This!
The first one had a sense, a logic and the shift of focus from Emily Blunt to Benicio del Toro was superlative.
The second feels like written by someone who saw the first and said “Oh yeah, I can do that too! Let’s bank some cash!”
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What he said.
I think it’s best to watch the movie first - it gives you the setting and a ‘point of view’.
The TvSeries is great and expand on all points despite a completely different cast and characters.
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The guy who made the Westworld TV series is behind this too and he’s apparently a big fan of Fallout 3.
So we will see.
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Well, time to start looking for tickets to take at least one of the kids.
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I am excited for that. Apparently a buddy of mine is in it.
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Ooooh! I have “Blue Angels - a year in the life” on DVD, somewhere…
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I read the book years ago and this series has been on my radar for a while. So far it seems to be staying true to the source material and is a cut above a lot of other recent releases.
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One Life
One Life
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13097932/
Nicholas Winton: Nicholas Winton - Wikipedia
Saw it on the big screen. Well worth the two hours of my time.
Wheels
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A new adaptation of the beautiful saga of Ronja, the Robbers Daughter, by the Swedish author, Astrid Lindgren…
It’s the traditional saga of good vs. evil and love conquers everything, but told in a way only Astrid could. I hope Netflix did it justice…
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Finished the Gentleman over the weekend … not bad … not as good as the film, but left me looking foward for a season 2. Has anyone watched
Interesting trailer
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Literally just finished it… like I mean just 10 minutes ago 
Some significant departures from the book that I remember reading, but the overall ‘hard science’ premise is still there.
Another bingeworthy from Netflix if you are are sci-fi fan and want my opinion.
I never read the 2nd or 3rd books in the trilogy, but will be getting them now as well.
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As someone that left California for Texas, I’m interested to see if it explains how these two polar opposite states formed a coalition. 
But in all seriousness, Jesse Plemons’ character: “But what kind of American are you?” gives off that chilling Phillip Seymour Hoffman vibe (and facial look alike).
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“Book 1” if you will of “Three Bodied Problem” thrilled me. It was such a unique approach to how alien aliens can be. And the infiltration and elimination of the scientific community and even the use of VR to find, kill or co-opt was brilliant. I even learned a bit about the cruel chaos of the cultural revolution. But book 2 brought a horrible moment of downfall that was so patently obvious in the 200 pages leading up to it that I would have thrown the book in the trash had it not come in the form of a Kindle. I hope the writers keep the spirit and intelligence of book one and take the story to a more logical, and less predictable, place in the episodes beyond.
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Holy heck you got that right
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I also loved the first book. This is more to my taste for sci-fi than space fantasy (e.g. Star Wars).
But I found it a bit of a tough read. It wasn’t so much due to the fact that it is quite a ‘dense’ book in terms of it’s ideas and concepts, it was probably more to do with the translation into English, the pacing just felt a bit off?
For that reason I didn’t bother with the rest of the trilogy… Maybe I shouldn’t bother?
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I had to look it up, but I will watch this… How could I not 
" Birk and Ronia run away to the woods, where they live in a cave and experience several harrowing adventures with the wood’s indigenous wildlife, including trolls, forest gnomes, and harpies."
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varför gör hon det nu? Varför?
I had such a great time reading Ronja to my kids. I dread what netflix will make of it tbh.
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I hear ya…!
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I know exactly what you mean. In book one, I appreciated this. I felt like I was seeing sci-fi through an entirely different frame of reference. I think elsewhere on this forum I was told that it’s a bit slow in the middle but really launches at the end. I took that to mean book 1. But maybe the comment was describing the trilogy. I think I’ll go back to book 2 eventually. That big moment I mentioned was in the middle of the book. So hopefully, much more that I could not predict will follow in the unique pattern that made book 1 so interesting. Anyway, in addition to the weird pacing, which you are totally right about, there is a Sino-centric quality that gets old. Yes, YES, Scream “HYPOCRISY!” Of course it is hypocrisy when an American decries another culture for writing fiction where their country is central to universal events. But that’s me, born a hypocrite.
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lol, that is one of the things I really liked… it was refreshing for a change
I think I will read the next two books. It is, so far, the most realistic depiction of first contact IMHO and besides the 2nd book is called ‘The Dark Forest’ IIRC. I subscribe to the dark forest theory as an explanation for Fermi’s paradox and think it is a very, very bad idea to broadcast our existence to the Universe.
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