3 Body Problem RECAP: Season 1

It's Netflix's latest sci-fi hit, based on the best-selling book. When the laws of physics seem to no longer apply, a group of young scientists play a strange virtual reality game to unravel a mind-bending mystery!
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[@StandAsYouAre]

The sad thing the little girl in the virtual simulation was based off how Vera looked when she was little. Which makes her saying ‘save me!’ every time Jin fails even sadder.

[@joonpak]

12:00 “Will‘s brain is off in the wrong direction 😊” 😂

[@donaldrhodes8761]

I can relate.

[@chessman88]

story of my life

[@jeffbachman2949]

Lmao

[@FluidlyDesignedGames]

For anyone who doesn’t know, this series is based off three books. I highly recommend reading them. Some of the best sci fi writing to exist

[@feynstein1004]

Better than The Expanse?

[@ramabg2]

​@@feynstein1004is Hazelnut ice cream better than Vanilla? Yes, no Art is better than the other. It is whether we enjoy It or not.

[@BunchaNothin]

Are the books a lot like the tv show? Because Ive heard a lot about these books and how great the ideas are, but I found a lot of the ideas in the TV show to be really corny.

[@clintcoleman6300]

Vanilla is year in and year out the best selling ice cream flavor BY FAR. Just sayin. Look it up.

[@athenawrath]

The TV shows changed quite a bit comparing to the book. It simplified a lot of ideas to make it more "approachable". Also the settings in the show is less grand which I assume is to save time and budget. The show do get the core ideas kinda delivered tho. Albeit the approach makes it imo less impactful and less significant but that's just my opinion. You may find the same ideas in the book's approach much more intriguing or maybe not. The characters are also very different in the books. If I keep going it will just be a another book fanboy ranting how the show is unjust for the books lol. But I will say the book is definitely not for everyone and I kinda get why there's changes made in the show. @@BunchaNothin

[@georgeclose8816]

Awesome recap! By the way, the implication as to why Saul is made a wallfacer is not for bait, but rather because the San-ti tried to kill him. The leaders don't know why, but know he must be important somehow because it was the first time the San-ti specifically ordered the assassination of a specific person.

[@jjacha]

Yeah, that's also what I've figured. But... the other reason could also be that he's actually a bait for the Wallfacer project. Seems weird to me that there have been coincidences that somehow saved his life (skater, not aiming for head). Maybe the San'ti learned the power of deception and knew that Wallfacer project would focus on him for these exact reasons, and he may end up working in San Thi favour without even knowing about it.

[@stevelin5109]

It actually was due to that “Einstein joke”😂

[@o_s_byron2319]

Other scientists had been mysteriously dying from the start of the show and that fat guy was also killed in his house so saul wasn't the 1st.

[@mwansamatimba2750]

@@stevelin5109 true, before Wenje died. She gave a joke of Einstein, which when you decipher. It actually is the Femi Paradox and Game theory, which will play a major for Saul in Season 2. In the books louji takes this mantle, which is why they wanted to kill him. Again in the books when the Sword bearer is transferred from louji to jin, the Santi didn't hesitate to attack earth because they knew Jin didn't have the guts to send the signal. Wade would have made a better Sword bearer than Jin in the end, now due to his moral compass out of balance he was left out but he did help Jin in some way.

[@Htleveryday]

​@@jjacha Its probably the Einstein joke, Saul was the last one to talk to Ye Wenji, and the only assassination that Shan Ti have ordered yet are Ye Wenji's and Saul's. Now that Wenji is dead, Saul knows something, what exactly, Shan Ti probably don't know since they don't get jokes, snd Saul is pretty much on the same track but he is human, and has a biological advantage. "You're smart" As Wenji said, he'll figure it out. I also saw a lot of people critiquing Shan Ti could kill everyone while on aircraft or traffic control, etc. The answer to that is in the books and also in the series. Some key phrases are Season 1 "You are bugs" Season 2 "Our Lord does not care"

[@rekaviles]

The star blinking was most likely the proton rapidly folding and unfolding, no fully but enough to make the sky visible vs covered. This would explain what Saul said about the Hubble and other satiates not seeing the same and means that he was right, it was a "deep fake". That guy is a genius and definitely a reason why he's being targeted. I didn't read the books so I'm just enjoying the story from this show. I'm not sure how different they are.

[@charlesajones77]

You're correct about the blinking, it was one of the Sophons folding and unfolding. In the book, the sky doesn't blink exactly, but rather the cosmic background radiation blinks. But it's the same idea. Netflix's interpretation is more visually interesting than seeing someone look at a computer terminal.

[@A.G.P.115]

😑

[@KikomochiMendoza]

Saul Durand, or Luo Ji in the books, really is an intuitive character and notices things more readily than others. However (slight spoiler) Saul is targeted not because of that but because he was one of the last person Ye Wenjie talked to. (major spoiler) And that Ye Wenjie dropped a hint of the reality of Space as a Dark forest veiled as a joke in the last episode, the solution to Earths crisis with the San Ti (which is definitely going to be the plot of the second season)

[@thomaslee1499]

Lmao on 'Skip the tutorial' 😂😅

[@ftd888]

The ending is quite ironic. It is framed as a hopeful message, but we are also being compared to an EXTREMELY disruptive insect. It, once again, raises the question of whether we deserve to survive … or to be conquered.

[@KikomochiMendoza]

That sounds like Defeatism Talk. Are you compromised by the San Ti? hahahahahaha

[@philaoki]

Tatjana erasing herself from video tapes is not what's happening I think. It's the sophons that make everyone watching the footage unsee Tatjana's presence and her actions. Remember, the sophons can make stuff appear in people's eyes (e.g. countdowns) so they might as well can make stuff disappear (people literally can't trust their eyes anymore). Also, in the scene where Clarence (the investigator) watches Jack Rooney's bed room from his car outside he clearly sees nobody there while at the same time Tatjana is taking Jack down right by the window. The sophons have manipulated Clarence' vision.

[@_Amit_Sunil]

that seems super difficult when they can only be at two places at a time including making countdowns appear for hundreds of scientists around the world

[@KapitanHazenhof]

Sir did you understand? Me: Yes🤥

[@Wheelbrrow]

AI comment

[@ImeverywhereHAHAHA]

@@Wheelbrrowye man

[@eveheart2876]

😂

[@eveheart2876]

Is giving me “dark side “

[@7Guerre]

Honestly I even watch recaps of series i have already watched

[@sub-zero0100]

isn't that what it's for?

[@HellHunter00]

@@sub-zero0100 I use the recaps when a new season comes out but Man of Recaps is so great I decided to watch this one right after finishing the season instead. I'll watch it again when S2 is out.

[@dylanbruhhh4208]

Bruh… that’s the point

[@AminulJahid]

same here boy

[@fr3ddyfr3sh]

Finally a new, fresh, near sci-fi, mystery show. I totally binged it. Mostly a quite good show, with a few minor flaws. Bonus point: first (radio) contact with the aliens wasn’t in the US 😅

[@neoanderson3397]

The author is from china . So most of the characters are chinese .

[@A.G.P.115]

🙄😑

[@garyfrombrooklyn]

Yes!! So glad you recapped this

[@omnivision616]

If you enjoyed this recap and show, do yourself a favor and read the books. They are great and this show did a great job retelling the story.

[@GreenBuggGaming]

This is a great recap of the show. Well done

[@Ramiroocampo]

I binged the show last night and really liked it. I read how the plot of the books unfolds and omg if they continue the show it is gonna get beyond crazy and mind meltingly good.

[@jeffbachman2949]

They just renewed it

[@Jon-xw9om]

Newby here: Genuine question. If the aliens don't lie and are telepathic, how did the first alien conceal the original message from the rest of it's race?

[@ashutoshgoyal8274]

The alien was assigned to an outpost to listen to signals from civilizations ans happened to intercept the message from earth. He was about to report it to their seniors but then thought what they were going to do the civilization. In their race for survival, diplomacy is not they had in mind. They were going to conquer earth anyway. So he warned earth and simply scrubbed their earlier message/ didn't report it. Later on when ye wenjie invites them to conquer earth, he reports the contact to his superiors. Where they found out about the previous message and his attempt to hide it. Him, his colleagues and his family were punished for his crime.

[@sintee2099]

They cannot pin point the earth's location with the first message, if she does not reply they cannot know where exactly

[@Jon-xw9om]

@@sintee2099 thankyou.

[@arnldchan4362]

Book reader here, they have a different way of communicating but they are not telepathic. It has something to do with their different physiology which will probably be shown next season

[@Jon-xw9om]

@@arnldchan4362 thanks. i'm going to do the audiobooks first.

[@Pakulia]

This is an exceptionally good recap!

[@jaybandu6976]

Absolute Masterpiece of a show. Can't wait to read the books!

[@KJ-js7pi]

This was far better than I expected.

[@jgomezmoreu]

Had to stop watching mid video because now I really want to watch the actual series. I'll be back once I Bing it. 😅

[@Teamo86]

This show didn't resonate with me when I started watching it, but seems to be all the buzz right now. Thanks for saving me a lot of time!

[@WillConley]

Sheesh. A challenging recap. Well done, and an easy listen.

[@sankeerthreddy295]

For those who haven't read the 2nd book, the joke she tells and do not understand it's importance, its actually the mind bending Dark Forest Hypothesis. Can't wait for season 2.

[@boterhammetpindakaashagelslag]

For what I've heard, there's not going to be a 2nd season. Production cost is astronomically high (no pun intended).

[@oqsy]

@@boterhammetpindakaashagelslagFalse, season 2 in the works now.

[@boterhammetpindakaashagelslag]

@@oqsy That would be great, but I can't find any real confirmation of this. It's all still speculative.

[@shahzebali1891]

@@boterhammetpindakaashagelslagit’s a bit early for that I think we’ll get some updates in upcoming weeks

[@jeffbachman2949]

​@boterhammetpindakaashagelslag it was just renewed

[@dc22199x]

Lists of my questions, whoever can answer it: - who sent that vr headset, since its a physical object meaning someone provided it, it defeats the 400years travel - how the human know where to travel in space, or inshort what path to goto? Is it due to the radio signal before?

[@mwansamatimba2750]

Note, that Mike Evans already started communicating with the Santi in the 80s. The Sophons were deployed nearly the same time. The Sophon can travel at the speed of light, since they are protons, without mass. They can also communicate instantly through quantum physics. Now its possible the Santi aided Mike Evans, together with guidance or help of the Sophons. As for deployment, Wenje and Tatiana were responsible for the distribution. If you notice, when they capture a hard drive in the Judgement Day boat belonging to Evens. The hard drive they retrieved contained the actual 3 body problem. The Sophon then explained to the them how the Santi were able to do it. As for the direction, I the character of will explains it. He bought the title deeds of a star in a distance galaxy and gave it Jin Cheng as gift. The star happened to be in goldi locks zone like earth, it supported life. They headed in that same direction. The cop Shi's son plays a major role in building this technology of escapsing.

[@rcinematic]

Thanks, couldn’t get into to this show but I enjoyed this recap

[@paulsommerhalder9049]

All that fancy tech and the Santi decide to take a 400 year road trip to some backwater planet in the middle of nowhere😂

[@lethanhminh8001]

You call it backwater, they call it a paradise

[@Mondy667]

It's literally paradise for them

[@Vahktang]

Maybe it is the perfect bio world for them. But, yeah.

[@nerminsnowhuseinbasic9340]

Man if humanity was in their position we would be long gone.

[@slimerewoods5766]

That was the closest habitable planet to them

[@CSLintheCASINO]

A 12-minute video by TheManOfRecaps!!!👀🤯🎉

[@Chris64062]

One of the best channels on KZbin!! Keep up the amazing work bro

[@pneumanaut1]

Watching it now and really enjoying it. One small comment - the Struggle Session you see in the very beginning of Ep1 was very normal for Mao’s plan and his Cultural Revolution. There is no record of the number of people killed in this manner. Thousands. More. Mao set out to remove the 4 Olds - old culture, old customs, old traditions, old ideas. The power behind the meaning behind that scene from a cultural and power perspective on the overall plot was brilliant. I don’t know much about this time in Chinese history, but what I know is enough for an understanding which we seem to have forgotten & might be doomed to repeat. Excellent series (and author) to nudge this back into our subconscious. Struggle Sessions weren’t one-off … they were regular and consistent wherever free thought and creative expression was present. And … removed by the Red Army. 100% youth.

[@minari8076]

the implication of saul becoming a wallfacer was that ye wenjie must have told him something important because he was instantly almost assassinated by the santi. so if they think he’s important, he probly is somehow.

[@p1dgen990]

it was the einstein joke, the violin represented humanity advancing technology and showing it off (playing to god) and god represented other species in the universe with even more advanced technology. basically saying showing off to the universe would get us killed. as wallfacer this is a fact saul could use against the santi - and would therefore want him dead.

[@mymicrowaveisonfire25]

I watch this man cuz i am to lazy to watch the shows itself lol

[@aishatjohnson2076]

Thank you 💪🏾

[@tavtaverner5886]

Perfect recap!

[@shortcbaseballa]

You are a master of your craft!

[@user-mj2lm5fh1j]

Thanks for saving my time.

[@gh0stm0nst3r6]

Thanks bro. I watched the first foreign series. i couldn't imagine it landing smoothly here in the States. It's sci-fi-asf

[@sabrinae486]

As much as I love recaps and Man of Recaps - they just don't do this show justice. There's just too much content and context to pack in that is relevant to the greater storyline. The writers have done such a great job. BUT obviously the next best thing is MAN OF RECAPS

[@_Amit_Sunil]

I saw a comment above where someone stopped midway and decided to go watch the show. There's only so much trailers or word of mouth can do. I believe Man of Recaps is doing the Lord's work as some people need a nudge to give great stories a shot.

[@tharunteza]

You earned a sub!

[@vincentjames7210]

The show really dragged at points, but overall it was solid. Between this, Shogun and the Gentleman we've got some good shows right now

[@dylanbruhhh4208]

What’s crazy to think about is that it takes them years to make those shows and that movie but we can finish watching it within a day 🤣

[@waya7187]

This was such a good show i love these types of shows

[@Obonye3rd]

Amazing series

[@marvelousakuma2403]

I knew you could convince me to watch it

[@hotpockethunter4886]

6:45 hit em with that malevolent shrine

[@yojimbo3681]

I also liked the foreshadowing by Raj's father at the family dinner when he told the story about how he had to eliminate a squad of Pakistani soldiers on the mountain range in order to take their oxygen tanks for survival. Basically the analogy for The Dark Forest.

[@donaldnewman4597]

My favorite book series

[@doncappo1509]

You save me so much time, bravo to you my brother

[@soumenin]

thanks for saving our time

[@mcmonaglea]

Ok, so... what? Gotta rewatch x3

[@Colouh]

Thanks for saving me a lot of time! First two episodes were interesting but I hate this kind of show that it's all questions and questions and questions and even more mystery until the last episodes. I hate being confused for 3/4 of the series with "intricate" plot only to say "hey they were aliens trying to invade us"

[@Ryan-eu3kp]

Never been so confused by a tv show, even after 3 eps 😂

[@inkie7583]

sucha good serie

[@sym501]

Hey man of recaps, I'm curious if there's a list of your favorite tv shows / movies? Thanks!

[@lucystephanieproperties]

Huh. Thanks. Saved me a lot of time. Seems interesting indeed.

[@peelandpatch7473]

I was waiting for the video, like a 6 year old waits for Christmas

[@phildufour72]

Looks like the ship from Prometheus in the background at 7:10.

[@matm4413]

this game of thrones sequel looking kinda crazy

[@kayligo]

Game of planets

[@milou5521]

I was expecting a little reference to Davos and Sam but its a great recap without it nonetheless.

[@freecreamsoda]

The only problem I have is the fact that they were able to turn a “Proton” into a Sentient Super Computer, Split it into 4, send 2 all the way to earth to spy on them in real time but they couldn’t find another planet to move to & make it suitable for them to live on? I mean if your civilization can “thrive” with 3 suns, I’m sure they can figure something out with Mars or something I mean seriously…if they can make a Proton Sentient Super Computer, I’m sure they can create artificial oxygen or something

[@slimerewoods5766]

Earth is the closest habitable planet, and they didn’t thrive under the 3 suns. They’ve been around a lot longer than us so every collapse they build their knowledge bit by bit

[@cool12jack]

Awesome

[@abdulkhafidsulaymaan]

show hard as hell... even tho I love this channel, I kinda regret watching this before the fact.. but no matter, I'll watch it.

[@breonwestmoreland8475]

Currently watching this show but I think it’s beyond my comprehension so now I’m here 😩😅

[@marchidan21]

7:45 - sophon cant move faster than light, just very close to light 99.9999%

[@davecue2]

Where does the headsets come from?

[@ftd888]

The ending is quite ironic. It is framed as a hopeful message, but cicadas are very disruptive insects. It, therefore, reflects the question of whether we deserve to survive … or to be conquered.

[@PitLord777]

So despite being disruptive to us humans, we have neither exterminated nor conquered cicadas (as in subjugated every individual and put in a zoo somewhere). They may not be on top of the food chain, but cicadas are doing pretty well it seems.

[@user-me9fm1hd7w]

Don't play with god, is actually the punchline to the joke.

[@mattyspaghetti449]

There is no God is the entire point..

[@awkwardaquamarine19]

Thanks, sir. I've been waiting for your recaps for days. I just finished this series and the Chinese production (Tencent). I prefer the Netflix version for the tighter script, but there are nuisances and details that are explored more in the Chinese version, albeit the pacing is a lot tedious and the acting is horrible at times. I'm planning to read to books if I could get my hands on them. Cheers!

[@yojimbo3681]

Seasons 2 and 3 was just confirmed by Netflix.

[@hersheyp5747]

Is that the dude from that one movie? the mega structure guy

[@drakejohn3751]

Now i understood what i watched

[@perry714.]

The craziest thing is the man who wrote the novels did so while working a government assigned job where he had no idea what his role was. He literally wrote what is considered one of the best sci fi series ever through being bored sat in front of his work computer as he didn’t know what his role was 😂. He sold the rights to the movies, games etc for a mere 15000 and people were murdered. The making of this series is almost as interesting as the actual series with poisonings, murder and billionaires

[@yojimbo3681]

I was just about to comment this too. The making of 3 Body definitely needs a Netflix documentary lol.

[@leatherybogman]

This man is doing god's work

[@jefeking2117]

Love him

[@paolaj4862]

The story was written by a Chinese man who worked in the hills

[@koostory1776]

Got bored watching the show, and came watching MOR (Man of Recap) instead 👍🏼

[@okeyakono5087]

What's MOR?

[@JacobJohnson-lh4gx]

A less hard sci-fi version of this would be Gantz I guess? Humans fighting off alien conquerors in a brutal way with tech given by the God aliens, given thru a binary code when the aliens made contact thru a disabled kid. But alas humans will always be greedy and egotistic soo they made a battle royale game with the combat equipment given, and made the rich people bet on who's gonna win. I suggest you read that masterpiece of a manga then watch the movie, and lastly the anime.

[@sowmayaranjan2170]

Why Mycroft Holmes is there 😂😂😂

[@carlos-guirola]

Okay so this is way different then the novels, which some important key foundations. I don’t know if I still want to watch it or not 😅

[@tyron4]

The night is dark and full of terrors

[@calvinsuu1949]

Except the alien photons

[@oggz2732]

Damn,hope they keep the story of the wallfacers the same, cause who saul was supposed to be was a badass

[@MrTbob418]

Thank you very much, I did enjoy this recap. I feel like this show might end in a disaster, knowing who is behind it, so might as well do a recap than watch season after season only to meet the doom.

[@ontheroadwithralph1530]

I understand that perspective, given what happened with GOT, but you are missing some terrific character development and truly moving interplay between the main characters.

[@ZxZ239]

Please pick up season 2

[@yukuhana]

Nice recap. Second half of Season 1 got really boring. This recap is a nicer way to wrap it all up.

[@anaskhan4]

I was eagerly waiting for your recap love from 🇵🇰

[@Ghostly_One1]

Oh, huh. Didn't know there was a western version made of this too.

[@raghuvaidya5485]

Let's gooo🎉🎉

[@novakai6668]

It's game of thrones reunion in space.

[@ghanimoner6440]

Just finished read the first novel and damn

[@bennett7326]

You should do recap of tv show supernatural

[@Eretrending]

This was explained better than actually watching the movie 😂😂😂😂

[@OaktownGirl]

Members Only content is awesome.

[@fred6907]

Watched the show and thought it had some HUGE plot holes. Turns out, I unintentionally skipped an entire episode wihout knowing it mid season (I pirated the whole season). That explains my confusion.

[@louvalencia]

They are coming...

[@enso8762]

WTF I thought it would be about a mathematician because of the title... i'm gonna watch it now seems interesting🤣

[@realhuman4396]

I like the tencent version better, its a way lower budget so it looks funny at times but it's more like the book

[@GrayWolf8472]

Earth can be saved if humanity figures out how to unfold the Sophons. The Santi gave them a basic rundown of the process.

[@Vahktang]

7:46 “because they are so small they move faster than light” 🤦‍♀️ So glad I watched Man of Recaps rather than actually slogged through this series. This is The Expanse level of bad science.

[@again5162]

30 million peeps in 1 area, that's alot of food required and loads of excrement to deal with. Roman armies required just as many haulers as soldiera

[@angelface9548]

can you please recap the hulu series class of 09

[@Renagade01]

DMAN ISEKAI !!!

[@cedy7970]

please recap the shogun 2024