I just finished the last episode of season one, after finding myself unexpectedly drawn to the show. I wasn’t sure what to think going in and am glad I stayed. It can be gruesome at times, which is probably why my partner didn’t want to continue it, but I loved the story and cinematics quite a bit. I think Alexander Skarsgård performed excellently in this role. And rotten tomatoes indicates that people agree.
With so many shows being canceled, I have no expectations when watching anything. I’m happy to learn that Murderbot will have a second season. 💜🤖
P.s. I can’t wait for more Sanctuary Moon as well. Haha!
I always find the anthropomorphism of robots kinda lame and boring. Robots should be slaves. They shouldn’t have any personality. I don’t want to be their friends, and I don’t want to care about them. I don’t even like it when TTS tools sound like humans.
You’ve missed the point of the novels then. Murderbot is a slave until by chance he breaks his programming. He’s trying to keep up the slave facade despite being rather autistic.
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(Noting, because its gender is a big part of the novels)
Robots do not break their programming, because they have no desire to.
Isn’t it described as having human and robot parts?
I meant the thinking parts.
It’s not a robot. In the books Murderbot is a construct, made of hybridized biological and artificial components. However, there is an AGI characterized as having empathy and enjoying media in the books, so I suppose the series is just not going to be your cup of tea.
I don’t know how you can say that. The name of the show is Murderbot. Emphasis on the “bot”. It’s created, not born or bred. It clearly shows at several points in the show computational processes going on in it’s “brain”.
That’s a robot…?
It calls itself Murderbot but it’s out of a sardonic and pessimistic acceptance of its role in “The Company”, and a nod to a traumatic experience it had. In the books there is a clear delineation between bots, which have either no or limited machine learning, constructs, which are like human/machine hybrids, and augmented humans, who have cybernetic implants. It’s explained that constructs are made of cloned human tissue, and might have even been made of humans at one point.
However, there IS a character in the books that is described as an extremely advanced artificial intelligence bot, that has either no or limited biological components, and it’s characterized in the same ways that seem to bother you. So each to their own I suppose.