The Jock Stereotype Reversal and The Voice of Reason
No one knows how much I love this drone. My view of him never shifted so fast either.
Look, the moment I saw this sports man, I instantly thought he would be a stereotypical jock.
And the whole thing where he complimented Uzi and she got all blushy, it made me think I would hate this drone.
Jock idiot crushes aren't a type I like.
But after his last scene in the episode, I got his personality a bit more. Revisiting his initial scene made me love him more.
One of his first things he says is actually being careful with what he says. He says, "I'd say everyone knows Khan's daughter, but then you might blow the other half of her face off."
He actually made sure to not make her mad about something he wanted to say.
He asks her about her new item and she gets excited and rambles about her plans for the day. And she does shove the gun in Thad's face, scaring him a bit, but he calms down a bit as he listens to her little speech.
He even makes a little nod as she speaks, which does indicate he is paying attention to her before he comments on what she says.
When her plan settles in Thad's mind and he realizes it sounds dangerous, he tries to let her know that it doesn't sound safe. But she doesn't take it lightly.
Also, I do like how Thad doesn't seem scared about a gun in his face a second time. He just instantly got used to Uzi's energy.
His next scene where the Murder Drones got into their safe place, he is the only drones willing to fight them in the group. Even though he is clearly hurt
And he even tries to get the "adult" drones to do their jobs and defend [well more be on the offense], but it doesn't work.
He is nearly killed by a drone before Uzi and N come back to save them and defeat the murder drones. And he's just so happy and compliments the two of them, even though he is nervous around the Murder Drone.
I feel like the stereotype of a jock would try to say he could have been fine without their help when they clearly needed it, but this guy is grateful for the duo saving him.
He's also the only one of the group here to say something nice to either of them, while everyone else is quiet; past the initial clapping. It lets you think he is more open to being nice [definitely more than Liz /lh].
In the next episode, he has an even bigger role with the main characters. He helps Uzi out by grabbing her gun from the safe spot last episode, despite being nervous to hold it.
But I do like how whenever she rambles, he just patiently waits for her to finish.
He also compliments the two of them again for saving him. Even though they are his saviors as he calls them, he talks to them like normal drones and has even given them nicknames. N is "N and M's" and Uzi is "Zi"
The big thing I noticed while watching this episode again, and it's that Thad almost acts like a voice of reason to Uzi.
Uzi self-banished herself from home to live on the outside and she even monologues about how she 'can never go back' which clearly shouldn't be what she should do.
Her being on the outside makes sure she has almost no drone interaction. And the only two are Murder Drones, one that keeps trying to scare Uzi away and the other Murder Drone that is only willing to go with whatever Uzi does and won't go against her ideas at this point.
Thad is the only worker drone that she interacts with before she 'un-banishes' herself, and he was the one to get her back.
He informs her about what is going on at home, how the drones seem to not be taking her banishment seriously. But he does go for the side of their home saying they are just "..more confused". Which is understandable, no drone ever seemed to try and banish themselves before.
The main that he says that convinces Uzi to get back home is talking about a topic she is involved with but scares him, the murder drones.
Thad talks about missing drones and the corpse of a drone 'crawling away' which encourages Uzi to come back.
Most of the following scenes have Thad following Uzi with her plan, which is interesting. He obviously is scared about things with the murder drones - besides the one that saved him -, but he comes along with her investigation around the killed murder drone.
Whether he does it so make sure she's safe, or keep her in 'check' like he has been, or because he feels like helping his saviors; he comes along.
Then he gets captured by the almost rebuilt corpse.
When the corpse tries to fool the two with a hologram of Thad, they don't fall for it for a second. So they definitely seem to know about Thad a lot like a friend.
They save him and he is instantly complimenting them, inviting them to a party of his. Seriously, he calls them his saviors and he just still treats them like friends and not superb heros.
I also thought it was fun he called them cool kids by insulting the corpse for not being invited since "Cool kids only" will come to his shin-dig.
I do hope we see him again a bit more, but he does seem stuck in the side character role these last two episodes that are out. n^n
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I would like to give a small reminder that episodes 1-4 all have some time skip in between them, be it a few days or maybe even months.
Episodes 5-7 happen in one day.
N: Almost dies, recovers all his past trauma, almost dies X2, is tasked with killing his girlfriend, watches V die, almost dies X3, meets his girlfriend's mom, has to kill one of his childhood friends, watches his girlfriend get possessed, almost dies X4, is forced to confess to mixed results, sees Tescyn, almost dies X5, and watches his girlfriend sacrifice herself all in
ONE DAY.
Episode 8 better let this man die or give him a god damn break. Preferably the latter.
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Hey Murder Drones Fans!
Have you noticed Murder Drones starting to lose viewership?
From episode 1, Murder Drones was very successful in episode 1, but as time went on (meaning from episode 2 onwards), the number of viewers dropped very quickly.
From 50 million views in episode 1 to 24 million in episode 2.
From 24 million views in episode 2 to 26 in episode 3.
From 26 million views in episode 3 to 25 million in episode 4.
From 25 million views in episode 4 to 19 million in episode 5.
From 19 million views in episode 5 to 20 million in episode 6.
From 20 million views in episode 6 to only 19 million in episode 7.
I'm afraid that Murder Drones is starting to lose its inspiration, viewers are no longer interested in it so the number of views is going up and down, not as good as episode 1.
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Murder Drones Summarized & Explained
It's not quite a Murder Drones for beginners, but it should hopefully be helpful towards making sense of the MD lore thus far.
Currently also hope to release a Google Doc version that's more of a true Guide to Murder Drones.
Apologies for how long this took and the amateur nature of the video. I drastically underestimated the amount of effort and time that would go into this. General life, exams, and a few hospital trips courtesy of my low-quality immune system and poorly designed eustachian tubes certainly didn't help my schedule.
As you can probably imagine, isolating myself from all things Murder Drones and the community to get this done was torturous. At least I'll have episode 7 or a teaser for it as my post-isolation reward.
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The "villain show off" sacrifice.
Every single episode some poor worker dies to show off a new threat, usually at the beginning, the only exceptions to this being episode 4 and maybe 5.
Episode - 1
Instead of one just one particular character having a terrible day, we're shown how everyone had a terrible day when the DDs showed up. In this scenario, Copper-9 itself is the "beginning of episode sacrifice".
Episode - 2
In this episode, we don't really get one at the beginning of the episode but we do get a sacrifice to show off the threat, that being Frank.
Episode - 3
This might be one of the most obvious ones, poor girl got salamied by Doll. Did you know that that same girl is voiced by Nola Klop? V's voice actor?
Episode - 4
I think this is the only episode where there isn't much of a sacrifice. I guess you could say that Darren and Rebecca were that sacrifice but that immediately leads to her "big bad" thing, like Doll's prom massacre or Eldritch J's fight with N and Uzi.
Episode - 5
Now, I could say something like "CYN in the dump is the sacrifice." and that would be understandable but I want to go a little bit further. What if the entire episode was the sacrifice?
Episode - 6
This is the episode where it became very clear to me that this was a thing, and it is, again, one of the more obvious ones. 029 gets ripped apart by sentinels.
Episode - 7?
I don't think anybody really knows what ep-7 is going to be about (besides angst) BUT I have an absolutely wild prediction and I really need y'all to hear me out.
What if the sacrifice is Doll? Like, all of these have been absolute NOBODIES. Seeing Doll be put to that level would be a sure-fire way to make whatever kills her seem like one hell of a threat.
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