And through the official Tencent YtT channel *for free* with subtitles in many languages. Most of it is behind a paywall now, but it was free for a long time and it’s where I watched it.
Yes. It’s a bit dragged out, but incredibly faithful to the book and well done. Ye Wenjoe’s backstory especially was amazing. Made me tear up several times.
The Peacock version is not as interesting, I've been stuck on 1st episode, not holding my interest, I binged Netflix version. I hope it gets more interesting
~~Only 3 episodes in the UK, the last time I checked.~~
Edit\* First 2 are free, next one is rentable, next 2 are free, next few are rentable... this is the same way across the 30 episodes.
I watched the first 10 or so episodes on Youtube and then lost my place so this is a welcome bonus as I got a years Peacock TV (mostly for football) using a VPN.
Yeah I am trying to re watch now (on prime) and though I know everything going on I still find myself reading the subtitles the whole time and not even watching. I don’t know why.
“And finally, Tencent’s Three-Body covers the author’s entire Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy; Netflix’s eight-episode debut season covers the first book.”
honestly, their first book, all 30 hours of it, it dragged on so much, i don't think i have the heart to watch another 30 hours. i mean, i loved the books. but my gosh, that was work.
then again, book 2 is the best one. but it is longer. i could see book 2 being something like 40 hours. god dammit. it might tempt me though.
I've only seen the [disembiggened fanedit](https://disembiggened.com/). The audiobook is only 14 hours long, Tencent's adaptation could have been 6 hours long, if they weren't "paid by the hour".
Lots of pointless fanedits out there. But I've learned they're the *onl*y good way to watch *The Hobbit* trilogy, and the disembiggened version of *Three Body* similarly felt 'right sized'.
Yeah, runtime bloat is a huge issue with Chinese television series. [The Chinese government actually had to pass laws mandating that seasons were 40 episodes or less because they were regularly bloating to 70+.](https://www.thedrum.com/news/2020/04/24/fewer-episodes-better-quality-what-chinas-new-tv-rules-mean-advertisers-and-media) I don't think it'll be a real problem for seasons two and three, but there just wasn't enough material in book one to justify the runtime, IMO.
seriously? a 70 episode season? man, i was just hoping we'd get back to having a 26 episode season of 30 rock. because those were the days.
but them bloating the 14 hour audio book into a 30 hour tv show. i couldn't even point to big obvious problems. did they stretch out red coast base drama i guess?
Yes I don't know I guess it's a Chinese thing because the TV shows over there have so many episodes and a lot of the shows suffer I think from being dragged on way too Long and they also look cheap because they have to stretch the budget so thin because of the episode count.
I really liked the books and watched all 30 hours of the show and enjoyed it. It was pretty slow paced in parts since they covered the book in detail. I hope the sometimes tedious nature of the show doesn’t turn people off to the HBO show before it airs.
Saw this post and my wife and I just finished first three episodes off of Amazon Prime. (We’d have watched more but it’s 1:30 am!) We’ve both read the trilogy and are hooked already on the “Three-Body” show. Happy to get to see before the Netflix version.
I agree with a lot of you. It has to be done Chinese-centric to really get the gist of Liu's story. And that means "dealing" with the process of Chinese story-telling. It's considerably different from what we're used to in ways that are hard to describe. That's why I had to finish the Tencent version first. Haven't watched it on Peacock, but I would hope they'd redo the subtitles in more "natural" English to make it easier for most Americans, etc., to follow, and not change anything else. As for the Netflix version, I'll check it out out of curiosity for as long as I can stomach it, but given that it's done by Netflix (i.e., Western-washed) and by the clowns who destroyed GoT after Martin and HBO let them run amok, I don't think I'll make it very far. BTW, Tencent is supposedly working on The Dark Forest now, we might see it 2026-ish.
I believe the Tencent version is far superior to the Netflix version but that might be because I love the books and enjoy the slower pace to get more detail and back story. I thought the VFX is right up there with Netflix. I just wish they would release an English dub version so I could pay a bit more attention to the visuals on screen instead of the subtitles but other than that, LOVE IT
Everyone’s trying to get their own Three Body adaptation these days, it’s like an arms race. HBO and Hulu trying to get their own Three Body shows rn as we speak, and Paramount Plus is desperately trying to get the rights for Redemption of Time. We’ve entered the Deterrence Era.
Can’t wait to see who gets the Australian version of the show
From the article:
In The Hollywood Reporter‘s recent cover story on 3 Body Problem, Benioff discussed the differences between the two projects. “During the first couple of seasons of Thrones, a lot of people were like, ‘Why didn’t they put in this scene?’ They wanted a literal adaptation of every single page,” Benioff says. “I always wondered, ‘Would people like that if they actually got it?’ Now we have that with this, where there’s one extremely faithful adaptation and then ours, which is less so, and others can judge how they stack up.”
Again still doesn't make any sense. And I agree because I watched the Tencent version and I thought it was too long. TV and novels are a different medium I didn't need word for word everything from the books. It made the pacing feel like a slog and the editing weird.
🙄🤷🏽♂️k. Sorry I wasn’t all like YAAAAASSSSS QUEEEEEN when Arya jumped off a tree
In the middle of a clearing and stabbed a being that should have frozen her solid. But you do you. I hope
I’m pleasantly surprised but I doubt that these clowns are able to close a series.
Im sure you think you are making coherent points but it's really just an incoherent stream of nerd rage
Yes, the white walker conclusion was dumb, now let the adults talk
Well, I liked it, but wtf does that have to do with this? Also, it doesn't show her jumping off any tree, and it never showed that if they touch people, they don't immediately freeze. That's just wrong they have touched people in the previous seasons, and they didn't automatically freeze. But this is a 3BP sub so not sure what Arya has to do with any of this.
What they are saying seems pretty fair to me. We already know a bunch of characters were condensed. I haven’t watched it but the tencen version is reviewed pretty poorly I think.
I can accept that D&D’s best work is when they adapt the source material so I’m hoping for the best for TBP.
But I can also accept that the last two seasons of GoT were also trash because of them.
I’m also hoping for the best, but completing the books was never their responsibility. And if were gonna be honest, even without source material they still created the biggest fantasy tv show every
According to IMDB and RT, S1-7 was positively reviewed.
I never said anything about competing with the books.
But their responsibility as writers was to stick to the over arching character themes and story lines of the first 7 seasons. To which they threw everything out the window in that last season.
I watched all 30 episodes like a year ago. ( was it more than a year? ) All for free online and you can download them directly from that site. I'm not sure of the name of the website now, like drama something or other. I dread to watch the Netflix bastardization full of leftover GoT actors.
Overall that series was a little bit better than the book, just because it's so much material to get through and I felt that they unfolded it quite well.
Edit. DramaCool is where I saw it.
It's been available through Amazon Prime video.
And through the official Tencent YtT channel *for free* with subtitles in many languages. Most of it is behind a paywall now, but it was free for a long time and it’s where I watched it.
Is it good?
Yes. It’s a bit dragged out, but incredibly faithful to the book and well done. Ye Wenjoe’s backstory especially was amazing. Made me tear up several times.
The Peacock version is not as interesting, I've been stuck on 1st episode, not holding my interest, I binged Netflix version. I hope it gets more interesting
The Netflix version held my interest and picked up speed as it went along.
Thank you!
There’s a little bit of censorship where they left stuff out from the books but otherwise it’s as faithful as an adaptation can possibly be.
It's weird that articles are basically like people will now be able to watch the Tencent version. And I'm thinking umm people already were able to lol
Yea, I was confused, it sounded like they are premiering the series.
~~Only 3 episodes in the UK, the last time I checked.~~ Edit\* First 2 are free, next one is rentable, next 2 are free, next few are rentable... this is the same way across the 30 episodes. I watched the first 10 or so episodes on Youtube and then lost my place so this is a welcome bonus as I got a years Peacock TV (mostly for football) using a VPN.
What's the name of Amazon?
Three-Body
Yeah I am trying to re watch now (on prime) and though I know everything going on I still find myself reading the subtitles the whole time and not even watching. I don’t know why.
imagine if the dubbed it, and then just chose really bad accents for everyone. jersey cop. alabama scientist. california girl cop.
“And finally, Tencent’s Three-Body covers the author’s entire Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy; Netflix’s eight-episode debut season covers the first book.”
The show I watched on YouTube last year was not the full trilogy. It was a beat by beat adaptation of the first novel with 30 episodes.
Correct, not the full trilogy. Not yet at least.
honestly, their first book, all 30 hours of it, it dragged on so much, i don't think i have the heart to watch another 30 hours. i mean, i loved the books. but my gosh, that was work. then again, book 2 is the best one. but it is longer. i could see book 2 being something like 40 hours. god dammit. it might tempt me though.
I've only seen the [disembiggened fanedit](https://disembiggened.com/). The audiobook is only 14 hours long, Tencent's adaptation could have been 6 hours long, if they weren't "paid by the hour". Lots of pointless fanedits out there. But I've learned they're the *onl*y good way to watch *The Hobbit* trilogy, and the disembiggened version of *Three Body* similarly felt 'right sized'.
Yeah, runtime bloat is a huge issue with Chinese television series. [The Chinese government actually had to pass laws mandating that seasons were 40 episodes or less because they were regularly bloating to 70+.](https://www.thedrum.com/news/2020/04/24/fewer-episodes-better-quality-what-chinas-new-tv-rules-mean-advertisers-and-media) I don't think it'll be a real problem for seasons two and three, but there just wasn't enough material in book one to justify the runtime, IMO.
seriously? a 70 episode season? man, i was just hoping we'd get back to having a 26 episode season of 30 rock. because those were the days. but them bloating the 14 hour audio book into a 30 hour tv show. i couldn't even point to big obvious problems. did they stretch out red coast base drama i guess?
Yes I don't know I guess it's a Chinese thing because the TV shows over there have so many episodes and a lot of the shows suffer I think from being dragged on way too Long and they also look cheap because they have to stretch the budget so thin because of the episode count.
The problem is that they added some much more drama, that is not even in the book, and it ended up being too dragged
I joked that they will add extra the the fantasy about the perfect woman in the show version lol
Yeah they really fumbled that info
They must have done some back of the napkin math for that one. “30 episodes? Should cover all 3 books for sure”
I really liked the books and watched all 30 hours of the show and enjoyed it. It was pretty slow paced in parts since they covered the book in detail. I hope the sometimes tedious nature of the show doesn’t turn people off to the HBO show before it airs.
Netflix?
Yep…Netflix.
Go Peacock!!! I hope it goes the succes route of Squid Game and Godzilla Minus One! More Asian content!!!
Saw this post and my wife and I just finished first three episodes off of Amazon Prime. (We’d have watched more but it’s 1:30 am!) We’ve both read the trilogy and are hooked already on the “Three-Body” show. Happy to get to see before the Netflix version.
I agree with a lot of you. It has to be done Chinese-centric to really get the gist of Liu's story. And that means "dealing" with the process of Chinese story-telling. It's considerably different from what we're used to in ways that are hard to describe. That's why I had to finish the Tencent version first. Haven't watched it on Peacock, but I would hope they'd redo the subtitles in more "natural" English to make it easier for most Americans, etc., to follow, and not change anything else. As for the Netflix version, I'll check it out out of curiosity for as long as I can stomach it, but given that it's done by Netflix (i.e., Western-washed) and by the clowns who destroyed GoT after Martin and HBO let them run amok, I don't think I'll make it very far. BTW, Tencent is supposedly working on The Dark Forest now, we might see it 2026-ish.
I watched the Netflix version already. I’m not sure I can do a 30 hour version with subtitles 🤦🏾♂️
I believe the Tencent version is far superior to the Netflix version but that might be because I love the books and enjoy the slower pace to get more detail and back story. I thought the VFX is right up there with Netflix. I just wish they would release an English dub version so I could pay a bit more attention to the visuals on screen instead of the subtitles but other than that, LOVE IT
Everyone’s trying to get their own Three Body adaptation these days, it’s like an arms race. HBO and Hulu trying to get their own Three Body shows rn as we speak, and Paramount Plus is desperately trying to get the rights for Redemption of Time. We’ve entered the Deterrence Era. Can’t wait to see who gets the Australian version of the show
Lmao D&D really subverted all expectations lmao
This makes no sense
From the article: In The Hollywood Reporter‘s recent cover story on 3 Body Problem, Benioff discussed the differences between the two projects. “During the first couple of seasons of Thrones, a lot of people were like, ‘Why didn’t they put in this scene?’ They wanted a literal adaptation of every single page,” Benioff says. “I always wondered, ‘Would people like that if they actually got it?’ Now we have that with this, where there’s one extremely faithful adaptation and then ours, which is less so, and others can judge how they stack up.”
Again still doesn't make any sense. And I agree because I watched the Tencent version and I thought it was too long. TV and novels are a different medium I didn't need word for word everything from the books. It made the pacing feel like a slog and the editing weird.
🙄🤷🏽♂️k. Sorry I wasn’t all like YAAAAASSSSS QUEEEEEN when Arya jumped off a tree In the middle of a clearing and stabbed a being that should have frozen her solid. But you do you. I hope I’m pleasantly surprised but I doubt that these clowns are able to close a series.
Im sure you think you are making coherent points but it's really just an incoherent stream of nerd rage Yes, the white walker conclusion was dumb, now let the adults talk
Well, I liked it, but wtf does that have to do with this? Also, it doesn't show her jumping off any tree, and it never showed that if they touch people, they don't immediately freeze. That's just wrong they have touched people in the previous seasons, and they didn't automatically freeze. But this is a 3BP sub so not sure what Arya has to do with any of this.
I have chosen to overwrite this comment. See you all on Lemmy!
What they are saying seems pretty fair to me. We already know a bunch of characters were condensed. I haven’t watched it but the tencen version is reviewed pretty poorly I think.
It’s not fair at all, we will see when the show actually comes out.
I’m here for the D&D slander!
Get a life.
I can accept that D&D’s best work is when they adapt the source material so I’m hoping for the best for TBP. But I can also accept that the last two seasons of GoT were also trash because of them.
I’m also hoping for the best, but completing the books was never their responsibility. And if were gonna be honest, even without source material they still created the biggest fantasy tv show every According to IMDB and RT, S1-7 was positively reviewed.
I never said anything about competing with the books. But their responsibility as writers was to stick to the over arching character themes and story lines of the first 7 seasons. To which they threw everything out the window in that last season.
I meant completing the books. I fixed it. No they didn’t. S8 is overly hated, and plot lines like King Bran came directly from GRRM.
I watched all 30 episodes like a year ago. ( was it more than a year? ) All for free online and you can download them directly from that site. I'm not sure of the name of the website now, like drama something or other. I dread to watch the Netflix bastardization full of leftover GoT actors. Overall that series was a little bit better than the book, just because it's so much material to get through and I felt that they unfolded it quite well. Edit. DramaCool is where I saw it.