Well, that was a total momentum killer.
oh man Lana Del Rey was just perfect for that
The magic has gone I think. It feels like a Netflix show now.
Damn, this derailed the excitement from the last two episodes. I feel sorry for Will but I honestly couldn’t care less about his character. Really hope his story fits somewhere into the plot soon otherwise what is even the point?
That was a bit long with nothing much happening.
So Vera was not killed but really killed herself because she learned the truth of what her mother did ? The only person to be aware of what's happening and she doesn't even warn anybody ? Great job.
The Staircase plan is pretty stupid.
1) Given it would be impossible to lift all the required materials into orbit, the plan doesn't change that. Maybe separately, but there's still the need to place everything, not only in orbit, but also further along the way.
2) Plus since the bombs won't have the extra acceleration, they will take forever to be in place.
3) Not even counting that they need to be placed in a specific trajectory to be able to do their job, and since they don't have a departure date, well, they don't have a trajectory, because they don't even have a starting point, not knowing where the Earth will be at departure time.
4) Even worse, they don't even know where the destination is either. Assuming they know which system the San Ti are coming from, you can't just point to the star and send the ship there. Even assuming they're on a straight line trajectory, everything moves around in space, so it'd be a straight line from their planet (that they don't know how to locate in the system) at the time they left (which they don't know either).
5) Most ironic, even if they knew which planet it is and its exact (observable) position, and the exact moment they left, well, you still can't compute where it actually was at the time, because remember, 3 body problem, the system is chaotic and it can't be determined...
6) And that is if they come in a straight line. But their travel method might still (probably) use gravity acceleration, so going around several other celestial bodies before going in the right direction.
7) Main point: we're not talking about going there, but meeting their fleet on their trajectory, so no correction possible, and very easy to pass millions of kilometers away.
That's a lot of issues for a show that made efforts to be credible, or for a brilliant plan.
The Will drama is as meh as ever.
Ok so I've read the books, and I didn't want to be that guy...but what was this episode??? Time to be that guy!
I loved the first 5 episodes, even if they took some creative freedom and altered some characters. I'm no "book purist". Episode 5 in particular gave me goosebumps even though I knew what was coming. The particular combo of episodes 4 and 5 left on such an insanely high note...only to plunge straight down into this slog of an episode, with practically none of it being in the source material.
If there's one thing the show directors are known for, it's for butchering projects when they attempt to write original material shudders at the last Game of Thrones season. Despite the criticism, they do a very good job when they stick to the source material. This is a complete trilogy, so there was no need for them to deviate. Ep 1-5 covers book 1, ep 6 was completely made up. Ep 8 seems to cover the beginning of book 2 based on the episode title.
Book 1 got 30, yes, thirty one hour episodes in China's version of Three Body released last year. Much of the depth and nuance is lost in this version, and until this episode, I've been cutting them some slack with the 8 episode time allotment in mind. Given a budget for 8 episodes, these directors decided to cram book 1 into five episodes, write two of their own shitty episodes, then (hopefully) end with a strong ep 8 based in the book. They could have easily done book 1 ep 1-7 instead of this absolute momentum killer. The slow and powerful reveals in the book were reduced to one-liners in the show. For what. So they could add two original episodes that sucked? Learn from your mistakes, morons. Stick to the script.
Even the science they tried to introduce in this episode was laughable compared to the book. Like a slap in the author's face. Ugh.
Then the cheese love triangle. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Anyway, this concludes my rant. I hope episode 7 isn't as bad as I'm expecting, but I'm still excited to see them get back to the source material in the 'Wallfacers' episode.
Weakest episode till date. No SciFi. Just some friends meeting.
"Oh no, 1000 traitors died because of my technology."
What a shitshow.
There's a good 15 minutes episode in here. They just needed to cut all the personal relationships stuff.
Also, if you watch this without a good subwoofer, you missed out on some weird thumping sound at the end. Dune vibes, lol
they really pulled a lana huh?
From a somewhat promising start this now an orgie in non-science and stupid behavior.
30 minutes in, wish i was 30 minutes into reruns of anything else. Whats the value of these garbage shows that hook you at first but spiral into nothing burgers. I hear my screenwriter professor screaming “Why do I care about any of these characters ?!” Yet this show returns silence, a meaningless droll down talkie talk talk long tension no relief street. finished watching this episode and im totally wondering why do i give a shit about this rando dude buying a star to lana del ray? It seems like Mark Zuckerberg has the hots for the other rando scientist who is really dramatic about her dumb nuclear idea. Like, why should i care about these characters!
the show is so ridiculous
I’m not satisfied with the answer about Vera’s passing, so she jumped because she read some messages between Evans and her mom???
And yes of course Eiza is gonna be puking during a guilt and depression episode in sexy black lingerie
And isn’t Saul supposed to be a very smart scientist too? I get that he is choosing to take care of their friend, but I hate that now he’s in the background being the guy that smokes weed and that’s it
Sick guy is the most compelling actor and most interesting character yet I can't for the life of me remember his name. Tbh I don't think I know anyone's name. Tuning out too much gibberish has tuned out essential things as well. This show is definitely not for me.
That certainly slowed things down.... :see_no_evil:
I prefer to see the preparations for the launch. And who will be on board the launch ship? :thinking:
The less we see Auggie, the better the episode.
I'm liking it...
Buy a star...
Fuck...
Ok that part of him going to London was pointless. Why would he take the big journey all the way up there just to turn back because … he saw Jin and Raj. And that being the one moment he’d “realise something”. Meh.
And for a tailing job to only use one man? That seems unprofessional.
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I like this show, but after 6 episodes I must come to the conclusion that I really dislike Eiza González acting and her character Auggie. Compared to the rest of the cast her performance just feels off and falls short. She looks like she's duck facing half of the time and is more concerned with looking beautiful then delivering a believable en convincing performance. Saamer Usmani's acting is a bit better, but also very flat and artificial in my opinion.