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Also true of #GameofThrones adaptation: "Netflix’s new sci-fi series from the makers of ‘Game of Thrones’ doesn’t just honor Liu Cixin’s remarkable books—it improves on them."
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Former Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with True Blood’s Alexander Woo, have brought what The New York Times called the “apotheosis of the nerd-tech takeover of our storytelling culture." All 8 episodes are out today on Netflix.
10:00 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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"3 Body Problem (as the show’s title is stylized) is a proper fit for Benioff and Weiss, even though one of their adaptive sagas takes place in a medieval fantasy world and the other is in modern and futuristic sci-fi settings." [see my pinned piece about Benioff's preference for complex universes.]
10:00 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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"Such a hard sci-fi story would seem “unadaptable”—but Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series was viewed the same way, once upon a time, before evolving into a creative and cultural darling, a show that simultaneously set records for both Emmy Awards and HBO viewership."
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"Benioff and Weiss [have done] what they do best: adapt an unadaptable genre story for the masses." They have a “knack … for making what seems like completely inaccessible material totally accessible,” said actor John Bradley, who played Samwell Tarly in Thrones and is also in 3 Body.
10:00 AM - Mar 21, 2024
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“A lot of people who said, ‘I don’t like fantasy’ became big fans of Game of Thrones,” Benioff added. “And our hope is that we’ll get a lot of people who normally are not into science fiction to love 3 Body Problem.”
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Benioff and Weiss are brilliant and have delivered some of the best entertainment in the streaming era.
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