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While I'm drawing a small nuzi confession comic (on paper sorry) have this thing I noticed
When N patted Uzi's head for the first time ever, she slapped his hand away
BUT THE LAST TIME????
SHE ALLOWED HIM, SHE JUST WANTED TO HUG HIM, SHE DIDN'T CARE ABOUT A HEADPAT, SHE WANTED HIM WITH HER
I hate them so much WHY ARE THEY SO CUTE??????
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Huh…
Yeah… I don’t think I actually want to know what kind of freaky shit the Solver/Cyn did to make that work
Also interesting that “Tessa” seemed fairly coordinated in episodes 6 & 7, like with the flips and swordsmanship stuff, but once it’s revealed to actually be the Solver/Cyn the gait is kinda staggering. So either the Solver did creepy flesh stuff under the spacesuit that it could control with better coordination… or it’s just being dramatic™️ and zombie shuffled on purpose. Honestly I wouldn’t put it past that last one lol.
Also, it apparently was wearing Tessa’s high heels underneath those boots too 💀
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The russian worker drones family; murder drone's greatest small scale tragedy.
As long as I can recall there has never been in my mind a story quite as painful and heartbreaking and yet quite as engaging as the tragedy of Doll, Yeva, and her husband, who's lack of a clear name doesn't detract from the impact of this story or the death of the other two.
The last time such an emotional impact was left in my brain was with Noximilliem Coxen the Watchmaker from Wakfu, who I will assuredly make a comparison post with Doll, as they both hit extremely similar themes and ideas while still having such different execution and story beats that it almost makes you question why would you even compare them in the first place.
Tragedy is deceptively hard to write right and make meaningful, as just crippling your characters won't do, because at that point it just becomes drama porn and as boring as a low effort pre-schoolers program. Seemingly unfeasible in a show such as Murder Drones; an horror/comedy/romance where an abused child repaired and made friends with a robot only for said robot to cause the destruction of her planet and... something else.
Buckle up cause these robots emotions might not even be considered real inside the fictional setting but our pain allows what would otherwise be a pretty standard horror scenario to transcend into the bane of my existence as we take a look at the small, inconsequential tale of the russian worker drones family.
Yeva
Starting off with Yeva as the oldest member of our family in terms of chronological relevance, we get our first peek into the way this story plays out due to Yeva being seemingly mute by choice or programming, which retroactively sets up the storytelling method used; Yeva doesn't speak a single word in this scene or the one that precedes it, but we still get a clear rendition of her character by her standoffish behaviour juxtaposed with her caring and nurturing nature, it's debatable whether or not her and Nori are sisters, but you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that judging by the way Yeva tends to Nori after the banishment of the solver, being chained up and experimented upon didn't stop her from staying positive in the midst of adversity and could theoretically be the reason why she was the only correctly patched drone in the facility.
During the V attack she sacrificed her own life in order to protect Doll. An act that, in the long run, ended up being whortless, but that cemented Yeva has an unyielding positive influence in a world stormed by negativity and death.
The father
We know jack s##t about this man but that won't stop us from analysing him. The most interesting things about him are his relationship with Yeva and the fact that the picture of V seen in episode 2 was made by him. He's, admittedly, a white canvas for head cannons, but thematically he keeps a recurring motif that this post will touch upon in his final entry:
Doll
And now, for the crown jewel of this family. The protagonist's dark reflection. Not many people can claim to have been messed up as hard as Doll was. Sure, death is still death, but with it comes a certain sense of finality and rest. Instead, by contrast Doll's death is so brutal and devastating because although it's something that she has been calling upon herself since she started to consume other drones for her goals, it's just so heartbreaking because she managed to achieve absolutely nothing despite being one step forward everyone else in the story; she never got better, never reademned herself, made their parents sacrifice worthless, died almost entirely off camera completely alone and scared, and as her last compensation act she managed to give Uzi a barely useful warning before having her probably still alive consciousness eaten by an eldritch atrocity. At the end of the day, she was deemed worthless by the main antagonist and quickly brushed aside.
And we go back to a certain reoccurring theme regarding this family: Yeva never speaks. Her husband is never given a name. Doll is literally a toy name. Their story plays out in the shadow of the main plot. Every single aspect regarding them paints their existence as worthless and inconsequential (classic eldritch horror), yet are given enough spotlight to leave an impact on us, to have their presence felt, and to give us the impression that, despite their bad luck, if they only took certain decisions in certain key moments, maybe they would have survived and received a much better ending than the one they got.
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fun little thought i had that i don't know if anyone has brought up yet
we already know that there are HEAVY Christian themes in Murder Drones, and they've given up on subtlety in the trailer, but one scene that i haven't seen people talk about in regards to this is episode 4's falling scene
N and Uzi have angel and demon themes. their designs make this pretty clear. Uzi's tail can also kinda be seen as snake-like.
going off of this, N making the promise to stick together can be taken both as N falling for Uzi in the romantic sense (as the song name implies) but also as N falling for her in the sense that he's falling from Heaven/whatever the Solver's plans are (more than he already has) after being tempted by a demon/snake
in this case, the Solver can also be taken as a sort of God figure
idk i just really love how much symbolism the goofy toaster show has
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I would like to point out that I, as a believer in the theory that the Solver is a separate entity from Cyn, find it interesting that it is physically controlling her body like a puppet.
Same can be said for how her natural movements are very puppet like as well, almost like the show is hinting that she herself is a puppet
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hi aza opinions on solver uzi
solver uzi is so important to the conection between uzi and the absolute solver
when we see uzi in episode 1, she is confident in herself, mostly, she trusts her railgun and she can defend herself from her classmates bullying, even if shes just being edgy, she doesnt let anyone know if it gets to her
when she lies to khan at the door in episode 1, her lies are not the best, but she doesnt give up and she ends up getting what she wanted, going outside
of course its scary, but shes not like the others in the bunker, and she is not giving up on it.
during her fight with N, she never gives up, and the only reason she doesn't win is because she didn't think he could regenerate
when she and N start talking, she is nervous, mostly because it is unexpected, and she almost lost the fight. but she is quick to try and get N on her side and tell him about the company's true intentions (or what she thinks are)
in episode 4, she is scared of what she will find in the camp, but unlike episode 1, she isnt confident in her abilities, now she has the solver, but it doesnt give her the same feeling of protection her railgun did,
she made the railgun, she understands it, she cant understand the solver, she doesnt know how it works 100%, she doesnt even know why she has it
in this scene ⬆️ she again has to lie, but to get out of a situation this time, and she is being influenced both by the solver (overheating, in need of oil) and by the presence of her mean classmates and V, which makes her lie worse than in episode 1
again, unlike her railgun, she cannot control her absolute solver
in this scene, she ends up killing her classmates, who she wanted to save in the first episode from the murder drones (not them especially, but everyone in the bunker, and that includes them)
here she laughs, but someone (i forgot who) pointed out that it also sounds like her crying
in the end she accepts N's help, and we all understand the severity of the absolute solver, its a real threat that uzi cant fight alone
AND ALSO SOLVER UZI'S DESIGN AND THE MUSIC FOR THE EPISODE IS VERY VERY EPIC CAN WE AGREE ON THAT?
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SPOILERS FOR EP 7
I was just talking to my mom (who knows nothing about murder drones) about this scene and my mom was like “that doesn’t sound right”… SHES RIGHT…
SO THE CORRECT THING WOULD BE THAT THEY ARE DATING?!
NUZI COMMITTEE WE SO WIN
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Something that stands out to be about how Murder Drones does horror, is its relationship to organic matter, especially in contrast to how machinery is portrayed.
The main characters are as the title would imply, drones- they live in a cold wasteland, trapped behind doors upon doors of mechanical creations. In a way Murder Drones establishes machinery and robots as its baseline, it's what's comfortable and familiar. Which I find interesting because we as humans are more familiar with the organic, what scares me is a future dystopia dominated by machines, where life struggles to survive.
However in Murder Drones- the moments I find the most freaky are always those where something looks.... Human... Or, alive.
This moment from episode 2 where J goes eldritch horror and Solver appears, the hand that crawls in to grab Thad looks human.
[image description: human looking hand crawling on the ground, but it's revealed to not be attached to an actual human, but instead a long mechanical wire]
This honestly was really freaky to me, because it's so... Wrong. Even when we see actual humans, it's as shadow thingies, or in the case of Tessa, completely covered up by clothing. We see skeletons too, but they're dead, which I feel doesn't really qualify for the horror of something looking... Alive.
I feel like it's mostly with Solver's portrayal that things look... Organic. For example whenever Uzi loses control of her quirky powers, a black hole thingy appears and leaves gooey flesh looking stuff- honestly very gross
[Image description: There's a hole in the wall, with the edges covered in organic looking goo, spreading across the wall. There's a black orb in the center of the hole]
It's also very apparent when comparing Solver Uzi's wing design to the disassembly drones' wing designs. Uzi's are bat-like, with tears and they look more reminiscent of something organically created.
[image description: Uzi looking silly with her bat wings]
Meanwhile Disassembly drone wings are 100% metallic and look like blades, there's a pretty big contrast. Especially when you think of how Uzi actually does start to develop average disassembly drone characteristics, like the mouth, burning in sunlight, and the X for eyes.
Might be besides the point but Uzi's wings look like hands, meanwhile the others' wings don't have that shape really built in anywhere.
Freaky little guy
Something something design language of Solver being completely different to other things in the show.
Anyways I've completely run out of brain juice, hopefully this makes sense
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i was editing some scenes, including one from episode 5, and had a realization. during the memory fight scene with maid n, v, j and tessa involved, v never directly tried to hurt anyone except for tessa until truly provoked.
this may hint at tessa playing more of a major role in the solver's path of destruction, and we may just not be seeing that as the episode is centered around n - and remember, these are altered memories. things are inconsistent, and is not completely reliable.
back to v not really trying to hurt anyone until provoked at first (with the exception of tessa), when she slashes at n, she only does so at his hand so he'll drop the key.
she couldve killed him in this scene, but she just goes straight for the key instead. im not exactly sure what this means behavior means, but im very sure the part about going for the key over killing n (which would prevent him from remembering the events of their past which seemed to be v's goal at first) is v trying to protect n from finding out whats in the basement.
also if anyones confused, the reason i think v was consciously avoiding hurting anyone except tessa is because this entire time, you can see her eyebrows.
the reason i cite this as a sign of sentience is because when she first turned into the solver form in the library, she had no eyebrows, and does not have them later when the solver is instructing her to pick up a surgical tool.
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What I want for Murder Drones season finale vs what I'm probably going to get:
What I want:
Cyn takes over a control system that is connected to all disassembly drones and we get full-out dark angel apocalypse like what was in the pilot.
What I'll probably get:
not that.
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Idk if anyone has done this before BUUUUUT
I tried my best to interpret what N’s screen said here. I changed brightness and saturation and sharpness and stuff to make it easier to look at.
“A critical error has occurred and the system will shutdown. Data recovery may not be possible.
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to enter data recovery mode. If you do not have these keys available, please contact your nearest J.C. Jenson Certified Technician.”
Uhhh my theory(?) ig:
So this happened after J inserted the virus into N, this is making me think squad leaders (if there were any squads in the first place) had the ability to wipe the memories of their co-workers. And if there weren’t any squads, Tessa must have trusted J with technology the technicians might have had, and trusted her to not let the other drones know they had previous lives.
It says to press ‘CTRL+ALT+DELETE’ to enter data recovery mode and… if you know about basic computer commands, this closes or reboots software. This must be one of the ways the murder drones can get their memories trashed (besides y’know…. lobotomy or whatever). Then it mentions if someone wouldn’t have the keys, which is really odd to me. Are these keys scarce because of what it can do to the drones so the worker drones can’t fight back? Or maybe it is encouraging them to contact a technician.
PART OF THE THEORY IM NOT SO CONFIDENT IN BUT I THINK ITS COOL:
I believe, if it was encouraging them to contact a technician it would specifically be Tessa. Earth was already destroyed by Cyn (presumably) and Tessa is (again, presumably) the only human left. So why is it so important that it would be specifically for Tessa? Weeeeelll this is because one of my friends got me on the ‘Tessa isnt Tessa theory’ (i see you @dirty-trash-mongrel 🫵🫵🫵🫵🫵🫵). OK SO HEAR ME OUT, I think Cyn is controlling Tessa’s corpse. Tessa has literally copied her mannerisms in episode six (she has done the ‘is she…. y’know 🏳️🌈’ thing that Cyn does). And yes, most people say that she is a hologram, but I personally can’t bring myself to believe that theory because you can’t physically interact with holograms and holograms can’t physically interact with their environment.
Question you probably have about this theory:
If Tessa is dead how come she can bleed? Why isn’t her face colorless?: Well the absolute solver repairs it’s host and if Tessa’s corpse is being controlled by Cyn then the AS might be able to repair.
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Okay so... I was doing a md rewatch before ep 7, and I noticed something in ep 4 that I NEVER noticed before.
In the scene where V covers up Uzi, when she sits down, I always thought she was frowning. Cuz like in ep 3 she's starting to realize that worker drones don't actually care about death anymore or smth like that.
BUT NO
SHE'S ACTUALLY SMILING IN THE SECOND IMAGE IM GONNA BE SICK
And after noticing that I started thinking back on her behavior with Uzi and realized how much she actually cares about her.
Look at her smile. She's starting to care about the workers smmmm Im crying
Okay now for Vuzi. In ep 4 V initially saw her as just a "purple thing", later on as Cyn. But probably N saying "what did I say about antagonizing her?" got her thinking. What if she was really antagonizing her? That's why she covered her with the teacher, and that's why she smiled.
Now, episode 5 doesn't have much about them. We know that V remembers stuff from her time as a worker, so we know that she got once possessed by Cyn. She would be the only drone ever to understand what Uzi is going through. (another reason why she protected her in ep 4).
This reflects in ep 6. When Alice cuts Uzi's finger she can be seen flinching.
Idk about you, but it's kinda strange for V, the most insane out of the trio, to flinch when someone's finger got cut off.
This further proves just how much V started to care about Uzi. Same when Alice and Beau died and she was trying to escape the Sentinels. She immediately rushed to save Uzi, even if she just witnessed her getting fully possessed for 5 good seconds by Cyn
She didn't have to save her. She could've ran away, leaving Uzi to be killed by the next sentinel that passed by. But she didn't. She brought her back to N and Tessa, holding her tightly
And of course.
When they saw the Doll trap.
V immediately went to protect Uzi, getting extremely worried too when she was about to use her solver
This shows just how V started to like Uzi. She initially saw her as a thread, another Cyn, a thing and a monster. But after the sky therapy she probably saw herself in Uzi. Someone who's always been alone, someone who the solver can control however it wants. A poor possessed worked, confused and scared.
Moving to her sacrifice. The very first time V called Uzi by name instead of dumb nicknames. Immediately before she was smiling after N said that they still needed her. But she didn't believe him fully. They could do well without her, she probably thought. She had done nothing but cause troubles with Uzi. She wanted to make it right
Giving her full trust to Uzi, giving her life to Uzi. She was literally half possessed by Cyn but V still decided to trust her. And then she smiled at her.
That smile, immediately after the "I trust you" meant a lot coming from V. That smile was to assure Uzi that she doesn't see her as an enemy anymore.
Okay rant is over because I'm tearing up.
I love Vuzi so much I love tragic yuri 😭
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Something that makes me even sadder about what happened to V is how she went from being hostile and threatening towards Uzi to becoming actually pretty protective over her in the last episode
It initially seems like a quick shift, but it actually makes a bit more sense when you know most of V’s hostility to Uzi was because of the Absolute Solver. V was scared and distrustful of Uzi because of it and the traumatic events that happened with Cyn at the mansion, so she wanted to get rid of her (and Doll too) since she knows the AS is dangerous
But I think what started to change V’s view was the Worker saving her alongside N from getting their minds digitally wiped, since technically Uzi could have just saved N, but she helped V too
Ironically, since it involves the AS, another factor I think was seeing Uzi later overexerting herself with her powers from fear of N getting hurt, and then seemingly stopping the Sentinels from getting to V despite being practically unconscious (at least that is what I think happened when watching the episode)
I think all of that played some role in V beginning to realize that yeah, despite the very real threat the Absolute Solver is, Uzi herself is genuine and is someone she can put trust in
Which makes the scene where she calls Uzi by her name for the first time and tells her she trusts her more sad and impactful 🥲
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"Doll had no character arc"
"Her death was meaningless"
"We know nothing about her"
That is false.
This is a response to a post of user @rad10active-ketchup regarding (spoiler) Doll's death in the new episode of Murder drones, in particular to these replies:
These points are most likely rooted in the belief that Doll's death was handled poorly from a writing standpoint, and while I consider it a fair interpretation to have given that writing something to be intentionally disappointing will always feel unpleasant to a consumer, I believe that the reasons found to justify said feeling in the replies are disingenuous and flat out wrong, and I am going to debunk each and every single one of them independently.
Starting off with:
The character development
Doll has for the most part a flat character arc in all the scenes that she appears in, but that doesn't mean that she had no development at any point; first of all, there's most obviously her villain arc, caused by the death of her parents, the solver, the loneliness and lack of mentor figures and general mental illness, during the prom scene, she has reached peak villainy in the series, only saving Lizzie's life because she has mentally assessed the people to care about and the others and even when shot in the head she doubles down on her tendencies and keeps being a menace, but that's where she discovers that Uzi also has the solver and for the first time in ever she has someone who shares her pain but is on the "enemy" side. This starts a continuous chain of doubt in her mind that she overcomes only at the end of episode 6 when she completes her negative character arc by sacrificing Uzi for the cure in the raptor trap, spelling out her doom in the next episode where in her last moments she does her first and only step of a positive character arc by inciting her to fight back the solver with all her forces. Doll is given many chances to switch to the other side and stop being a villain, but she refuses every single one and her reality check only comes on her death bed when it's already too late.
The impact of her death
First of all Rebecca "died" in front of 4 other people while Doll dies only in front of Uzi, who outside of her genuine shock later swears to fake Tessa that it wasn't her doing but someone else, all while pretty terrified herself. Nori and N also come there, but they are too busy with everything else going on to notice, also, neither of them ever cared about Doll. And Cyn... come on.
What do we know about her
First of all, she is quite literally "Uzi if things got even worse" most of her traits are darker reflections of Uzi or an improved version of Uzi's skills, including her aura of mystery, there to be the cool factor that Uzi tries so hard to achieve but fails. She also has the same goal as Uzi, but without the hero complex part whose substitute by her belief of being the chosen one by the solver and fated to bring about the end of the world. She's sadistic, delusional, traumatized, stubborn, russian and a pathetic wet cat of a person whose inability to change denied her the answers that she so desperately craved.
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Doll and Uzi as foils
Been thinking a lot lately about how Doll and Uzi reflect each other in the narrative. Both fighting against the solver, both trying to understand the power and how it connects to their past/mothers, both had parent(s) killed by the murder drones
But while Uzi chose to befriend N after realizing he wasn't just a mindless monster, Doll never stopped trying to kill V and take revenge
And going off on her own is what got her killed in the end, as she refused to work with the others despite having a common goal (like fr she had NO GOOD reason to steal that bug in episode 5 except for pure spite which I can honestly respect), while Uzi wouldn't have been able to fight off the solver without help from N
Anyways, I think I might be a Doll fan now? Something about watching a character die a horrible death really makes you forget about all their atrocities tbh
#murder drones#murder drones spoilers#md spoilers#murder drones doll#murder drones analysis#she's so pathetic honestly#I love her for that#poor girl dug her own grave#and the graves of several other innocent and non-innocent drones#she's a top tier hater if I've ever seen one
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I compiled all the shots of Thad with the purple glowies in Episode 4 because I haven't seen it done yet, you're welcome
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