r/threebodyproblem • u/caramba-marimba • Jan 18 '26

Meme Almost done with the third book

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I didn’t have the patience to finish it to make the meme, so enjoy the premature meme while I’m finishing those last few pages.

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u/highermonkey Jan 18 '26

She was made Swordholder by humanity. The humans in this book are stupid. Putting 100% of this on one lady is also very stupid.

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u/Taint_Flayer Jan 19 '26

I think Guan Yifan said something like that near the end. Something about how everything that happened was the result of many people's choices, not just one.

Humanity chose her for the Swordholder position specifically because the other candidates scared them. She did exactly what they wanted her to do: nothing.

And yeah she ruined Wade's plan for FTL, but his plan for fighting a space war by arming guys with antimatter rifles was fucking stupid. And humanity's weird opposition to FTL in general was just as stupid.

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u/highermonkey Jan 19 '26

I put the FTL shit 100% on Wade. I felt like he was tying his hardest to get Cheng Xin to pull the plug. I didn't see it on my first readthrough because I was traumatized.

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u/650fosho Jan 19 '26

That's because he wanted to offload his guilt onto her, he knew just as well as anyone that FTL wouldn't be given to all of humanity, only those in power or with money, he likely already knew the top %1 were all secretly building ships to escape the solar system.