Holy shit that show is so bad. I'd say that I'm slightly "I fricking love science" inclined (as some of you might've seen from one of my recent posts), but this shit drove even me mad. There's so much pseudoscientific, pseudophilosophical pretentious bullshit, my eyes rolled so far back I could see my own brain. Everything is bad about it, everything. The idea is stupid, the plot is r-slurred, the actors are trash, the neo-dudebro dialogue is cringe, the whole idea with the alien VR is like the Matrix if it was released 30 years too late and made as gay as possible.
God, I've watched 2 episodes of this and I'm not watching another one. Absolute trash. And don't tell me the book is better, I don't believe it. There's nothing salvageable here. Everything is bad and I could list it for hours
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The books work because all of the nonsense comes entirely from Chinese characters, so you can be like “Hm, Chinese people have an unique view on science and philosophy, influenced by their cultural revolution, how interesting”
But in the Netflix version it's all these terrible Western actors saying shit that clearly doesn't come from Western science and philosophy, so it all seems hokey.
And you're right, the hyper real VR aspect came about 20 years too late, a hundred other shows have already done it, so it has zero appeal.
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I watched a girl get dehydrated and rolled up like a used carpet as I was laughing my butt off, and the next scene they're philosophizing about the existence of God and intelligent design and I'm supposed to take it seriously
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It would be really kino if they came out with a modern iteration of Hokey Wolf
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