Like you, I find Murderbot's sense of self, in particular in opposition to humans and their weird behaviors, really fascinating. But I read the moments where he's mesmerized by things like soaps not as him looking for human emotions as much as observing this weird and fascinating otherness?
I agree that there's a definite desire to anthropomorphize Murderbot, which is just as bad as any other version of it is. But I'm not sure if it's the author or the reader who performs that? I mean, there's definitely an opening the text leaves for allowing the reader to feel the hugs, but I'm conflicted if it's a function of the text or a function of "our" collective desire to see the Virgin Mary in a potato...
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Date: 2020-06-28 09:18 pm (UTC)I agree that there's a definite desire to anthropomorphize Murderbot, which is just as bad as any other version of it is. But I'm not sure if it's the author or the reader who performs that? I mean, there's definitely an opening the text leaves for allowing the reader to feel the hugs, but I'm conflicted if it's a function of the text or a function of "our" collective desire to see the Virgin Mary in a potato...