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EP. REVIEW: Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE

For a species of sentient machine that can apparently travel space, the Medusas seem to stumble in the face of things not working as expected. They assume that radio waves mean humans are sufficiently advanced, only for them not to be. And then when they receive radio waves after thousands of years, they try again, only for that not to work. And then that one in the vacuum's reaction is to try again because it thinks it needs to keep showing the glory of petrification. If this machine can move travel to other planets on its own and come up with these plans, you'd think it would take the hint and leave after humans were a bust 3000 years ago.

For a species of sentient machine that can apparently travel space, the Medusas seem to stumble in the face of things not working as expected. They assume that radio waves mean humans are sufficiently advanced, only for them not to be. And then when they receive radio waves after thousands of years, they try again, only for that not to work. And then that one in the vacuum's reaction is to try again because it thinks it needs to keep showing the glory of petrification. If this machine can move travel to other planets on its own and come up with these plans, you'd think it would take the hint and leave after humans were a bust 3000 years ago.

Greed1914 wrote:

For a species of sentient machine that can apparently travel space, the Medusas seem to stumble in the face of things not working as expected. They assume that radio waves mean humans are sufficiently advanced, only for them not to be. And then when they receive radio waves after thousands of years, they try again, only for that not to work. And then that one in the vacuum's reaction is to try again because it thinks it needs to keep showing the glory of petrification. If this machine can move travel to other planets on its own and come up with these plans, you'd think it would take the hint and leave after humans were a bust 3000 years ago.

Honestly I think that this explanation is as good as they could reasonable give or execute for what they set up. Yes it is a little bit of a jump, but i well definitely defend it. First off Clarke said for a reason "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
The petrifaction beam and even Medusa society i would absolutely say yay that definitely falls in line with that, and even senku is excited to study them and begin understanding them.

The Medusas have been a very important part of the series so far, but compared to everything else have always been almost ignored relatively to almost every other piece of tech.

So making it a twist that surprise they aren't a thing but an (let's be generous) intelligent lifeform, that didn't know how to interact with humanity in a.... non destructive way.... and wasn't actually evil, I think works well.

The fact that senku and the others already talked extensively about how the petrifaction beam actually gives humanity eternal life, and it is a blessing actually helps it make sense when the medusa go, we peterify you to save you from death. Therefore we expect you to take care of us for granting you eternal life.

The series hasn't actually done a lot with "y man" to set up some evil plan for them to have some intention besides we want to petrifacty you. So saying yay we want to petrify you because we want you to have the eternal life that you have figured out, you now have, it then makes it not a huge leap to say we want this so you can take care of us, it makes a lot of sense.

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

Greed1914 wrote: For a species of sentient machine that can apparently travel space, the . Response....

I'm not saying they didn't set it up, or that the premise of the sentient machine doesn't work. What seems silly to me is that when its usual methods didn't work, the solution it came up with was to keep trying to show off the petrification on the hope that humans will get it this time.

I feel a strange urge to go build a nuclear fusion reactor in my garden shed now.

I loved the series, it was WAY TOO optimist in its libertarian ideology, but, shounen manga its all about optimism.

However.... I gotta admit, I did not understand Medusa´s plan.

Exactly how is petrification undone by inteligence?

Petrification its undone by nitric acid in the case of people who are concious and the others you need the compound with alcohol.

It never got undone by itself if you are smart.

Does this means that is Zenku was smarter he could have undone it without the acid?
When was this told?

Taiju was consious all that time with will power and he is not smart.

The plan would make sence if they had petrified a portion of humanity, not all of it.

What I am missing?

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

I loved the series, it was WAY TOO optimist in its libertarian ideology, but, shounen manga its all about optimism. However.... I gotta admit, I did not understand Medusa´s plan. Exactly how is petrification undone by inteligence? Petrification its undone by nitric acid in the case of people who are concious and the others you need the compound with alcohol. It never got undone by itself if you are smart. Does this means that is Zenku was smarter he could have undone it without the acid? When was this told? Taiju was consious all that time with will power and he is not smart. The plan would make sence if they had petrified a portion of humanity, not all of it. What I am missing?

The implication does seem to be that there is a way to break free without any outside assistance. It’s simply beyond human intelligence to do so.