Monday, August 26, 2024

One-Body Problem

The title of the post is me copying 3 Body Problem, a TV series that I recently completed and I really love. My one-body problem is just me. I revolve around myself with my uncontrollable anxiety. It's been mentally draining reaching this end of August. I thought once I got through a big hump that filled me with dread I would feel better, but no not really. I'm still feeling gloomy. There's still more anxiety to be had, many different kinds if I really think about it :(

Anyways, 3 Body Problem, I like it a lot. It's based on a novel by a Chinese author. I read in Wikipedia, it's a trilogy of novels. It tells a story about an alien race who's on their way to invade Earth because their planet with its three suns is hostile to their survival. The aliens will arrive in 400 years and the story is about the humans who are trying to fight this invasion. If you know an alien race would come to invade Earth, of course you're gonna be like whaaat?!?! But then when you think about their eta is 400 years from now, second thought would be like okay, we'll be dead by then. Climate change may wipe us first, so hold your horses and calm the shit down? :D The next question would then be, should we do something about it now? The more I think about it as this TV series lingered in my head after the last episode is that, if you're driven by love, you may do something about it now. 400 years - that's like your grand grand grand kids time if all the generations are fortunate enough to live a long life. If you are able to think about those people and think of them with love, you may try as much as you can to help them. Then on the same line, why are we not doing more about climate change? Aliens would come in 400 years and this becomes the main focus of the people in the TV series. No one told the aliens, climate change would make the Earth hostile as well :D

How the aliens found out about our location was because some years back a Chinese scientist who was working to find extraterrestrial life received a response to the signal they're broadcasting. She was warned by an alien not to reply back because it would tell the aliens of the Earth location, but the scientist so disillusioned with human decided to reply back and told the aliens to come. The scientist experienced many cruelty and suffering in her life up to that point so her worldview was bleak and I thought this unilateral decision (she didn't tell anyone - well she didn't have anyone she could trust) was unfair and I was glad to see one of the characters confronted her in the later episode. One thing we learn about the aliens is that they don't understand the concept of a lie and when they found out about it from the man leading a pro-alien organization, they pretty much turned against the human because they don't think they can co-exist with beings who lie and they started calling us bugs and this caused panic. This part was very interesting to me because if the aliens don't lie, then what was that one alien who first saw the message going to do? Wouldn't it have to lie and tell the other aliens that they didn't receive any message? The aliens part is really interesting for me, I want to know more about them. So far we know they could dehydrate like raisins when their planet is entering its hostile state and come back to full form when hydrated and they don't understand the concept of lying, and that's pretty much it so I'm so so curious about them - do they have God, what do they think of the concept of God. The focus of the story is more on the humans and what they're going to do about this. Quite a number of the characters are very likeable and I was quite sad seeing some of them died. TV series who know their time is limited often have to make bold moves like that, but it's still hard. I was like can't you all stay around longer. The TV series is created by the duo who did Game of Thrones so it was also nice seeing a number of actors who were in Game of Thrones be in this TV series. One character that I only realized halfway was Ser Davos who in this TV series played a character who leads the Planetary Defense Council (PDC) and I was surprised upon finding it out because his character is so different. In here he's the leader, no bullshit kinda person. Perhaps a bit hard to accept, but he might be the leader that is necessary for the situation. In conclusion, I love 3 Body Problem a lot, so much so that I even contemplated if I should watch the Chinese TV series adaptation. Wikipedia told me there's 30 episodes, so that would be quite a commitment. For now, I just can't wait for season 2.

Another thing that I watched before 3 Body Problem was House of the Dragon. I gotta say, I didn't particularly like season 1. I think I was like perhaps tired with it. Like we went through Game of Thrones so to step into the same world, I guess I was missing originality and wishing for something new. Season 2 though, I like it much better and I think a big part of why I like it is because somehow I like Aemond a lot. Like I was like, why do I like Aemond? It feels like I need to examine myself on why I'm being drawn to this character who's not necessarily a nice person. Being the silly person that I am, I googled why do I like Aemond? Turned out, many people like him too - maybe we all need to examine ourselves :D Really, in this earth with the billions of people, your feeling is never unique, and yet we often feel so alone when chances are someone out there feel or know exactly what you are feeling. Anyways, so those are the TV series. The one that I am really looking forward now is Pachinko season 2, but I think I will wait until all the episodes roll in before I start watching them. I've also been wanting to go to the movie since the past months I couldn't make the time to do so, but now when I think I have the time, there's no movie that I actually want to watch. No, don't tell me to go watch Deadpool & Wolverine, again where's the originality?

:) eKa @ 9:34:00 PM •