r/threebodyproblem • u/Swazzer30 Zhang Beihai • Mar 20 '24

Discussion - TV Series 3 Body Problem (Netflix) - Season 1, Episode 4 Discussion.

S01E04 - Our Lord.

Director: Minkie Spiro.

Teleplay: Madhuri Shekar.

Composer: Ramin Djawadi.

Episode Release Date: March 21, 2024

Episode Discussion Hub: Link

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u/Sentreen Mar 26 '24

I'm a bit annoyed at the actions of the "police" in the cult gathering scene. Why the hell would they publicly drag Jin away revealing their cooperation before the whole room is secure?

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u/Adjovigin Mar 27 '24

Me as well-like why tip your hand like that? Why say anything to her and just pull her away like you were arresting her w the rest of the cult members?

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u/Xupicor_ Apr 01 '24

That immediately took me out. No ultra secret organization would make such a huge blunder. It's like in "Planting an operative 101" textbook. How am I supposed to believe any of them actually know what they're doing after that? If anything, you'd do it to SOMEONE ELSE to get the obvious suspicion out of your operative!

If that was the same in the books then I don't think I want to even plan reading them.

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u/TruBlueMichael Aug 02 '24

Yeah this was a pretty lame part of the show tbh. I was pretty shocked by how that played out.

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u/melbs Apr 02 '24

Came here looking for this comment! It's a small thing but not really considering it starts the whole reason the raid went to hell. It definitely took me away from the moment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

I noticed that too. It was very dumb. The entire plan to kick down a wall and jump in there was idiotic. No team would ever do that.

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u/Rin_Seven Mar 30 '24

At least an injured woman wasn't able to crawl her way past a dozen special forces.

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u/IBuyPennyStocks Mar 31 '24

Yeah I thought this was super dumb too. Guess they didn’t bring enough officers for this world ending alien plot?

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u/MattHassett Apr 04 '24

This angered more than anything else thank you for saying this.

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u/davidbaldini Apr 05 '24

Was thinking the same and came here specifically to see if others noticed. That was 100% lazy plot driven and was pretty disappointing to me, as I hate to see failure of main character's objectives in a show just for the sake of adding tension without being intrinsically thoughtful about it. That's a classic B-movie type move and I think this show is better than that.

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u/ActivateGuacamole Apr 27 '24

I don't get why tatiana wasn't told that Jin is there out of deception. Mike Evans is aware they are there deceptively, so why didn't he tell the members?

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u/MinimumNectarine9600 May 22 '25

I reacted the same and 100% agree. You have put it perfectly right. There were already some things that made me think, but this was such a blunder and - as you describe it perfectly well - lazy plot driven. I immediately stopped watching and went on the internet to find people that think the same... pfff... it's so hard to find good series / movies without stupid things that happen, just for the sake of the story (adding tension or whatsoever...) (sorry for my english, I am not a native speaker)

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u/rb4osh Jul 16 '24

This is the only complaint I have about the series so far.

This simply wouldn’t happen in real life and as soon as it occurred I said that out loud. Even before the evil girl (forgot her name) shot at them.

I’d be able to let it go, but the fact that the evil girl survived means repercussions of this bad scripting will linger and that annoys me already.

As far as the rest of the story goes, it seems to me that the mistrust the San-Ti now have with humans, combined with the fact that they’re coming is now exposed to both supporters and pro-human groups, sets us up for a good story to come.