Saw it trending in Overseerr so i snatched the whole season cause i needed something to watch this weekend.
I went in blind, all I know is that is based on some Chinese Novels.
I watched the first couple of episodes and so far:
- The two main characters are insufferable girl bosses, specially the Eiza Gonzalez character. Like the bestests of the best in their fields.
- Males are either simps and / or buffons.
- Every relationship is interracial. Asian / Curry eater, with white dude simping over 6/10 Asian. Whitexican Coal burner.
- Cop is kid is a faggot, because.. reasons?
I HIGHLY doubt a Chinese author would create these characters, so this makes me believe NF just did a Witcher 2.0.
Anyone that has read the books or is familiar with the story, whats the take?
The books have stiff writing to them that isn't the fault of the translators. I believe Liu Cixin is a computer programmer, and it shows. That's not to say the books are bad but characterization takes a back seat to the overall "ideas" the books are presenting you with.
So it's not surprising that there are swapping around characters because the characters that existed were already superfluous.
However I think they are doing more to set up later seasons, what would be the second and third books, because Three Body Problem as a first book is really more of a prologue for what's to come.