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So what do we think of the Murderbot trailer over here?
I'm absolutely pumped. I can feel myself going into hyperfixation mode as we speak. I've always liked the books, but I seem to need visual media in order to really engage, and I'm engagaged.
Alexander Skarsgard is not what I'd expected MB to look like (or sound like) but as someone pointed out, he is very much what an evil megacorporation would think a 'standard' but threatening human would look like, so I can get behind it.
People have said that he is 'too gender' or 'too masculine' for the agender MB, but being agender has nothing to do with what you look like. I am agender and I look feminine. It's an inside thing not an outside thing.
If you see the short of MB being repaired, you will see that it has no nipples. I think that's a great detail. It also has no bulge - and really props to Skarsgard for not letting that worry him. I really appreciate both of these things.
Ratthi is just delightful (and very handsome, as is only right.)
Sanctuary Moon is just delightful too. I think I'll like it as much as Wormhole Xtreme.
Argh. I'm so excited rn. I can't wait!
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Date: 2025-04-14 08:23 am (UTC)From:Venturing into the wider Murderbot fandom, even book fandom, certainly does make you realize how far there is to go with even the realization that nonbinary people exist and have different pronouns than men and women. It's like pushing a rock uphill trying to get the wider MB fandom just to call MB 'it', let alone understand that it can be an it while still 'looking like' a he.
But I guess MB is also a great place to have those discussions and it's really going to crack open a vein of queerness that a lot of people outside fandom simply didn't know existed. Not a great time for it, in the present climate, but I think it's exciting anyway :) (Which doesn't stop it from being infuriating when you think that maybe people could have picked up on MB's pronouns after coming out of reading thousands of words where it describes itself as it.
I agree with you that I had always pictured MB as looking like a big man, although I wouldn't have objected at all if it had been played by someone like Gwendoline Christie (and that might have better explained why everyone who sees MB's face seems to want to rescue it.) But I agree that the corporations would be much more likely to make a white male when they were trying to come up with someone they thought was ideal for the police-like job of a SecUnit.