Game Of Thrones Creators’ New Sci-Fi Show’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Is A Relief After Season 8

The Rotten Tomatoes score of Game of Thrones creators’ new sci-fi show is relieving after GOT season 8’s disastrous reception and backlash. When Game of Thrones season 1 premiered on HBO in 2011, it was widely accepted as a commendable adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s work. However, in terms of profitability, it took Game of Thrones a few more seasons to reign supreme as HBO’s most commercially lucrative IP.

While most mainstream shows struggle to maintain quality after the first two or three seasons, HBO’s Game of Thrones only promised to improve with each installment. Unfortunately, despite having a solid seven-season run, Game of Thrones failed to end on a high note because of evident narrative inconsistencies and a lack of satisfying payoffs in season 8. The damage that Game of Thrones season 8 caused to the HBO series’ overall reputation cannot be fixed, but the show’s creators’ new sci-fi series brings some hope.

3 Body Problem’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Is Way Better Than Game Of Thrones Season 8

3 Body Problem’s RT score proves Benioff and Weiss are back in form

Almost throughout its runtime, Game of Thrones barely showed any dips in its overall quality, allowing it to find its place in critics’ good books. Owing to this, nearly all Game of Thrones seasons maintained a Rotten Tomatoes score of above 90%. While the first season of the hit HBO series is still touching a Rotten Tomatoes critics of 90% after all these years, seasons 2, 3, and 4 are at a whopping 96%, 96%, and 97%, respectively. The three subsequent seasons (4, 5, & 6) also maintain the book adaptation’s streak of staying above 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Game of Thrones season 8, however, stands out like a sore thumb because of its 55% critics score, which is underwhelmingly low for a series that maintained a solid streak of above 90% scores. Fortunately, even though Game of Thrones season 8 gave the show’s creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, a slightly bad name, their new Netflix sci-fi show, 3 Body Problem, is seemingly marking their return to form. With a Rotten Tomatoes score of 76%, 3 Body Problem promises to be a lot better than Game of Thrones season 8, affirming that Benioff and Weiss are back to delivering compelling stories on the small screen.

3 Body Problem Is A Reminder That David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Are Good At Adaptations

David Benioff & D.B. Weiss can be trusted with direct book-to-screen adaptations

Like most book-to-screen adaptations, Game of Thrones took several creative liberties from its source material even in its opening seasons. However, despite slightly straying away from the original George R. R. Martin books, Benioff and Weiss ensured that HBO’s Game of Thrones remained true to the essence of the original stories. The two creators seemingly started encountering problems when they ran out of source material content. As a result, Game of Thrones season 8 significantly declined in quality because it followed a completely original storyline.

Given how, like Game of Thrones, 3 Body Problem is also a book adaptation, Benioff and Weiss will likely be able to adapt it well because they have always been good at traversing fully fleshed-out stories to the small screen. As seen with Game of Thrones season 8, they only struggle when they do not have well-established blueprints to work with. Since 3 Body Problem‘s season 1 also seems to be performing way better than Game of Thrones season 8 among critics, it proves that the two creators can be trusted with adaptations.

3 Body Problem’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Also Confirms It’s Not A GOT Replacement

3 Body Problem’s RT scores are not as impressive as GOT’s intial seasons

While Game of Thrones never dipped below 90% on Rotten Tomatoes throughout its first seven seasons, Netflix’s 3 Body Problem is already struggling to cross 80%. A critics’ score of 76% on Rotten Tomatoes is by no means below average. However, it proves that 3 Body Problem, in its opening season, is not as epic as Game of Thrones. Considering the scale of Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem novels, the Netflix show undoubtedly has the potential to improve each season. However, for now, Netflix’s 3 Body Problem comes nowhere close to being a replacement for HBO’s Game of Thrones.

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  3 Body Problem

  3 Body Problem is a Netflix original series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with Alexander Woo. Based on the novel of the same name by Liu Cixin, 3 Body Problem centers on a detective who joins forces with a group of scientists after an unknown force begins killing scientists around the world.

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  Game Of Thrones

  Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Game of Thrones is a TV series based on the book “A Song of Ice of Fire” by George R. R. Martin. It tells the story of the ongoing battle between the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros – as they fight for control of the coveted Iron Throne. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the far north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night’s Watch, led by House Stark’s Jon Snow, is the first to encounter icy horrors that threaten all realms of men. The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and quickly became one of the biggest event series in the “Golden Age” of TV. Winner of 38 Primetime Emmy Awards, Game of Thrones has attracted record viewership on HBO and has a broad, active, international fan base.