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Murderbot | Apple TV+ (Alexander Skarsgard, David Dastmalchian, premieres May 16)

I like the internal dialog from the SecUnit, reminds me a lot of Resident Alien. A Cyborg, alien to humans, annoyed by and trying to figure out what motivates us, and looks for answers to human behavior in the soaps he watches.
Pin-Lee: "Who died and made SecUnit the boss?"
Ratthi: Points to the headless Leebeebee on the floor, "I think she did."
SecUnit (internal dialog): "What? I covered it."
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I'm wondering who is trying to kill the space hippie scientists and why. Lebeebee said she worked as an indentured servant for the Corp - could that have been a true part of her story? But why would the Corp give them the permit to survey in the first place? Is there another faction we're not aware of yet?

I adored the monster love stuff.
 
Commander Troi said:
I'm wondering who is trying to kill the space hippie scientists and why. Lebeebee said she worked as an indentured servant for the Corp - could that have been a true part of her story? But why would the Corp give them the permit to survey in the first place? Is there another faction we're not aware of yet?

I adored the monster love stuff.
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It seems to me the space hippie scientists are trying to do that all by themselves. Every time their SecUnit warns them of impending Doom that is seconds away, they want to argue or have a group discussion, rather than follow the SecUnit's warnings..
 
Kraig said:
It seems to me the space hippie scientists are trying to do that all by themselves. Every time their SecUnit warns them of impending Doom that is seconds away, they want to argue or have a group discussion, rather than follow the SecUnit's warnings..
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Honestly the more i see of the scientists the more i agree with Murderbot.
 
Commander Troi said:
OK, yeah, but who sent the rogue SecUnits?
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Could be the Corporation that sold them information wants to take control of the independent world of Preservation, or a rival Mega Corp to the one that supplied the hippie scientists and the other expedition that was attacked in a previous episode.
 
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Such a bittersweet season finale ( so happy it's been renewed for season 2).

Dr. Gorathan finally came around on Murderbot, even risking his own health to restore him, the first thing Murderbot states after being restored is that he's missing a chunk of soap opera episodes :lol: :lol: and Dr. Menza being happy for Murderbot when she realized he left them to explore his new freedom.

That small smile though at the end :adore:
 
I just watched the season over the past few days. I really enjoyed this take on the books. There was one thing that I wish had been included and is a major part of the stories. In the books, everyone has an implant that allows them to access the feed (internet) directly. They often use this to set up chatrooms so they can talk with each other privately and without verbal communication. I had been wondering how that was going to be done on screen and it looks like the writers just decided to avoid it altogether.

The thing that I really liked was that, unlike the books, we don't see everything only through Secbot's perspective. I really didn't know where the final episode was going, but it did a great job of showing how much Seccy's grown on the crew. It also showed how awful the corporate society is.

Like most great science fiction, this series does a great job of dealing with contemporary issues we have with technology and I thought that came through well in the series. I also really enjoyed the series version of Sanctuary Moon and how Secbot has basically learned everything he knows about people from watching television.

Can't wait for the second season and the introduction of the big character that is about to be introduced.
 
theenglish said:
I just watched the season over the past few days. I really enjoyed this take on the books. There was one thing that I wish had been included and is a major part of the stories. In the books, everyone has an implant that allows them to access the feed (internet) directly. They often use this to set up chatrooms so they can talk with each other privately and without verbal communication. I had been wondering how that was going to be done on screen and it looks like the writers just decided to avoid it altogether.
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I can see how that would have been difficult to depict onscreen. Besides, verbal communication is what actors do. There's not much performance involved if they're just standing there sending texts to each other's brains. If the show had done it, it probably would've been interpreted as avatars of the characters in a VR space so that the actors could deliver the dialogue. In which case it's simpler just to let them talk to each other in reality.
 
Christopher said:
I can see how that would have been difficult to depict onscreen. Besides, verbal communication is what actors do. There's not much performance involved if they're just standing there sending texts to each other's brains. If the show had done it, it probably would've been interpreted as avatars of the characters in a VR space so that the actors could deliver the dialogue. In which case it's simpler just to let them talk to each other in reality.
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Shows and movies do this by simply superimposing regular text messages on the screen whenever a character is using their phone to text someone, so it could have been done. However i agree that it would be kind of boring to have lengthy stretches of characters having a digital conversation and no spoken words exchanged so good for them for skipping this in the show as it wouldn't have worked too well i guess.
 
FPAlpha said:
Shows and movies do this by simply superimposing regular text messages on the screen whenever a character is using their phone to text someone, so it could have been done. However i agree that it would be kind of boring to have lengthy stretches of characters having a digital conversation and no spoken words exchanged so good for them for skipping this in the show as it wouldn't have worked too well i guess.
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I think I was expecting actual dialogue between them, just without them speaking aloud in the scene. We see a bit of the idea with Murderbot's visual information popping up beside him, which is actually intended to be what he is seeing. Just use that graphic with dialogue. Granted, in this story there wasn't a lot of need for it, but in other stories there are moments when the characters are having a secret conversation with others present.
 
theenglish said:
I think I was expecting actual dialogue between them, just without them speaking aloud in the scene. We see a bit of the idea with Murderbot's visual information popping up beside him, which is actually intended to be what he is seeing. Just use that graphic with dialogue. Granted, in this story there wasn't a lot of need for it, but in other stories there are moments when the characters are having a secret conversation with others present.
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That can still be done in future seasons if the story calls for it, it just didn't seem necessary this season.
 
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