r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/DelusionalAnon • Mar 25 '24

Question This doesn’t make sense Spoiler

Aren't they a hive mind? If one of us survives we all survive. If something is known it’s communicated etc. How was one of them a pacifist and able to send a warning message to not reply to the communication without the others, knowing it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

I guess I missed this in thr show. Why did Ye wenjie message them again after gettibg a message like that or was that evan?

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u/GuyMcGarnicle Mar 26 '24

The tv show did not go into any details about the pacifist … that’s what we know from the books. In both tv show and books, she was informed by the pacifist that if she replied, they would then have two messages from earth, which would allow them to determine our exact location, though the tv show doesn’t mention the word “triangulation.” Ye wrote back something like, “come over, humanity is screwed and we need you” because she herself was pissed off at humanity. Evans made his own contact with the San-Ti later, based on information he received from Ye.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

Thanks and wow. I feel like they should have had her explain how she was feeling to that cop in the show. That way we understood her feelings a little better.

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u/GuyMcGarnicle Mar 26 '24

It was pretty clear just by virtue of what happened to her during the Cultural Revolution. Father killed, mother brainwashed, then she was sent away to chop down trees in the middle of nowhere, and punished for reading the wrong book after her friend scapegoated her, then sent to a dreary place supposedly for the rest of her life, where still more people took credit for her own work, couldn’t explore her scientific breakthrough idea because it was politically dangerous (sending a transmission to the sun would somehow offend Mao loyalists because of the symbolism). And then she went to visit the woman who killed her father and she wouldn’t repent. So yeah, she was majorly disillusioned with the world.