I just finished watching "Three Body (Problem)", a Chinese Sci-Fi tv show that was excellent/okay. The build-up was excellent, one of the best I've seen... the dénouement was... well, not even okay.
To any China experts out there... what was with all the chick stuff? 'Brilliant chick theoretical physicists who could also run experiments???' Right... I mean, they can't do either/or. Chick leaders that inspire their subordinates via their incredible skills... Whatever... I thought that the Chinese were somewhat anti-woke?? I know a lot of chick physicists, including one of the 'four' nobel prize winners (the Canadian chick worked with my ex-girlfriend) , and they're all... dumb as sticks. Like literally stupid to the point that they don't even understand their own research. There are a few exceptions, obviously (Hossenfelder is an excellent pedagogue).
There were a few brief scenes where two men scientists talked, and the series came alive. The whole thing would have been amazing had there been only men (and a better ending).
If even China has fallen, the world is in for a horrible surprise. Hopefully I'll be dead before it happens.
It's pretty common in China for women doing scientific jobs. Since the jobs were merely created to let college students to... have jobs. Science doesn't matter here. What really matter is the bureaucracy needs something to run and the graduates need some indoor pretentious jobs to look like decent human beings.
In the book, one of the main characters was a woman. She summoned the aliens. At least, from what I've read about the series.
From what I've seen of the books, two of the main villains are women. The one who summoned the Trisolarians to Earth in the first place and spearheaded the central conspiracy of the first phase of the story was a woman. She ironically created the hero by grooming him for a high position where he'd be 'their' man, but he turned on them and saved humanity in so doing.
The next major problem humanity faces much later is when a female descendant of the hero fails to uphold her ancestor's principles and does the equivalent of a nuclear disarmament with the aliens which they instantly pounce on.
I did however completely lose interest in the story when it (or maybe always did, just buried under much better ideas and less navel gazing) became a racial treatise about the inherent superiority of Chinese ideas and how the only path out for humanity was to trust a regular Chinese dude. No important or useful ideas seemed to ever originate outside of that frame. I got tired of it.
It's standard for an adventure story, I know, but this sells itself as extremely carefully composed and philosophical hard-sci-fi. So I forgive it getting dumbly straightforward in its internal reasoning much less.
The "Three Body Problem" is a chinese book series that is shit quality, terribly written, and with a retarded plot, yet it has gotten its dick absolutely sucked by Western libtard normies. Reminds me of how they all feverishly masturbated themselves over the "Kite Runner" many years ago.
This is just fetishism towards a poor country, in this case, China.
Call it political bias, but I was originally fascinated at the concept of Three Body and then decided not to read it when someone described it as "Barack Obama's favorite new series".
The TV show was quite lovingly done, and pretty well acted, but it did get stupider and stupider as the plot unfurled itself.
whatever, 2 women doomed humanity and you call that book woke?
Looked at from this point of view, maybe I'm wrong!
I just flicked through the 1st episode and only saw men talking. I doubt it's as bad as you say. You're probably just reading too much into things.. There are a lot more female scientists these days. I didnt see any female generals giving orders, and the main character is a dude, so not really woke at all. Nobody wants to watch a sausage fest, however believable it may be.
Didnt the Chinese government recently tell it's TV and Film industry; " No black people and bigger tits." ? Pretty sure I read that.
Nah, it starts just great. One of the best things I've ever seen. And then... chicks everywhere. It's not bad, and they even diss the eminently dissable Madame Curie, but... it's not bad... but it is as bad as I say.
Read the plot summaries of the books and tell me it isn't absolute trash. On top of that, most of the books have terrible writing like long, boring exposition dumps.
It has "new" sci fi elements, but none of them actually make any sense. Anyone can make up "new" dumb shit.
Aye well here's where you're forgetting the prime audience...blokes. If you're a sci-fan you're a guy. Probably a smart one. If it's just about women being in it and not the plot revolving around female empower🤮ment or whatever then it's fine.
They are there to be gawked at. Nothing more. They serve us.
Okay, yeah, I 100% agree with you. I really (really) liked looking at the slim, attractive oriental chicks. The only problem is that chicks can't have organic conversations about... anything, so their, um, profundity bogs things down. Unfortunately, the next generation is going to think that it's real. At this point: maybe there's no fighting it?
No, that's just Rick and Morty.
I haven't seen it or read the book but could it be intentional, as in anti-woke writing? It sounds like the male scientists were actually written better.
My guess: half the world's population is female. Probably less of China because of all the infanticide, but if you want to get women to watch your crappy show, you have to appeal to their vanity.
Yeah, you're probably right. I guess there's a sense in which, once you allow women into society, a certain amount of 'fabian socialism' is inevitable.
Women were never excluded from 'society'. They just had their roles, just like men did.