Questions about planes and technology on Haixing

[likealeafonthewind]

Do planes exist? I don't remember seeing any in the background of any of the episodes, and while in the novel, there's a scene where they're traveling to Kunlun's mountain via plane, there's no such scene in the show (the one time they do go to the mountain, they drive there). 

Also, there doesn't seem to be cars or any kind of vehicle in Dixing, right? Does everyone just get around by walking? If they have to go somewhere far, do they find someone with teleportation powers and pay them to take them somewhere? (On a side note, if Zhu Jiu's teleportation can only be done when there's sunlight present, how did his powers ever get activated in Dixing?)

Technology development seems much slower on Haixing in general than in our world, especially given the fact that an alien spaceship landed on their planet 10,000 years ago and introduced aliens into their civilization. With that, I would have expected them to be much further along by now, like exploring space already.

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[asya_ana]

Technology development seems much slower on Haixing in general than in our world, especially given the fact that an alien spaceship landed on their planet 10,000 years ago and introduced aliens into their civilization. With that, I would have expected them to be much further along by now, like exploring space already.

Which makes one wonder why Shen Wei, et al even in old Haixing weren't beyond modern day tech levels.

It's also possible that they retroactively inserted the alien spaceship explanation? It's such a fast infodump that I could imagine it might have been quickly added later. I remember reading that they had to retroactively rename Dixing after the original name got censored, and maybe this was their way of explaining why Dixing exists separate from the surface of Earth (I mean ... Haixing).

[lynndyre]

Yeah, there's no indication that they retained any of the space-related knowledge you'd think they'd have had. It's a little like Elfquest.

[extrapenguin]

As a purveyor of science fiction, "generation spaceship traverses through vastness of space, inhabitants lose the skills originally used to build the spaceship due to generation turnover in favor of tilling the land" is not by any means a unique plot. So their many generation removed ancestors built the spaceship, and one or two people could read the manual well enough to land the thing, after which everyone gave a sigh of relief and vowed to never do that again.

[naye]

The only discussions about the space ship seem very much pasted on later? CGI intro has it, and... does it get mentioned again? If it does I think you'd find it's in a long shot where they could easily insert some new dialogue.

Dixing and Haixing are both dubbed in after the fact, yes. You can definitely tell when you listen for it - and it was different in the show preview.

[likealeafonthewind]

I believe that Da Qing says it in episode 34, but his explanation is a little different than the CGI intro. He says that two groups of people arrived on the space ship - Dixingren and Yashouren and they all lived in harmony with the native Haixing population until the war. I can't remember if his line was dubbed in after the fact or not.

[likealeafonthewind]

Yeah, and even if they don't go back into space, there's other technology that must have been present on a space ship that they'd have taken with them as being useful, right? Like communications devices, food processors, air conditioning and heating systems, modern day plumbing, maybe advanced weaponry. Though a hand-wavey explanation could also be that something in Haixing's atmosphere disrupted their technology equipment and all of it was rendered useless so that had to start from scratch.

I remember reading that they had to retroactively rename Dixing after the original name got censored

That explains a lot with the voice-overs. Though they still kept the name Dijun booklet, but maybe that's because they actually show the booklet and it's got the name inscribed on it so they couldn't change it.