Logic simplified, but original question forgotten

Season 1 of The 3 Body Problem, eight episodes of which were released on Netflix on Tuesday, has caused quite a stir on social media.

On Chinese professional film-rating website Douban.com, the show, which cost $160 million to produce, received a rating of 6.7 out of 10, far below the Tencent version which has a rating of 8.7. Many viewers are complaining that the Netflix version "changed too much from the original story". Some attribute this to some of the leading characters in the Netflix version being nationalities other than Chinese.

But that fails to explain why the Netflix series got a score of 7.6 from professional reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes and just 6.9 from audiences. Even though non-Chinese actors are playing the parts of the leading characters, the drama is still not drawing Western audiences.