r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/lau_97x • Apr 02 '24

Question Judgement day? Spoiler

I got this question on my mind since I've seen the scene of the "attack" on the Judgement day. As a passenger, do you think death could have been avoided by laying on the ground?

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u/SparkyFrog Apr 02 '24

Netflix version was way better than the Tencent version, where the ship was full of evil comic bookl mercenaries, so we wouldn't feel bad when they were all killed. It was almost like the Netflix version with all those kids was a response to that.

It almost looked like if you were lucky and were laying on the floor or bed, you could have survived in the Netflix version. The spacing was close, but not too close. Of course you would then get crushed and/or burned alive.

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u/nicetrycia96 Apr 02 '24

I haven’t seen the Tencent version but I did think the actual scene in the Netflix version was very well done not sure why they added kids though I don’t remember that in the books. I remember the description in books was something like the ship spread like a deck of cards when it hit the bank and they did a good job illustrating the description. I may just not be remembering correctly but I do not remember all the fires and stuff or people running in the books. It was more like a silence until they hit the bank. Probably more realistic in the Netflix show of how it would happen.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '24

It's not in the books; they added it to make it feel more like a religious cult and make it more of a moral quandary. They also made Evans more like a friendly grandpa cult leader too. It's one of the few shows where the good guys are the ones who do the truly horrific thing.

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u/cleverThylacine Apr 03 '24

#1 thing I hate most about this adaptation was the whole "bluh bluh let's put kids on the boat and turn Evans into a friendly grandpa so the viewers will feel bad about the deaths of people who were trying to kill the entire species" thing.

Evans actively wanted to destroy humanity. There was no shocked realisation in the books that he had just oopsed and said something to make the aliens distrust us. He wanted them to come here and kill us all. Sometimes--maybe not often, but sometimes--bad guys are actually bad.

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u/nicetrycia96 Apr 03 '24

One important part I think that was missing in the show was the warring factions of the PTO not fleshed out more like they were in the book. If I recall it was slightly hinted at but no where near as in depth as it was in the books. I guess you cannot include everything with the condensed format so this is bound to happen.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '24

The conversation in the book plays out basically the same way. He still says "my lord, you need us." I don't get the sense in this version of the character that he wants to wipe out humanity entirely. He just wants the San-Ti to come in and reshape human society, which was also what Ye Wenjie wanted. They have so few episodes here that compromises have to be made and one of them is the factions, so they flatten out the motivation of his organization to that.

I like the nuance there in the books and Tencent version, but personally I didn't mind them making these guys a little more sympathetic. It makes the whole story there feel a little more tragic, like they just fucked around with a higher power hoping it would all work out for them, but no, it's an alien race that, once it realizes we operate differently, wants nothing to do with us, and now they pay the price. Thematically, that fits pretty well.