beck

i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed

I'm not upset about the show not using the feed, per se, because it would be hard to be clear and consistent with something like that. But how in the hell are they going to do exit strategy without it

no fr the second they pulled out those star wars looking comm units i was like WHERE IS THE FEED??? rn feels like gurathin and secunit are the only ones with access to the feed which is odd to me but maybe theyll all get feed devices after this nightmare survey

I particularly adore the relationship between Gurathin and Murderbot in light of how similar they are. Throughout the season, Gurathin is clearly on the same "I must protect everyone" train, struggling to fit in; he is painfully awkward and has been through some trauma; I feel like Gurathin is in the aftermath of "was adopted by these nice and frustratingly naive people after unspeakable horrors" arc that Murderbot is starting

In its defense,, it did tell her to drop the weapon and she grabbed Gurathin to use as a human shield instead.

this scene had me lmao because i can’t remember if it’s canon to the books or if it is just fancontent that dictates secunit’s arm weapons do not even have enough power to do something like this.. so in my head mb was like ‘oh god oh fuck’ and turned its arm weapons up like 500% power and fried them

Murderbot: I have successfully removed a threat against my humans! I'm going to get a good grade in secuniting! Why are they screaming

I was unsure about gurathins characterisation at first, mostly because I was picturing a whole different guy based on the books, but the gurathin/mb parallels go hard. One thing i noticed is that they're emphasising gurathins status as an augmented human more in the show. Something about the "this is no more a machine than gurathin is" feels more weighty with the added hints to his corporation rim backstory. This was also mostly brought on by lebebe calling him a "walking dataport" while threatening his life, dehumanising him in the same way as she did with "you brought it, you own it" murderbot. There's something tasty here i can tell

THE WAY MENSAH LOOKS SCARED IS TAKING ME OUT

“it’s not really addressed in the book” feels laughable to me but maybe im just thinking of the book series as a whole and it’s not in asr as much.. rest of this statement EATS though i am so so happy that the crew of the TV series are continuing to use it/its pronouns for murderbot, keep the queer and polyamorous relationships (though the throuple in the series is.. an odd choice and plays into negative polyamory stereotypes imo), and deliberately mentioning the importance that mb has to neurodivergent people