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.
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.
Yes, very much so. And Murderbot standing and staring at its head. I remember the end of the original novella, and I feel like the adaptation is doing a good job of underscoring the idea that they like it, they care for it, but they do not truly understand it, and for all their good intentions, they also have a huge amount of unrecognized prejudice in the way they respond to humans vs. constructs, that they haven't even begun to realize exists yet.
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The fandom helpfully presents parallel gifs:
https://www.tumblr.com/apodemus-sylvaticus/786898315399790592/faceplanting-after-an-injury-yet-another-thing
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.
Yes, very much so. And Murderbot standing and staring at its head. I remember the end of the original novella, and I feel like the adaptation is doing a good job of underscoring the idea that they like it, they care for it, but they do not truly understand it, and for all their good intentions, they also have a huge amount of unrecognized prejudice in the way they respond to humans vs. constructs, that they haven't even begun to realize exists yet.