um. WOW. (uh yeah murderbot episode 10 under the cut)
holy shittttt yeah no episode 10 was the actual best of this show
they were driving the mb and gurathin parallels up the fucking wall and it PAID OFF in this entire episode
also i dont think ive explicitly said this before, but yeah dastmalchian is AMAZING. especially in this episode, i was just glued to his facial expressions and acting and everything
would say the same, to a lesser extent, about skarsgard. lets be so for real: he is not the murderbot in my head and he is not the book murderbot, but after this last episode, i think i can now confidently say that THERE IS ROOM IN MY HEART for this version as well. just- everything he was doing, with the post-memory wipe, the goodbye, the last scene has shown me that he is just a really good actor. he knows how to do the acting thing. havent agreed with all the choices made as to how he should be acting, but excessive negativity is boring anyway and i appreciate his workkkk
ANOTHER point on the list: this episode was incredibly beautiful, i think moreso than all the others. the fact remains that the planet is just veeery rocky and gray, but im in love with how portfreecommerce looks, the colorful lights, the concrete, that one shot of the paneled ceiling, THE SHOT OF THE SPACESHIP LIFTING OFF (that one was very, very pretty)
now, to the smaller stuff: i think it was a good touch to see presaux more in their element. i personally dont buy into any of the „„slander““ of them like- radically differing in competency from the books to the point where its totally a bad thing, but seeing pin-lee lawyering it up and stuff was still very cool
next: i appreciated the demonstration scene, just because i like them very explicitly setting up things like the contract labor and how much the corporation rim sucks. i mean yeah to me it invites immediate comparison to andor which- yeah not quite a competition there, but theres a reason andor did it and theres a reason for this show to do it as well yknow?
on that note: mb being in that fight and „malfunctioning“ cause of its organic memory was very painful and a very good choice
and finally, im obsessed with those shots at the beginning, with the eye close-up and the light clicking on and off and stuff its amazing















