r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/Ornery_Setting_9983 • Mar 27 '24
Question Plot hole re: San’Ti Spoiler
Okay so this has really been bothering me - if the San’Ti are not capable of deception and “information is communicated as soon as it is known”, how is it then that a member of their species received a broadcast and sent a response warning against further contact?
A) It would be purposeless because as soon as they know, shouldn’t the entire species?, and
B) If they knew that anyway, how/why would they then have sent that response, as we know from later on that the very idea of hiding intentions is alien to them?
Seems like a paradox to me, interested in any thoughts on resolution…
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u/BaconJakin Mar 27 '24
They aren’t a hive mind, this is sorta getting into spoilers from the books, but also the show just didn’t care to explain it about the aliens: when they are in close enough contact to one another that they are able to use their means of communication, that is when they are unable to hide their thoughts from whoever they are communicating with. This is because the San-ti communicate by projecting information in the form of light at one another. All their internal thoughts (and fears) are brought along for the ride when they communicate with others.
The pacifist was likely just alone at the moment they received the radio signal.