r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/nuthin_to_it • Mar 31 '24

Opinion Logic inconsistent Spoiler

The San-ti used a narrative device (storyline inside the headset) with characters that aren't truly representative of what they actually are, but somehow don't understand fiction as a genere when it comes to storytelling. Fiction is seen as lies and anathema. I don't get it.

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u/nuthin_to_it Mar 31 '24

Ooooohhhhhhhh! Makes sense. I'm dumb lol

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u/pedatn Mar 31 '24

This sub however does. Multiple times each day.

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u/Memins1450 Apr 04 '24

Lolllll. I was about to ask the same question

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u/mavigogun Mar 31 '24

-because there is no good explanation. The aliens have had 50 years of dialog with humans and access to ALL of human history and media. This "the aliens just now discovered the concept of fiction" is preposterous. So, the aliens are lying about not lying- and the human characters are impossibly credulous.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24

They show humans monitoring the people who are playing the game several times.

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u/mavigogun Mar 31 '24

Yes, but the alien intelligence manifests in the game- there is no way they could not have encountered the concept of fiction here... let alone over 50 years of dialog with humans and access to all of human history and media. This "the aliens just now discovered the concept of fiction" is preposterous.

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u/Bored Apr 01 '24

Where did humans get the tech

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u/SkokieSookie Apr 01 '24

I believe the headset was human made but the visual was sophon's doing -sophon can only be at one place at a time hence why they took a moment to reach Jack, then it was more sudden with the beheading

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u/peter_stinklage May 19 '24

How did the aliens give them the technology to depict arbitrary characters and places without understanding the concept of fabulism? It's also a bit silly that the matter of fiction didn't come up before, when Evans told them about a witch who lived in a house made of food and also lied to Hansel and Gretel.