Ye Wenjie Pushes THE Button | 3 Body Problem | Netflix

Anyone else terrified when they watched this? In this moment, Ye Wenjie's seemingly small gesture catapults her world's trajectory into a potentially catastrophic future. Or will it be a peaceful one? All Ye Wenjie knows is the life she lived up until this moment and the world around her at the time needed help. Can you blame her? Would you have pressed the button?

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Ye Wenjie Pushes THE Button | 3 Body Problem | Netflix

Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

[quocanhhbui]

2 traitors of their species making first contact! Goosebumps

[helloworld-sllw]

Everyone talks about the "you are bugs" scene but for me this was the standout.
It gave me chills, humanity doomed by a single response.

[Tulane_Gargoyle]

The ultimate "should I send this email?"

[harvzcruzm]

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."

Mfs really had to beat her father to death for believing in science.

[bozman]

And thus the first Interstellar Trolling commenced….when confronted with the knowledge that earth was doomed from her single message, Ye Wenjie responded with the very same message that she sent the Trisolarans…..”LOL K”

[goodolarchie]

The ants asking a 5 year old boy with a magnifying glass for help.

[zeaxg]

To anyone wondering why the San-Ti was not able to determine Earth's location just from the first broadcast since it was not elaborated in the netflix series. The aliens can only determine the direction of the source but cannot determine the distance of its origin to the San-Ti's location. However, with the second broadcast and thus the time between the first and second broadcast received by the San-TI, the distance of Earth from the San-Ti can then be determined.

[pasu-yqgf]

I neither like nor dislike Ye Wenjie. I'm just fascinated by her, and I sympathize with her. Even though I wouldn't press the button myself, I can see how a person who had been so uniquely traumatized as her would do it. She watched her father be tortured and executed publicly after being betrayed by her own mother, was subjected to the depravity of an actual concentration camp, saw firsthand the destructive nature of industrial development, and when she finally grasped at any opportunity to rise above her tribulations in life, she was bullied and exploited by men with inferior minds to her own. Yeah, it kind of makes sense why she may have lost faith in humanity.

[TheAndroidNextDoor]

Ye Wenjie is probably the closest "villain" I've seen that achieved what X-Men's Magneto did. Both of them are victims of circumstances pushed to make terrible decisions by the course of their lives. And while you can't entirely justify their actions, boy can you certainly sympathize with how they ended up there. Had I lived through the Holocaust or the Cultural Revolution in China I might come out the other side more than a little disenchanted with the entire human endeavor and experiment as a whole.

The best villains are those whom the audience looks at and says, "There but for the Grace of God go I."

[blawson]

Reminds me of a short story: Scientists were excited to receive their first confirmed alien message, until they translated it: "They are coming. We couldn't stop them."

[kratosw]

“What happened next was the longest half hour of her life. During this time, Ye adjusted the transmission frequency to the optimal frequency for amplification by the solar energy mirror, and increased the transmission power to maximum. Then, putting her eyes to the eyepiece of the optical positioning system, she watched the sun rise above the horizon, activated the positioning system for the antenna, and slowly aligned it with the sun. As the gigantic antenna turned, the rumbling noise shook the main control room. One of the men on duty looked at Ye again, but said nothing.
The sun was now completely above the horizon. The crosshair of the Red Coast positioning system was aimed at its upper edge to account for the time it would take for the radio wave to travel to the sun. The transmission system was ready.
The Transmit button was a long rectangle—very similar to the Space key on a computer keyboard, except that it was red.
Ye’s hand hovered two centimeters above it.
The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers.
Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.”

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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu

Zine is so brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻

[_A.A_]

Literal chills down my spine... really makes you wonder what else is out there.

A good netflix series in a very long time

[samazoid]

this actress TURNED it out omfg could not stop watching her

[pldvpzu]

I swear if Netflix doesn't produce season 2-3, I will unsubscribe

[hexPixelStarships]

Me before pushing the "send" button when texting to my crush:

[gabrielattano]

When you realize it's just a single San-Ti that betrayed his race and tries to save humanity from his own race 😮

[TheChazas]

This contact scene and Little Red Riding Hood story scene were the best.

[orionho]

This scene gave me chills, imagine being the only human in history to make contact with an alien species and only having yourself to share this with.

[taggarwal]

The music beeping out the Morse code for “SOS” in the background is such a masterful touch.

[thesilentchld]

This was the scene that made everything click for me. The realization of what this show is really about gave me chills. (I had no prior knowledge of the book trilogy or the series)