Yagami Light
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Hello everyone.
There's this new series on Netflix with the title "3 Body Problem". It is based off of a Chinese novel series.
The summary from Wikipedia: "Ye Wenjie, an astrophysicist who sees her father beaten to death during a struggle session in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, is conscripted by the military. Due to her scientific background, she is sent to a secret military base in a remote region. Her decision at the base to respond to contact from an alien planet affects a group of scientists in the present day, forcing them to confront humanity's greatest threat."
Spoiler alert for anyone who wants to watch it - I've watched until episode 4.
In a few words, scientists commit suicide or unexplainably shut off their groundbreaking projects.
It is revealed that a game whose technology exceeds ours by a million light years may be connected to the scientists' alleged "suicides".
The game is like a VR headset but you can feel/smell/etc in this world, and there are no wires for the headset, and it's not connected to any console.
So, in this Virtual Reality "game", the players have to find the scientific explanation as to why a specific world is constantly being destroyed by natural disasters. The sun of that world is unpredictable.
Anyway, one of the protagonists finds out that this world actually has 3 suns (the 3 body problem), therefore it's impossible to ever predict steady long-term weather conditions and not to perish by natural disasters.
So, on episode 3, we find out that the people in this VR world are actually real. They are aliens who are coming to Earth because they can't live in their planet anymore.
On episode 2, the Chinese secret military receives an answer from aliens (as they had been sending messages to them), and Ye Wenjie is the only one who reads it. The message says: "Do not answer. Do not answer. Do not answer. I am a pacifist in this world. You are lucky that I am the first to receive your message. I am warning you: Do not answer. If you respond, we will come. Your world will be conquered. Do not answer."
Then, because Ye Wenjie had childhood trauma and was constantly shown the cruelty of our world, she responded back: "Come. We cannot save ourselves. I will help you conquer this world."
This message she received by this alien gave me a very bad feeling. Not because of the plot (and the implications of such a statement to our world). It felt deeper. I connected this alien to our Gods, and I thought of how distorted Hollywood has made reality, once again.
Moreover, in all future interactions with these aliens (until episode 4 that I watched), these aliens cannot understand, eg the concept of "lying" (because as soon as they create a connection with someone, they know everything). It's like an open and empowered third eye, but they are completely detached from humanity. They cannot understand the concept of a fairy tale. They also have a hive mind. In time, one of the protagonists understand that these aliens are bad guys.
And of course, there're some people who worship them like Gods (they keep calling these aliens - or a specific one of them "my Lord").
This show just feels like so many red flags to me.
Has anyone else watched it? What is your opinion of it? Did you find any hidden messages I've missed? Positive, negative?
I understand that someone could justify these aliens as being the greys (so, humanity should naturally be against them), but it doesn't feel that way to me. From the beginning, the aliens being so extremely technologically-advanced and being able to understand everything by simply "making connection" with someone. It feels like our Gods. Everything, except for the one pacifist bullshit, the hive mind, and of course the inhuman part of them).
It feels like a horrible misrepresentation of our Gods that will make humanity further confused and conflicted regarding aliens/extraterrestrials.
There's this new series on Netflix with the title "3 Body Problem". It is based off of a Chinese novel series.
The summary from Wikipedia: "Ye Wenjie, an astrophysicist who sees her father beaten to death during a struggle session in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, is conscripted by the military. Due to her scientific background, she is sent to a secret military base in a remote region. Her decision at the base to respond to contact from an alien planet affects a group of scientists in the present day, forcing them to confront humanity's greatest threat."
Spoiler alert for anyone who wants to watch it - I've watched until episode 4.
In a few words, scientists commit suicide or unexplainably shut off their groundbreaking projects.
It is revealed that a game whose technology exceeds ours by a million light years may be connected to the scientists' alleged "suicides".
The game is like a VR headset but you can feel/smell/etc in this world, and there are no wires for the headset, and it's not connected to any console.
So, in this Virtual Reality "game", the players have to find the scientific explanation as to why a specific world is constantly being destroyed by natural disasters. The sun of that world is unpredictable.
Anyway, one of the protagonists finds out that this world actually has 3 suns (the 3 body problem), therefore it's impossible to ever predict steady long-term weather conditions and not to perish by natural disasters.
So, on episode 3, we find out that the people in this VR world are actually real. They are aliens who are coming to Earth because they can't live in their planet anymore.
On episode 2, the Chinese secret military receives an answer from aliens (as they had been sending messages to them), and Ye Wenjie is the only one who reads it. The message says: "Do not answer. Do not answer. Do not answer. I am a pacifist in this world. You are lucky that I am the first to receive your message. I am warning you: Do not answer. If you respond, we will come. Your world will be conquered. Do not answer."
Then, because Ye Wenjie had childhood trauma and was constantly shown the cruelty of our world, she responded back: "Come. We cannot save ourselves. I will help you conquer this world."
This message she received by this alien gave me a very bad feeling. Not because of the plot (and the implications of such a statement to our world). It felt deeper. I connected this alien to our Gods, and I thought of how distorted Hollywood has made reality, once again.
Moreover, in all future interactions with these aliens (until episode 4 that I watched), these aliens cannot understand, eg the concept of "lying" (because as soon as they create a connection with someone, they know everything). It's like an open and empowered third eye, but they are completely detached from humanity. They cannot understand the concept of a fairy tale. They also have a hive mind. In time, one of the protagonists understand that these aliens are bad guys.
And of course, there're some people who worship them like Gods (they keep calling these aliens - or a specific one of them "my Lord").
This show just feels like so many red flags to me.
Has anyone else watched it? What is your opinion of it? Did you find any hidden messages I've missed? Positive, negative?
I understand that someone could justify these aliens as being the greys (so, humanity should naturally be against them), but it doesn't feel that way to me. From the beginning, the aliens being so extremely technologically-advanced and being able to understand everything by simply "making connection" with someone. It feels like our Gods. Everything, except for the one pacifist bullshit, the hive mind, and of course the inhuman part of them).
It feels like a horrible misrepresentation of our Gods that will make humanity further confused and conflicted regarding aliens/extraterrestrials.