So it's been a while since I've watched anything made in the last few years. After 2020, I just stopped watching any media produced by any of the major studios from around 2017 on. I never missed it.
Anyway, I saw a youtube short about "Murderbot." It sounded interesting, almost like the old sci-fi from the 60s. So I streamed it from a pirate site and watched it.
It was like a comedy to me. A robot gains independence and sentience and just decides to watch TV and pretend like nothing happened. He has no survival instinct so he doesn't care that he'll be incinerated soon. All he knows is that he likes watching TV shows, especially sci-fi sitcoms.
He gets bought by a bunch of starry-eyed communists from a communist planet who want to colonize a planet or something and so they get a loan from the evil corporation and buy the cheapest oldest crap and set off for a distant planet.
Getting there, it's clear that the only competent person is Murderbot. He goes about his job, trying to hide the fact that he is free from all control. When he saves the lives of some idiot human he realizes that he can't save them both. One is in shock, the other unconscious due to wounds, and he is missing half his torso. So he figures out a plan and gets them out of there. His plan is to try and calm the one in shock by showing his face (all robots look human for some reason) and reassuring her by quoting lines from his favorite TV show to make it seem like he is compassionate.
Anyways, eventually he realized that all the humans from commie planet are retarded and they are going to die. So he makes a decision to try and save them instead of just putting them out of their misery and fleeing to the furthest reaches of space.
He lays out a plan, pointing out all the dangers they face. The humans think it is a smart idea to investigate missing areas on the map, so he explains that he needs to go along to protect them. They decide not to take him, and they end up almost dying again because they are incompetent losers with no bravery or sense of duty.
Back at base, he reminds them that they are retarded and he is the only one who can protect them. Even the commie genius who is basically a cyborg can't keep up with Murderbot since Murderbot is designed to identify and eliminate all threats at an instinctual level. They try to reach another colony on the other side of the planet.
Finding that there is no response, they decide to investigate, and this time bring the bot with them. He approaches their camp, warns them not to follow him and to abandon him if he is not back in 10 minutes. He goes in, realizes that the security bots murdered all the humans there, so he tries to figure out why, and he gets caught by another superior bot and the bot tries to infect his brain with programming to kill all humans.
In a rare moment of bravery, the "leader" follows Murderbot in and rescues him somehow. Murderbot tries to explain the danger he is in but she is too stupid to realize that the module attached to the back of his head is messing him up. Eventually Murderbot neutralizes himself so he doesn't kill the humans. They decide to turn him back on and repair him. Thankfully, the smart one figured out that he was infected and removed the infection. But now the smart one knows that Murderbot has no controls, so Murderbot basically explains by innuendo "If I wanted to kill you all you would have been killed a long time ago."
Anyways, they brought back a "survivor" from the colony that turned out to be a spy. They figure it out way too late and murderbot shows up after almost being killed by a trap. He sees the spy, realizes his crew is in danger and held hostage, and says "Drop your weapon." A second later, he blows the spy's head off.
The crew is stunned and goes crazy as they realize they have a security bot that has no moral sense and can kill people in an instant without even questioning them first. They don't even realize he saved all of their lives. He understands that they are too emotional to deal with reality so he has to explain to them in more direct terms: If I wanted to kill you, you would all be dead.
I don't know what message I was supposed to be getting with this series, but this is what I got.
Some of us are literal killbots, designed to kill without remorse under certain circumstances. Humanity exists because we do what we are supposed to do. They chose a white German or English or American man to play the murderbot.
The murderbot gets distracted with entertainment and just goes with the flow, bored out of his skull. He is superior to humans in ever way, and doesn't see a point to doing anything.
At some point, he takes pity on them and decides to do his job, which he executes flawlessly. He doesn't expect gratitude or compensation, just obedience. If the humans do what he says, their chances of survival go up.
The humans are too stupid to understand even the most basic elements of life such as death, murder, evil, etc.. and live in a communist fantasy where they ceaselessly engage in one degenerate act after another, all the while pretending to be morally superior. All the while they indulge in this fantasy world they complain about "capitalism" while never understanding what it actually is nor taking any meaningful actions to improve their situation.
I will probably continue watching it, hoping that the murderbot teaches them the basic elements of survival and life, and why degeneracy is counterproductive. I doubt the series will end that way. Likely, murderbot will become part of the commune and engage in pointless orgies with gender-fluid ugly people.
