It’s like someone asked ChatGPT to turn the book into a dumb anglo sitcom.
-Every character is emotionally immature, spiteful, and sassy. None of the ‘friends’ act like friends. None of the characters talk like real people. They’re constantly insulting or hitting each other. It’s just embarrassing. The actors have nothing to work with.
-All the major twists/reveals are shown in the first two episodes. No suspense, no build-up, no pay-off. Rushed is an understatement.
-Single characters from the book have been unnecessarily split into multiple new characters adding nothing to the story.
-The story is a cosmic horror but comedy and romance have been forced in for no reason whatsoever except as filler, which is even more mind-boggling because they’ve essentially rushed all of the good stuff in the book to make room for unfunny jokes.
-Apparently they could barely afford any sets and extras, so scenes and locations that are supposed to be bristling with sights and people just feel oddly empty. Even the special effects feel muted. The budget is just weirdly limited, and the show looks much cheaper than the Tencent series.
-Almost all of the science (which is the interesting stuff) has been gutted from this science fiction.
I hate anglo slop. Where is the kino. Tencent pls adapt The Dark Forest.
But we need to boost this series though, otherwise we will never see a rendition of the far future where every man on earth is a femboy.
There was really a bunch of weird stuff in Death’s End about how this or that era could “produce real men” or not. Hard times and soft times cycle level stuff.
Ikr lmao the justification for it is evidence they allow reddit in china: “bro just trust me, the more advanced soyciety becomes, the more effeminate the men get due to a lack of necessity for manual labor, just trust me bro…”
I mean I wouldnt mind living in a time where all the men wore makeup and dressed all cute, boggles one’s mind how the author tried to make this out to be a bad thing lol
I can’t believe Liu Cixin is a gender accelerationist…
There was also some huge issues on the dark forest too. Like the wallfacer guy just be a huge weeb who wants the perfect waifu, that was so fucking weird
My opinion on the hole trilogy has always been that conceptually the books are 10/10 amazing but in terms of execution it could be a lot better.
Problematic sex and gender stuff? In sci-fi?
I don’t believe it
The Daily Wire adapts it and quadruples down on the misogyny.