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valkryorUh, Murderbot? SecUnit? YOU NEED THERAPY. While your inorganic parts are running as optimal as ever, it's your squishy human bits that need some love. After everything you've been through, your PTSD is showing. Get some help, or I'll ask ART to sit on you. No hugs, because you don't like/want to be touched, but you're worrying your humans and that has to stop now.
(So many of us identify with Murderbot: it's just doing its best, you know? And it's often surprised that humans want it around and value more than just its processing speed and security protocols. Emotions are hard, okay?)
Also, go watch the show. It's pretty great and is hitting all the right beats, even if "it's not the same as the book" it has the feel of them. And of course it's not the same! It can't be! What I imagine when I read is not what the author, Martha Wells, imagined when she put down the words, and it won't be what the showrunners imagined when they started the heavy lifting of translating text-to-visual. The special effects are top notch, Corporation Rim is as awful as you expect, and the acting is superb. Like SecUnit (who often wonders what it's doing with its face) I don't know if Alexander Skarsgård knows what he's doing with his face (and if he does, he's conveying that "not knowing" perfectly).
(So many of us identify with Murderbot: it's just doing its best, you know? And it's often surprised that humans want it around and value more than just its processing speed and security protocols. Emotions are hard, okay?)
Also, go watch the show. It's pretty great and is hitting all the right beats, even if "it's not the same as the book" it has the feel of them. And of course it's not the same! It can't be! What I imagine when I read is not what the author, Martha Wells, imagined when she put down the words, and it won't be what the showrunners imagined when they started the heavy lifting of translating text-to-visual. The special effects are top notch, Corporation Rim is as awful as you expect, and the acting is superb. Like SecUnit (who often wonders what it's doing with its face) I don't know if Alexander Skarsgård knows what he's doing with his face (and if he does, he's conveying that "not knowing" perfectly).
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