Alberto Rey

Updated Saturday, April 6, 2024-21:28

  • Benioff and Weiss The creators of GOT return

Series and movies that require their viewers to have read the literary works they adapt are not complete series or movies. They are illustrations. If we consider that to enjoy

Ripley

(or

Red Queen

, for that matter) it is essential to have read Patricia Highsmith's novels, we are denigrating audiovisual art.

A series has to stand alone

. It can and should transcend the material it adapts. You may even deny it.

The problem of the three bodies

does not negate the work of Liu Cixin. The Chinese author's science fiction novel is now a Netflix series. A bad series. I refuse to analyze it as if it were just an accessory to Liu Cixin's best-selling book.

The Three Body Problem

is a television blockbuster directed by David Benioff and DB Weiss. Yes, the same Benioff and Weiss from

Game of Thrones

are back with another mammoth series that adapts a literary phenomenon. But with a not too good result.

It is difficult to ignore everything that surrounds his new series, from the fact that it is an adaptation of a novel to the fact that it is not the only one, including the fact that in China, the country that produced the first version of the work,

they are fighting

against each other. new. But all that is foreign to

The Three-Body Problem

. There are enough problems inside without looking for them outside.

What must be included in the judgment of this series is its enormous budget. In theory,

each episode has cost 20 million dollars

. With these means, it is indecent that The Three Body Problem exhibits some of the most embarrassing digital effects in recent times. And it is no use saying that many images in the series are fictions within another fiction. Because those that don't have that defense (that ship, that ship!) are equally shabby. And ugly. In

Game of Thrones

, Benioff and Weiss made it clear that they don't have good taste. In

The Three-Body Problem

they seem to boast about it. His new series is

visually awful

. As that one would say: horrible, horrible.

It deserves a separate chapter.

The problem of the three bodies

proposes metaphysical conflicts and a threat to Humanity as original as it is poorly developed. This series is based on one of the trickiest resources in science fiction: superscience.

Proposing to the viewer extremely advanced (and proudly incoherent) science to justify anything is a scam

. Well executed, that plan can work: the plot advances magically (superscience, in essence, is nothing more than that) and the viewer feels smarter than they are. This is not the case with

The Three-Body Problem

, which gets bogged down in explanations that convince no one while neglecting moments that could remain in the viewer's retina forever. But that doesn't happen. In fact, some viewers (see: me) will want to forget things as embarrassing as the human abacus, dehydration or that ship, the ship, oh my god the ship.