anonyfool

anonyfool t1_j8p3bk5 wrote

Reply to comment by sevsnapey in Congrats to the team behind 'Three Body Problem' - Tencent version by snicmtl

There are some extremely long series (30-50 episodes) in both China and Korea for one season, sometimes with 70-90 minute episode run time in Korean TV where they can't show commercials so the episodes incorporate a lot of product placement versus 44 minutes in American broadcast TV with about 15 minutes for commercial breaks. The upside is one knows in advance that the series will usually end with one season.

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anonyfool t1_j097n18 wrote

Reply to comment by F00dbAby in Kindred - Series Premiere Discussion by NicholasCajun

Binti is mostly about conflict with tribes in Africa and species so that might fit the bill for your black sci fi, at least the starting novella. I stopped reading Kindred because I was overwhelmed with the trauma she suffers in slavery times when she inhabits the body of her ancestor - the encounters got worse and worse.

There's also Dahlgren-17 post apocalypse that has some race stuff in it but not black trauma at all and is more about sex because IIRC the writer is working through some experiments with language and his own sexuality/experiences in it, I think it has the most by quantity and detail sex scenes i've ever encountered in a book and it felt repetitious by the end because some of the encounters felt like the same actions again and again.

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anonyfool t1_j0978eu wrote

Reply to comment by profeDB in Kindred - Series Premiere Discussion by NicholasCajun

I started the book but could not finish it. The situation in the time jumps to American slavery period are brutal and feel hopeless.

I had recently finished Beloved so I didn't have the mental strength to go through the trauma of slavery second hand again, YMMV.

Had same problem with the recent Underground mini series and season three plus of The Handmaids Tale - I'm not that much of a masochist so it depends on your threshold for empathy/sympathy.

I liked the stories of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents and the Xenogenesis books a lot more, because even though there is a lot of traumatic events (post apocalyptic), there is a glimmer of hope more present as well (even if you don't agree with the direction it heads.)

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