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I was quite excited when we tried that version, when we trimmed all the fat of the dialogue down to the bare bones of that. David is such a phenomenal actor that it all lands in his face. You can see that in David's eyes, the implication, that Gurathin understands exactly what that means. It was a beautiful and horrible scene to shoot. It was also the last scene we shot together. They were kind enough to put that at the very, very end. Sometimes, you shoot things out of order, and sometimes you shoot things within episodes out of order, but the fact that we have that as our big goodbye scene, so when I look at Mensah and all the others sleeping, it's the last time I look at them on camera. We had a fun wrap party, but it was a goodbye on camera, as well.

To have that scene with David and to say, “I need to check the perimeter,” just felt very emotional because we all became very close over the course of those six months of shooting the season. Obviously, when you do a show, you don't know if you're going to get picked up for a second season, so you don't know if you're going to have an opportunity to come back and do it all again, or if this really is goodbye. So, it was a very emotionally charged moment. Murderbot obviously doesn't cry, but I was really struggling. Often, as an actor, you try to get those tears, but this is very much the opposite, where I was desperately trying to keep them in. I blew a couple of takes because I started crying — because it really got to me, that moment with David. It really moved me.

I watched the season, and then I immediately picked up All Systems Red, so now I've actually read a little bit ahead in the books. It honestly just makes me even more excited about the potential that the show has to adapt Murderbot’s continuing journey.

SKARSGÅRD: When we were shooting, I tried to focus on the first novella, All Systems Red, to not get confused, but since we’ve finished it, I've also caught up a little bit. The storyline with ART and all that, it's just a lot of great, great stuff coming up. So, hopefully we'll get a chance to explore some more adventures.

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iriiiiiiissssss do you think it still thinks about me

iris after this mission i’m going to go find it I’m pretty sure i know where it was eventually heading

wait. iris. i can’t go find it without a REASON it’ll think i care enough to seek it out just bc i like it and it won’t want to have emotions about that

iris do you wanna test this body armor. no i know it looks like a hoodie and cargo pants but it’s actually blade resistant. no it’s not for secunit it could be useful for the Whole Crew i dont just think about secunit all the time iris. i’m a very advanced machine intelligence i dont get distracted like that.

iris you should watch this show it’s called worldhoppers and-

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(wakes up after a million year nap) DID YOU KNOW BRAD IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN RAY

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MURDERBOT | 1.05 / ALL SYSTEMS RED

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if I think about murderbot too much my heart does weird things because it just. it loves so much and it can’t admit that to even itself. like what if you were a machine intelligence designed for killing and datamining and you said screw that and you broke yourself free of your shackles and chose to help whenever you could and then you gained even more freedom and you kept helping and kept helping and kept helping. because you were the one with the power to help, now, and there were people who needed help. maybe they didn’t need You but they needed someone. and you realized you could be someone. i can’t handle this

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"we kicked the hornet's nest" – golden hour gen kill

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You've been turned into an animal

Spin the wheel to find out which

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the terror x "boots"

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we got another good news roundup!

the fight is still on! don’t give up!

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never gonna get over the duality of Stephen Maturin being a man who can perform highly complex emergency brain surgery during a sea voyage while also being a man who chugs cough medicine straight from the bottle. king

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"[Turtles] can live for so long, just taking things one step at a time, and at the end, when the turtle ends up close to Cardinal Lawrence, it beat all the odds to make it all the way there. So it's a reflection also on himself, not just on Benítez." -Carlos Diehz, who plays Cardinal Benítez, to Letterboxd on the significance of the Conclave turtle

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

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save me boccherini sonata for violin and cello in d major: ii, vivace