Jonathan Pryce in 3 Body Problems Posted by Netflix
Warning: Spoilers Follow
If , like me, you've just watched the fifth episode of Netflix's 3 Bodies, ominously titled «Judgment Day,» then you'll probably be in need of a stiff drink, a nice lie-down, or some hastily arranged therapy. Yes, it just happened. Yes, it was as terrible as you think. No, there is no good reason for this to happen. Science fiction epic character D.B. Weiss and David Benioff actually just described sugar-free Alpen — the king of breakfast cereals — as «an awesome muesli.» One can only imagine how the Reddit threads will react.
Oh yes, there was something else. Boat (with the ominous name «Doomsday»). Through Game of Thrones, Weiss and Benioff have given us some of the most stunning and shocking scenes on television in living memory — a series of impressive and often grotesque toasts that become inexorably stuck in your mind. Red wedding. Sacrifice of Shireen. Head of Oberyn Martell. Head of Ned Stark. In other words, bloody murder in stunning HD quality.
In Operation Guzheng, the pair—along with co-writer Alexander Wu—may just have outdone them all, bringing to life a series of heart-stopping gore and spine-tingling moral ambiguity. Like so much of their work on Game of Thrones, this scene dares to go where other TV dramas can't. You assume they'll strike at some point, but don't go that far. But they only go so far. And how?
By the halfway point of Body Issue's debut season 3, you're ready to do a little action and spice things up. The invading aliens are still a good four centuries away from arriving on Earth, leaving us in a situation reminiscent of the Cold War. The show scratches that itch with a giant oil tanker, the Panama Canal, and a giant grid of invisible cheese wire. What, they're going to drive an oil tanker full of people through a giant mesh of invisible cheese wire? Yes, they're going to guide an oil tanker full of people through a giant mesh of invisible cheese wire. Very slow.
Aboard the oil tanker is Jonathan Pryce environmental activist turned cult leader Mike Evans. He and his assistants worship aliens and intend to help them conquer Earth, while Evans is in constant contact with San Ti. However, his alien overlords have kept quiet about him — ever since he cheerfully told them the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and the aliens decided that humanity had gone beyond the bounds of decency — giving the ghostly Wade (Liam Cunningham), a supposedly good man intent on saving Earth, the opportunity . On board the tanker is a wealth of data vital to defeating the aliens. Wade wants this data, and he needs to find a way to get it before Evans can destroy it.
The only way to do this — and please keep in mind that they've assembled a crack team of some of the world's greatest scientific minds to do this — is to drive an oil tanker through a giant grid of invisible cheese wire. No one has ever pointed out how crazy this is. Or suggest alternative means. Perhaps this is the Swat squad? Spy site? No, it's cheese wire — sorry, nanofibers — or nothing.
Doomsday enters the Panama Canal in episode five series “3 Body Problem” Author: Netflix
That's what makes what follows even more shocking — it's so fantastically gratuitous and pointless. In Cixin Liu's novel, a network of nanofibers strung through the Panama Canal is indeed what makes Doomsday and Evans' followers, but Weiss and Benioff revel in the frustrating details.
The tanker moves along the canal and we see the ship's occupants. And then we get the money — a crowded dining room filled with cheerful families. One woman happily chats with small children, including an adorable toddler sitting in a high chair. We linger on the baby. She's a lovely little thing. Look, the camera is talking. Isn't she beautiful? Wouldn't it be terrible if someone pushed her through a giant grate of invisible cheese wire? The book makes no mention of any children or families among Evans' followers aboard Doomsday. This piece of royalty belongs only to the TV show.
A worker on a ship watches the horror unfold
The scene is stunning (shot by British director Minky Spiro, known for The Plot Against America, Pieces of Her and, er, Waterloo Road). Our first introduction to nanofiber is of a hapless worker hosing down a deck and wondering why the water has suddenly stopped. Then I wonder why his hose is cut in half and fluttering across the deck. And then folds in half as the nanofibers pass through his stomach. The helicopter is then cut into cubes. Next is money shot number two — a playground filled with small children running and screaming.
We don't see murdered children, but we see dozens of disemboweled adults falling to the floor in bloody explosions, lying in pieces like an unkempt slaughterhouse, crumbling like feta before our eyes. And along with this we see cheese wire cutting through school bags and, most frighteningly, through a row of paper dolls made by children attached to the wall. The scene goes out of its way to tell us: children. Children, children, children. We, of course, watch as the “bad guys” are destroyed, people (except children) who are trying to accelerate the extinction of humanity.
When one «good» scientist questions the humanity of passing an oil tanker full of children through a tomato plant, Wade compares it to building the canal itself. “Do you know how many people died building this?” he is asking. «Nobody does. Best estimates range from five to 20,000. It was a real shit show, but those poor souls kept digging until it was finished.» A few hundred people on board a tanker for the rest of the world's population? It's not difficult. But really Was it a cheese wire? It wasn't.
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Operation Guzheng is a reminder that television can still shock, and shock absolutely. In recent years, shows like Amazon Prime Video's superhero parody The Boys have moved beyond «did they really just do it» gore spectacles. But for every exploding head or exploding body there is an explanation — the character shows you what they are really made or capable of. When The Walking Dead's Negan stabbed two of the series' beloved characters to death with a baseball bat covered in barbed wire, it was shocking, disgusting and upsetting. But it made sense. Negan had to prove his absolute authority, his willingness to do whatever it took to stay ahead.
Ultimately, the Sun Ti seem happy that Wade and his gang have obtained Doomsday's data, and even help them access it. Only Eiza Gonzalez's scientist, Auggie, who invented the magic cheese wire, seems to understand the terrifying, unjustifiable senselessness of what they have done. Later, among the wreckage of what was once an oil tanker, she finds a child's foot, still inside a small pink shoe. Weiss and Benioff have not lost their passion for destruction.
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