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[meta] The Murderbot Diaries and Terminator: Dark Fate: What Does a Killer Robot WANT, Anyway? by Artemis_Meta (ArtemisTheHuntress)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Terminator (Movies)
01 Jun 2024
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The Murderbot Diaries is, in part and among other things, in conversation with the Terminator movie franchise. It asks, what would a killer robot like the Terminator actually want if given the chance?
What was super interesting is another sci-fi work that came out around around the same time that asked the same question: the latest movie in the Terminator franchise itself.
The parallels fascinated me.
In the 2010s sci-fi zeitgeist, looking back at tropes set in the 80s, both the quirky queer novella series and the action-blockbuster franchise movie asked, what would a killer robot WANT, anyway, and what would its relationship with its human foil look like freed from its programmed obligation to kill her?
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[meta] Friend Like Me: Murderbot's Relationships With Other AIs throughout The Murderbot Diaries by Artemis_Meta (ArtemisTheHuntress)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jun 2024
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An analysis of Murderbot's many and varied relationships with other AI/robot characters throughout The Murderbot Diaries, how that contrasts with the way AI characters are often presented in sci-fi, and why that matters.
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On Threats to Murderbot’s Sense of Safety, Sense of Self, and Sense of Belonging by meta_ofthespheres (musicofthespheres)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 May 2024
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or: How the People We Meet Change Us, And Why That’s Not a Bad Thing
An analysis of Murderbot’s emotional foils and its character arc across the first three novellas of The Murderbot Diaries.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot Meta
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[Meta] Name Dropping by ArtemisTheHuntress, FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 May 2024
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Murderbot tends to call bots by descriptive identifiers, rather than human-facing names.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot Meta