(Mild spoilers for Netflix’s 3 Body Problem follow.)
Like many readers of Chinese author Liu Cixin’s Three-Body series of novels, I was a bit taken aback by some of the decisions made in Netflix’s adaptation, 3 Body Problem. Where was Wang Miao, the character through whose eyes most of the mystery in the first book unfolds – and who was this researcher in his place? Why are the aliens no longer called Trisolarans? What’s Samwell Tarly from Game Of Thrones doing there?!
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