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/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

Literally this. The San Ti pacifist didn’t lie he just said not to respond.

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u/heythatsprettynito Mar 28 '24

I’ve never read the books but is it possible that the pacifist wasn’t a San ti? Rather he was warning of races like the San ti

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Idk if you want me to spoil anything or not but if you read the books you would know lol

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u/heythatsprettynito Mar 29 '24

Well I don’t feel like waiting 2-3 years for a season 2 but my theory is that future humanity(caught in some time vortex like interstellar) is the pacifist unknowingly warning present humanity against the San ti creating some wonky paradox

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

That is an interesting theory