It's like someone asked ChatGPT to turn the book into a dumb anglo sitcom.
-Every character is emotionally immature, spiteful, and sassy. None of the 'friends' act like friends. None of the characters talk like real people. They're constantly insulting or hitting each other. It's just embarrassing. The actors have nothing to work with.
-All the major twists/reveals are shown in the first two episodes. No suspense, no build-up, no pay-off. Rushed is an understatement.
-Single characters from the book have been unnecessarily split into multiple new characters adding nothing to the story.
-The story is a cosmic horror but comedy and romance have been forced in for no reason whatsoever except as filler, which is even more mind-boggling because they've essentially rushed all of the good stuff in the book to make room for unfunny jokes.
-Apparently they could barely afford any sets and extras, so scenes and locations that are supposed to be bristling with sights and people just feel oddly empty. Even the special effects feel muted. The budget is just weirdly limited, and the show looks much cheaper than the Tencent series.
-Almost all of the science (which is the interesting stuff) has been gutted from this science fiction.
I hate anglo slop. Where is the kino. Tencent pls adapt The Dark Forest.
I got pretty miffed that the book would do our boy Norman Bethune like that.
I understand the cultural implications of referring to that westerner who is a Doctor "Bethune" but Norman Bethune was a heroic, kind, and extremely generous man who risked his life—ultimately to lose it—in the efforts to provide healthcare to the people who desperately needed it, first on the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and later in Mao's China.
They did him dirty by associating him with a crackpot.
In Memory of Norman Bethune by Mao (6:28)
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