Flash: What are your intentions? Alien Plant Being: Our intentions are strictly peaceable. Flash: You said “we.” Are there more of you? Alien Plant Being: My intentions are strictly peaceable. #quoteOfGame#goldenAge

I guess you can draw a straight line from Flash Gordon to 3 Body Problem. It's like Shirley Bassey once told us all -- Why ask your head when it's your hips that are swinging? It's all just a bit of history repeating.