Oh dear. This show was doing quite well with it's world building until this episode where a bunch of things fell over and went off the rails.
The alien force can communicate across 4 light years of space instantaneously but takes 300 years to travel the distance. So they've figured out how to move information faster than the speed of light, yet not themselves.
The aliens are really smart yet they got confused about what a "story" was, and our cult of alien 'friends' waste their time reading nursery rhymes to them and upsetting them? A story is not a lie, it's a method of extrapolation. But yes humans can and do lie, but little red riding hood isn't an example of that.
The alien friends cult have access to alien tech, but they go around like secret squirrel murdering with a knife people who think they're a con? Why the whole cloak and dagger thing? Excuse the pun. But why waste effort and cause danger by murdering someone who poses no threat? Why trust another new person so much as to bring them to your cult meeting. Why did the 2 person cop force call in a swat team to rescue one woman and kill others, when she wasn't in immediate threat of death? What was the point of the raid. Why not wait till the conference was over, pull in the leader and find out what the story was? Arm assault seems illogical.
And the name of the show is the three body problem, and the alien world has 3 suns and their plant, that's 4 bodies, and yes humans at the present point of time with our present computational skills cannot extrapolate the movements of 3 bodies exerting gravitational force on each other for long periods, but that doesn't mean it's not something that can be done in the future, ever, by intelligence more advanced than what we have now.
And the glamorous smoking. Why? Is it because they couldn't crow bar it into game of thrones so that tobacco sponsorship money was off the table so they're making up for it now?
So the problems are a little more than a little science conundrum now. And they were doing so well.
The alien force can communicate across 4 light years of space instantaneously but takes 300 years to travel the distance. So they've figured out how to move information faster than the speed of light, yet not themselves.
The aliens are really smart yet they got confused about what a "story" was, and our cult of alien 'friends' waste their time reading nursery rhymes to them and upsetting them? A story is not a lie, it's a method of extrapolation. But yes humans can and do lie, but little red riding hood isn't an example of that.
The alien friends cult have access to alien tech, but they go around like secret squirrel murdering with a knife people who think they're a con? Why the whole cloak and dagger thing? Excuse the pun. But why waste effort and cause danger by murdering someone who poses no threat? Why trust another new person so much as to bring them to your cult meeting. Why did the 2 person cop force call in a swat team to rescue one woman and kill others, when she wasn't in immediate threat of death? What was the point of the raid. Why not wait till the conference was over, pull in the leader and find out what the story was? Arm assault seems illogical.
And the name of the show is the three body problem, and the alien world has 3 suns and their plant, that's 4 bodies, and yes humans at the present point of time with our present computational skills cannot extrapolate the movements of 3 bodies exerting gravitational force on each other for long periods, but that doesn't mean it's not something that can be done in the future, ever, by intelligence more advanced than what we have now.
And the glamorous smoking. Why? Is it because they couldn't crow bar it into game of thrones so that tobacco sponsorship money was off the table so they're making up for it now?
So the problems are a little more than a little science conundrum now. And they were doing so well.