The BIGGEST UNRESOLVED MYSTERY of The Three Body Problem!

[@tralchemist]

Great guide! Thanks!

[@murphytalk]

About that the book has no reflection to the suicide , I can assure you it is not a "Chinese thing" but the very bad character building and arguably poor writing skills of the author. That being said, I still enjoyed the trilogy very much , its imagination blew my mind , and I guess that's why it won the Hugo award .

[@vryusvin3905]

Thank you. I totally agree. I think many people are focusing on the more majestic and mind-blowing aspects of the series. The suicides of the scientists, in my mind, weren't explained well. Especially Wenjie's daughter. I can *kind of* see that she doesn't think about it much, considering that Wenjie decided to destroy the human race in a second while all alone, but it is something that bothered me. Especially since Wenjie took the time later to meet with the three women who killed her father, so she does have some emotional depth there. A larger problem I found is that Cixin Liu was creating flat, stereotypical characters and was sometimes sexist. I'm talking about the whole trilogy now, so stop if you didn't finish it yet. Wenjie was fairly well fleshed out as to her hatred of humanity and the government. Compare that to Luo Ji. A man who is haplessly wandering the world, doesn't care for things much, but manages to fulfill the promise of the Wallfacers, then becomes a Swordholder- someone so great he kept an entire species from attacking the Earth. NOW- look at Cheng Xin- a female protagonist with extensive training who travels the centuries to see what is happening. Luo Ji is celebrated, yet Cheng Xin is constantly either doubting herself (which is fine), failing, or being given options to hand things over to men. Her ultimate success, it appears in the last book, was handing everything over to Thomas Wade, a man, and then going back to sleep for a few decades. Then Wade develops everything in her absence. I was uncomfortable with the characters, with that weird segment of the second or third book where he complains men are too "feminine", then they suddenly go back to being "masculine". Many of his female characters are poorly written and have little agency, while his male characters like Da Shi and Luo Ji are out there changing things just by breathing. I dunno. I loved the series overall, but the characters and the sexism really pulled me out of the story at some points because I couldn't see clear motivational lines or I didn't care about them. Thanks again for the frank and detailed video, man!