This whole ship scene was jaw dropping in the most horrifying way

Liam Cunningham was perfect casting for this role. Nails every scene he is in and he and Benedict Wong just work wonderfully together

One thing didnt mention in the show: why they are not worried about nano fiber destroying the hard drive. It is because the fiber is soooooooooo thin, even if the drive is sliced, they will be able to recover it.

so glad to finally see someone react to this episode! This one is crazy!

DO NOT ANSWER. DO NOT ANSWER. DO NOT ANSWER.

It keeps getting more terrifying. The plot is something else.

If I remember correctly the reason why they could send the Sophon to earth so quickly but their fleet will take 400 years is due to the mass of the Sophon is only a proton, it’s possible to accelerate it to almost light speed where as a full fleet can only go up to 1% speed of light.

The sophon expanding to such a large scale is such a hard concept to explain to non-science folks, but the scales can be. If you had a small cube the size of a sugar cube, and you sliced away squares from it at the smallest possible measurable width (the Planck length, which is 1.6 x 10^-35 metres), then attached each slice together into a 2d plane, that grid, if bent into a sphere could envelop the entire observable universe many times over. From a sugar cube. This is the scale at which these higher dimensions are theoretically bound. Insane stuff. This isn't just about what we, as humans don't know - we don't even know what we don't know.

Congratz on being the first to react to Ep5 on youtube! I suspect many people like me have been waiting to watch someone else react to this crazy ep. You deserve the extra views that are coming your way friend! 🙂

I really wish they would’ve done more to show the aliens trying to create the sophon. It was sooooo fascinating in the book.

The people whining about the show are a small minority of book readers. I read the entire trilogy in three days and I love the show

The show dialed up the spectacle aspect (blood bath) of the Panama scene, because of Netflix. But the nanotechnology they used is the one shown in episode 2, which is “30 times thinner than a hair”, and a drive and be repaired because the cut is thin. Wade and Clearance discusses how swat team and bombing is not an option, because it might risk either destroying the drive or mike Evan’s destroying the drive after he finds out there’s an attack. The scene is described as “silent and fast” in the book. But “realistically” it can not be that silent as described in the book when you are cheese grating a ship, since you are also cutting all the loud engines and stuffs on that ship 😂

You are the first person I’ve seen react to this. It’s by far the most chilling scene in the series thus far

Hope Netflix renews the season 2, as a book fan I make sure it will be super remarkable.

Episode 5 is going to give us YEARS of Reaction Content

I had a proper crisis when i watched this scene without any prior knowledge. Awfully fantastic scene

Truly…. “Yea, yea , let’s get ‘em” energy always turns into “I didn’t think it would be like that”… it didn’t have to be. Time and time again

Oh its the cheese cutter episode. The slicy dicey. The McRib. The kitchen chupboard. The thin red line. The Great Segmentation. Layered film making. Many levels to this story. 😂 Species Traitors don't get get access to the super glue 🤷

Sophon here are a bit oversimplified than in the books... In the book there is an entire chapter dedicated to it... It very well explained how Trisolarans/SanTi take proton from the 11th dimension and unfold it into a two dimensional plane in 3d space... Unfolded protons are so huge that they can be wrapped around their planet. Once the unfolding process is completed they start etching circuits into the proton and load it with Sophon's AI software... After that they shrink it down back to 11th dimension till it goes back to subatomic particle size, retaining the modifications they made to 2d proton... And then they shoot the two Sophons from Trisolaris 4 lightyears away to Earth with pin point accuracy... Imagine shooting 1cm target from 1000 miles away... The entire thing is insane 🤯🤯!!!

What's so great about this scene is he doesn't know how this is happening. He probably thinks its Lord, since Lord stopped responding to him.

This was definitely the best episode of season 1

This video has the highest views for any reaction video to this whole show.

I remember doing a long slow clap during the Judgment Day scene. The technological concept itself, how it was rendered visually, and our willingness to use it in such a way ( weaponized) is terrifying.

For those curious about what sophons are there is a tenant in physics that all objects occupy multiple physical dimensions, it's just that we cannot see the higher tier dimensions (up to 10 dimensions according to string theory). The Trisolarins unfolded 4 photons from the 4th to 10th dimensions and brought them into having only 3 dimensions which they then used as a "platter" to create what amounts to as four matrioshka brains (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain). Once they where turned on, they were then folded back into their normal 10 dimensions (becoming the size of a photon again) and then each pair was entangled. So, TLDR version is that a sophon is a sentient AI that is built onto a single photon. If you're having issues with wondering how to unfold an object from multiple dimensions, you can see it in action by any video that shows a simple UV texturing of a cube. It takes a 3D cube, unfolds each side into a flat, 2D space and allows an artist to texture it.

so in the book, the point is that computers with clean slices can be reconstructed. the show dances around that quite a bit ha

The Judgment Day nanotube scene was the highlight of the season for me. Never was the suspense any higher. Even during the staircase scene.

When I saw those kids, as a mother, I feel extremely bad...however, that's war, right? Everytime human beings started wars, they never thought of kids and those innocent people, let alone wars between civilizations... that's the evil of civilization.

I got MAD chills multiple times during this episode. Blew my mind really. Currently having an existential crisis and had to come watch a reaction!🤣

This episode was just mental. First you get the boat, and then you get the giant eye in the sky.

A difference from the books regarding the 400 year travel time, which you sound like you'd like to hear: They simplified and said San Ti can travel at 1% lightspeed, so it takes 400 years to cross 4 light years. In the books, they can actually reach a top speed of 10% of lightspeed, but they have to accelerate AND decelerate (think of the burn then flip and reverse burn in Expanse). That acceleration is inherently difficult to do quickly, and is also maybe tempered by the fact that the g forces have to be tolerable for the San Ti on the ships. By contrast, not only are individual protons much easier to accelerate to near lightspeed, but they don't have to worry about g forces. Of course, that leaves an open question about how the sophons decelerate, and how they locomote period, but I guess once you're unfolding the hidden dimensions of fundamental particles, it's basically magic anyway, lol.

This sets up Auggie to be a Swordholder

People comparing this to GoT's Red Wedding have no idea whats coming lol. Theres a moment in the second book that makes the Red Wedding look like child's play (book readers know exactly what moment im talking about and it has to do with the 💧💀)

Read this series years ago. I need to re read it. I’ve been enjoying all the versions of it though.

I've been hitting refresh to see this reaction land :D

"This is actually chilling" - yep.

This is why Ye Wenjie lost faith in humanity. She saw it before and it keeps happening again and again.

"We will teach you to fear again"... Hence, the ever-watchful lord's eye in the sky for all to fear. The San Ti has done their due diligence on the history of god-fearing humanity.

my guy, i had no tears when watching it for the first time (I just felt very bad and sick) but watching your reaction made me want to give you a hug

insert "people who know, people who dont know" meme i knew, i read the book 😂😂i remember it was an interesting feeling reading it not sure if i remember correctly, but from the book, they had to slice the ship because even if the hard drive is sliced in half, it would be perfectly sliced and could be put back tgt lol

Bro, here I am again. The play about the destruction of the Judgment Day ship on the Panama Canal, referred to as the "GUZHENG PLAN" in the original book because the arrangement of nanofibers resembles the Chinese instrument GUZHENG. However, what the play doesn't make clear is that there are numerous plans to deal with this ship, but there's no guarantee that their storage devices won't be destroyed by the people on board before they're seized. This is crucial information concerning the survival of the Earth. After thorough discussion among military officials from various countries, they finally decided to use nanomaterials to disassemble the ship. The nanofibers are sharp enough, and even if the hard disk storage is sliced, the surface remains smooth, and the data can be recovered. Furthermore, the people on board are all members of the Evans organization, a group of individuals who wish for the arrival of extraterrestrials to destroy humanity. There aren't as many children aboard. Also, the reason for choosing this method is because it's silent and inconspicuous, unlike the noisy portrayal in the play. Evans would have time to escape. Wouldn't they also have time to destroy the hard disks?

This isn't the first Egg Slicer moment, but it's certainly the biggest. Wow! Outstanding SFX, both CGI and real world.

You're the first (I think) to react to this. Good job. We were all waiting for this episode's reaction.

That was a trip watching that Judgement Day trap!

Trust me, you ain't seen nothing yet. :)

This show is so good. Great reaction! I think of the messages that we've sent out - there was a British social media company that sent out a message in the early 2000s that should be arriving in a few years. I remember hoping we'd hear back. Now I don't.

Jaw dropping, this episode left me speechless

Regarding the nanofibre tech, imagine: - stretched across an interstate - stretched across an airport runway - strung along with the finish line tape of the Boston Marathon, the Tour de France, a high school track meet - deployed at just the right depth to destroy a cargo ship's propulsion but leave the hull intact to steal the goods - etc. etc.

earth just entered into an arms race against the universe

Had to give your video a like just from your very human reaction to the end of the Judgment Day sequence, down to the pink shoe. I read the books years ago and when I saw there were whole families on the boat it took me days to even be prepared to watch this sequence!

That one scene really splits a room.

The reason they let Augie finish her nanotube technology is because they already knew it was going to be used to destroy the boat, and they were allowing the planet defenders destroy the boat because they weren't protecting it any more, and because they wanted them to get the hard drive.

In event of confusion around narratives in either TV show or Books, trying thinking in the darkest way possible. Real darkeness is still several hundred years away. In a sense the fate of both civilizations were sealed the moment Ye Wenjie made the reply. That's why Ye made the joke and metaphor to say "never play with god". This was not in the original book but great rewriting.

That scene is the best thing since sliced bread.

“We will teach you to fear again” … “you are bugs” Yup, I’m done. Peace out ✌️ 😂

This serie gives me chilling goosebumps. Something like a horror situation on a worldly scale. I can't wait for next seasons, this is far out!

For those who likes this show, should go and check out the Chinese TV series. It has 30 episodes and carry a lot more details from the book - on the Trisolarans, the game, space travel and many more.

Horrific!!!! Kinda thought that's what was gonna happen. 😮

Seen people calling the show boring, I wouldn't say it's boring, although it does have it's moments. I think some people just synonymise alien invasion with space ships, lasers and abductions and get annoyed when they aren't watching an independence day clone.

episode 5 is so damn metal love it

Good question on why San-Ti can’t travel to Earth sooner. The show doesn't explain as much as the books but to get spacecraft with passengers to travel at the speed of light (or even a decent fraction) is a super difficult engineering feat. Smaller particles like protons/sophons are more viable.

This is the 3rd TV version I've seen of the destruction of Judgement Day. The Tencent version is just as bloody but not as brutal-- there are no kids, and they don't portray anyone as innocent victims. Judgement Day is actually how the all-CGI version begins! It's the opening scene and the story goes much further than either of the live action shows, to the end of the 2nd book.

This scene made me feel genuinely sick and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to finish the series

In the books spin off they are described as bugs the size of rice.

Never seen shit like that in my life lmao 5th episode was absolutely wild

I feel you! It was a tough scene to watch. Thinking about the kids!😢😔🥺

Btw, to those that may think why doesnt the San Ti Ren just use the Sophon to kill all of us. It can't. The sophon is fundamentally still as fragile and weak as a proton. Its just that because they are able to unfold its higher dimensions it can fit exponentially more stuff into it. Hence the very big computer. However, if it let say unfold itself in a human body, it will instantly implode and cause no damage at all to us because the proton has virtually no mass at all. So the most the sophon can do is affect other particles on a similar scale, like for example microparticles like other protons (light) or electrons, which is why it is capable of spying, affect particle accelerator results and imprint illusions to us. So they will heavily handicap us in the field of Quantum Physics. We can never progress in the fields which would allow us to further understand the mysteries of the universe (which is what they are afraid of).

David Benioff and D. B. Weiss were like "now how can we top GoT's Red Wedding episode..."

I just love this episode. It's terrifyingly beautiful.

결말을 다알고 있지만... 여튼 제1권 책내용과 듬성 듬성 나머지 부분도 쬐금 들어있네요. 우리한테 마블스가 있었더라면...ㅋ 확실한것은 우리 인류가 기술이 딸렸어도... 살아남는데는 최적화가 되어있다는것~ 리액션 영상 잘보고갑니다~

The Ship Scene was reeeaaally scary 😢😱

this was GoT's red wedding episode ^_^

Sophons are a crazy concept. Multidimensional AI computer that's the size of a planet.

02:38 I think Dr. Ye's beliefs are easy enough to understand. All she saw in her entire life up to that point was human beings doing terrible, terrible things to each other and to everything else. The San-Ti to her represented hope, her only source of hope that the world itself might become a better place, that humans might be saved from themselves. I don't agree, but I understand. Especially given her history. 03:41 Spoiler. Yes. 05:55 No. If they just try to seize the ship, the people on board will destroy the drive--which is the only real reason to seize the ship! 06:02 Not "just" another cult. This cult actually IS in contact with a highly advanced civilization. Or, they were. 10:21 I absolutely agree. Don't try to live, but actually do it. Live! 12:17 Yes. We are at war. And war is TERRIBLE and HORRIBLE and DISGUSTING. Some folks have a horrible time handling it. And even the ones who can handle it are paying a price. Don't know if you ever saw "Chernobyl" but this whole segment and storyline reminds me of the young soldier in that series' episode four. Which still haunts me, they way we saw his soul shred. 13:35 No. They have to kill EVERYONE before they realize they're under attack and have a chance to destroy the drive. It has to be total, mysterious, and disorientingly terrifying as well as swift while not destroying the drive. 18:49 My father was a veteran of WWII. He had nightmares almost till the day he died. Yeah. 28:01 Because nothing can move faster than light. Nothing. And something really heavy can be accelerated to even one percent the speed of light requires enormous amounts of energy, on orders of magnitude more than we can produce in total for ten years. And that is for every single ship. A proton, that can be accellerated much much faster, and easier. Thank you so much for sharing your reaction. Very honest and powerful, asking all sorts of interesting questions. There are two important but subtle questions this series quietly posed that are important: 1. If there is another technological civilization only four light years from Earth, that must mean the galaxy is full of such, absolutely full of civilizations. So why didn't the San-Ti ask any of them for help? 2. And for that matter, why didn't the San-Ti go and look for some other world, one that might be right for them? We can do that, in very basic ways. It must be easy for them to know what exoplanets are like. Why go here instead of one of them?

A very shocking episode all around if you havent read the books. That Judgement Day scene will never leave my mind, the fact that there were kids as well... yikes 😬

Okey this drama is more serious than original book...

We beat them the same way we first encountered them.

My BF: watch Auggie is going to call off the mission Me: I hope not 😅 Thats what I loved about this show, you did NOT know how each would end

I wonder at some point will they use that nano fiber weapon against the aliens ?

I always thought the Panama Canal was about raising and lowering sectional water levels. This episode and the next were bonkers.

This episode caught me off guard, particularly the ship scene.😅

We're screwed😜

Until recently I wouldn't have been able to sit through the nanowire scene, but now the most horrifying aspect is knowing far more children have been killed in Gaza, and the camera never cut away for their families.

I know its out of context, but do you know the netflix show dark? I think you would love it much love from Germany

How on earth do you compete with that? Shit gets way worse.

This was a good episode but they could have used tons of other weapons... why this one? Other than plot contrivance? Why destroy the ship? They could have kept it and used it to mess with the aliens (at that point they didn't know he wasn't in contact any longer) and why did they have to kill all those people? While a nice set piece - if you think about it, it makes no sense.

I wonder, this episode probably took like half budget.

They made an AI using a proton which is a small positive part of an atom, they did it because their science is so advance that they’ve already uncovered how to unfold the higher dimensions ( in our science we only have 3 well 4 if you include time) unfolding such using huge amount of energy made the proton so big, and by the time it got so big they manipulated and put circuitry in it so it would have a mind a on its own… they made 4 of it (Sophons), well technically 2 pairs since protons are entangled to each pair on a quantum level which means whatever happens to the other will also happen to its pair. They send it to us so they can spy on us and also because protons with the use of immense energy (just like the trisolarians) are capable of traveling space with speed closer to that of speed of light, that’s why it arrived in our planet way ahead of them… that’s why they can cause the winking of universe, or the countdown or the erroneous science experiments… all because of sophons changing its size and ability for the sake of keeping us from developing fast… cause honestly I think humanity is still a type 1 civilization though we are indeed a fast one… scary.

Watching this with the wife my only beef with the whole scene was everyone running to the back and simply jumping off would’ve survived. Still, well done scene with sciency brutality.

Why it is marks and sparks? A joke?

YOU ARE BUGS

Wenjie is really flat in this adaptation. In tencent version show u will find she is more complex than she looks, however that serie is bit long

I love the show, but the cutting the boat thing was kinda stupid. The whole point was that they recover the alien data/computer. It was just by pur luck that the harddrive was not destroyed. A human assult team would be a more efficiant way for sure.

i thought their motive was to get info. you dont collapse an entire super structure on itself to maybe retrieve data in the rubble. maybe they figured that systematically taking the ship wouldve required them to take hundreds of prisoners, who they already considered traitors to humanity.

Can you explain what is the interest of watching the reaction of someone watching something you should better watch yourself… without the shoutings and the whyyyyyy! And the nooooo! .. and the ohmygoooooood!….anyone has an explanation ?….

Tencent version is way better.

People save. This show has no resemblance to the books. Have only red the very first book end only have a surface level understanding of it. People that say this show bad or dumb are dumb themselves, because it is very high concept sci fi. They are like flat earthers. They don't understand it so they think it's stupid. It's a pot calling the kettle black type scenario. The sophons are super intelligent super computers etched into and unfolded proton then put back into proton size. So they can move at light speed and think for themselves. They are not the aliens but an AI supercomputer made to surve the aliens. The aliens can only travel at 1% light speed yet the sophons they created can move at light speed. That's why the fleet will take 400 years to reach earth but the sophons got here in 4 years after their creation and have fucking with our science and scientists to stop our progress.

worst reactor

The first record of galatic trash talk: Alien: do not answer us or else we will invade you Human: ok LOL bet Alien: You Are Bugs