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On a much more superficial note, you gotta love the casting decisions too. Make the Chinese people ultra trendy diverse and make the terminal cancer patient whose brain is being scooped out and shipped to the aliens the only white guy. ;D

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Honestly, I think the actor who played Will (him being Yun Tianming) was the closest to his book counterpart as a character. He was the best part of the show for me. For example, I'm sure Benedict Wong can play Da Shi because he's a very good actor, but in this show the character is utterly ruined. He's not the glue or the do-it-all no bullshit policeman that he's supposed to be. Yu Hewei (Da Shi from the Tencent show) was so good in that role that I honestly cannot compare him at all. It's night and day. Also the Netflix show suffers a lot for being only 8 episodes. I think being 12-13 would've worked much better and left a bit more for the plot to breathe, but nope. We gotta jump because we're in a hurry somehow.

> Also the Netflix show suffers a lot for being only 8 episodes.

And they wasted most of that with cancer drama instead of aliens-are-coming drama.

Haha. I actually thought Da Shi was pretty spot on, but maybe I was spellbound by the fact that they cast the same exact actor for him that I cast in my head when I read the books! :D Gruff Chinese detective guy? It had to be the detective guy from Contagion.

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