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Some more behind the scenes photos from Roseanne Liang, the director of episode 9!

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Ah, Murderbot Episode 9, a premium quality episode. 💜 I'm pretty busy this week, so fair warning, tonight you're going to get a limited number of thoughts in whatever order they come out of my head.

- I love that they kept the part where Murderbot saves Mensah from the beacon launch, because it's a poignant moment by nature, and the whole way it was portrayed in the episode made it even more poignant. Like, fuck, if I were a touch more emotional right now and hadn't somewhat expected that outcome, it's likely I would've teared up.

- I love everyone in this episode. Murderbot and PresAux that is (although GrayCris was very good at being bad).

- Mensah was so cool coming in to save the day at the last minute, standing by her principles and doing the hard thing even if she didn't know if it would work out. The fact that she came back specifically to save Murderbot!

- It's a nice detail that Murderbot didn't know how to say goodbye to PresAux when it was being taken away with GrayCris. It cares about them, but it's still not at a point where it can articulate that very well to other people.

- Gurathin definitely seemed to move into the category of "frenemy/ally" in this episode. He recognized that Murderbot was one step ahead of them the whole time but was able to figure out what it was doing fairly quickly, probably, as he said, since he'd been in its head. And I suspect the fact that Murderbot was willing to sacrifice its own life so that PresAux would be safe, and that it protected Mensah's life at the end, will have finally convinced him that Murderbot is on their side.

- Pin-Lee was also badass this episode, and they and Gurathin made a good team (unrelated to the fact that apparently both of them find Mensah hot, lol). Also Pin-Lee's complaint that Gurathin didn't need to say every thought that comes into his head out loud — I have literally said that to people almost word for word (and thought it silently even more times), lol. They're also going to have to deal with the fact of killing someone this episode, which was actually highly realistic, as it's difficult to hit people in the head hard enough to knock them out but still avoid killing or permanently injuring them.

- Ratthi, Bharadwaj, and Arada had less to do but were still fun to watch while they were doing it. I like that they teamed up in their decision to trust Murderbot and accept the consequences of that decision.

- Murderbot's internal monologue was very funny throughout the whole episode. Also the fact that it said "We can talk about this!"

- I never in a million years predicted that Murderbot would use the severed SecUnit head. The McGuffin that we didn't know was a McGuffin (which might actually contradict the definition of a McGuffin — I'm a little vague on the nuances of the term. I do know what an anagram is though). 😉

All in all, this episode met and exceeded my expectations, and I'm very much looking forward to the finale next week!

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Several behind the scenes photos and a few videos from Amanda Brugel, who played the GrayCris leader!