3 Body Problem - Netflix
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If the $20 million per episode is correct, it'll be the 2nd most expensive Netflix series ever after Stranger Things.
I've no idea how that budget breaks down but Forbes are predicting half a billion if they manage to squeeze it into 3 series or over $640 million if it takes 4 series to finish.
I wonder how much of the budget is wages and advertising?
I've no idea how that budget breaks down but Forbes are predicting half a billion if they manage to squeeze it into 3 series or over $640 million if it takes 4 series to finish.
I wonder how much of the budget is wages and advertising?
certainly they didnt film in the locations they said, China Radioscope/transmitter looked to me like spanish, as did the "panama" cancel, with a few cgi'd palm trees, then a few days in NYC
not sure if they have filmed any of s2 yet as part of s1 when on location and will edit it in later, of its just all shut up shop until new deals and contracts are signed......
knowing netflix - the latter.
MandySpeeds said:
For those who liked 3BP - I can recommend "Station Eleven" on HBO.
OK, not the greatest fan of 3BP but 'Station 11' was a huge letdown for me. I went to some considerable effort to get it over p2p when I read about it on a forum somewhere but it's more of an arty-farty 'emotions' show with a vague sci-fi-ish theme.Yes, it's set in a post-apocalyptic World but that's where the sci-fi element ends.
Lucas Ayde said:
The Aliens aren't friendly. They were just playing along with the enviro-mentalists to help them achieve their aims. Just useful idiots, as they generally are in real life too ironically.
I interpreted that they had a change of heart about us during the Little Red Riding Hood story with The Lord? Why else would they suddenly stop talking to him?The OG Jester said:
Lucas Ayde said:
The Aliens aren't friendly. They were just playing along with the enviro-mentalists to help them achieve their aims. Just useful idiots, as they generally are in real life too ironically.
I interpreted that they had a change of heart about us during the Little Red Riding Hood story with The Lord? Why else would they suddenly stop talking to him?and finally - wouldnt it have all come out about 20mins into any first conversations 40 years before that we lie .........................?
Well in the book, the aliens are incapable of lying, and one of their human allies accidentally explains the whole concept to them, and the aliens are like "what, and you can all do that?" and the ally is "yes, but I never lie to you" and then the aliens decide that humanity as a whole cannot be trusted, not even their allies although it's been a while since I read it and this is from memory (as apparently people are annoyed that I always fact-check myself).
Clockwork Cupcake said:
HRL said:
I’m hoping Amazon stump up the cash for the next two seasons.
I'm sure Netflix would be delighted if they did! 
Personally, I find that Sci-Fi has to be a little bit beyond conventional science or else what’s the point?
6 episodes in. First four I thought were absolutely fantastic. Story moved at a perfect pace, the throwback scenes to the revelution and the build-up to first contact a highlight. After the 'reveal' I think things took a little turn for me and I can't say I enjoyed the ship episode that much. Weren't they trying to preserve potential communication equipment and logs as evidence? Instead they murdered civilians and effectively destroyed absolutely everything just to showcase their new 'technology' - that was the best solution, really?
It's gone a bit pseudo science reachy (technical term) for me and the last episodes have felt a bit like filler so I am hoping it ends strong. Overall worth a watch.
It's gone a bit pseudo science reachy (technical term) for me and the last episodes have felt a bit like filler so I am hoping it ends strong. Overall worth a watch.
HRL said:
Hahaha. Indeed, forgot it was on Netflix.
Personally, I find that Sci-Fi has to be a little bit beyond conventional science or else what’s the point?
It wasnt really that though, it was the gaping plot holes, wooden acting by half the cast, and rather non-sensical things that were going on. Personally, I find that Sci-Fi has to be a little bit beyond conventional science or else what’s the point?
LivLL said:
If the $20 million per episode is correct, it'll be the 2nd most expensive Netflix series ever after Stranger Things.
I've no idea how that budget breaks down but Forbes are predicting half a billion if they manage to squeeze it into 3 series or over $640 million if it takes 4 series to finish.
I wonder how much of the budget is wages and advertising?
I have no idea what they're spending £20m per episode on because it certainly isn't the graphics which are shocking in some scenes.I've no idea how that budget breaks down but Forbes are predicting half a billion if they manage to squeeze it into 3 series or over $640 million if it takes 4 series to finish.
I wonder how much of the budget is wages and advertising?
popeyewhite said:
Finished it last night. Very good storytelling though the series seemed a bit slow towards the last couple of episodes. Foundation still the benchmark in Sci-Fi for me.
Absolutely. Nothing has surpassed Foundation. Even though it apparently takes similar liberties with it's source books as 3BP does, it's underlying logic is sound and the characters are and both flawed and compelling.Really looking forward to the next series of Foundation (mainly to see what Dezmerel does) but couldn't care less about this one, sadly.
dxg said:
Absolutely. Nothing has surpassed Foundation. Even though it apparently takes similar liberties with it's source books as 3BP does, it's underlying logic is sound and the characters are and both flawed and compelling.
That's all you can really ask for reallyI have read (and own, on paperback) all the Foundation books actually written by Asimov (but not the continuation books after his death) and all the Robots books he penned too.
Sadly not been able to watch the Foundation TV show as it is not on a service that I have access to. I think it was Apple?
Edited to add: I didn't deliberately eschew the non-Asimov books. I read the post-Herbert Dune books. Just that I never got round to buying them and I moved away from the town where I had an amazing secondhand bookshop.
(Moss Books in Cheltenham if anyone is interested)
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 6th April 22:10
Clockwork Cupcake said:
dxg said:
Absolutely. Nothing has surpassed Foundation. Even though it apparently takes similar liberties with it's source books as 3BP does, it's underlying logic is sound and the characters are and both flawed and compelling.
That's all you can really ask for reallyI have read (and own, on paperback) all the Foundation books actually written by Asimov (but not the continuation books after his death) and all the Robots books he penned too.
Sadly not been able to watch the Foundation TV show as it is not on a service that I have access to. I think it was Apple?
Edited to add: I didn't deliberately eschew the non-Asimov books. I read the post-Herbert Dune books. Just that I never got round to buying them and I moved away from the town where I had an amazing secondhand bookshop.
(Moss Books in Cheltenham if anyone is interested)
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Saturday 6th April 22:10
I'm about 3-4 episodes into this and although the title grates a bit as it is the wrong problem, sticking with it as apparently some filming done at 'our' place so trying to catch a glimpse of how they use it.
llewop said:
I have a problem with the series Foundation as it does appear only share the title, initial concept and a few character names with the Asimov books; which I love and have read many times. I suppose the problem is the books don't lend themselves to even a modern movie-standard-miniseries as other than the 'ghost' of HS, all the characters have short spans in the story. So I've not tried to see it (yet).
I'm about 3-4 episodes into this and although the title grates a bit as it is the wrong problem, sticking with it as apparently some filming done at 'our' place so trying to catch a glimpse of how they use it.
Yeah, Foundation was a real letdown.I'm about 3-4 episodes into this and although the title grates a bit as it is the wrong problem, sticking with it as apparently some filming done at 'our' place so trying to catch a glimpse of how they use it.
I don't mind a few changes to the source books but they just went way off and did their own 'inspired by the characters and plot of the Foundation series' type thing. The first few episodes were very decent until they really started to diverge. Super high production quality too - what a waste.
In the case of 3BP, I don't mind that they have adapted it quite a bit. IMO the source material was full of great ideas and concepts but rather dryly and boringly written. It was a real slog. The problem is that the adaptation is pretty boring in itself and the characters although better than the original, are pretty unrelatable. It's a 'near miss' IMO.
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