So they really were just like "let's see how many h/c bingo squares we can tick off for Gurathin in this episode," huh. (For the record: I approve wholeheartedly.)
Especially in light of the paralleling with Murderbot, I feel I should have seen that wet dishrag facesplat coming from the other person on the team guaranteed to insist that they are fine right until their physical apparatus dramatically nopes out on them, but I did not and it was amazing.
If the entire team only found out his whole traumatic backstory (suicidal ideation! forced drug addiction!) A MONTH AGO, no wonder they've been going out of their way to reassure him that he's loved and wanted the whole mission.
Zero percent convinced it's getting through, but I appreciate their efforts.
Also: I know it's part of their culture, but I am with Gurathin - and Murderbot - on wanting nothing to do with the emotional sharing circle.
I actually love that it seems to work as a form of check-in and mediation for the Preservation natives, but I also feel we haven't seen it really stress-tested—both times in this most recent episode, the practice gets interrupted—and I would really like to, because it's so rare to depict that kind of difficult conversation. Everybody yelling is not the same thing.
but they're still people, and the close shot on the face of the decapitated SecUnit at the end of the episode really underscores that.
Yes. I loved that. We hadn't seen one of their faces before: they might as well have been robots, video-game cannon fodder to the audience, too. Its decapitation is not machinelike.
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Especially in light of the paralleling with Murderbot, I feel I should have seen that wet dishrag facesplat coming from the other person on the team guaranteed to insist that they are fine right until their physical apparatus dramatically nopes out on them, but I did not and it was amazing.
If the entire team only found out his whole traumatic backstory (suicidal ideation! forced drug addiction!) A MONTH AGO, no wonder they've been going out of their way to reassure him that he's loved and wanted the whole mission.
Zero percent convinced it's getting through, but I appreciate their efforts.
Also: I know it's part of their culture, but I am with Gurathin - and Murderbot - on wanting nothing to do with the emotional sharing circle.
I actually love that it seems to work as a form of check-in and mediation for the Preservation natives, but I also feel we haven't seen it really stress-tested—both times in this most recent episode, the practice gets interrupted—and I would really like to, because it's so rare to depict that kind of difficult conversation. Everybody yelling is not the same thing.
but they're still people, and the close shot on the face of the decapitated SecUnit at the end of the episode really underscores that.
Yes. I loved that. We hadn't seen one of their faces before: they might as well have been robots, video-game cannon fodder to the audience, too. Its decapitation is not machinelike.