3 Body Problem (TV Series) Judgment Day (2024) User Reviews

Wonderfully terrifying

[greenmangreat · 10/10 · 23 March 2024]

We witness the eerie, terrifying force of Auggie's invention, and we think this futuristic invention is mind blowingly powerful. But then the aliens show us that the technologically superior race is capable of feats so far beyond our understanding, that it creates this fear of the unknown and brings forth sheer existential horror and dread.

This is exactly the kind of science fiction I'd like to see. Humans rarely ever think of themselves as animals because we can overwhelm the other animals with our minds and technological might. Many of us have forgotten the fear of what it was once like out there in the wild, fighting for our survival just like every other animal.

And so in this episode, we can now see possibilities that threaten our very existence; powers that are so far beyond our understanding that we now begin to feel what it's like from the perspective of an ant staring at a boot, knowing we are about to be squashed, and that there is nothing we can do about it.

Phenomenal, best episode so far.

[charlieedmond · 10/10 · 27 March 2024]

The suspense as the "antagonist" explained the predicament humanity is now up against is simply goosebumps inducing. I think every human who is familiar with the Fermi paradox and the idea that humanity for all intents and purposes could exist in a petri dish, felt seriously uneasy during that sequence. That something, real, is manipulating reality to their own benefit, and that quite literally, we would be unable to stop it.

It's kind of scary, I would put that sequence in the same genre of Horror, because it was just that terrifying as it is something that could very well be real, and the most scary things in the world, are what's real.

This is ironic given the amount of scientific inaccuracies the series has thus portrayed, but this series isn't a science lecture, it's a fictional piece of media. So despite the 2 dimensional characters and other issues, this episode deserves a 10/10 for that sequence alone.

Clarifying the book

[mjloge · 10/10 · 25 March 2024]

The movie has clarified some of the confusing elements of the book. The use of video and scientific names such as Newton and Copernicus and Lord was made clear in the film. The stunning first 14 minutes gave us two main issues of the book in such a way that only after did one realize what had happened. Truly a highly intelligent rendering of the book and in this case the movie is better understood and appreciated than reading the books, some 1500 plus pages. The books present blocks of the 400 year history in a somewhat "chopped" fashion. The film has a sequential continuity that is easier to comprehend. Spectacular imagery and visuals. Banned in China, but later encouraged.

Spellbinding.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 10/10 · 31 March 2024]

I was all set to comment on how this series peaked at episode three, then I finished watching Judgment Day, and all I have to say is, wow!

This was an incredible, chilling, rollercoaster ride, I wonder if this is going to be the high point, it almost deserves to take that accolade.

Superb, I know it's science fiction, but what a chilling thought, the electricity went off in our region yesterday, only for ten minutes, and there was quite literally panic in the streets, very few can function without tech.

The highlight, that scene on the ship, I have never quite see anything like it, terrifying, but visually spectacular.

You are Bugs...I think I wasn't that on a shirt, I'd wear it.

Even the music was crammed ho for this one, wonderfully dramatic, the visuals also, sublime.

10/10.

Spectacular Timing

[michelmasheka · 10/10 · 27 March 2024]

When I heard that this show was directed by the same guys who worked on Game Of Thrones and given the fact that I've never read the book, I decided to give it a try...

Half way though the show I decided to stop watching because it really bored me (characters not relatable, too many mysteries and a predictable plot) until the moment I finished this episode. I have never seen a sci-fi plot bring all the important pieces together with such precise timing and scientific accuracy like I've just witnessed just witnessed.

Now I'm not sure if I'll be able to take my eyes off a screen until I'm done watching how the whole story unfolds.

Top tier episode!

[aboalhyjaa · 10/10 · 30 March 2024]

Best episode so far? Maybe the best in the entire series as im writing it after finishing the entire season!

Episode four delivers a rollercoaster of thrills and twists as the characters goes into a somewhat dangerous mission to get back some important info.

The tension is rising, the characters are facing moral decisions and unexpected challenges along the way.

With the fast pacing action and a great narrative, this episode keeps us on the edge of our seats, waiting to see what unfolds next.

Overall, It's a great episode that leaves a lasting impact, setting the stage for even more exciting developments in the series.

Great episode except..

[stephendodd-65069 · 9/10 · 11 April 2024]

Really enjoying the show so far but it jumped the shark a bit this episode. Feels like a different person wrote half this episode to make it gruesome as possible and desperate to include that invisible wire net screen. I have a strong stomach for this stuff but was mega uncomfortable with that ship scene and the boat being full of kids.

I think part of my shock it is suddenly the good guys completely lost the plot and set up the most elaborate, over complicated and out of character situation when other options could have been taken.

Why did they need to kill everyone on board with the wire net? I'm so confused.. they already established they had access to a warship as Wade clearly has pull with the navy and Raj is captain of a brand new warship? If they really wanted to include the wire for some reason to link it with auggies countdown why would they destroy the entire ship that way, not have any intel of the occupants when they already shown they have drones of some sort they followed Jin with last episode.

Auggie and Raj seemed pretty chill about just killing all those kids and other people out of nowhere.

The whole wire net in the canal plan seemed like the most complicated to set up and a public relations nightmare situation, couldn't it have happened at sea?

Maybe some story reason they needed to take that radar dish out covertly, Wire pulled by ships to take it out and cripple The boat or something? It goes wrong somehow asbad guys hit back throw off aim and they get to show the gruesome end to the ship they really wanted? I would have just skipped the gruesome killing of everyone on board personally and had the ship sink rather then cut everyone to bits and good guys just shrug and get on with it.

Possibly the best episode of any series I have watched

[Teen_titans2702 · 10/10 · 7 April 2024]

I have to single out this one episode and write a review for it because to me, this episode is a masterpiece. Without any spoiler, this episode gives us a glimpse of the destruction that us humans can bring about. The ship scene was wonderfully done, haunting, terrifying, yet beautifully filmed. The slow camera work to show the imminent destruction was masterpiece. All of this just to then end with showing us how insignificant we are when compare to the force of what's out there in the world, or in the universe. It shows the contrast between the power of human and our idea of how superiority just to bring it all crashing down with the what the universe can do to us. I absolutely love this episode. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time watching it. Absolute perfection.

One of the best eps of 2024

[thevipinsingh · 10/10 · 20 April 2024]

I don't know how different it is than book and if the book did a great job in explaining things or how the creators took liberty and changes things.

Still, this ep couldn't be any better. The answer of all questions with a declaration of war is the best conclusion of the book. The visuals are amazing and the storyboarding of this ep is just brilliantly done.

As I said, it is not the best but definitely one of the best ep of the year. The series didn't disappoints especially when compare to recent sci-fi shows.

I like the series so far now and this ep is just unexpectedly better what I haven't expecting.

Genius!

Phenomenal Show; horrendously written episode.

[diamonddeals · 2/10 · 2 April 2024]

It's hard to fathom that this is the highest rated episode when it is by far the least intelligently written of the 5 so far.

Let me absolutely get this straight - a surgical special ops attack on the ship is magically not feasible, but melting the ENTIRE ship using some of the most advanced technology on Earth makes perfect sense? Surely this approach won't dematerialize the crucial and sensitive data contained within (120 PB OF DATA NO LESS)? Which genius team of writers came up with this idea to pigeonhole the story JUST so they can justify a cool illogical CGI scene for the sake of CGI?

The data of course magically survives, found in an impossible pile of rubble, and is quickly accessed because the aliens "let us open it".

Then the alien AI (or dumbass unexplained entity) reveals their entire plan to stop human science? Great plan. Tell the enemy everything! Advanced civilizations are just as vain as humans and love to rub it in, apparently. They're pretty cocky for a species who openly admits humans would surpass them in 400 years - essentially conceding that our technological advancement trajectory would outpace their travel time. It's either impressive and they respect us, the enemy, and not reveal anything. Or we're unimpressive, and they have nothing to worry about. Pick a lane. I've met more intelligent high school bullies.

No matter, they are confident they'll cripple our science and that we have no chance in figuring out how to stop them from doing so, despite them just increasing our odds of success by a billion BY TELLING US THEIR WHOLE PLAN. Humans aren't even this stupid, let alone an advanced civilization. Knowing us, we'd thwart their plan to "destroy our science" in a record 100 years, with 300 to spare, because our enemies are dumbasses.

"We have the technology to unfold them. We summon energies you cannot imagine, and focus them on a single proton. When we unfold its higher dimensions, even a tiny proton becomes something very large indeed".

Great - get to work then idiots and fix your own problems? Earth shouldn't be of any interest if you're so advanced and can afford to brag.

In the hands of skilled writers, crippling our science is a brilliant concept. Not here though!

This show could be a game changer but piss poor writing strikes yet again. A genuine disappointment.

Ridiculous!

[stopeeper · 1/10 · 27 March 2024]

Let me get this straight - They wanted to take the servers from the ship, and they couldn't attack the ship with special forces, because it would be "a massacre and it will give the people on the ship time to destroy the servers". So instead they conjured up the "genius" plan to slice it up with sci-fi fibers, massacring everyone on board and destroying the servers.

And of course the important data was on a small drive (as we all know, room size servers store all their data on an single drive) and it survived the wreckage and the fire of the ship that conveniently parked itself on the shore after being sliced to pieces.

And sure, "the aliens wanted them to have the drive". But they did not know that, they did not come up with this insane plan with the knowledge that magical chance will make sure it works.

On top of that, when they saw that the scientist, who invented the sci-fi fibers, had doubts about the morality of this massacre, they let her watch it all happening and even take a walk around the debris and have a good look at the body parts lying around.

Who writes this stupidity? Madness!

Absolutely Bizarre

[mph-51628 · 3/10 · 3 April 2024]

This episode really ruined the show for me. The choices made by some of the main characters are completely out of character. Not only is it out of character it also makes no sense, and that's in a show where aliens are invading.

When there were so many simpler choices, choices that they even put forward in the show, they just suddenly go with the most utterly bizarre and disgusting and overcomplicated and ridiculous choice out of nowhere, with no explanation and multiple characters don't bat an eyelid.

The writers must have taken the day off for this one and just used some AI or something to come up with this disaster.

Such a shame as the rest of the series was alright up to then. Definitely doesn't live up the hype but it was at least ok up to this point.

I guess they never did learn any lessons from GoT.

spectacularly silly - thought provoking & mind-numbing at the same time.

[Rob-O-Cop · 5/10 · 14 April 2024]

Oh, ... this is going in the wrong direction very quickly, wasting the good aspects (Benedict Wong and some great thought provoking concepts) with just play silly carry on. I don't need to go on about the ludicrous dicing a ship to get a hard drive plot point. I mean, what are we supposed to do with that? Is this a comedy now?

Everyone of us is now thinking season 8 of Game of Thrones with dread and quickly loosing any level of trust in the writers, if we had any to start with.

Annoying Augie with her pouty catwalk looks may well have played out her plot point with her 'cutty string' so hopefully we've seen the back of her and her attempts to bring back smoking. Nano fibres..... what a oblique way to make her relevant to the story. Yes in ep 5 you're going to prove your worth by finishing off your science project so we can slice up children on a boat, yay!

The aliens, don't seem that smart for a race of creatures who can make a proton computer and send technology 4 light years away. How did the helmets get made and the hard drive etc? I guess that's the drawback of having a little knowledge and a little understanding possibly gained from watching youtube videos. It starts to fall apart with any level of scrutiny.

I think that's what is the most disappointing aspect of this show, it's almost a strong idea but ruined by halfbaked plot failures.

The aliens are worried that in 400 years humans will have surpassed their their technology? So what, the aliens are planning to stop progressing on their 400 year journey? Not going to read any books while you travel?, come up with some new ideas?, pack a couple of test tubes and a bunsen burner? It was an interesting thought till you thought about it.

I don't think 'own goal' of detailing your plot holes is good enough as when Wong notes they can do instantaneous communication but can't travel faster than sub lightspeed with a shoulder shrug, although I'll give you a point for saying "That's impossible,.... impossible, for us".

This show is frustratingly thought provoking and mind-numbing at the same time.

I'm worried the next episode will h ave something in it that will stop me wanting to finish the season, it's pretty close to it now, no, to be fair it has past that point, and I'm running on walking dead fumes, I know I should have stopped watching that show half way through, but it's hard to turn away from a train wreck.

Oh and Liam Cunningham's hard as MI5-6 tough guy act is wearing pastiche thin.

Sliced children body problem

[glstrom-14260 · 2/10 · 3 April 2024]

I am not sure who would give this a 10 considering the amazing weak CGI, the nano tech fibers slicing through a container ship in Panama Canal thus slicing hundreds of innocent children as well (who were spared being burnt to a crisp when ship magically came to a stop on shore). Even more magically the hard drive which should not even be readable by current technology (and how did it get here in first place) now can be accessed to show that a nursery rhyme was misunderstood by this advanced entity after 58 years of chatting with us? Main protagonist cut to ribbons along with his ship and fellow arc members and for what? Sorry Auggie, should have protested a bit more to the all powerful Raj who no one knew two episodes ago. Video game premise was clever and well done, not so much with real effort to thwart the existential threat to humankind and the birds.

Basil Exposition and poor CGI

[ArtemisDW · 3/10 · 27 March 2024]

I was quietly really starting to enjoy the show and then I watched this truly clunky episode. So much exposition and frankly embarrassing CGI. I understand that they needed to explain complex concepts to make the series make sense but it was so so basic! Plus some of acting it's truly wooden, pretty people may be easy on the eye but some of the cast (Auggie and Varma in particular) are truly painful to watch. Saying that I'm loving Bendeduc Wong as Shi and the girl who plays Jin. I am hoping they they develop the characters a bit more, as for instance Will and Saul are just cyphers at present.

Silly hollywood rewrite

[luciannertan · 4/10 · 25 March 2024]

If it's your first interaction with the 3 body's story, in this episode is basically the climax of the first book and some cool science fiction concepts get revealed so people prob got hipped for those.

But this episode is simply ... bad. Because they altered the story, it simply makes little sense.

You have the aliens that after helping the terrorist organization to kill, trick scientists, lie to police, create a religious cult based on their personality suddenly out of the blue get to throw away the organization they helped create to help their cause because they somehow realised that people can lie. I know the books imply this too, but this is one of the blunders of the books too.

Ah you may ask dear reader, what could've been done? Well, let's look at the chinese adaptation: they avoided this explanation altogether and also made the sophons (who are revealed in this episode) less powerful and the organization to be so plagued with infighting that it wasn't that useful to the aliens to bother saving them.

So why I ranted this much about this, well, simply because this crumbles the whole shows foundations up to this point transforming the first 4.5 episodes in a pointless story of a fetch quest that didn't need to be fetched.

The 'big hyped' organization is pointless after all, the aliens are stupid discarding their secrecy for a hypocritical tantrum, the police guy probably is a sophon itself because he somehow knew about the success of the nanomaterial despite any public disclosure, for some reason all characters here are rude to each other and least of all, let's not forget Sauron cameo.

What a deluded waste of budget.

Truly do not understand the high reviews of this episode

[jneiberger-1 · 5/10 · 18 May 2024]

This episode was decent, at best. It appears the show-runners have retained their use of time-traveling from Game of Thrones where characters just travel the world almost instantaneously, although in this case they also do ridiculous stuff like engineer and construct the worlds largest, sharpest vegetable slicer in six days. They use it to cut a ship into slices because, apparently, that was their best plan. Maybe it didn't even occur to them to sneak someone onboard the ship at night who could blend in long enough to find what they were looking for. That or any number of other options exist, but no, they chose "let's turn the Panama canal into a vegematic for ships." Beyond stupid.

The rest of the episode was okay. Definitely not great. I truly do not understand the people rating it 10/10. I saw one commenter say that this was the best episode of TV they had ever seen. I think that person needs to watch more TV.

Unnecessary gore

[gbjsryxnk · 5/10 · 29 March 2024]

I've been really enjoying the show so I was disappointed at the lack of nuance and casual depiction of extreme violence in this show. The gore when the nano fibers cut the people up was something that we only needed to see once or twice And something about all of the children being involved really rubbed me the wrong way. I think they could've let us know what was happening without it feeling so violently gory and exploitative. I'm really enjoying the storyline so I'll continue to watch the show. Hopefully there won't be any more episodes that I have to cover my eyes for such a large amount of..