Re:Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizin...
by walterbell on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:33AM
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Have you compared the 26-episode (Director's Cut / Anniversary Edition) and 30-episode versions of the Tencent series?
There's also a 6h fan edit, https://disembiggened.com.
Re:Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizin...
by sersi on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:33AM
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Which one would you recommend? I loved the first book but hated the Netflix series.
Re:Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizin...
by walterbell on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:32AM
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Start with 6h english-dubbed edit, then you still have the longer and/or subtitled edits for deeper dive.
Re:Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizin...
by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:16AM
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No, I hadn't. Thanks! Although it's a bit late now- I've already binged the original twice :)
Re:Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizin...
by mdiesel on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:58AM
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I watched the Tencent version after reading the books, and it's the first time I've been able to get properly engaged while reading subtitles.
My goto for showing the difference between the Netflix and Tencent shows is the Shi speech about bugs. It's an important moment, but the Tencent version does a much better job of conveying that.
(obviously my personal opinion eh?)
For a really nerdy-oriented SF series try Three Body i.e. the 2023 Tencent version of The Three Body Problem. Again in my opinion the 2024 Netflix version, was one of the boringest things I've ever watched. I'm pretty sure if that had been my introduction to the Rememberance of Earth Past series I would have been left distinctly unimpressed.
For an example of what I mean by "nerdy-oriented", avoiding spoilers there's a scene where some of the characters are observing a certain celestial phenomenon. In the Netflix series they are sitting outside looking at something that should not be visible by naked eye. In the Tencent series they're sitting in a proper scientific station, i.e. a big room lined with PC workstations and side-rooms with bigger machines and printers, and they're starting endlessly at a single red line on a monitor while munching on junk food.
Another thing: a certain Chinese army base in the 1960's is decorated with picture-perfect, period hardware, big mainframes that a character is shown physically disassembling to service. In the Netflix series... honestly, I don't even remember. The attention to detail that only a proper nerd would notice is, to me, something genuinely new, like I've never see anyone go to all that trouble before to make sure a certain demographic won't scrunch up their face and go "that's not how computers looked in the '60s".
I should also say that there is certainly quite a bit of overacting (or over-directing) in the early episodes but they get over it later.