3 Body Problem
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If the universe winks at you and no satellite is around to capture it, did it really happen?
It must be some kind of scam by very, very powerful people if theyre even people at all.
But aliens probably arent entirely behind this one.
(The third, when we dont even enter the game with him, is the funniest.)
But by speaking up about the superiority of science over mysticism, she completed the first level.
Wenjies story is the most tense and interesting of the episode.
The sun would act as a super-antenna.
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.
Director Derek Tsang shoots this scene with the intensity it deserves.
Wenjie ultimately chooses to send another message back despite the warnings, essentially inviting this alien race to invade.
We cannot save ourselves, she says.
I will help you conquer this world.
The best part of this huge moment is how the script also makes it an important character moment.
Psychologically, theres a lot going on.
The Cultural Revolution may be over, but the damage has been done.
Theres no pleasure in that.
Throw the whole Earth away.
Hes just a typical case of arrested development, albeit one who works (worked?)
at a particle accelerator.
