'Game of Thrones' creator David Benioff and D.B. Weiss return to adapt Cixin Liu's 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' books — and fail to crack the code.
fantasy series believed the books simply couldn’t be adapted to the screen. There were too many characters, spread across multiple continents, in stories that would take years to intersect. And much of the plot was inspired by events that took place decades, if not centuries, before the contemporary action. It was an impossible task, everyone assumed. No one could do that.was a global smash, made on an epic scale that no one had ever imagined TV could achieve.
You couldn’t blame Benioff and Weiss for wanting to take on an easier challenge with their next series. Instead, they’re once again — this time collaborating with Alexander Woo — trying to adapt the seemingly unadaptable withtrilogy by Chinese author Cixin Liu, about humanity preparing for the arrival of a hostile extraterrestrial force. I’ve only read the first novel,, and it is the hardest of hard sci-fi: heavy on theory, meandering in plot, all but nonexistent in characterization.
The showrunners have essentially split Wang Miao into multiple characters, all part of a friend group who met as students at Oxford. Saul is the underachieving genius, still working as a research assistant because he’d rather get high and sleep around than take advantage of an intellect that even his brilliant pals seem intimidated by. Auggie is an engineering prodigy on the verge of a huge breakthrough in nanofiber technology.
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