I've only seen the first episode so far, but Three-Body (the Chinese series) might be the ticket for my next hard-SF view.
However, Liu Cixin, author of the original books, is now strongly in disfavour for endorsing China's human rights abuses against the Uighur people. Those crimes are also why many in #SFF oppose this year's WorldCon being held in Chengdu - though others think this hypocritical because the US engages in rights abuses, too.
Nothing is ever simple with humans involved. #CoSoTV
@ceorl I've read and seen quite a few mainland-Chinese works similarly open about the brutality of the period and how it worked itself on the psyche of the people -- but you're absolutely right that there's a definite mystery as to how such works came to be within the propaganda machine.
And agreed! I'm a little reluctant to get to the parts where we inhabit the game-space. Some things are better left to the imagination, no?
@ceorl Adaptations of works I love are tough sells for me, too, so I hear you. :) May there be some good-quality new standalone SFF for you soon!
@MLClark
Some works are just perfect, and of such scope and scale, a condensed dramatization could only disappoint someone who had read them.
I guess I feel the same way about Tolkien, Tolstoy, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson.
Yet I know such dramatizations are popular and profitable, but they just never ring my bell. :)