHINED in this. (Tatiana and Ye Wenjie). Just finished season 1, please give them more screen time and bring them back!
Can I just say, Benedict Wong was freaking Phenomenal in Marco Polo.
Nice irony that Paskistani origin actor plays an Indian origin person who’s father played a pivotal role in victory over Pakistan. Great to see such varied talent.
I just saw the premiere for this at SXSW and i thought it was amazing
This looks so intriguing!
I hope this show becomes one of the best sci-fi shows in the history of Netflix!
I am super stoked for this show!
I am so excited to see this show!! I can't wait!
there is a already a Chinese show that is clearly a lot more faithful to the book. Its floating around on youtube on the tencent ch.
If you can't, then don't.
Finally, the GREATEST SCI-FI SERIES is about to launch...i hope it will be renewed until the 3rd book
one of the best series ive ever watched im fuming that we gotta wait for another season icl. This series could genuinley make u question ur existence
*The WONGVERSE is real.*
Sea's voice is so ASMR
It’s so eerie how good she is at a monotone Ai voice, she almost sounds like the Google American pronunciation voice Ai
My hope is that they keep Luo Ji's backstory. That is some of the most romantic scenes I've ever read in a fictional book.
LMAO God please no
… that was creepy as hell
Romantic?
Not romantic but it shows his character change. Luo Ji is easily best character
lol
This series is an incredible storytelling achievement. It takes you on an amazing journey that stays true to its original story. More than just an adaptation, it deeply explores what the future could hold, including the chance of meeting beings from other planets. It asks big questions about whether we should try to contact aliens and what we need to think about if we do. The series also brings a unique kind of fear, not from scary things but from the huge, mysterious universe around us. This fear, mixed with wonder and the unknown, makes the show more than just entertaining-it's a thought-provoking look at what lies beyond our world and how we fit into the vastness of space.
Zine Tseng blew me away. I want to see her in more shows
There is so much potential for this book being adapted, and so far from how they are describing the changes they have made, it does NOT sound good.
Yep, I haven’t read the books yet but looking at the Wikipedia synopses for the books alone, it takes away all the Cold War era espionage elements, the story behind the main Chinese characters father being murdered due to the complex sociopolitical situation in china at the time and so on and has simply diluted the story into a conventional alien invasion storyline. This could have been on the level of Dark on Netflix, the books have more in common with Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan rather than pulpy low budget tv sci fi.
Hope this doesn’t turn out like the shitshow archive 81 turned out, it’s a shame we can’t get HBO adapting it.
From what I heard the Ye Wenjie backstory part were the best part of the whole series and it's also the closest to the book.
Absolutely a must watch series
Also absolutely must read series as well.
@@kulwinderkuls8560more so this reply than the comment.
Zine was so phenomenal. Perfect casting
Ye wenjie, luo Ji. Perhaps this is just a adaptation of the books, like taken an inspiration out of it. I don't imagine the books like this.
Eiza is fantastic...❣️
En español bro
No, she’s a horrible miscast. She can’t act, and she doesn’t fit to an astrophysicist, maybe as a narcissist model or a high end hooker. Plus her huge handsome squidward lips are distracting. Can she even close her mouth or the Botox stuck them open permanently?
I just wanna see how they handle the Droplet's attacking the main earth fleet.
Gonna be a super expensive set piece.
If the show sells, Netflix may invest the big money. If not, it will perhaps be something on the newspaper...
3 Game Of Thrones actors, wow.
Can't believe they're adapting this, really curious if or how they are going to put some of the more insane shit from the next two books on screen
I'm nervous about the Moonfall energy of some of these casting choices, but the rest of the cast and the premise has me intrigued.
0:22 "Jin Cheng" Is she supposed to be Cheng Xin? Don't know why they would change her name slightly, but it seems too similar to be coincidence.
Haven’t read book 2 and 3. I’ve heard they mixed them into season 1. So either that or just poor writing
welcome back ROSALIND CHAO; what a WONDERFUL cast!
I am looking forward to this so much!
I'm looking forward to see all the long faces in 2026 when you learn this show is either cancelled, or turned into an unfaithful nonsense (GOT, Altered Carbon, Witcher, etc etc etc)
@@MinekEzQMWe don’t know how faithful GOT’s ending is because the writer still can’t write it after an eon.
it's already unfaithful nonsense to be fair@@MinekEzQM
@@MinekEzQM Do not compare the genius of GOT to the witcher...
“The difference is I have a license. And a healthy love for innovation. Gadgets, marvels, things that go boom.” - Nikolai Lantsovv
I'd like to see another version of this story, Oxford 5 maybe the Wang Miao in the book, I don't mind if they make it 5, but don't ruin the soul of the story, pls.
The Oxford 5 is not in the book, I am hoping the movie doesn't ruin the plot in the book by adding these 5 characters.
Yea. Are they the wall facers or something else?
They are not new characters. They are characters from book 2 and book 3. This first season is not the adaptation of book 1 - as I can see - , it's the adaptation of the Common Era.
From what i read in interviews, the purposely added these 5 characters to make the story more global. Otherwise, the story would be too much Chinese setting, which would make it harder to sell especially for Netflix and western audiences.
@@Phsilva777 maybe
@@fax5458 Believe me
dunno how they are going to pull of the parts with the Trisolarians
Well, we never actually "see" the Trisolarans in the books, so I doubt we'll see what they actually look like. They're represented as humans in the VR game. We're told very little about their physiology.
@@charlesajones77 I'm thinking about the epilogue chapter's when their folding atoms into higher dimensions. I guess it won't be shown how they cap earth's science by giving chaotic readings from this like our hadron collider. All of the other vr stuff will work. I wonder if we'll have everyone dressed up as the scientists like Isaac Newton or they'll cast other people 🤭
@@charlesajones77 i know that you mean. We all have a picture of what they should look like. A few descriptions that sound wild
Zine Tseng is powerful actress
2:54 "I don't think we've ever seen something like this on TV".
1. We did, darling, we did.
2. We don't like the cast telling us things like this. Please let us to judge ourselves.
3. Netflix is not TV.
Allow her to judge too 😊
Watch the 30 episode series from China right here on the tube. They probably did a better job too, staying true to the book.
My favorite characters; Wang, Luo Ji and Da Shi.
Thomas Wade being so old is the only thing that really makes me afraid.
Introducing characters from book 2 and 3 in the first season was a pleasant surprise for me (since I like them all). I am looking forward to it. I hope it works.
Yeah, anyone who read the book knows that he has a much much bigger role in the future.
@@DressedRunner yes. But isn't he too old for that? I mean, he can be frozen, but still...
@@Phsilva777 yeah that’s what I meant. I agree that in this period he should be younger, maybe in his 40s. Although he does go into hibernation, he would stay awake more than the other characters.
They had to because chances the series will never reach book 3 or they'll turn it into something totally different.
damn, they changed all the characters from the book 🤦♂
eiza is spectular!! she is gorgeous!!
She is horrible to the point of so bad it's distracting. It's rare to see such bad acting make into the final edit. Rest of the cast I thought did great.
I just need them to stick to the book as close as possible.
You'll be disappointed, if you want a faithful adaptation go watch the Tencent Chinese series, they're making The Dark Forest now.
@@tsukasa1608 how would I see that?
@@Mr_Wordsworth viki, prime or peacock
@@Mr_WordsworthIt's on Amazon Prime. I've watched most of it, and it's pretty good. Way too long though.
The Chinese version was so good. It was almost perfect. I might watch the Netflix one but it definitely won't be as close to the book at all.
I really hope it will be the greatest series
People in the comments complain they dont recognise characters in this promo yet half of them have not even read the entire book trilogy 😂 go figure
Peut on avoir les traductions des vidéos en français svp merci!🇨🇦
Casts... like handcrafted good choice. Good story and pictures. There was some small details could have made differently. But way2go!
These might become the wallfacers it sounds like. I think its a good ide to condense the plots and ideas into 8 episodes since netlfix is obsessed with having 8 episodes of shows 🤷♂️
Raj = Zhang B? He will become a megastar if they get the next season right.
Please cast Marlo Kelly for the remake of The Thorn Birds 🐦 and for the biography of Olivia Newton-John
Can Trixie and Katya review this??
Eiza can get it all Day
Excited ❤
i noticed some Game of Thrones alumni in this.
because its made by the same showrunners
In that case, I'll expect it to start off strong and then jump the shark near the end.
@@CobaltBobyoull be happy to know all the source material books are already completed so no show runner will be making things up as they go.
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i love oxford 5!!!!❤❤
Very nice 😊👍
sea shimooka is bad ass!
Increíble Serie ...🙌
I'm mid book 2 and a large majority of these characters are not in the books. So... are the "Oxford Five" the Wallfacers?
One of them is.
3:25 "two-doom"??
To doom or not to doom, that be the question
i really liked marlo in this series
Only seeing this for Eiza Gonzalez
The worst performance in the cast 😂.
Eiza González Reyna is so beautiful, so sexy, I love her so much, I hope she becomes the real protagonist next season, I’m really looking forward to it. I hope Cheng Jin will be played by someone else next season, I don't like her.
I wonder who's gonna play Zhang Beiai
Review embargo just lifted!
Mostly getting good reviews and few bad ones but so far mostly all good
And?
The opening will be faithful and strong...
So reviews will be good.
NF usually trashes a show in season 2 or 3.
Show me a budget and organization plan and signed contract to prove NF is committed to cover al 3 books, and nothing more, and faithful to the books - that'd give a proper preview and review of the show.
@@MinekEzQM the majority of the reviews have been positive a few negative but mostly positive and they said they want to do 4 seasons.
I don't know if you'll read this or not but WE NEED THE VIDEO GAME!!!! WE NEED THE GAME! I'LL PAY ANYTHING. GOD! PLEASE!
Ovo je dobro...
Who’s Tatiana supposed to be ? She reminds me of Thomas wade in Book 3
Tatiana fills some of the role of Shen Yufei (member of the ETO) but it's not a 1:1 adaptation of the same character. I assume she is a potential wallbreaker as well, maybe the only one in the show.
I enjoy the concept and story line but the young main actors and actresses didn't act well. They didn't sell me with their performances but the grisled vets and young ye wenjie AMAZING.
increíble....
This show really captures the presence of asian/Chinese culture in todays fast food
Chinese in China do not need Americans to represent them or tell the rest of the world how Chinese are like. They are doing it themselves with Tencent. No matter what Netflix does, China will call it whitewashing so might as well not worry about it.
Them Chinese, they play joke, they make PP in your coke
🤭
Wang 😢
Chung.
Looks like a very big reimagining of the cast. I guess that'll get me to enjoy it more as its own thing... If they stick the landing. :)
青年叶文洁和老年叶文洁看起来太像了，她们居然是两个人扮演的。
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I love this story 💓
I enjoyed watching this
I Love it.🩷
yeah so not like the book. AT ALL
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looks really good.. is it really? though.. hmm
I mean three body alien invide earth maybe thouds year in the future
Wait... when the series change characters to not Asian people? I stopped watching after the VR games start happening ...
They never even mentioned it's based off a Chinese novel 💀 it's just "from creators of Game of Thrones" lol as if they created the script from scratch
its in london now
That’s not nice they love you but
Netflix Taylor swift the eras original release August 13
Plss dont call sophone in Spanish u.u
Nice DEI cast. Wonder if they will keep the anti communist narrative the book has considering DEI is communist.
Yawn. Half way and thinking GOT season 8 was better 😂
Watch The Boys or From
@@_Yombo will try From if you recommend the boys. Now that is entertainment
Eiza is so pretty, she'll be mine
That's why they casted her. To win viewers as you. Congrats.
watched the 1st episode and it was trash. watch the original chinese production, its better.
Eiza should of been replaced her acting is atrocius and distracting. The rest of the cast was very likeable and not over acting like she is.
Wtf you’re talking about she was the one that brought some good diversity
@@marlamorales8298 The diversity isn't an issue her horrible acting is and I'm Mexican, lmao. Diversity in a cast doesn't mean the acting is great wake up. Jess Hong on the other hand carries the show.
This trilogy is a bit ho hum for serious hard scifi fans. The CCP had a lot to do with its inexplicable popularity (I truly don't know what people see in this series of tired tropes and cardboard characters. Also, the underlying communist themes can be a bit on the nose. Its not a bad series..... It just isn't as good as the hype. Not even close. Plus, there's also the funny biz with the author and the communist party. Someone in the CCP Culture dept. deemed that china must have a great scifi series to rival the great sci fi from the West and this is the poor bugger they chose to write it). There are so many far better sci fi novel series that could have been adapted first. Netflix gotta keep their real overlords in the CCP happy. I hope it doesn't end up as truly awful as some of the other scifi on Netflix.
I wonder if they'll do the 3 books of 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' as 3 films, or whether they'll jam it all into this one film?
You need serious therapy if you truly think so. Three Body Problem serious starts off with a detailed depiction of the Cultural Revolution that the Chinese government desperately wants people to forget. Yet here you are pointing fingers at everything Chinese and accusing it of being CCP sponsored. How delusional and brainwashed.
It’s a tv show that looks worse than the source material.
In fact I’d argue decent sci fi is so hard to come by these days, I’ll take a slightly derivative, more scientifically grounded, amalgamation of better works over most of the lackluster lifeless offerings available today.
I’d argue the bias and push from the CCP is there but Cixin Lu and his publishers aren’t stupid, they interweaved the controversial communist murder of the protagonists father in the first book into a non linear revelation so as to evade censorship. In an interview with the New York Times the author vaguely accepts communism and authoritarianism in the country because those liberties aren’t what China wants and something along the lines of stability and prosperity. The CCP doesn’t practice true left wing communism it’s more of a thinly veiled government regulated society than anything else. I’d like to see a source that hints that the book and the author are an industry plant by the CCP.
Are you by any chance a rejector of globalism and unity between foreign adversaries? Because that a prominent theme in navigating the extraterrestrial crises in the books, I understand it’s just corrupt governments shanking hands for “the greater good” and whenever it is convenient but internal politics in the novel also nicely address the valid disunities, now this computer engineer science nerd doesn’t flesh out this social commentary as well as a sociological champion of literature, but it’s enough. Frankly, I enjoy reading things I don’t fully agree with as an outsider not from a major P5 nation. Really broadens perspectives and makes me understand why I disagree with certain opinions. I suggest you do it too without dismissing it in its entirety.
me when I spread misinformation 😂
Netflix India is full of woke films extremely bad content
Define woke
What do u mean by india ?? India has nothing to do with it.
U stupid
Only seeing this for Eiza Gonzalez