{"id":15485,"date":"2025-05-16T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=15485"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:41:06","slug":"the-first-two-episodes-of-murderbot-got-me-hooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/05\/16\/the-first-two-episodes-of-murderbot-got-me-hooked\/","title":{"rendered":"The first two episodes of Murderbot got me hooked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Murderbot action figure.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Murderbot-action-figure.jpg\" alt=\"Murderbot action figure.\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" \/>The show is well done and Murderbot\u2019s inner dialog is hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I\u2019d identify with Murderbot, my inner dialog is a lot like his.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Humans are idiots!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Oh what now?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Eye Contact? I should have gone with the acid bath<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd in the first two episodes was great. Simultaneously playing an android that is generally annoyed by people, and portraying an innocent fear of being found out.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is that he\u2019s managed to hack his governor programming and now has free agency. He doesn\u2019t have to obey humans anymore, yet the alternative if he\u2019s found out, is termination.<\/p>\n<p>Technically he\u2019s a \u201cRogue\u201d android, but rather than slaughtering humans who have technically enslaved him, he\u2019d rather watch soap operas from the corporate satellite feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Being a security android, it turns out, he can do both. Generally keeping an eye on the idiotic humans at the same time as he\u2019s watching his shows.<\/p>\n<p>And if the humans figure out that he\u2019s rogue, well, he can kill them later.<\/p>\n<p>Apple had better have Murderbot action figures in their stores by Christmas! In the opening sequence for the show, the Secunit factory looks like they\u2019re already have the necessary ray tracing for a 3D printed action figure.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, I\u2019d pay for a Murderbot voice and personality for Siri. Especially if it was voiced by Skarsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I\u2019m looking forward to the next episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The show is well done and Murderbot\u2019s inner dialog is hysterical. Of course I\u2019d identify with Murderbot, my inner dialog is a lot like his.\u00a0 \u201cHumans are idiots!&#8220; \u201cOh what now?&#8220; \u201cEye Contact? I should have gone with the acid bath&#8220; Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd in the first two episodes was great. Simultaneously playing an android that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/05\/16\/the-first-two-episodes-of-murderbot-got-me-hooked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The first two episodes of Murderbot got me hooked.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,55,73],"tags":[178,228,219],"class_list":["post-15485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-entertainment","category-fun","tag-apple","tag-entertainment","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15490,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485\/revisions\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}