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2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968

Comany name? [redacted] "the company" and you know that all lowercase is spite

MB repeatedly complains that it's the cheapest flimsiest made unit, the Temu bot. But it's rental was probably really expensive and it and every other SecUnit we see is extremely high performing

1 line about how Ratthi is extremely popular and everyone seems happy. There's just an ever rotating cast of hookups and flings in the background that Murderbot is desperately trying to not notice.

For that matter polyamory seems to be the societal norm and you know there's polyvule drama happening that MB is erasing it's memory about.

In the second novella Perihelion is a complete mystery to MB, it's mostly just intimidated and like "ok this is my life now". Where as in Network Effect and "Rapport" we see that Peri is utterly enamored with Muderbot, it think MB is the best thing to ever happen.

MB has 0 self awareness and doesn't really know much about SecUnits or contructs in general it just contantly projects it's own feelings and opinions onto everyone else. Every other contruct is the series acts counter to what MB says.

For that matter it projects onto humans too. Murderbot has the emotional intellengence of a rock. It hates and fears itself and so projects that into believing everyone else fears it. And most humans don't. I'm not even talking about the hippie commune Preservation people, some of the rando Corporate Rim tertiary characters and Mihira and Tidelands people aren't particularly afraid of MB.

Unprocessed 2.0 emotions

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cuz, like: mb & mensah - queerplatonic, platonic soulmates, but also, mb & ART - queerplatonic, platonic soulmates, but different flavour.

like. mensah knows mb (and vice versa), and she's the one to help it realise it has a choice and that it doesn't have to choose violence.

but ART, on the other hand, knows mb (and vice versa), but it's the one to give mb what it needs to realise that it likes protecting people and providing security, but also that it doesn't need to be human to be a person.

like, mensah is the peaceful return, the confidant, the one that helps mb become a person. but ART is the same in some intrinsic way, the one that understands being a person without being human, and is the one that helps mb find its purpose.