By swapping genders. The main protaganist was already female, but they made the other one (nano tech expert) female as well.
There are some Turkish TV series that have several hundred episodes! And in some of the series each episode is 90-150 minutes long, like a feature movie. They generally have high production value, but some of them, because of the length of each episode can be slow paced—you see a rider on a horse galloping for 10 minutes or so. This is where FF comes in handy. Or you can speed up the playtime.
The Turks have a long history spanning over many dynasties so they have a lot of material to make into TV series. The historical accuracy varies, some more accurate than others.
And they are watched all over the world, not just the Muslim sphere.
They did a lot more than swap genders. Wang Miao was the kind of person who can bring people with different beliefs and attitudes and personalities together and help them to get along and solve the problem together.
Auggie was very abrasive and always angry. People complained on Reddit when I said that this was a problem, because they thought I was expecting her to be demure as a female. I’m not demure at all myself so this was hilarious. The problem was her personality made it impossible for her to play the same role in the story as Wang Miao, and that necessitated the revision of the story so that the main characters all knew each other already. I really hated this.
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There shouldn’t have been any children there. The Abolitionists were advocating for the extinction or punishment of humanity by the San-Ti/Trisolarans. They were put there solely to advance the producers’ feelings about war, which aren’t really relevant when the aliens are invading from outside and you have other humans helping them.
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The whole Netflix thing was a badly conceived and poorly received. Wang Miao was a very kind and empathetic person Auggie the opposite a hard nose capitalist.
I think this gets at one of the biggest differences between the two adaptations. Changing a character is not just about changing gender or personality traits; it can alter the role that character plays in holding the story together.
Wang Miao’s quieter, more empathetic personality made him function as a bridge between very different people. Once that role was changed, the Netflix version had to restructure the relationships between the main characters as well, which is probably why the adaptation feels so different even when some of the plot points are similar.
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