We'll be outcasts together

If anyone wants me to say my opinion on a character with this bingo

gosh murderbot is good, I love mensah's family even if they have a chronic condition of Keep Getting Kidnapped. but to be honest my very favorite thing in the whole book was the absolutely shot we got of the planet inside of the torus. it's been mined out so badly it's dead. an empty planet inside of a station that surrounds it in a ring, in a cage, the only remnant of what might have once been a living breathing ecosystem. ecosystems on ecosystems, built by capital, extractive and extracting on what's basically nothing at all like a snake eating its own tail.

spoilers for the murderbot diaries network effect but i don't think im ever going to get over this one bc what if you spent every moment of your existence knowing you were statistically going to die in a self sacrificial way except it wouldnt be by choice. and then you free yourself from that system except you never even thought about placing value on your own life so you continue being sure that one day you'll die for someone elses sake except now you get to choose who. and so you keep going on these self appointed extremely dangerous missions with a passively suicidal belief that it should end successfully even if you have to die for that outcome bc thats what you were built for and its fine bc hey at least you chose to go out in a heroic blaze of glory! (and nevermind the fact that two books ago a bot did actually go out willfully protecting humans and died a hero and it wasn't you, and it kinda mega fucked you up but you refuse to process that)

finally drew them together, t'pura my loves