commander data: "it" is a dehumanizing, depersonalizing, bigoted term. despite being an inorganic lifeform, i am a living being with pronouns and a name, and you will use them correctly or my three hot and burly best friends from my spaceship will come beat you up
sec "murderbot" unit: technically i *guess* i could be considered a cyborg and not a robot given the fact that i do contain biological components but if you even suggest that makes me semihuman let alone a human man so help you sancutary moon. my pronouns are it and its THANK you and my gender is "not applicable"
I think poor Gurathin ran out of data storage and had to sacrifice some Sanctuary Moon intentionally in favour of Murderbot's memories.
Which may also mean he intentionally downloaded as much of it as he could, because I think it would have been pretty easy for him to filter out and download everything that is NOT Sanctuary Moon and save a lot of storage, but he accepts that as stupid as it is it's important to Murderbot.
they both look so soft and vulnerable in that last scene together they are trusting each other with absolutely EVERYTHING comfortable eye contact, soft words, unspoken ones, hints of a smile, open and complete understanding, hearts broken yet so full
I've been playing too much Fear & Hunger I got tunnel visioned and forgot that the season finale of Murderbot came out this morning.
Let's get this done with so I can get this blog back on track for being more ART and less BLOG (except when Alien Earth episodes start dropping.... I'll return to these large episode discussions inevitably)
I gotta get onto the backlog of art I'd like to draw that's sprung from this show. I forgot to say this last time but: you know the drill.
"Where are my clients?"
"Don't worry about it."
NOT AGAIN HEHEHEHE NOT AGAIN
LOVE that we're seeing the gang in their preferred/home made outfits, the fashion choices are so fun and it really helps add to their personality when we get to see them in smart casual/formalwear.
Love that although this show has a lot of very modern hologram sci-fi interfaces, it still has a lot of the more traditional physical interfaces too. Not everything has to be sleep holograms all the time, I think both is good and this show strikes a really nice balance between hardware being very hard (Gurathin and the need for a direct cable uplink) and also so many things still being hologram based. Buttons and chunky devices and cables and handhelds, but also, soft screens and holographic interfaces that come and go connected to those chunky hardware bases with tactile buttons.
I'd need to re-watch Alien: Covenant but I remember feeling like it went too futuristic scifi (holographs galore) and lost the original aesthetic of the retro-scifi that Alien is defined by. Now I'm always going to love that, it's ingrained in me, but I think this show has more of a fresh take on the visuals that I've really appreciated.
At this point they're just getting AS to be a showoff. "got any neat but useless skills"
"Yeah guys check this out!"
Jokes aside - once again it's using colours in a really fun and specific way and I love that so much of the corporate aligned entities (people, uniforms, technology, locations) ends up being very limited in colour schemes and so specifically coded and associated to those assigned colours.
This entire scene was fantastic and I think it does a great job at highlighting once again how differently the CorpRim operates compared to PresAll - even just down to the majority of the Corp Reps sitting down (bar the Leader) so when Gurathin sit's down and so quietly murmers "we'll buy it" it's this timid but bold display of recognition that business is what they'll listen to. Business is what they understand, and just sitting down at the table potentially opens up that a communication that may be listened to more. It's a really subtle thing but the fact that he makes the move to sit down at the table first I think is very specific.
To then have the Corp Leader join him in sitting down - with recognition of the deal being presented, it's delightful. It's so uncomfortable but such a fun detail. It seems to insignificant on the surface but just the act of sitting at the table carries so much weight in this one moment. In an awfull, nasty and horribble way given the weight of capitalism bearing down on everyone and how painfull it is to have to 'play by their rules' (the corporations).
GOOD COLOURS. GOOD SET DESIGN.
Love how much this little clip of "the station" feels like public transport in australia. Like the big concrete slab walls with vending machines and big screens and arrows pointing places. These guys are authorised officers. If you're a vic resident you'll get that joke. (sorry international followers, I usually like to explain this sort of thing but it'll be a bit too long winded for this post)
UGH the decor. The wood! I don't know enough about furniture/interior design to clock what styles this is referential to or drawn from but I love how much this living space feels like it's a blend of so many things from both oldschool sci-fi series (it makes me think of the round table food scene from Alien, and various common room living spaces from other classic scifi like Star Trek) and modern architecture and design, but the use of WOOD in particular gives it a historical traditional feeling too. Combined with the concrete and the set in LED lights and it's such a wonderfull blend and contrast. Delightfull take on sci-fi architecture that as the cast and crew have said: might be in this world's future, might be in a galaxy far, far away. Who knows.
No but like: why does this look like it was filmed inside Melbourne RMIT???? I'm deadly serious.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGHHHHHHHH that was a good line. "Then I became more of a customer." just the absolute clarify of the threat. It's always fun when you get a scene where someone's kid or family member suddenly appears and everyone has to pretend they live normal lives to protect the sanctity and the innocence. But no, Gurathin straight up said "I will tell your kid you sold me drugs."
And I love that for him. Just the complete "You had a hand in almost ruining my life. Now I have that power." it's a see saw and it's swung violently up in his favor.
Then the justification. "I thought you could handle it."
I love when a character gets to have a "remember me :) I've changed :) I'm not fucking playing now :)" moment. Especially when we've only known them in the Now, so this gives an interesting glimpse into a past life we're only privy to thanks to inferred information and a handful of comments and small conversations.
GURATHIN I DON'T KNOW IF YOUR BRAIN CAN STORE THE ENTIRETY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF SANCTUARY MOON IT'S A VERY LARGE SERIES
There are some HEFTY implications to this. I mean I'm not just talking about Gurathin - because importing the entire data backlog and effectively personality of a SecUnit is leaving me with questions I'm not sure I want answered - but how will this irreparably change him? How will this irreparably impact MB?
This is also bringing up questions the critically acclaimed videogame SOMA explored with regards to the concept of copies of oneself. I kind of doubt the show will touch on this, and it'll probably be kept fairly straightfoward as the main concepts this show is deep diving are a bit different. But we could have two cakes. Who knows.
Maybe I should just wait and see lol
What in the bold villain medieval torture device is this LMAO
Hi everybody it's me. I'm going to be irreparably emotionally impacted by the choices I made today. I have obtained immense psychic damage.
Bro's just like me on day 1 of AVCON when I threw up on the lawn outside our air bnb
Ok not to be a real weirdo about this but - is Gurathin drinking water out of that cup instead of wine :))))))))))) that'd be real neat if he was
:')
And nice to see it being a subtle thing and not something anyone's brought attention to either.
GOD.
STOP THAT.
Ok we got the "it walks around disguised as a human" but not really in the way that I wanted and I'm devastated. I'm gutwrenched.
I think the ending of it leaving is incredibly poetic and important. But I'm going to be really sad I know it because although I'm sure I'll enjoy season 2, there's things I really wanted to see explored with PresAux and MB after this resolution of sorts that I fear will never be touched on. Alas, do I have to write fic? I fear I will.
It was a damn good ending - in a really fun way it sort of reinforces one of my theories from episode 1 where it was nervous wearing clothes and hesitated and freaked out at being offered a spot in the habitat - because in the moment I interpreted it as being terrified and nervous because part of it deep down wanted to be treated like a person, but it wasn't the right time or moment and for a second it thought about it before leaving. It hesitated. The opportunity presented and it terrified it because it didn't know how to take it and it wished it could in a way, but in a way that people understood it. And now finally it has that chance but on it's own terms. So many times it's been treated almost like a child and not been giving the breathing room, but now it has that chance to discover itself truly. I find this very relatable once again.
Good ending, strong ending, sad is good and important, but I will dearly miss the dynamics and personalities and potential of the PresAux crew if we do leave them behind for the most part for the rest of the series.
I really hope they still play a large part of the show - I want to see them grow as people as much as I want to see where MB ends up.
And yeah if uhhhhhhhh I think I'm going to explode if they don't do anything with "hey you gotta pretend to be a person. Stop standing so stiff. You need to smile. No not like that. Quick put this outfit on so it'll diguise your literal arm cannons." I'll fucking write it myself I'm so frustrated. I need to see them all go on some fucked up heist. Please.
Do you see my vision.
DON'T TELL ME TO READ THE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*rattling the bars of my cage* THEY PUT THEM IN THE ACID BATH AWAKE! THEIR GOVERNOR MODULES MAKE THEM REQUEST TO TURN DOWN THEIR PAIN SENSORS AND THEY PUT THEM IN THE ACID BATH AWAKE!!!
God, this is sooo Catherine! Wearing a veggie-print dress that looks like a Wedgwood strawberry pattern and holding a cup and saucer amid all the junk food and the wreckage of Slough House.
