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  • Re: Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem"

    From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Fri Mar 22 23:04:16 2024
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    On 2024-03-22, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem". I watched the
    first twenty minutes last night.

    There is also a Chinese TV show. I watched a number of episodes
    last year, but eventually gave up on it since, among other things,
    the pace was glacial and I didn't want to spend the time for 30
    episodes.

    After the first episode, I can already confirm that the Netflix
    adaptation moves appreciably faster.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Mar 23 11:50:31 2024
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    This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text,
    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    On 3/22/2024 4:12 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem".  I watched the
    first twenty minutes last night.  The brutality of the Chinese Cultural
    Revolution was horrendous.  I will be watching more then reading the first >> book in the series that I bought a few months ago.
       https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821
    and
       https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/

    Lynn

    Ok, the Netflix version of the book is not available in China. I was wondering about that.

    https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/03/22/netflixs-3-body-problem-spawns-anger-in-china-n3785226

    And order of events in the book are different in the Chinese version and the English version. That is sad.

    Lynn

    Reminds me of when a business partner of mine had chinese visitors and by chance they showed a documentary about the cultural revolution on tv.

    The next day they came to his office complaining about the dark
    anti-chinese propaganda they saw on swedish tv last night.

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Sat Mar 23 11:47:52 2024
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    On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem". I watched the first twenty minutes last night. The brutality of the Chinese Cultural Revolution was horrendous. I will be watching more then reading the first book in the series that I bought a few months ago.
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821
    and
    https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/

    Lynn



    Interesting! Thank you very much for the tip, this will go onto the
    TV-computer for later watching!

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to petertrei@gmail.com on Tue Mar 26 08:48:23 2024
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    On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:22:32 -0400, Cryptoengineer
    <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 3/25/2024 3:46 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 3/25/2024 1:19 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
    On 23/03/2024 03:47, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    On 3/22/2024 4:12 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem".  I watched >>>>> the first twenty minutes last night.  The brutality of the Chinese
    Cultural Revolution was horrendous.  I will be watching more then
    reading the first book in the series that I bought a few months ago. >>>>>     https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821
    and
        https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/ >>>>>
    Lynn

    Ok, the Netflix version of the book is not available in China.  I was >>>> wondering about that.

    https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/03/22/netflixs-3-body-problem-spawns-anger-in-china-n3785226

    And order of events in the book are different in the Chinese version
    and the English version.  That is sad.

    Are you saying that the book is different
    in thr teo languages, as well as the TV shows?

    Apparently so according to the article.

    I talked to a 23 year old Chinese person about it over the weekend.  He
    has watched the Netflix episodes already and found it good.  He said
    that he does not remember the murder of the physics professor by the Red
    Guard in the Chinese version of the first book.  He thinks that was
    taken out by the Chinese censors.

    Reportedly this scene is creating a lot of hubbub in China. The
    authorities would rather downplay the Cultural Revolution.

    It does not appear in the first episode of the Chinese TV
    series.

    Some of the reasoning reported in the article from Chinese
    commentators was very strange -- as if they had no idea at all of
    their own history.

    Then again, living in a Commie State, it is quite possible that they
    do not.

    The idea that Netflix was trying to demean China was especially
    hilarious, since it takes no effort at all to demean a Commie country.
    The "Communist" in "Communist China" is demeaning, all by itself.

    I should note that this is an explicitly right-wing site, and will try
    to sign you up if you view the page.

    I wonder what sort of ads I'll get now ...
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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