Murderbot - S01E03 - Risk Assessment

[00:00:18] Welcome to The Lorehounds, the preferred pop culture soap opera for sec units that have hacked their governor modules. I'm John and I'd like you to take a seat so that we can talk about your feelings. Hi, and I'm Alicia standing here wondering what I'm going to do with this walking stick and shell-based wind chime I made for our murdered colleagues on the other side of the planet. Spoilers for the first three episodes of Murderbot. We do have screeners, but we've not watched ahead. Never fear, we're not going to spoil it. And Alicia, you've read the first novella and some more?

[00:00:48] Yeah, I've read about the first novella and about a third of the next one. Although I've paused it now because I'm reading A Night of the Seven Kingdoms again. It's a good series, A Night of the Seven Kingdoms. I actually did end up finishing the first Murderbot novella over the weekend. I was like, you know what, I'm this far through, I'm just going to finish it, it's pretty short. And it was good. Honestly, I liked it better towards the end. So, looking forward to seeing the rest of the season.

[00:01:15] Yeah, me too, me too. And it feels like they're pulling forward some little things. Like, they bring up one thing that wasn't in the first book. So I did Google it. And then I saw, oh, it's a thing from a future book. Look away, look away. Right. That's always the game with, you know, I'm reading a couple of series right now that have a lot of big reveals and I'm like, I just can't Google anything. I just have to live with it. It is what it is. So what was your hot take on this season? On this episode? My God.

[00:01:44] Yeah, I mean, this was a really short episode. So episode three, risk assessment, only 23 minutes. I was, and I was honestly surprised to see that I checked the runtime like halfway through because I felt like it felt longer than that in a good way to me. Like the pacing was really on point. So it felt like they packed in a lot in a short runtime. And yeah, I'm enjoying these short seasons. Hmm. What did you think of this one?

[00:02:15] I think that that was not the kind of cliffhanger I like, you know, what's going to happen? You know, is that person going to die? I don't love that kind of cliffhanger. But and I do think that this would have done better as a 40 minute episode that actually finished whatever was happening. But I don't know exactly what they're planning to cover in the next episode. Maybe that'll be longer and then it'll make sense. Yeah, but we'll see. We'll see. I did enjoy the episode overall. Like the tone is still working for me. I am enjoying.

[00:02:43] Watching murder bot, murder bot through the world and, you know, throw up the hollow screen to watch their shows. It shows whatever the pronoun is now for murder bot. But but but yeah, I will say Rathi is my favorite now. He's so funny the whole time. I love that comic relief. And and Mensa is just very wholesome. And I appreciate that.

[00:03:08] No, I love Mensa. Yeah. I mean, as far as the cliffhanger, it's it's one of those ones also where it's like, oh, you like we're supposed to believe that maybe the character the show is named after is dead in the third episode. Seems unlikely. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's also I mean, we just finished and or which is a whole story. That's a prequel for somebody we know is alive at the end. Right. So so anytime you would have like had him at gunpoint, it would have felt silly to end an episode there.

[00:03:37] And I do think it felt a little silly to end the episode here. Yeah. I mean, I guess the and even I'm even saying this as a as a book reader, I guess the real cliffhanger for me is who what who or what is that? You know, the whoever's in black. Is that another sec unit? Is that a human? Is that what? Yeah. The person who knows. Who knows? I guess I guess we should figure that out next. We got to talk about the plot.

[00:04:05] Yeah, I guess that's an episode for you. Read it for us. Sure. So the plot of this episode is picking up where episode two left off. Murderbot joins Mensa, Arata, Pinli and Rati to travel around the world to visit the non responsive dealt fall base on the other side. But Gaurathan and a still healing bard watch stay behind to mine the base where Gaurathan finds her crying through her creature attack PTSD and comforts her awkwardly.

[00:04:34] Once the rest of the team arrives near the dealt fall base, Rati, who slept through weapons training, stays on the ship while the others follow Murderbot toward the base. And Murderbot heads inside Solo and finds the team and their three contracted sec units dead. Or so it thinks. While the one trying to protect the communications unit was very dead, one of the other two was only playing dead. Murderbot is able to overpower the damaged unit using software to predict its moves.

[00:05:03] Murderbot notices that the sec unit has a combat override module installed. And then someone in all black walks around the corner shooting an arm laser directly at Murderbot fade to black. I thought this was a fun adventure. You know, that's most of what I could say about this. There is this developing mystery of what's happening to this other, you know, dealt fall. Right. Habitat. We'll see, I guess, in the next episode if we figure some of that out.

[00:05:33] Yeah. Yeah. The humor is still quite on point for me. I like Gaurathan's like is just saying full out in front of Murderbot. They probably have better sec units than ours and Murderbot's like harsh, but fair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I, I, the self-deprecation is, is fun. It's, uh, it's, it's working for me. The whole thing. Um, I did want to point out that they talk a lot about these beacons.

[00:05:56] That's a whole thing in the book that you can send up these beacons that, um, that basically call the company to come rescue you in case of trouble. So that's why, you know, they were debating Gaurathan's like, we could just send up the beacon now and leave. And Mensa's like, no, the company will not say that we failed because we're a free planet. You know? So yeah, that's, uh, I guess one of the things they're going to be looking into with this other. Yeah.

[00:06:23] It's they were, they were like, well, the fact that they didn't send the beacon, is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing? Well, it certainly is not a good thing. Yeah. I do think we have these, you know, as much as it's, it's a light show in terms of comedy, like we do have these developing tensions of one, you have this external force attacking dealt fall. We see two, you have the internal is murder bot. You know, they don't even call it murder bot, right? They just call it sec unit. Is this sec unit rogue? What are we going to do about that?

[00:06:52] And if it is, uh, they can't agree on that either. Uh, and then three, this like political aspect of, you know, us versus the corporation. Mm-hmm. So that's good. I mean, for, for a 20 minute show, they amped up every one of those, which I thought was great. Yeah. Yeah. And there was this key moment from the books that was in the show where, so I find, um, a lot of the changes that they make from the book to the show to be good because they're expanding things, you know? And I, and I quite like it.

[00:07:21] Um, this one I'm not sure about, so it's this moment that really stuck with me from the book. Uh, the show version is Mensa asks murder bot to keep its helmet down. Uh, she says, so the others remember that you were part of the team and murder bot says, who the hell ever said I was part of a team? Um, so in the book version that happens a bit later and, uh, we get Mensa waiting on the ramp to talk to sec unit and says, you know, I, um, I know you're more comfortable with keeping it.

[00:07:51] You're more comfortable with keeping your helmet opaque, but the situation has changed. We need to see you. And murder bot doesn't want to do it because they know too much already about it. Um, and, and they want to murder bot just wants to, uh, watch TV basically in the helmet and all that. Yeah. Um, it's better if humans can think of me as a robot. It says, and she says maybe under normal circumstances, uh, she was trying not to make eye contact, which I appreciated, but this situation is different.

[00:08:20] It would be better if they could think of you as a person who is trying to help because that's how I think of you. I don't know. That just feels a bit warmer to me. And sometimes, and maybe it's because of the short episodes. Sometimes, uh, the characters feel a little more curt in the show. Yeah, that's probably true. True. I wonder why they went with such a short runtime. Like I know the, the novella is like 96 pages, right? It's not long. It's I get that, but I wonder why they didn't flush it out a little bit more.

[00:08:47] I mean, I guess maybe they're thinking it's a low barrier to entry like that. Yeah. Maybe. Or also keeps costs down. Yeah. And, and, you know, I do think we undervalue short TV these days, you know, everything's an hour, uh, and, or 45 minutes at least. And then you're like, Oh, do we do, do I really want to sit that long? Sometimes sometimes it's nice to just have a quick comedy on. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. No, I think. And, and to be honest, um, I have been rewatching the episodes that we have seen so far. So nice.

[00:09:17] Um, and, and just because it's short, it makes it really easy to rewatch before bed. Yeah. Nice and short. I've just been binging classic doctor who that's been my, my, um, before bed show. Yeah. I decided I'm going to go watch the first episodes. Uh, the ones that feature Susan for no particular reason. Are you talking about her introduction or, uh, okay. Her introduction. And then what is she?

[00:09:47] How long is she around? Uh, two seasons. She's two seasons and a half, I think, which, and they're like 40 something episodes a season. At first. Okay. So I'm thinking like her introduction and, and her goodbye, I guess. Yeah. Look, I, I, I have to be honest with you and this is not a doctor who podcast. We'll get to that later in the week. Uh, or I guess tomorrow from when this, uh, when this airs, but, uh, Susan is not the most developed character. I don't think you really need to watch too much of her to get the gist. Right. Right. Okay.

[00:10:17] I'm going to watch those and I'm going to watch, I think the five doctors. Okay. That's the last time she was there. I think. Yeah. I think you're right. Yeah. Yeah. I already did all the episodes with the other character, but anyway, that's the other, but, um, speaking of murder bot, what did you think of Garothans? Well, okay. So we have Garothans trying very awkwardly to comfort Baradwaj, but in saying like, I have some behavior therapy, like to play them. They're non-specific.

[00:10:47] Like, don't tell me your stuff. They're non-specific. Um, and, um, Baradwaj is basically like, yeah, I think I'm okay. Mr. Obviously doesn't want to talk about this, but then, so then we get murder bot judging him. Murder bot would have done way worse. Don't you think? Yeah. I, I do think this is, you know, and I'm not neurotypical either. So, so I just want to make that clear here. Uh-huh.

[00:11:11] Uh, I do think these are two neurodivergence with conflicting, um, conflicting, uh, communication patterns that are, are having trouble seeing eye to eye, but don't see that they have a lot of the same traits. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You know, I think we're supposed to note the hypocrisy. Yeah. What, what did you think Garothan sneaking into Mensa's room to smell her pillows was about? Was that like a motherly thing or like a girlfriend thing or something else?

[00:11:41] Oh, he's straight up Homelander. He's, he's looking in the fridge for some, uh, I'm not going to say it. Oh no. Don't make me think of Mensa like that. She's already got in the fridge. She's already got apparently more than two spouses. So. Oh gosh. Yeah. He's, he keeps it all bottled up. Yeah. No, I'm, I, that was a interesting twist because he did also say in the previous episodes

[00:12:08] that she's the one who brought him into the preservation Alliance in the first place. Yeah. That is interesting. And, and I think he's the one who's most resistant to seeing sec units as people. Right. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It was funny. Um, this is basically no more of a machine than Garothan is. Rati says, and inside murder broads head. Oh, hold on. I definitely am more machine than he is. That's funny.

[00:12:38] You know, it's, it's funny. You know, I, I brought up neurodiversity before because that's, that's a part of the show, right? Like murder bot is in large part, like a metaphor for neurodivergence. Uh, and, and I do think Garothan is sort of a, uh, a counterpoint for him, right? He's, he's sort of somebody who has similar traits in this metaphorical, uh, parallel, but, but they just can't get along.

[00:13:04] I, I, I, and it almost reminds me of Tolkien talking about his son where he, he said, uh, he, he's such a curmudgeon and such as all this. And he goes, and he reminds me exactly of myself. He, he like complains about him and he's like, just like me. Yeah. Well, sometimes we get most irked by traits that we have ourself when we see ourselves in them. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you're right. Rathi is, is delightful.

[00:13:33] He just has no concept of invading murder bot space on the trip over and starts talking about like clone parts and feelings. Uh, that seems basically straight from the book. Um, but it's funny how everyone else is like, leave it alone. And he's like, oh, just go apologize. No. Stop. Yeah. The comedy there was good. I, that's what I'm saying. I love Rathi. I love when he forgot to forgets to turn his mic off later. And he's like, oh, you were hung over. So you missed the combat training and everybody's like, oh my God, dude.

[00:14:03] And then men says like, okay, murder, but new, sorry. She doesn't say that. Okay. Second it new comms just for us. Yeah. Yeah. There, that is a thing in the book too, is she always like, she often opens up channels just between them. Right. And it's like, all right, let's just chat for a minute. Cause the other ones are a little weird sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. It can be a bit much with all of them. Yeah. And of course we have, they've amped up versus what we've read in the book so far, at least this whole thruple thing.

[00:14:30] And, um, yeah, there, there's, that's also something like murder bots seems curious about, but also grossed out by, um, and you know, it's, it's interesting to see how these like errata seems oblivious to the fact that pin leads not comfortable the situation and Rati of course is oblivious to everything. You know, next week on seeking sister wife, we are going to have, uh, quite, quite the drama.

[00:15:00] I wonder if there's a, um, we got this time the shows, uh, strife in the galaxy was the new show this week, which murder bot says is so unrealistic, but he's watching it anyway. Yeah. I feel like seeking sister wife could be another TV show in this world. I'm sure it is. Look, reality TV will never die at this point. It's a drug that we can't quit. I also like, okay.

[00:15:26] So pin Lee says, you know, they did their weapons training mostly on games and Rati's like, they're amazing on killjoy, bloodlust tech riot. Like what a name. I, I, I have no idea what games would be in this universe, but, but I kind of want to try it, you know? Yeah. Killjoy, bloodlust tech, right? I'm not really much of a first person shooter, but it's interesting. And then, okay.

[00:15:50] So what was also was interesting about this exchange is that, um, yeah, so pin Lee Rati gave a pin Lee a compliment. Pin Lee says, thank you. And then a rod is like, what? I didn't know you played that. And pin Lee says, I don't. So what is that about? Why is pin Lee lying about playing this game clearly been playing? I don't know. Maybe it's just embarrassed about being a gamer that, you know, now there's still, it's going

[00:16:18] away, but there's still like the stigma of like, oh, well you can sit on your couch and watch TV for six hours. But if you do that with a video game, you got a problem. Hmm. You know, that's still a thing that is like a weird attitude that people have sometimes. Yeah. And, uh, I don't know. Maybe that's that they're saying that that's still around over there. Or maybe a Rata thinks it's too violent or something. Maybe, maybe. Violent video games are fun though. I gotta say, sorry, Marilyn.

[00:16:47] I, I mean, I don't dislike violent video games, but I do really like the ones where I get to walk around and like talk to everyone in the magical town. And yeah. Yeah. And then you call a dragon down and then you fight the dragon. Yeah. Yeah. And we're all fighting. Um, but they're not because the satellite goes down and we find out that Pinley has been tracking regular outages with the satellite and hasn't found a, um, hasn't found a pattern yet, but that feels like something we should be paying attention to.

[00:17:40] Mm-hmm. It says, uh, you don't, she asks, you don't mean to harm any of us, do you? Pause. My job is to protect you from harm. You just took quite a pause before saying that. Yes. Uh, very reassuring, very reassuring. Murderbot's going to lay awake at night thinking about that moment. Yeah, exactly. I do like, there's something that I didn't really consider when reading the book, even that they bring up here, which I think is interesting.

[00:18:08] They go, you know, and, and maybe, did you say it was a direct lift? I just forgot it. But this idea of like, oh, you have organic tissue. So that means you have feelings. And, and like, I didn't really consider that. That's in the book. Yeah. Okay. Well then I just forgot it. But, um, yeah, I, I, I do like that idea of like, it's not just machine, right? It's, it's, it's got this baseline of emotion that is making it feel completely socially awkward in every situation. Yeah.

[00:18:35] But then, you know, I mean, so obviously the question we're focusing on is does how human is Murderbot, but then the question extends from there. What about other AI that doesn't have organic parts? Good question. Good question. Um, so the thing that I was saying that was brought up that I see must be, it must be

[00:18:59] from a future book because it is in the Wikipedia is something about a Rati says, we should remember our history, Captain Makeba, the rescue and all that. Hmm. So that's something. What is that? Yeah. That's not in the first book, but it's in the Wikipedia or the, sorry, not the Wikipedia, you know, whatever the, the Murderbot wiki. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The fandom dot whatever. Yeah. Yep. Um, but question though.

[00:19:28] So Rati, when after this, they're being nice to Murderbot again and they're like, okay, we're going to do our little huddle thing where we all hold hands. And Rati says to Murderbot, get in here. And Murderbot's like, no, is that considered? Uh, does that count as a direct order that was ignored? Yes, absolutely. It does. I, I, I think Murderbot's just exposing itself already. I had that same thought too when I watched it. I was like, oh, that's, I wonder why Gaurathan. Oh, you, was Gaurathan there? He was right.

[00:19:58] No, Gaurathan was back at the, um. Oh, okay. Okay. I was going to say Gaurathan would have been like, Hey, look, look. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's true. The others were distracted by the satellites going down and the other worries. Yeah. Okay. They might later come back to it and be like, wait a minute. Right. We'll see. We'll see. All right. You want to take a quick break and then we'll come back and finish this episode? Let's do that.

[00:20:36] And we're back. And we took quite a long pause before saying that. So, uh, what, what else you got for me? You got something about Mensa? Yeah. Um, so Mensa also, we have this moment on the transport over where Mensa just starts telling murder bot all of her shit about, uh, that she's worried. It's the leader of this expedition that they haven't found anything valuable yet, no resources or information, but they need to stay economically independent because some

[00:21:05] of her old colleagues and preservation Alliance actually want to join the corporation rim. And, um, she says her family didn't want her to go. Two of her spouses said they thought she was doing it to escape home responsibilities. And murder bots, like, you're welcome. Can I go back to my show now? Um, but yeah, so we, we see that there's tension in whatever is going on with preservation

[00:21:32] Alliance where Mensa is just like, uh, we have to make this work. We have to prove it to ourselves. We have to prove it to everyone back home. We have to prove it to the company that we can make this work independently. Yeah. And, uh, that, that's interesting. You know, it's, it's a rage against the machine moment. Hmm. We gotta, we gotta beat the corporation at their own game. Right. Yeah. That's the question. Can you beat the corporation at its own game or do you have to change the rules?

[00:22:01] Yeah. I mean, I guess that's what they're trying to do. Change the rules. But then in order to expand or whatever they're trying to do with this survey mission, you know, find the resources or information or whatever, um, they have to still then go back to the company and play within their roles to do this. Right. That's what I mean. Like, you're just, I don't know if you're ever going to like beat the corporation by buying a contract from them. Right.

[00:22:26] And it is interesting that Mensa says all this to murder bot knowing that it sends data back to the company. I wonder how much Mensa suspects that murder bot has stopped doing that. Hmm. Yeah. I feel like I mean, he's pretty trusting a murder bot. Yeah. But murder bot does have to send at least some data back as so as to not out itself. That's true. That's true. But can be selective. I presume. Yeah. I wonder how much murder bot is sending.

[00:22:56] Yeah. Yeah. Enough to be like, no, everything's fine here and going forward. Yeah. Leave us alone. Yeah. No, no dead dealt fall. Don't worry about it. Hmm. My favorite line of the episode, though, was at the start of this conversation with Mensa. What is it with humans and sitting? It's like a fetish to them. It kind of is. We like a good set. Yeah. Yeah. You have to sit to talk. I liked. I liked. I really liked when they landed at the other site.

[00:23:25] The other site was much prettier, not just bigger, but also they had all this cool alien flora and fauna and like the rainbow crabs and the cool trees and stuff. Really puts into perspective how poor Z the they're treating the other group, right? They're like, oh, you guys can slum it. Yeah. You get that rocky crater. Have fun. Yep. They're like, you know what? Move the bodies. We're moving in. Yeah. Yeah. But they're the ones who are not dead yet. So.

[00:23:55] Right. That's true. That's true. They got to. They got to get the people with more resources first, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And my other favorite line was once Murderbot goes inside, I've got a visual on one of their security units and it's an image of the head is half missing. It's on standby. That's one way to put it. Yeah. So, yeah. Do they need help? No. Well, yeah, true. They do not need help. They're beyond that. Right. Right.

[00:24:25] But why do you think Murderbot didn't want to tell them that everybody was dead? Because obviously, like, they're not going to accept. Well, OK, we'll just live with that mystery for an answer. I think it was. Well, what Murderbot said, I think, was like, was already curious. Right. I shouldn't have gone in, but I was already curious. And and Murderbot didn't want to get called back. And I think Murderbot knew that if it told Mensa that everybody was dead, Mensa would be like, all right, let's go. Let's go.

[00:24:56] Because you think you think Murderbot would have gotten called back. And Murderbot wanted to solve the mystery. I wanted to see what was going on a little bit. OK. OK. Murderbot's been watching a lot of TV and wants the narrative to finish. That's true. That's true. Murderbot is probably there's some detective shows in that. That's right. I'm sure there's a whole arc of Sanctuary Moon with a murder mystery. Oh, for sure. I loved Murderbot faking static. It's like the thing where you're like, oh, sorry, I'm going through a tunnel.

[00:25:24] Oh, you know, it's just thinking about Sanctuary Moon. Wouldn't it be great if they got Catherine O'Hara to start? And it's just like, you know, because because Sun Moonrise Bay, Sunrise Bay, whatever it was, her fake show in Schitt's Creek. I feel like if you just did that in space, it would be amazing. Or the one with the ravens. What was it? Oh, yeah. The crowing or something like that. I want the we only we didn't get enough of that original cast.

[00:25:53] I thought that they were going to that we saw of Sanctuary Moon with like John Cho and Clark Gregg and stuff. I wonder if it's just going to be cameos forever. Yeah, I think probably. Probably. I mean, if there's was it wasn't like 500 episodes or something like that? Like it's maybe it's like Doctor Who where they're just like constantly replacing people. Yeah, probably. I mean, I would have loved if they gave us like a through line story within the story, but that's not how they do it in the in the books either. It's just right.

[00:26:23] It makes references to stuff it likes. Yeah. Yeah. Which is fine. I mean, murder bots probably going through these episodes like crazy, right? I mean, at far higher pace than we could. Yeah. Do you get the sense that Arata might be a little more dimwitted than the others? Arata doesn't seem to at least well, maybe not. Maybe that's an unfair way to put it. Maybe just more oblivious. I should say even more. Less less common sense. Let's say.

[00:26:52] You know, less situational awareness. Yeah. Like just like what do I do with these gifts when I don't know? Everybody's murdered. Who cares? Drop them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's there's no situational awareness there. No, no. And then also just like not noticing how uncomfortable Pin Lee is with the whole Rati situation. And yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. There's there's not not a lot of thinking there going on under the cap. No, no.

[00:27:21] Just like happy to exist, which honestly, I'm jealous. Yeah. Right. Seems like a nice way to live. Yeah. To put in and or terms, it must be nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's that basically takes us to the end of the episode. It was a short episode, but we didn't talk before about the opening credit sequence, which. So most of it's quite clear so far. We got the second unit assembly line.

[00:27:47] We see murder bot flying through space, which is presumably metaphorical because that's not a murder bot power. Or we see the murder murder bot guarding the preservation ox team on their survey mission and then being surrounded by them. Can't tell if it's it seems menacing, but probably they're just asking it about its feelings. But then the at the end of that, we see what looks like a bunch of sec units in black or whatever that that.

[00:28:17] Character was who came in at the end of this episode, it's like there's a bunch of them chasing them down a hill. Hmm. So I wonder if that's a clue. It could be. We make the clues with my kids. A clue. A clue. Man, I used to watch that. How long has that been on? Oh, I have them watch the original. You know, you know, you got to watch the original. Steve. Steve's the only host. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

[00:28:47] So I don't know. Seven more weeks of murder bot to answer these questions. We got a lot to go. Not a lot of runtime, though. I mean, but but I think it's gonna be fun. You know, we'll be here every week. We'll keep talking and we'll have a good time. Yeah. I hope that more of the episodes are closer to the 30 minute mark. This one was quite short, but we'll see. We'll see. I have not looked ahead. Right. Yeah. I mean, even if they say this length, like I did really enjoy this episode. I'm not complaining. If it stays this quality, I'm good. The whole season.

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