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Movies & TV Murderbot Murderbot Takes the Sweet With the Bitter in “Complementary Species” Gurathin and Murderbot are a lot more alike than they reailze. By Alex Brown | Published on June 20, 2025 Image: Apple TV+ Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Apple TV+ The latest episode of Murderbot is twenty minutes of mistrust, miscommunication, attempted murder… and mating. Ew.  Spoilers ahoy. Murderbot is a show that knows how to not only do killer cliffhangers but compelling cold opens. This week we began in a restaurant back on Port FreeCommerce just before departure for the alien planet. Poor Gugu looks so uncomfortable at the way they stand out against the muted Corporate Rim guests. They’re playing a truth-telling game where each of them must recount a memory of someone at the table and describe a part that was sweet and a part that was bitter. When Bharadwaj shares a memory involving her confessing her former romantic attraction to Pin-Lee, her turn ends with Pin-Lee shaking her hand and them all saying “We can talk about this.” Gurathin looks like he doesn’t know if he should be bemused, peevish, or uncomfortable so he settles for all three at once. Until Ratthi picks him to go next.  Up to this point, most of the meaty character development has happened with Mensah. We know basic backstories and relationship configurations for the rest, but they’ve been backgrounded for the most part. Ratthi had his masculinity debacle in episode four, and Bharadwaj had her chance to shine in episodes six and seven; now it’s Gurathin’s turn. He, of course, chooses Mensah—who looks fabulous, by the way, in a crocheted multi-colored shawl and over it a polkadot scarf with both mesh and fringe, as well as her hair in fantastic braids. We learn his dark secret at the same time as the rest of the non-Mensah team: that he was a corporate spy who had been forcibly addicted to drugs and blackmailed into working for the Corporation Rim. Mensah shows him “what is possible between people of good will” and helps him escape. His bitter? He believes Mensah is naive to make this deal with the Company. She gives him a look that I’m sure he took as pity but to me reads as wanting to comfort someone but not knowing how to do it, of realizing someone is down in a dark emotional pit and they are the only ones who can get themselves out of it.  What we learn about Gurathin in this scene explains his dislike of Murderbot and why can’t fully accept his place in Preservation Alliance. He desperately wants to be part of a group but doesn’t know how to do that with his Corporate Rim background. He and Murderbot are a lot more alike than they realize (which I think is also fueling their mutual distrust). Both are transitioning from past to present. Gurathin in particular may have left the Corporate Rim, but he hasn’t shed the trauma it put on him. I’m not sure he’s ready to. Who is he without that baggage? Figuring out your life after something terrible happens can be terrifying. You have to build a whole new you. This plays out with costuming in the cold open. Gurathin pairs a rainbow-colored knitted vest over a hoodie and under a suit coat, a blend of Preservation Alliance chaos couture with corporate simplicity and mass production. With Murderbot, we see this blend of SecUnit violence and Murderbot personality when it takes its helmet down to ask PresAux to hurry the hell up or die, then stammers “I-I mean from them, not-not from me.” Both are trying so hard! Image: Apple TV+ In the present, Murderbot hustles everyone onto the hopper before the hostile third party shows up to attack them. Once again, PresAux forgets that Murderbot can hear them, that the hopper isn’t that big, and it is a super soldier with enhanced senses and the ability to tap into any technology. Ratthi tries to smooth things over with Murderbot, which leads to a moment that is so quintessentially neurodivergent. Ratthi jokes that Murderbot’s aim was pretty good “Unless you were trying to hit Gurathin and missed.” If you were aware of social norms, you’d know that Ratthi is looking for reassurance and that Murderbot should respond with something to smooth things over, whether or not it believes in what it says. If you’re neurodivergent like me, it can be hard to recognize what the other person actually wants versus what they’re saying, especially when conflicting tones or facial expressions are added to the mix. And even if you do know what the expected response is, depending on your masking reserves you may just choose to ignore it. Many neurodivergent people also often give truthful, overly detailed answers even when the person asking them doesn’t want the truth or doesn’t care about the response. We see both with Murderbot. It tells Ratthi, “If I was trying to kill Gurathin, he would be dead. You would all be dead if I wanted to kill you.” Which, yeah. Not what Ratthi wanted to hear, but it was a truthful answer to what he asked. Don’t ask me a question if you don’t want my real answer! I don’t know how to guess at what you’re implying! Murderbot once again stomps off to check the perimeter. It has to decide whether to abandon the humans or keep protecting them even if it means putting up with their derision. PresAux is also debating what to do. Pin-Lee wants to abandon it, Gurathin is worried it’s going to try and kill them too, Ratthi and Arada side with Seccy, and Mensah is more concerned with the people actually trying to kill them than speculating about whether or not their SecUnit might. There’s a reason she’s the leader.  Then Gurathin takes his scorn to new lows by accusing Mensah of having feelings for Murderbot. For a guy who claims to not watch space soap operas, he sure does love playing into their trope-y storylines. From what we’ve seen of the Corporate Rim so far, constructs in the Corporate Rim spend all of their time either being physically assaulted or sexually harassed by humans. Gurathin also misgenders Murderbot as “he.” This is a deliberate attempt to misgender Murderbot that intersects with sexualizing it while also demeaning it by stripping away what little personhood it has carved out for itself. And once again, Mensah doesn’t shut that shit down. Ugh. What I find so interesting about this episode is this is the first time Murderbot is itself in front of PresAux, not just Mensah. Mensah gets that Murderbot is its own thing, but the rest of PresAux keeps trying to get it to behave the way they want it to, the way they would on Preservation Alliance (they do this to Gurathin, too), as if that’s the best way to be a person. They can’t see how their behavior is just as oppressive to Murderbot as the Company’s governor module. SecUnit has this nice moment of connection when Mensah asks how it’s doing and it doesn’t know how to respond. The last time PresAux asked how it was doing, Ratthi didn’t like the answer, but it also knows that Mensah genuinely cares about its answer. The rest of the team is defensive and antagonistic or obsequious and overly personal, which sets off Murderbot’s cantankerous attitude. If it had its governor module intact, it would stand there silently like it did in the first episode when that miner burned its palm. Now it’s free to say whatever it wants, and, as Mensah points out, it has a lifetime’s worth of pent up frustration with humans treating it like shit.  Everything culminates in their hopper being used as the mating site for the “complementary genders” of the Hostile that attacked Arada and Bharadwaj in the first episode. Ever the biologist, Arada is ecstatic about the copulation and resulting egg sacs attached to the hopper. Her glee is interrupted by the sudden arrival of another Evil SecUnit. PresAux keeps trying to help Murderbot but making things worse. At least this time they don’t have to worry about killing it. Hostile One takes care of that after the Evil SecUnit destroys one of the egg sacs. Gurathin passes out, his leg wound overcoming him. PresAux decides to return to the habitat for the med bay even though it means likely encountering whoever controlled that other SecUnit. Murderbot resists, but we just saw how these humans band together to protect one of their own. They risked their lives for Murderbot not a minute ago, and now they’ll do the same for Gura.  The last thing Mensah tells Murderbot is “You can come if you want.” Does Murderbot want that? Find out next week! Image: Apple TV+ Final Thoughts Episode 7 has bits and pieces from Chapter 6 in All Systems Red but is mostly invented for the show. Costume designers Carrie Grace, Laura Jean Shannon, and Joyce Schure have been knocking it out of the park all season, but especially with Gurathin’s character development.  I could listen to Akshay Khanna say “startled” for hours. The Evil SecUnit repeating “Please remain calm” while shooting at PresAux is peak Murderbot. Image: Apple TV+ Quotes “It’s wrong to think of constructs like me as half bot, half organic. Like the bot half should just want to obey orders and do its job. And the organic part should want to protect itself and get the hell out of there. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole, confused entity.” “It’s safer if they think of you as a person who is trying to help. Because that’s how I think of you.” For once, Murderbot doesn’t have a snarky response. Pin-Lee: “I get it. Sometimes I hide behind a mask.”Ratthi: “A mask of insecurity.”Arada: “It’s not a crime to have feelings.”Ratthi: “I’m a maelstrom of emotion.” “Frankly, I didn’t find it any more revolting than what humans do to each other.” Lol same Until next week.[end-mark] The post <i>Murderbot</i> Takes the Sweet With the Bitter in “Complementary Species” appeared first on Reactor.

Stranger Things: Tales of ’85 is the newly announced animated spin-off of the Netflix hit series, Stranger Things. During the Annecy Film Festival, Netflix revealed new details for Stranger Things: Tales of ’85. The animated CONTINUE READING... The post Stranger Things Animated Series, new details revealed appeared first on The Retro Network.

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Artist impression of Planet Nine: WikipediaAstronomers have long searched for a mysterious ninth planet in our Solar System’s outer reaches. Now, researchers are trying a new approach—instead of looking for reflected sunlight, they’re hunting for the planet’s heat signature. The search began when scientists noticed odd patterns in the orbits of distant icy objects beyond Neptune, called Kuiper Belt Objects. Their unusual alignments suggest a massive, undiscovered planet—nicknamed “Planet Nine”—is pulling them into place. If real, Planet Nine would be 5-10 times Earth’s mass and orbit 400-800 times farther from the Sun. At that distance, it would be too faint for traditional telescopes to spot. Led by Amos Chen from National Tsing Hua University, the team realized searching for Planet Nine’s heat could work better than looking for reflected light. Here’s why: doubling the distance makes reflected light 16 times fainter, but heat only becomes 4 times fainter. They used data from AKARI, a Japanese space telescope that scanned the sky in far-infrared light—ideal for detecting a cold planet’s thermal glow. Unlike ground telescopes, AKARI isn’t blocked by Earth’s atmosphere. The team focused on a specific sky region where simulations suggested Planet Nine might be, based on Kuiper Belt Objects’ orbits. The challenge? Distinguishing a slow-moving planet from stars, galaxies, and cosmic debris. Their solution: Planet Nine would appear still over a day but move slightly over months. By comparing AKARI observations at different times, they filtered out false signals like cosmic rays. After careful analysis, they found two candidates. Both appear in the predicted location and emit the infrared light expected from Planet Nine. While not proof, this is the strongest lead yet. Follow-up observations with more powerful telescopes are needed to confirm if these are Planet Nine—or just imposters like distant galaxies. If confirmed, Planet Nine would reshape our understanding of the Solar System’s formation. The post Two New Candidates for Planet Nine Found Using Infrared Signals appeared first on Anomalien.com.