3 Body Problem: Destroyer of Worlds Books Included

March 26, 2024 5:51 PM - Season 1, Episode 3

Obsessed with their virtual reality quest, Jin and Jack race to solve a complex riddle but advancing to the next level brings harrowing consequences.

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posted by ActingTheGoat (5 comments total)

I get that the game scenes are really more about Jin figuring stuff out, but I was enjoying Jack and his approach. When he walked out of the pitch meeting I definitely had a bad feeling. And Benedict Wong's detective can't even see him getting murdered looking through glass walls with binoculars, so there's more going on than just video footage getting erased.

Poor Samwell Tarly made it past the wall, down to Oldtown and back, but cant' survive a hard sell timeshare presentation.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:01 PM on March 26 [7 favorites]

I was also enjoying Jack and his approach. It felt sad and unfair that his role has ended.
posted by samthemander at 12:07 PM on March 27 [3 favorites]

Jack was my favorite. This show needs his comic relief.
posted by miss-lapin at 3:23 PM on March 27

I'm not necessarily sad that Jack is gone - he was a lout who made me ask "why is any one of these people friends with him?" whenever he had a scene. BUT he also had an actual defined personality which seems mostly absent in the rest of the core ensemble. Shruggie
posted by wemayfreeze at 3:27 PM on March 27 [1 favorite]

It was a bit weird how the game playing was dealt with so quickly. The game seemed to go on forever in the book (from what I can recall.)

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BUT he also had an actual defined personality which seems mostly absent in the rest of the core ensemble. Shruggie

Well, he definitely had an extremely high-energy, attention-seeking, personality, anyway. Everyone else just seem to be regular people. I won't miss Jack. He seemed to be an invader from another tv series. Felt out-of-place.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:55 AM on March 28 [1 favorite]