This story includes spoilers for 3 Body Problem.
You may've heard that there's a legendary brand-new sci-fi series from Video game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, which program is 3 Body ProblemCocreated with Alexander Woo, the brand-new, eight-episode Netflix series adapts Liu Cixin's mega-popular, acclaimed books and turns elements from all 3 books in his trilogy (The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's Endinto an eminence drama that unfolds like a puzzle in the stars. Well enjoyed by science enthusiasts and President Obama alike, The Three-Body Problem has actually ended up being a bellwether for sci-fi books that are both available and deeply worried about real physics.
Including an alien intrusion that will take 4 hundred years to get here and a future history that covers centuries, 3 Body Problem has a bigger scope than that of actually any sci-fi television program, ever. That stated, season 1– which premieres today– sticks mainly to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Is this a loyal adjustment of the books? Yes and no. Mainly, the program knocks out the very first book, goes into the starts of the 2nd, and even discovers a method to reference the 3rd. Baffled? Do not be. Here's your super-easy guide to how 3 Body Issue on Netflix modifies the thick and reflective books.
One Book Character Is Split Into Three
In the initial book– throughout the contemporary areas– the main point-of-view character is Wang Miao, a nanotech professional who is involved in the machinations of the steady alien intrusion. Wang is the very first individual we see experience the trippy “3 Body” virtual-reality video game, which teases the Trisolarian galaxy's real structure. Not every reader believes the character is very unforgettable. Given that the book's 2008 publication in China, some Chinese fans have actually considered him to be such a thin character– and existing in the book just to experience the plot– that different memes have actually turned up. (See: jokes like “Who's Wang?” and “Where's Wang?”) Author Liu even devalued Wang for the 2nd book, The Dark Forestbasically changing him with the more vibrant and questionable science guy Luo Ji. It appears as if the Netflix adjustment overcorrects the Wang issue by splitting him into 3 bodies: Auggie Salazar (Eiza González), Jack Rooney (John Bradley), and Jin Cheng (Jess Hong).
Auggie takes control of the tasks as the nanotech scientist, making her the more detailed one-for-one analog for Wang Miao. Although her backstory is totally various, it's Auggie's nanotech fibers (like Wang's in the book) that get the big ship Judgment DayUnlike Wang, Auggie does not discover herself drawn into the “3 Body” virtual experience. Rather, on the program, Jack and Jin both get VR helmets and take part in the video game, which ultimately draws them near to the conspiracy including people who are helping the aliens in the long-lasting intrusion of Earth.
