The Wallfacers | Three Body Problem Series

Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy is one of the most compelling modern sci-fi series in my opinion. If you like science fiction that really zooms out and drives its speculative ideas out literally to the end of time then this is probably the series for you. Now I of course have several videos covering several aspects of the series but in this video, we will get to a topic that has been requested for a very long time and that is the Wallfacers, and the Wallbreakers. Now obviously if you have not read the series this video is gonna be full of spoilers, although most of it would probably go over your head anyway, but if you have read the books, or at least seen my previous videos, or if you just don’t care about spoilers then feel free to continue forward.

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[DanaVastman]

In a sea of mediocrity your videos and discussions are top notch. As a 74 year young sci-fi fanatic I appreciate all you do, Quinn.

[vucongat]

Triosolaris: "you revealed yourself to us. Now we know your location and we want to destroy you with our superior technology. Do you have any problem with that?"
Luo Ji: *Uno reverse

[derpaint]

luo ji just deciding to do build himself a house and family was hilarious to me. loved that shit hahaha

[KlausRosenberg-etxv]

Being a wallfacer is the most difficult task someone would ever receive. Imagine carrying alone, only in your mind, a plan to defeat aliens and save humanity, not ever writing or speaking to anyone how your plain is possibly going to work.

[cryingwolf]

Okay after having watched the video I just got to point out something. Wall facer Frederick Tyler was in fact a triple agent. The part of his plan that I didn't hear talked about in this video was the fact that his mosquitoes swarm was able to be remote controlled by him and the nuclear payload that each ship had could be remotely detonated by Frederick as well. The last part of his plan was going to be once the ETO Pilots had delivered Europas water to the fleet, Frederick was going to trigger the bombs inside the ships and destroy both the ETO Traitors and the Trisolaran fleet. This is all in the books.

[nacheki]

Technically, Wallfacer Bill Hines' plan succeeded in the end, unlike Luo Ji's, which we all know didn't turn out well. The Mind Seal was responsible for the actions of some of the crew of Blue Space, which, together with Gravity, preserved humanity until the final end of the Universe, according to the fourth unofficial book in the series. The seal was always there and Bills plan of hiding it in the gereral public eventually worked.

[GiRR]

I dont think Tyler was ACTUALLY disillusioned with humanity, he just wanted to make it seem like he was so that he could potentially get into the ETO.

[uiuiuiseraph]

The Dark Forest is by far the best book in the series and one of the best SiFi books of all time. Lou Ji will always be one of my favourite characters in all of fiction.

[HMTVBrian]

This is such a powerful series. I love that it gets lost in the technicals at times but then transforms itself into true cosmic horror within minutes. Just incredible.

[limpydan]

More Three Body Problem videos? Yes please.

[EvanHBogle]

This is one the few book series that I was legitimately addicted to. The only book to ever had me read it nearly 8 hours a day, and that is on top of working 7 to 8 hours 5 days a week.

[kuanged]

Hines was actually right. It was a defeatist spaceship captain and his crews' descendants that went on to establish intergalactic human civilization. Humanity's fleet easily lost to the Trisolarans and were later flattened by a contemporary of Singer's civilization.

[RustyShackleford]

I got chills the first time I listened to the three body problem (on your recommendation of course) and the concept of wallfacers was explained. A responsibility unlike any that could've ever existed before

[thehawkinator]

I love the video, but I kinda wish you had talked about Frederick Tyler's plan in the Chinese versions of these novels. In those, his plan involved using the Ball Lightning phenomenon on a space fleet to energize them to a quantum level, making the fleet impossible for the Trisolarians to defeat (or something along those lines, correct me if I'm wrong).

Frederick's plan was changed in the English translations because the novel Ball Lightning hadn't been released for western audiences yet and Liu didn't want to spoil Ball Lightning or involve concepts from his other novels that the West hadn't been able to read yet. Pretty clever.

[_PrAse_]

You are the reason why I read this trilogy. I cannot thank you enough. The three body problem trilogy was an incredible thought provoking read from beginning to end. I also have never read something so terrifying. It kind of changed my outlook on the universe, I am always hopeful the universe is not a dark forest but I am no longer naive to neglect it as a possibility.

[Heating]

Important to note that Luo Ji being woken up late was because he was deathly ill and could only be woken up when medical technology had advanced enough to cure him

[saintricardo]

Luo Ji is my all time favorite character in the whole series. The weight of his balls surpasses that of a neutron star

[wendigojimmay]

I just seen the Netflix version and was honestly surprised, ended up watching all 8 episodes. It was surprisingly on point for the beginning and I though they’d stay away from that part.

[patreekotime]

This video is a perfect example of why many consider this series to be a modern science fiction masterpiece. So many diverse ideas and philosophies all tied together into one giant work in a way that somehow maintains cohesiveness even after translation into the almost alien language of English is really just an absolutely amazing accomplishment.

[ErraticThought]

Quinn, I discovered your channel 2 years ago via an YT recommendation while watching a video about Dune. Your unique way of telling the story without ruining it for me made me pick up the Earth's Past trilogy. It blew my mind and made me stay sometimes until 3AM on a workday to read 'just one more page'. Since then I hooked up 2 of my friends to read it as well.