3 Body Problem series on Netflix

[Ariadne the Scribe]

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.

 

[Ariadne the Scribe]

In addition, the concept of "making a connection and knowing everything at once," while at the same time being a warmongering, manipulating alien race, and having "pacifists" among them is contradictory into itself.
If you can see the whole Truth, unfiltered, then you wouldn't have both pacifists and war-lords at the same time - ESPECIALLY so in a hive mind.

Plot-wise, it has failed.

 

[WiseDragon]

I don't know how you can stand watching that multicultural piece of crap that barely has a white person in it. I preferred watching the Chinese series for a couple of episodes, but got bored.

Didn't watch a single Tv series in the last 10 years for this reason. Some were somewhat enjoyable back then, now it's literally all marxist garbage.

 

[Ariadne the Scribe]

It's based on a Chinese novel series, it's not a Netflix original. I don't know how faithful it is to the book series, but it does depict the pseudo-scientific superstitions and brutality of Communism, I bet this made a lot of lefties angy regardless of the other politically correct multiculty spice this has to appease "modern audiences".
The alien thing is an allegory to foreign exploitation of China's resources, not this or that alien group in our real world (ie., aliens = foreigners); it also depict White male scientists as friendly and empathetic. For this I think this series is very based, I wouldn't spend my time with this or other series however, let this be educational for the masses, nowadays a lot of people don't even know how stupid and brutal communism was, as the information about communist crimes is disappearing from places like Wikipedia, and people should be educated about alien (rapefugee) invaders anyway.

Thank you, Egon. I read that it was a Chinese novel but didn't know the details of it (about the messages the creator wanted to give). This is interesting.

Also, regarding the interracial couples, 9/10 TV shows in Hollywood have that - Netflix or not. I don't pay for Netflix as there are sites you can watch those shows for free. However, I've learned to ignore them in order to analyze the plot, the characters' personalities, etc. I've also seen interracial couples with a child that's not mixed, (mixed people are obvious by their features), and it just made me laugh.

As long as the plot doesn't focus on the couple (like romcom), then I will ignore it.

 

[Valeska]

This makes sense that Netflix would twist it. I haven't read the books but I watched a few episodes while visiting my dad. He said the books are completely different by the way so that makes me suspect that they have an agenda to push