#tv murderbot

[securityunit-ese]

when you forget to strap down the transport box...

like would they travel upright for maximum propaganda when you open the box. or will there be safe saving versions? do secunits go in intact or disassembled? do you assemble them on site like an ikea?

i shared my thoughts on cubicles as fridges and secunit feet and secunit arm guns. now you get the transport boxes.

so i based this off a box in the background of episode 1 of the TV show (and the doors in the habitat). like for demo purposes, having it standing there makes a good showing when you open the door. but what if you want to save on space? have a small travel storage option

and also this was for a drawing workshop in the new tideland discord and i went nuts

im thinking the upright box, prob have a secunit mold you slap them in, or straps at least. while the small box - packing peanuts?

Here's a collection of frames for your viewing.

OH the warning labels on the boxes are:

automatic start up

surveillance in operation

non ionising radiation

high voltage

danger of death

battery charging area

explosive

radioactive

laser radiation

[mookyoobee]

So I think Murderbot would outlast his PresAux humans for sure. And out of all of its humans I think Gurathin is likely to go out first because well CR and his addiction background and augments. I wanna see Murderbot’s experience with its first death that’s not like any other deaths it had seen on its job.

Pls someone write something

[hopedtheredbestars]

Content Curation Matters

PSA: Tumblr offers users the ability to curate the content they see, and one of the most powerful tools for this is ✨TAG FILTERING✨

We love tag filtering! It enables us to quietly not see specific things we don't want to see! The things that upset us. The things that fill us with rage about a story we love being altered to be All About People With Penises and also to Mock the Idea That an Anti-Capitalist System Could Ever Work.

Unfortunately, the magic of ✨TAG FILTERING✨ requires that other people, often people entirely unknown to us, tag their posts thoroughly and thoughtfully.

95% of the shit currently in my Tumblr feed that I don't want to see would vanish if folks would use even one of the several tags specific to the TV portion of the larger Murderbot universe. So please, be nice. Tag your stuff, and allow me and those like me to stay over here in our niche with just the books. (Bonus: your post simultaneously becomes much easier for those actively seeking MBTV content to find!)

Thanks.

[racerd00ds]

Because it's different when it's consensual.

(shoutout to rosewind2007 for the top image)

[my-smial]

I watched the first two episodes of the Murderbot TV series, and I'm cautiously optimistic! It was genuinely good and fun. The writers aren't doing anything crazy with the plot of All Systems Red, so far, but they're also doing a good job of making a novella of less than 100 pages into an entire season of TV without it feeling forced and stretched.

I'm adoring the performance of Murderbot, actually, it's extremely awkward externally in a way that we don't get in the books from Murderbot's POV. Its voice (you can hear it in the trailer if you want) is really non-Hollywood and helps set the tone apart from being an action thriller. It's just so obviously uncomfortable at any and all times. The editing is comfortable having a voiceover monologue over a completely blank face/helmet for a minute at a time, which is great for a protagonist with an intense internal voice. They're handling all of the feed/hacking stuff with basic Sherlock-esque words spinning around on screen, which is... fine, and fine for keeping the budget reasonable. Doesn't enhance the experience, but it does basically work.

There's absolutely some directions the writers are going and choices they made that are tonally a bit different from the books, notably in how the humans interact with gendering and in some of the interpersonal relationships. I think these choices are motivated by 1.) lengthening the conflict, and 2.) making external conversations out of Murderbot's internal narrative. I'm cautiously optimistic that the writers have a good point to make and they'll get there, but it hasn't come up in the first two episodes. I can't decide yet whether these are good choices or not, but I do think it's good enough to give a try.

[securityunit-ese]

puzzling out book!murderbot feet by rotating them in my head

I've decided they are robot goat feet to enable all the parkour

[securityunit-ese]