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Lanna Michaels ([personal profile] lannamichaels) wrote in [personal profile] sholio 2025-06-27 07:50 pm (UTC)

And another unambiguous parallel in this episode: that the enemy SecUnits are people, and have as little choice about what they do as SecUnit would have had before it overrode its governor module. Murderbot pointing out that Mensah has also killed somebody! The humans do react differently to dead constructs than to dead humans - that's completely obvious at the end of the episode, Ratthi cheering and congratulating MB after the enemy SecUnit's death, a wild contrast to what happened with Leebeebee ... 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.

This is such a great point!


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