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I was all set to start 3 Body Problem tonight, but now I've seen the reviews out for Ripley I'm torn. Both look fantastic, and I'm a huge fan of first two 3BP books, and I've always loved Patricia Highsmith's novels. Decisions, decisions....
Although the inquiry bit when he's using red and blue bits of wood to explain how a nuke power station works is fantastic to the point I know 2 physics teachers who have pinched it for class. Such a wonderfully simple explanation!
Even with a few liberties taken, it's a brilliant series.
The liberties aren't that bad. I think the main one is that they amalgamated several real life scientists into 1 character to make it easier to follow. That was very sensible really.
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Ragnar, the earl who performs this ritualized ordeal on ab enemy, explains the process to his son beforehand: it involves cutting open the victim's back, breaking the ribs off the spine with an axe, and then pulling the lungs out and depositing them on the opened ribcage. Yikes!
I googled this punishment, and apparently there are no records of it ever actually taking place, so some historians have concluded that it may well have been nothing more than a myth.
According to legend, if the victim can endure all of this without screaming, they can enter Valhalla (the Viking afterlife equivalent of Club Med). And that's what our victim does. We see him from the front while all these barbarities are being visited upon his person, and he doesn't make a sound! Like, really?! He also stays fully conscious even when his lungs are laid out on his ribs. A few moments after that, he expires, and that's that.
I'm usually very squeamish about screen violence and typically have to squeal to my wife, "Is it over yet?!" if something gruesome is going on. There were parts at the end of Ken Russell's The Devils, for example, that I really couldn't watch. Oddly enough, though, this execution, together with the victim's astonishingly stoical response, seemed preposterous to the point where I felt very little. The man wasn't even strapped down! Not very believable, if you ask me.
Very classy production. It looks absolutely fantastic - almost every scene is a work of art.
I've seen the film before but so far this is far better. Good acting, excellent script and there's just a terrific sense of tension present all the time.
Just hope it keeps up like this for the rest of the episodes.
I think I also read somewhere that the guys who were sent down to shut off the water valves under the reactor pond didn’t actually die in real life. (Or is it the other way round? Whatever, the tv version of events was changed).
It's a great series, though. Aside from the evocative settings, exciting story, and strong characters, It posits an enduring theme in human endeavour: what happens when a person ahead of his or her time attempts to realize their vision among people whose mindsets are stuck in traditional beliefs and ways of reacting. Ragnar can see the benefits of tolerance and cooperation for both Vikings and Christians through tolerance, but the rigid and destructive habits of those around him serve as a relentless obstacle to his vision.
bloody brilliant , even the 3rd time around
Completely bonkers so far - kinda Lord of the Flies meets Mean Girls! Can't work out if it's bonkers in a good way or bonkers in a naff way - the jury's out for now!