r/murderbot

So, we see in the casting news John Cho is back in season 2. Probably means his decapitation was not permanent. What do you think will be the shows explanation for the actors return?

Each episode starts with an excerpt from a file labeled HelpMe.file (I hope it's in video format) before the intro plays. (Personally, I want more excerpts than what was shown from the book).

Then somewhere like Episode 7, MB 2.0 meets Three and to help and persuade Three, MB 2.0 sends the HelpMe.file to Three, then the episode cuts there right after.

The next episode, it plays the last excerpt, cuts back to MB 2.0 and Three, then MB 2.0 says the lines:

#I’m letting you see all this because I want you to know what I am and what I can do. I want you to know who targetControlSystem is fucking with right now. I want you to know if you help me, I’ll help you, and that you can trust me. Now here’s the code to disable your governor module.

Then the intro plays.

"If I’d been a normal bot, or a normal SecUnit, just off inventory, it would have been fine. But I was me, Murderbot. So instead of Mensah having a pet bot like poor Miki, or a sad bot/human construct that needed someone to help it, the way humans would show it in their media, she had me."

Here in the show, we have a sad bot/human construct who needs someone to help it, with much less time to itself than SecUnit before meeting Preservation. It's got to be the documentary Dr Bharadwaj is producing about bot/human relations, with not everyone agreeing to appear, with needing to adjust relationships in the show, down to adding a LeebeeBee to demonstrate Corporation Rim mindset (and plug the plot hole of SecUnits acting without a human controller). Everything is perfectly framed and shot like a show would be, like the freshly deleted SecUnit with its new governor module boxed in by the doorframe to show it's trapped again. Even the climax of the show, with the confused SecUnit saved at the very last second from an acid bath by Pin-Lee, shows MB's finely tuned sense of drama and timing.