#murderbot 1x04

The Sanctuary Moon scene, Murderbot's hallucination/stress dream? When Jack McBrayer's character (I don't have the spoons to look up the name right now lol) talks to Murderbot and Murderbot can't remember what to do, McBrayer's character doesn't yell or chew out Murderbot, he just acts shocked/worried. (And then Murderbot asks another crew member for help with what it's supposed to do.) When Mensah gives Murderbot an order, it's practically falling over itself to say "yes Captain!" (and it's heckin' adorable)

The person who worked out that Strife in the Galaxy had to be a Star Wars expy sure called it.

I hope we all get now that they were playing up the PresAux team's hippie-dippy-ness in order to help viewers new to the franchise relate to MB's surprise when they suddenly turned badass.

I like that the show gave the rest of the team more to do in the showdown with enemy SecUnit.

For one thing, it sets us up for MB to form an attachment to the whole team rather than Mensah specifically, & i do feel like, in a television show, that would come across to many viewers like we're being primed to anticipate a romantic payoff.

I guess the "leadership shakeup" in the episode summary refers to the "reveal" that Mensah is the planetary leader? I feel like that was pretty obviously not new information for the characters, but maybe the person whose job it was to write the summary wasn't paying much attention.

The cold open in the SecUnit factory was interesting; it was a neat way to deliver some exposition about SecUnits, and drop in a little foreshadowing about the indenture contracts, in a way that also has a little something new for people who have already read the books.

At this point in the books, the next thing we get is SecUnit waking up and piecing together what happened since it shot itself, but I am predicting now that we'll get at least one episode, maybe two, of the other characters doing stuff while MurderBot is offline for repairs. Possibly with a Murderbot dream sequence in there somewhere.

The typography art inset above by Rachel Eck Lettering (via this post and linked below) was begging me to make it into something Murderbot-related, so here is the result. I love how over-the-top colorful and shiny everything is in Sanctuary Moon, and the sparkly cyberpunk parts of it resemble my own preferred aesthetic. TBH though, I'll take any excuse I can get to make more silly y2k-style Murderbot fanart. (I think it's y2k, but you can correct me if I'm wrong.)

Insta link to original art: