I haven't seen so much effort put into a set in years. This would decent if it wasn't so damn propogandistic. Of course the message is "communism hates science".
From the Netflix science-fiction series Three Body Problem
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What?!
Can you explain how did you come away with such messages from the books? I’m genuinely curious.
I listened to the audiobooks at work like a year ago, had to stop halfway through the third book cause it felt like it was turning into a Wheel of Time fan fiction, and not a particularly good one at that
The central premise of the series, the "Dark Forest hypothesis" is never actually subverted or resolved, it's just postponed by one technobabble contrivance after another, by the end of the second book it's just taken at face value because the author disparately wanted to make some goofy point about mutually assured destruction
It's no wonder most of the fanbase is more interested in the hypothesis itself than the actual storyline
How did you go from the Dark Forest hypothesis to “we have to KILL ALL THE XENOS!”?
That’s not even what the story is about. If anything, the entire series is more of a critique and reflection of how the Chinese civilization’s oscillating perception of its former and current oppressors, and at nearly every point, Humanity (i.e. China) was steadfast in its compassion.
I’m genuinely curious about which parts of the books make you think otherwise?
Yeah I've heard that before, honestly I think the author bit off more than he could chew, he failed to translate his critique by lashing his "reflections" to a goofy theory about universally psychotic space civilizations which just doesn't work as a metaphor for Asian geopolitics let alone "the oscillating perceptions of Chinese civilization", which is probably why he had to settle for just making a mangled point about mutually assured destruction and WMDs (that "bluff" with the nuclear bombs and the "dust clouds" at the end of the second book)
I think the spookiness of the hypothesis carries the work, but not every far
The author himself pointed out that the humans in Three Body more closely resemble Native Americans than China in that they were themselves multiple competing peoples facing total genocide. Compared to real life western colonialism the Trisolarians are far less genocidal. People point out that in the books when all of humanity is forced to live in Australia that the resulting population density would be lower than the current population density in the Gaza strip. The Trisolarians at least allowed humanity to continue to exist out of "an appreciation for human culture", a mercy that does not seem to have been extended to most Native American groups.
Just a random Youtube comment on a random video about the subject, this is the most common interpretation of the theory, what other conclusion are you supposed to come to, of course it's bloodthirsty the universe in the series is literally getting torn apart by genocidal wars and even Earth gets got in the end
It's only thru the most ass-pull of technical contrivances that there are any Humans to keep the storyline going by the end of book 2, like I get it the author wanted to make some mangled point about mutually assured destruction, but boy did he pick a funny way of going about it, literally needed space magic to make his point and premise coexist