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    3 days ago

    So I’ve finished rereading the first one. Your right! It’s head is “generic human”. The joints for arms and legs are a mix of organic and nonorganic, but to pass, it needs a long shirt and trousers. Less human in looks than in the TV series, who we see in the nude to make it clear he is not a sex bot.

    Edit:

    In the second book: “I don’t know if there are any augmented human with enough implants to resemble a SecUnit. It seams unlikely a human would want that many implants, or would survive whatever catastrophic injury might make them necessary.”

    So yes, the TV series has the body wrong even head is acceptable.


















  • I do see what your saying, it is just the books have a secunit clearly not looking like any gender. They have skimmed over Muderbot’s disgust of gender and sex, but in the books it is constant theme. It’s visceral.

    To have them be genderless is only half way, as secunits, in the books, also look genderless (and not human).

    Skarsgård, for a dude, is doing as good a job as he can. Not many known actors could visually do what I’d have preferred, and also can do a ungendered voice. (Any?). I know it’s easier to do it books and realistically they needed a well known actor to pull people to the show.

    It’s just…just… That’s not my Murderbot!