FACING WALLS... || PHYSICIST watches 3 Body Problem 1x08 - BLIND REACT-ANALYSIS 

He isn't qualified, exactly. His greatest essential feature in this adaptation -- is that the San Ti think he's a threat because of the "joke" that Ye told him. And because Ye chose him out of everyone on earth to tell it to, when she was the one person living who knew the San Ti best. So even if we don't see his qualifications, Ye did. And she would know even though she couldn't say it right out.

You have to remember in the first episode, Saul was holding the physicist version of plausible Nobel prize. He didn’t have passion for it and still won. When they were all at Jacks, the smartest people in the room deferred to Saul. ‘Okay boy genius”, “try thinking about it for more than a second”, “Saullll”. He is not meeting his potential and still the smartest. He way chose to speak with Saul. She said her daughter said he was the smartest. That’s why he was chosen. They’ve peppered clues in throughout the season.

It's crazy that a character who died from the start like Vera still have some impact. It's her compliment about Saul that made Ye choose him

The entire episode started with the SanTi trying to kill Saul. This is right after he heard the joke from Ye. This is why he is a Wallfacer. The SanTi showed us their hand and exposed his importance even if we don't yet know exactly why he is.

"Is Saul finally gonna get involved in the plot?" Book readers: 😏🤐💀

46:57 Bro is actually Luo Ji

D&D producers did a magnificent job. I'm convinced that Netflix will greenlight the second season, and it will be even better (like the book). The real problem with adapting San ti to the screen is the third book. The technical and artistic team directing the project are awesome, but the ideas that Liu Cixin raised in the last book are so brutal on an imaginative and visual level that I would not like to be in D&D position... Thanks for sharing the reactions to all the episodes, very interesting!

The San-Ti have not directly tried to kill anyone except Saul. He was the last person Ye spoke to, and her joke was very important. They seem to think he's important.

"If one of us survives we all survive." Watching the elation on Tatiana's face is frightening! The SanTi lure you in with feelings of belonging, community, being part of a greater goal. The downside of the sentiment; individuals are expendable.

The Sophon learned to call humans bugs from that old dude talking to them on the radio. They were too literal to the point they couldn't understand metaphors or the point of fiction. That old dude called his enemies pests and they were like "your enemies are humans though" or something. That's why they call us bugs. They learned to do that from us. Also Will never died he's still in cryostasis so technically he's alive for whatever that's worth.

When she says nanosecond, i think she just means a very short amount of time. It's quite common in english to exaggerate like that. Like saying you'll be back in a second, but you might be 5 minutes etc etc

I definitely recommend reading the books. I just finished the “Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy” last week & I was blown away. I think it’s my favorite Sci-fi book series since the “Southern Reach Trilogy” the series on which Annihilation is based. The Showrunners did a good job laying the groundwork for books 2 & 3 & setting up future plots. I think that’s also why some of the characters felt tacked on this first season . It’s because they moved some things up to prepare for future storylines, like the convenience of 5 young scientists all knowing each other. Amazing stuff to look forward to. I Hope Netflix gives this project all the support it needs to tell this century spanning story.

Please do more reactions to sci-fi series! I love all the insights you bring to the scientific elements, praising the good and deconstructing the bad.

47:01 One of the wallfacers actually does do exactly this in the books 😂

Nice shoutout for Dark! My favorite thing about that show is the website for it. It starts by asking you what season/episode you are on, and then shows you the family trees and connections of all the characters based on the knowledge you have at that point in the show. It's fun to see how the relationships evolve from the first episode to the last.

I thought if the space mission failed, people like Wade would just turn around and say "Alright, start prepping volunteer/brain number 2. We're blasting off again ASAP!" Contingencies on contingencies, backups to backups. They can't just stop on one failure. It has been a pleasure rewatching this series with you. Love your pauses and tangents. On science, on ideas, on story telling...

"I want a small hut on the mountain side-" Damn, you guessed 99% of the plot of the second book.

22:28 Yeah, in the book the project stared to malfunction and being questioned almost immediately

Dark was spectacular.

In space you actually have the opposite problem. You _do_ need cooling. Or rather, you need to find some way to radiate away your heat. There isn’t a medium to carry heat away from you like air or liquid - only radiation can do it for you.

"We can't surgically remove brain and keep it alive." Well, tell that to Inspectors from PsycoPass... 😂😂😂

Part of the reason Saul and Will have not done much in the plot is because they are from later books in the series (well the characters they seem to be based off of, Luo Ji and Yun Tianming respectively)

In the books it's explained much better why saul was chosen. He was the only man the san ti attempted to kill via that car accident. The UN decides he just know something even though they don't know and Saul claims to not know

It's been really enjoyable re-watching these episodes with you each week! After reading the books, and watching both the Tencent series (I would recommend watching this as a different version, which is closer to the book), and now the Netflix series... It made me smile each time you mentioned your hope for a time jump next season....

54:35 boom time is dependent on mass and time of launch. they couldn't know exact time of launch anyway so they had to recalculate everything to determine time of boom for each device after the launch. so i don't think mass change would affect anything since they had to recalculate anyway.

Yea the idea of the Wallfacers is sounds like such a risky yet amazing idea. Yet again like so many other themes and concepts of the show it can make you spiral into so many directions of thinking how it will unpack. And oh boy you were just as positive and excited as I was with the Launch, thinking theres no way it could go wrong. Brilliant scene though.

I went into this series without knowing a thing, couldn’t decide if I liked it until about halfway, was upset when it ended. I borrowed all three audiobooks from the library immediately and finished them within 2-3 days. And had nightmares for about a week afterwards 😂 Loved your reactions. My son has a doctorate in physics and I try very hard to understand but most of the science flies over my head however I understood enough to thoroughly enjoy this series and your reactions and discussions.

I'm glad you got to this part finally, trying to avoid spoiling but the book character that Saul is based on is arguably the most important character, he comes up with something absolutely genius based on the game theoretical nature of the situation, that actually leverages the fact that the San Ti know what they're doing against them.

Thank You! As soon as I heard Him say He added 3 grams *after* She triple-checked the calculations I was like "Cancel the launch!", but I guess They just rounded the results? XD haha

We should probably quit being voluntarily childless, or idiocracy (2006) are gonna come true, lol.

“It appears we are experiencing an anomaly” Typical launch day at SpaceX then.

Wade with that 'Susume!' energy.

Ahhh cant believe I lost the premiere, awesome reactions I loved rewatching with you

*Saul gets shot* "That's good!" lol

They used an unlucky man in hopes to bring misfortune to the Aliens but unfortunately the bad luck followed him on his way there and now he’s lost. It seems almost like some cosmic horror setting for another planet. Imagine he landed somewhere and the indigenous life form found him. Only to realise that this object (brain) is a cursed item and will bring misfortune to anyone who comes across it. 😂

Do the SanTi find Will? Does Saul make a difference? What will the humans do with their 400 years prep time? 🤫🤐

In the books, the sophons accelerate by "borrowing" Energy from their higher dimensions. The San Ti mention that at some point this will destabilize the sophon in a spectacular space-time fracture like a cosmic string, but it's in the far future in millions of years so they don't care about it.

Love your reactions but it is very funny that you start this video by telling us why Saul is chosen and seemingly forget it during the episode. it goes back to the conversation he had with Ye

I have not read the books so I don't know anything beyond episode 8 of this show. But there are a few things that seem very strange to me, and I am going to assume that the "fact" that they can't lie in itself isn't a lie. First off they seemed to be under the impression that humanity welcomed them, and so their entire civilization set off toward earth, but why did a few stay behind? (The sword woman and possibly the little girl seem to be the only San Ti who stayed). Why did they not construct the Sophons and sent them to scout BEFORE leaving with the fleet? If they had they could have stayed quiet or gone somewhere else rather than risking to become a "funeral procession". Honestly there is only one answer that makes sense to me, which is that the San Ti that stayed behind on their planet is the pacifist that sent the warning in the first message and everything that is happening after is actually to HELP humanity prepare for the colonization fleet, the Sophons purpose is to make sure humanity can WIN the war. The San Ti they are in communication with have said that a species that are afraid survives, a species that is not afraid goes extinct, "HUMANITY MUST LEARN TO FEAR" "I WILL TEACH YOU TO BE AFRAID". Now why would she want to teach us to be afraid if the intention is to subjugate or destroy us? This is contradictory, unless the intent is to save us through some "tough love". I also suspect that the San Ti fleet are unaware what is going on, they made two set of Sophons and sent two to earth and kept two on their planet, but do they have any communication with their fleet? Then there is the case with the brain probe breaking and going of course, maybe it sabotaged to keep the fleet from figuring out what was going on?

The show is quite a bit better than the book, in my opinion, at least as it goes to character and emotion. The "Oxford Five" aren't really in the book at all, they are bits and pieces of the "main character" of the book (or in Saul's case, the second book). The set up for Will (a different character in the books) and Project Staircase and Jin (also someone else in the books) is set up much earlier and in a much more effective way. The show doesn't exactly make it clear why Saul was chosen as a Wallfacer, but even in the book, that character (Luo Ji) doesn't really know why he's been chosen. Saul is a great replacement, and his relationship with Auggie will be good set up for where his character goes from here. Thanks for watching and commenting! Your reactions have been great, really interesting to follow.

46:00 as a wallfacer my first command would be to disband all nations and have one world without borders.

Another great space horror series you should watch is Constellation. They did a great job visualizing work at the ISS and some quantum physics stuff too.

Thanks, it was amazing following this series with you (and discussing during the premieres once I "discovered" them) !

I enjoyed this show so much! , I'm considering reading the books :) And I think Dark is sooo good, although probably my favorite TV show will always be Fringe haha it has many problems but it's so great for its time... and regarding the bugs situation. Ecosystems need balance and there is a direction in which they are affected (like top-down or bottom up, so for instance extinct megafauna had major impact in modeling landscape making that a top-down effect in the system). In that sense, insects have a great impact from bottom-up to other animal species. Their role is quite complex, many studies do show an important top-down effect in plant communities, affecting plant dominance and biomass, impacting the balance of the overall ecosystem with an again effect in bottom-up direction 🌱🐛

there’s a commom misconception that i see from a lot of people who have only seen the show but didn’t read the books. just to be clear, the san ti never thought they would be welcomed here as friends, nor did they ever even consider coexisting with humanity. and in season 2 (hopefully) you will find out why

I'm not sure if you have been directed to the moment yet, the most fun I have had all season is having read the books and asked my friends what they think Wade tells Jin at 1:07:38

The ending scene is such an awesome call back to the Silent Spring.

I’m howling at your Werner Herzog voice saying “oh what the fuck was that?”

What qualifies him is the fact that he is imprevisible! It wold be nice if you read the books and make a video after each one!

Yeah man it kills me how people keep giving non-answers to any question that goes beyond surface level "Why did you take directives from aliens you don't know, to kill someone you don't know" "I'm a soldier of the Lord 🤡" 🤦🏻‍♂️ If I was Saul I would not have let that go lmfaoo

I've enjoyed watching your reactions to this series. I've learned a lot from your thoughtful and thought provoking questions and comments. / I've watched the "Dark" series twice. It is a gorgeous, well-acted, riveting story. / Movie recommendation: If you haven't seen "Primer", you might consider it.

Really enjoyed hearing an educated man's perspective on this show lol. If you are down to check out a movie, have you seen Inception?

He's qualified for the very same reason Santi wants to eliminate him. All because of the joke Ye Wenjie shared with him. Santi didn't get the context of the joke neither did he but they know that something important might have been conveyed which Saul might be able to figure out in future... That is the reason they consider him to be dangerous!! Till this point everything is assumption for everyone until Season 2. It is going to be even more insane... 😁😁

Collective subconsciousness is very much connected with many body quantum entanglement.That is Nobel Prize

The simple reason he was chosen as a Wallfacer is because he was the only person directly targeted by the San Ti for assassination. He was chosen as the fourth Wallfacer in the books and the "wildcard". All the other three were chosen on merit. The book version of Saul, Luo Ji was a class mate of Yang Dong (Vera). He is a sociologist and was approached by Ye Wenjie and told two universal concepts which would help him develop his theory of "Interstellar Sociology".

Just started watching your vidoes with 3 body. Great job! I have read the books and have enjoyed your comments. Not sure if you have seen them but a a couple good hard scifi that i would recommend would be Primer and the Martian.

@storieswithstyle Haas is dutch yes it means Hare or a der Hase in german

41:18 Why do the Trisolarans do this? Wasn’t this just discussed? Know your enemy

I would address that the pace of this trilogy is driven by the psychology of human society. I think this will help you make final decision to read or not. And if so, be careful, this trilogy has mind seal that it gets me unwilling to read any books for a long time and not me only ,I find a lot have this condition roughly lasting 2 weeks .

the souphon just go straight to earth... like literally aim at the direction of earth (the position it will be in 4 years since we have to count for dislocation) and "turn on the light". There is no maneuver because there is no need to, it just need to go straight

Being a Wallfacer is a stressful and unimaginably important job. It would be completely within the legitimate means of furthering your ability to execute your job, to give yourself the optimal living conditions for your body and mind. A good house, all the amenities you could think of, people around you, distractions and pleasures, etc. It's not like all that stuff isn't common enough amongst celebrities and elites around the world. In fact, in reality, I believe major corporations, celebrities, etc would be falling over absolutely backwards to donate luxuries beyond imagination to one of the Wallfacers, just for the clout and recognition, in the same way people would 'buy stars' for the war effort. The challenge is whether one can keep those things under control? Would one be an Aurelius or a Caligula? And so then the real question is a matter of image and perspective. How people will think years down the road, once (as you say in the video) the buzzwords and ideas have moved on? When Saul has been a wallfacer for 50 years; whether known as a scholar and stoic thinker, or a party animal, hedonist, tyrant: will anyone care? Will people loose faith or detest his existence? Will he be 'The Painter', the Pope, or Puyi? Wade has lots of ideas and can get buy in but what is the longevity of any big idea? The Staircase Project was a good idea that failed 3 steps in. The only real hope he has is, as he said, Only Advance. I interperet that to mean keep throwing ideas forward and move on them. But that doesn't instill confidence that any given idea will have staying power. He could become very "Elon"-like where he has new ideas every few years and scuppers previous work just because he's gotten bored or disillusioned with results. Does he have the perseverance and loyalty to ideas to see them through? Does anyone else? At what point could he burn one bridge too many?

DARK ! Totally agree with you. It's such a fantastic show. Movie recommendation- Paths of Glory (1957)

monthy Python meme from life of Brian *Saul rejecting the wallfacer position and people still seing him as the wallfacer*

Before I even start the video really, I can tell you that this Netflix adaptation is not super faithful to the books but that's a good thing. It's intentionally designed for a worldwide audience. The tencent version in China is very very close to the book, but the acting is a little rough and the middle of the season is very very slow. The payoff in the end is quite fantastic if you have the patience to get through to it. Anyway, that's all for now

Try Samurai X trust and betrayal. The peak of anime movie of all time ,the goat .

bees getting sick is highly the result of crops pesticides and or a combination of a couple things.As ive been told it by biologists is bees are the biggest polunators in the insect kingdom ,but the sinkness they get infects not only one bee but the whole hive gets infected

25:00 Why Saul, what has he done, maybe they will tell us, the secret is hidden beyond the mysterious pause button

I know this is made for western audiences the netflix version,but i wish they would have included more actual higher ups from Russia and China this story wa meant to bring those super powers together to look at the real treat to our civilisation and humanity as a whole.

Concerning the "calm" in mission control when the anomaly occured with Will's space capsule. You're right, a well trained, disciplined, group doesn't panic. Take the time to watch this video of NASA's mission control during the launch of the ill-fated Challenger space shuttle. It's destruction occured shortly after the words, "Go at throttle-up". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JfrWu_UgDaY.html

It's the JOKE that's why he was chosen....how can you not remember that scene? lol . With respect to the "cult", the show simplified it from the book so that's why it makes you feel like the zealots are more cookie cutter. The book actually split the cult into three internal conflicting factions.

I loved Dark !!!!!!

Saul doesnt want to be a wallfacer i hope they go into detail next season how much power wallfacers have but i'm sure if they stick to the books then they definitely will ;)

DARK is superior! Life-changing.

Even if you f up royally IF ITS NOT WORLD ENDING *LOOKS AT YE WENJIE

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Seriously, do yourself a favor and read the 3 books!!! It's probably some of the best books in all scifi history. Definitely up there. *I know youre very busy so just listen to the books at 1.5x speed on audiobook and get em all done in 3 days while u work.

I think you would like The Expanse. However it’s much longer, but the arc till season three is great. The entire series is good.

It's dumb the way they portrayed nuclear pulse propulsion. A pusher plate and onboard mini nukes makes much more sense and the tech while highly classified was already developed decades ago. Onboard nuke dispenser allows for more precision and the ability to course correct, solar sail would be highly inefficient and more prone to mechanical failure

The idea of the San Ti trying to control and hold back human technological development is similar to what’s happening in the real world. American government and their allies trying to control and hold back Chinas economic and technological development. Both are wrong and just as bad. Ironically in both cases, the other side is only doing that because fear and also their technological development is slower, so trying to control them before it’s too late.

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I liked the season but not the ending.... it lacked a nice clifhanger to leave us wanting to see a season 2. My husband did noy liked the season ....

1:32:48 how dare you, sir. What about Doctor Who?

I would love you to review three body problem Chinese version (tencent). It has more philosophy and science, as well as more in-depth characters

You should check out the Chinese adaptation of the book series. Its far more comprehensive and accurate than the Netflix adaptation.

My take on Auggie (all speculation no spoilers). I think she has led a privileged life. I get the impression she’s from a well off family. Obviously had an excellent education, intelligence, and talent. She was highly successful at a young age. All of a sudden she’s involved in extreme violence and death. She’s completely unprepared and even if she accepts the necessity it is too much stress. How did she finance the filters? She could have partnered with a charitable organization to fund a small nonprofit startup. Seems feasible.

51:30 I hate it when actors didn't get proper gun etiquette training because he finger should definitely not be next to the barrel like that you gonna break or lose a finger like that .

Books are not better, Netflix version is really really good.

the plans wallfacers though on the books of blew my mind 🫠