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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would think the puzzle is a sort of trial to ensure that their seeded race(s) were sufficiently developed to gain something from that message, insight into their origins and/or more philosophical questions that we as humans are still striving to answer.

As for the humanoid forms everywhere, yeah you absolutely need to suspend your disbelief a bit for that. Still I think it’s the only in universe explanation for it no?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Sure, but as the episode itself showed, that didn't happen on at least one planet that had a puzzle piece, so it was a very weird gamble to make.

I think The Inner Light has problems too, but that attempt at the idea of keeping the memory of a race of people that went extinct alive worked so much better.