Will you tell me something you love about tvMensah that makes her unique?
Her EVERYTHING. It’s the combination of factors all packed up in one person:
A mature aged black woman co-lead
But she’s the absent parent
She has her morals and ethics
She puts them to the side and picks them up as required
Developing anxiety and trauma
The knowledge of when to talk and when to shoot a gun
She’s messy and sweaty and covered in blood and crying
She’s dressed to glamour and poised and a perfect politician
Most of the characters in the show are canonically having a crush on her
Yet she only has eyes for SecUnit to the point she’s in conflict with half her team
Willing to sacrifice herself over and over to save the weapon sacrificing itself for her
Cracks jokes even when stressed and also gives out genuine compliments
is incredibly complicated and flawed and trying while scared. She is constant contradictions based on her environment and who she’s interacting with.
She is all of that and she’s the central character to Murderbot and the series. She’s the anchor of the show, the most important part. If you removed any of the other characters, the story would continue on. If you removed Mensah, the story collapses and every one dies.
And they gave that role and importance to a demographic combination that doesn’t even make it into science fiction, let alone as such an important character!
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