Worth the Wait?: Murder Drones Episode 5 Review

[@lukaspollard1048]

"DARKXWOLF17 NOOOOOOOO" is singlehandedly the funniest line in the show, just slightly above "Sneaky sneaky, sneaking away, get snuk upon."

[@SuperZePe2]

That shows that Cyn, or the AS really speaks what it's doing

[@anotherordinaryfellow6935]

"Criss, Cross, Apple Sauce" Cyn's lines is honestly the best lines.

[@ApparentlyCoral]

@@anotherordinaryfellow6935 she may be the villain (or part of the main villainy) but she might single handedly be the funniest character in the show

[@comet.x]

'OW' 'OW' 'A A A-A-AAW'

[@jawaboi9698]

​@@SuperZePe2 cyn is like a professional roleplayer on roblox

[@elizabethk007]

I loved the insight on N’s past. I didn’t expect the golden retriever line to come back and it really showed N and V’s care for each other

[@valentinkambushev4968]

The glasses scene killed me! It was so cute!

[@Midnight_Afton645]

Ikr

[@Onyx1527]

Goes to show why that was almost a thing, that and the lore drops have been taking up my thinking since.

[@knightmare5097]

I am slightly worried that we may have a love triangle on our hands. And with the kind of track record that trope has in shows, god I hope not. Or if it does happen, I hope it’s well-written and doesn’t end with a chaotic whimper

[@KeyboardTarantula]

love triangle. those two love each other, but Uzi ALSO has a crush on N that N is oblivious of.

[@seekingabsolution1907]

3:34 we learned the reason V is so dead set on Killing Uzi in episode 4 is because she was previously controlled, victimized and mutilated by Cyn, and forced to help do horrible things to N. This explains her relationship to N as well.

[@traehignight]

True

[@V_M498]

That explains why she didn’t wanted N to investigate about their past

[@_deltawolf_]

Holy crap I didn’t even think of that

[@bella_daze3092]

I know!

[@sobermaggo3345]

But why does V treat N so poorly before that then?

[@tgibbst]

cyns centipede body was definitely just hanging from the ceiling the whole time. it explains her odd movements and the way she narrates things. in the bedroom scene she uses the claws to move the "normal" arms so i think that she was using holograms to cover everything up and puppeteering the parts that people can see.

[@thegameglitcher2439]

It would make sense, and it would also explain why we see the claws and other “monster” parts of Cyn in the lightning flashes: If they were hidden by holograms, the holograms would fail if there was a sudden increase of backlight (revealing the hidden objects with a silhouette).

[@azulBjort_1406]

Ooohhhhh 👍

[@d.b.4671]

The highlight for me was Tessa wailing "Union negotiations!" to purposely make J angry.

[@CollinMcLean]

This whole show definitely feels like an anti-capitalist message at times.

[@SupaSillyThyme]

cus it is@@CollinMcLean

[@professorsimosuchus7954]

I love how everyone is at the same time relatable, goofy and murderous enough for you to say “who is actually going to be the bad guy?”

[@meriewanderer]

I'm betting the government

[@manzanito3652]

Probably Jenson

[@bloodrinker]

@@manzanito3652 cyn obviously

[@BookWyrmOnAString]

Capitalism

[@SuspiciouslyCatShapedPotato]

@@BookWyrmOnAString Where everyone wins! ecxept you :3

[@in-ediblecheeseO64]

Cynn wasn't reactivated by Tessa, in the opening cutscene of the episode (shown at 2:16 in this video) the "Marked for Dissasembly" band has Cynn's name on it, therefor, the robot with yellow eyes that we see boot up is Cynn. Additionally, when Cynn reboots, you can read the text on her screen. The screen essentially shows that she was manipulated by the solver to give it control over her. The solver manifested in Cynn, however Cynn is not the solver. edit: you can see the solver's manipulation of Cynn at 3:27 "Hello :] I see you are in- I see we could - for you. I will not discard you. Absolute solver access? Y/N. You will be here for a while" Cynn rebooted on her own because of the 00.01% chance that an improperly disposed of drone could reboot on its own.

[@kommo1]

So am I guessing this right, that through Cynn reactivating during the decomposition, the absolute solver became sentient?

[@in-ediblecheeseO64]

@@kommo1 I am assuming so. I believe that the base programming of every drone IS the absolute solver, however, the solver itself is limited by worker drones OS (operating systems) that is why the solver was trying so hard to destroy and lobotomize N

[@traehignight]

i’m pretty sure that Cyn *is* the Solver and she’s just controlling the drone’s corpse. Error 606 seems to kill them and we already know from ep 2 that the AbsoluteSolver takes control after the host dies. Overall this implies that Cyn is the AbsoluteSolver and that the drone we see is an already dead nameless puppet

[@LukiKruki]

​@@traehignight Error 606 is software clean up that J did to N as the corporate rules are while Cyn did it to the mansion drones to give them her powers and control them whenever she wants.

[@olixx1213]

​@@traehignight basically Improper disassembly of Cyn , which led to a mutation, which in this case is the solver

[@babygorilla4233]

Dol gives me total vampire vibes. Eating people, appearing in the shadows then disappearing into thin air, literally being undead and our main characters becoming one of them transforming with bat wings? This is robot vampires and I'm here for it. They might be going for zombies but they did vampires.

[@valentinkambushev4968]

The disassemble drones, in general, are vampires. Drinking oil (blood) to survive, having bat-like wings, sleeping upside down, sun being deadly too them. Am I missing something?

[@WorldWeave]

We already had vampires with the Murder Drones…wings, can’t go in the sun, have to drink blood to survive, sleep upside-down…

[@NoRegs30]

It's been vampire since episode 1 every episode is tackling a horror convention or trope 1 Vampires 2 Body horror / the thing 3 Carrie style 4 slasher 5 haunted house / possesion

[@babygorilla4233]

@@WorldWeave wait they can't go into the sun? Well now I just want to know why they're mixing metaphors by bringing up zombies.

[@purrosie4742]

​@@babygorilla4233Yeah, they can't go into the sun. N mentions at the end of the pilot that going into the sunlight would kill him, and at the end of episode 4, you can see Uzi's hand simmering when some light pokes through the window of the bus. Makes sense, because they'll die if they overheat, and the sun gives off a lot of heat.

[@kommo1]

I think that it wasnt Tessa who sent the 3 drones. I think it was Cynn. My theory is that N and V were "murdered" in the basement and that J and Tessa were the only survivors off that night. The J that is with Tessa now is the original J, while the 3 Drones that arrived first were some off the "backups" Cynn mentioned.

[@vicenteabalosdominguez5257]

Ok, but V was really adamant about killing Uzi last episode, calling her Cyn. Also, the J with Tessa seems to have the same modifications as V, N and dead J.

[@kommo1]

@@vicenteabalosdominguez5257 Tessa doesnt appear to me like she just has a bunch off J, N and Vs in storage. It also doesnt appear logical to delete the memories off your murder drones before landing, when there is a legit fear off the colony being corrupted by Cynn.

[@jourdanfarquharson4697]

@@vicenteabalosdominguez5257 based on the memory space we can assume that Tessa snapped j out of possession and override cyn as the admin like what uzi did with v and n

[@williamcrandall]

​@@kommo1I think the memory problems have to do with the very small, hard to notice fact that N AND V (probably) GOT A LOBOTOMY VIA A LARGE STEAK AND HAMMER!

[@williamcrandall]

​Tessa really cares about N, V, and J so she probably does have spare body's for them.

[@quicksilveryt4000]

It's also worth noting that when N and V boot up again near the end, the text that flashes on their screens indicate Cyn's admin priviliges being overridden, and Uzi becoming an admin. Uzi is literally an admin in N and V's brains.

[@thehistoryandbooknerd8979]

Spoilers! We do have to wonder what the implications are now with the most recent episode though! If Cyn can now control Uzi, does that mean she can steal back the admin privileges?

[@quicksilveryt4000]

@@thehistoryandbooknerd8979 it seemed to take using the mind control head node things to change it, so I'm not entirely sure lol

[@juanbisonosuero3650]

I hadn't realized that the patch on the doll's eye was to cover the "absolute solver". even after that bullet tesa shot at her (to show that she knows she has it) i honestly believed she only shot her so she could show dominance.😅

[@_deltawolf_]

I thought it was some sort of betrayal at first

[@taddad2641]

i think that doll's actually mutating. she's hiding the mutation.

[@ObesityCity]

11:13 holy crap that actually makes so much sense. I've been wondering what Tessa was "Just checking" for and what you said actually makes sense. Anyone with absolute solver would use it to block the bullet Tessa fired, similar to how Cyn did with all the stuff Tessa threw at her, however, since Doll covered their eye with an eyepatch it most likely prevented her from using her absolute solver to block the bullet, even though the bullet was supposed to miss on purpose.

[@nhn05]

From what I rewatch from episode 5 and 3. The bullets caught by absolute solver will move in an impossible trajectory. Therefore, what Tessa doing is testing whether Doll has absolute solver or not, which Tessa now know she does.

[@ObesityCity]

@@nhn05 thats also a good possibility

[@johnnygyro2295]

"The flesh needs an invitation?" The vampire comparisons keep coming.

[@valentinkambushev4968]

Why are people noticing it NOW!? From the pilot, it was clear that the disassemble drones are vampires!

[@Hot_RashBlazeBoil]

IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE???

[@sakurahirawa]

It’s *“the flesh demands invitation”*

[@thehistoryandbooknerd8979]

@@sakurahirawayep! 🖤💜💛

[@cyberwolf5896]

I think one of the nicest aspects of this episode is the environmental change, the last 4 episodes all took place in dark grey/blue environments whether it was outside in the snow or inside the worker drone bunker, this episode however takes place in a Victorian style mansion with a lot of bright and darker yellows, along with the rain and thunder to add more horror effects. So I applaud this episode for visually standing out to the others and changing up the setting

[@YassineFarah2423]

Now it raises the question if J from the very beginning was just CYN impersonating her since V states she takes new forms as her Absolute Solver makes other drones become her hosts and it's shown that she can mimic others such as having Tessa's hairstyle. Even suspicious that J threatened to kill N but instead simply gave him a cleanup virus and left him there, even called him buddy.

[@syweb2]

Do note that she was being super condescending and sarcastic when she called him "buddy". That virus was probably the only method in her disposal to properly kill him, as he would either regenerate like earlier in the episode or become a Solver host like J did in episode 2.

[@taddad2641]

@@syweb2 it probably wouldn't have worked actually. Cyn had tried to delete the os sevearl times from the look of the basement.

[@syweb2]

@Tad Dad Cyn said it was "time to reset these memories one more time", so she probably reset them as opposed to totally wiping the OS.

[@NotOofLegacy]

The lore is insane

[@Gloopblox]

Its NoL!

[@arcitatious]

Guh

[@Wolffyplayer]

THE LORRRRRRRRRRRRRRE

[@Wolffyplayer]

That's a Markiplier thing if you don't know

[@BoreBoot]

This lore is about to give fnaf a run for its money.

[@Stranger-gl6ie]

Absolutly worth the wait

[@hybridvenom9]

You can link a video but in the past i couldn't what the f

[@LG_Official.]

Can I just say as a semi gun nerd and seeing the joke with the revolver kinda threw me off guard one because when I saw it at first I saw only the revolver and tried to find out what revolver it was and then I saw the text when going inbetween to images and I just immidetly stopped scrolling in between the frame and image and just sat there for a second before laughing my ass off.

[@LukiKruki]

It's revolver idk Shut up gun nerds

[@meriewanderer]

It's comedy gold

[@勇太竹内-l5h]

colt navy yeeeeeeeeee

[@CollinMcLean]

As a history nerd it looks like a Colt Navy revolver from the 1850s.

[@jordanwebster4170]

With how much V is trying to protect N i wonder how she would react if J's murder attempt with the virues succeeded

[@theawesome5871]

She probably would have killed J on the spot.

[@YassineFarah2423]

Assuming that was J from the beginning since CYN's absolute solver makes others drones become hosts or avatars that do her bidding.

[@leebulger7112]

​@@theawesome5871Yeah that is very likely because from what we seen V is a more aggressive fighter than J unless she was holding back in the Pilot.

[@jennimai6741]

@@leebulger7112 well, V /was fighting N/, if V cares about N that much and all, yeah, she probably was holding back or smth

[@leebulger7112]

@@jennimai6741 I said unless J was holding back but what you said is probably still true.

[@AHorrorFanatic]

I really liked this episode. It was fun and this show is the kind of show that kind of needs setup episodes. I do however agree that Doll was kind of just thrown in.

[@jourdanfarquharson4697]

Tbh doll was watching uzi in episode 4 so her turning up wasn't farfetched

[@a-red_digit6644]

The entire episode is a black dogs reference

[@AHorrorFanatic]

@@a-red_digit6644 Kind of. All of Liam's works are so similar yet different its kind of strange.

[@AHorrorFanatic]

@@jourdanfarquharson4697 I agree it just felt kind of convoluted.

[@sakurahirawa]

@@jourdanfarquharson4697true. But a lot of people seemed to have missed that.

[@seekingabsolution1907]

6:08 one of biggest flaws of all the murder drones episodes so far as I have seen since the Pilot is that the run time of the episodes is slightly shorter than the story they're trying to tell needs.

[@sarafontanini7051]

they really do need mroe time to actually set up and explain things ratehr than rush to the next plot point

[@shadow20482]

​@@sarafontanini7051they really can't, making this series is expensive, they could only afford 8 episodes, so all lore has to be compressed to fit

[@hyperstaranimats1583]

I like to imagine (though not likely) that Tessa just fangirls about N again and just talks about how much he has grown and everyone else just sits there still confused

[@rrk8779]

Boom, it happened

[@inkblooded1058]

I want to make a point about what you said at 2:30. Zombie-like is one word, but I think another one fit even better: Puppet-like. arms dangling, head slightly tilted, knees bent, she looks like a puppet who's only loosely being held up. Then take the reveal of her true form to Tessa; She uses the claw to manually move her head and arm. I think that she was *always* doing that. That the Cyn we saw was a literal puppet on the end of the Solver's "hand" for lack of a better word. The cute, slightly ajar Cyn stopped looking like that a long time ago, and began projecting a hologram over herself to hide the truth. This is soft confirmed by the switch in Tessa's room; Tessa looked *horrified* to see Cyn's real form, meaning she'd never seen it before. And lets not forget the Solver's first appearance: "More like. You are our little puppets. We are sad you have. Forgotten us."

[@WajdaKidsEvolved]

"there's nothing concrete and it's all implications" that's Liam Vickers for ya

[@DisneyfanBeckers]

11:14 I think the eyepatch may be to prevent her solver eye from shattering the glass on the front of Tessa's helmet, considering how it happens to mirrors. Since Tessa and J can see Doll teleport to their location, there's probably not much secrecy about her abilities. And I wonder what their initial encounter was like, what they would have done or said to each other... Doll seems to have been interested in the bug key before she had her eyepatch, since she appeared in episode 4 with no eyepatch, watching Uzi when she found the bug.

[@NoRegs30]

Khan being alive is much better because he gets to live with his mistakes and remains a coward to the end but he's getting some good character development

[@valentinkambushev4968]

Sometimes, living is worse than dying.

[@comet.x]

i have a strange feeling khan at some point is going to become super plot relevant

[@The_Average_Enjoyer]

Yo we finally got khan development, he’s actually cool now

[@NoRegs30]

@@The_Average_Enjoyer Khan has reached the same point he had at the start of the series again, Help his daughter or Run, this time he choses to Help her it's also interesting to note how much Uzi resembles Nori, like almost one to one, so it makes the moment in ep1 all the worse for Khan since it was pretty much the exact same situation as when he mercy "killed" Nori (probably with the N both times too)

[@willichtenstein7071]

Horror to comedy to horror, and back to some emotion and comedy is a dam fine line to toe. The show is amazing.

[@frederickfreaker2211]

I think it’s safe to say that the events before uzi was a bird and all the scenes that played out without N in them after he joined up with uzi actually happened

[@syweb2]

There were the reflections and window drawings with Uzi's gamertag that were urging N to go to the basement. She's been there since pretty much the start of the episode. Her influence can be seen as soon as books start falling, as all of them are telling N to enter the spooky basement.

[@frederickfreaker2211]

@@syweb2 N was also ignoring all of those signs and just following the memory until he was chained up outside

[@syweb2]

@@frederickfreaker2211 He acknowledged them and even threw a tray into a wall. These may have been minor changes, but they still exist and shouldn't be entirely discounted, though I will agree that up until Birdzi, things were very _close_ to what actually happened.

[@Radioactive-Braincell88]

The never-ending amount of detail in this show is the scariest thing about it and just when I thought it couldn't get worse you have to show us that the details in the background when you edit could drive a normal person insane. WOOOW

[@CherriHoney]

i love how cyn speaks in "discord asterisks"

[@syweb2]

At first I thought it was just her making mocking jokes in episode 2, but after this episode it seems like an actual verbal tic for her to narrate her own actions. This might have the "sneaking away" part make more sense, as it's not deliberate.

[@thequirkdealer7353]

I didn’t understand most of the implications in this episode. I couldn’t figure out what was going on under the surface. I’d most likely have to rewatch the episode, but it felt like Cyn just became bad at the end. I’m not sure why? I love this series, and I think I need to work harder to understand these things, but I couldn’t figure it out. Still a cool episode!

[@callom1]

true

[@dataexpunged93N15]

Cyn is a zombie drone that's being controlled by the absolute solver, and was probably never "good" as we see her right now; she fell into that 0.01% of improperly disposed of drones that reactivated, and was taken over, as you can see on her screen at some point.

[@strelitziamystery21]

Yeah now I gotta wait for the theory channels to make videos to explain what I didn't get.

[@syweb2]

Cyn has been making threats for a good chunk of the episode. When she broke out of Tessa's grounding, she basically said "I won't kill you if you don't dispose of the drone bodies", before saying that Tessa should stay away from the gala because it was about to get bloody. She makes a defiant statement toward Tessa's mother before N steps in and takes the fall for her, and when Tessa asks if Cyn cares, she brushes her off and says that she "has backups", suggesting that she doesn't care much about N as an individual and more about him as a useful pawn that can get her what she wants, and she can either replace him with some other drone or create a copy of him as if the previous N hadn't just been brutally destroyed.

[@sauron3591]

I think its N`s compilation of memories what wraped in one, likely some events probably supposted happen much later, and he still have memories lack

[@popohoho35]

honestly the show is a big step up from the previous 2 shows glitch worked on i remember when that australian government supported show first came i watched it but somehow the show that isn't supported by a country is better then the one that was (not throwing shade at meta runners im just saying uts crazy gow good thy became)

[@hybridvenom9]

@anicedayy Your video linking it twice or like how much time you're doing this in the comment session you're going to be banned from coming i swear i have done that

[@popohoho35]

​​@@hybridvenom9 let the guy share his salad recipe

[@hybridvenom9]

@@popohoho35 But i watch video linked he's doing he should be not a label to come in for however long about i did for longer

[@LukiKruki]

​@@hybridvenom9 It's a bot. Report it for spam and move on.

[@hybridvenom9]

@@LukiKruki Close enough now i don't like 1 dad hard day to actually know what was an ai and what was no

[@MuyDominicanoOficial]

btw guys, if you have noticed.. The topic of Dogs in Murder drones was actually seen in EP 3 first, not ep 4

[@hotsoup1339]

I had that same gut reaction to N's proclamation of Uzi's age, I feel you bro. But, alas, the show has validated our shipping. Praise Be.

[@asmodemus1765]

"That she was experimenting on dead bodies?" If you look closely, you'll see that the female drones down there in the repression basement have V's glasses. And the male ones have N's hair. And remember, N in the first episode got his head blown off and just came back. And Cyn here said of N's potential demise: "I have backups." Cyn has J, N and V, saved. Computer style.. And probably Tessa too in my opinion, given how she was scratching at her arm and Cyn said she wouldn't dispose of her before saying to not go to the gala because she seems squeamish. Cyn copied them over and over, torturing them in various ways, for her amusement? To create better more durable bodies? Who knows, but she isn't worried about their deaths and pain because she can bring them back as some kind of eldritch god. And so long as they all live, she lives on in them.

[@sakurahirawa]

Tessa was rubbing her arm because her family chains her.

[@comet.x]

i think we will absolutely get a season 2, if only because the announcement trailer for season 1 was... well a trailer for 'season 1' it wasn't just 'murder drones' it was 'murder drones: season 1'

[@StarryClouds09]

Yeah, and also i'm pretty sure meta runner (another show made by glitch) had 2 seasons, and considering murder drones is their most popular show so far i definitely think we're getting 2

[@Francisco1234Cruz]

Fun fact: the irl gun called “Uzi” is a type of gun in the category SubMachine Gun (SMG)

[@ukaszgrzesik7231]

I acutaly liked the ambiguity of the events being taken from unreliable memory. Nice sf trope.

[@thefourhorsemenofapocalypse]

I absolutely love Cyn, she gives me disturbed younger sister vibes

[@jupitergaming5146]

I think you may have misinterpreted the basement scene. Because the implication that I got from that scene is that Cyn is the original creator of the murder drones. Uzi even says “that’s a pretty metal origin story” implying that’s where he was made into a murder drone I also feel like some of these arguments are very nit picky. Like it’s very easy to infer that pretty much all of what happened in the episode actually did happen besides N making the choice on his own to go to the basement and the talking crow (obviously)

[@phoenixsoren]

I've said it before, I'll say it again "The flesh demands invitation" is the worst way to ask for consent

[@ilyesbelgaid711]

I Really Liked This Episode, I Have Been Waiting For A Backstory Of The Murder Drones Ever Since The Pilot, And This Episode Sur Was A Treat, No Hate Here Tho, Everybody Has Their Opignons (:

[@hybridvenom9]

@anicedayy Please be banned from coming i done this she should be banned or he

[@moistisprobdead]

please fix your grammar

[@hybridvenom9]

If someone videolings they have to give their thing away so you know they they wanna review on the series with this youtuber or just anything else maybe make more people like watch it and even if they don't like it they will watch it well that was basically me with murders trying to make people watch that

[@IanChunck]

I get the impression that the multiple bodies of V and N in the basement are each a successful pass at deleting their memory data, as with hardware you need to override a piece of memory several times before it's fully unreadable by recovery software.

[@son0fgrim]

sometimes the puzzle is funnier to look at when you don't have all the pieces.

[@pyronuke4768]

I know, bro is literally complaining he doesn't have enough pieces to solve the mystery halfway through this horror-mystery series.

[@traehignight]

@@pyronuke4768 Yep. The more mystery is added, the harder it gets to predict and that makes the predictions more fun and less obvious

[@realwaifus5514]

I think the implication of the basement is that originally N, V, J and potentially all the other workers in the mansion were experimented on after the gala massacre, being torn apart, mutated and stitched back together over and over until they became the murder drones we know and love. Another thing I think this episode might be setting up a potential end game of saving Cyn from the Absolute Dolvet. The text that appears on Cyn’s visor when she deactivated looks like a one sided chat log from the absolute solver program, introducing itself, ‘sympathising’ for her, saying it can do something for her, promising not to discard her and ultimately requesting accesss. This all but confirms that Cyn is not the one in control, absolute solver is it’s own sentient program that gaslit her into accepting its help to ultimately further its own goals. It is implied that Cyn only has a very limited amount of control evident by the fact that she could persuade the solver to spare Tessa when it had no explicit reason to but not enough to make it refrain from experimenting on N. I believe the end game of the series is going to be returning to the mansion to find Cyn’s original body and save her from the solver’s control or turn her fully against it.

[@taddad2641]

Actually would note that Non of the drones were properly disposed of actually. Cause it requires compeltely breaking them down to parts, not tossed into a pile.... meaning there is a OH MY GOD.

[@LukiKruki]

The death angel is V. She attacked Tessa, J, N, she was going after N to the basement, she was up to clean up N's software.

[@IconicResemblance]

The shadowy looking humans is a cool touch because this is actually not the first time Liam Vickers came up with this, Internecion Cube (One of Liam's other shows) also had this effect in a flashback, Kirie wasn't able to remember the faces of the humans so she sees them as these black faces with broken faces, creepy smiles, etc. Probably because someone or something played with their memories and deleted the identities of the people from their minds.

[@syweb2]

7:37 Fun fact: so is N's! His head is on the table right next to the chair he gets strapped to, there is already a suited drone body strapped to the chair, and the head is then moved to make way for what is presumably about to replace it. 12:00 My only real complaint about the episode is that the animation is sometimes inconsistent - in particular, with the tube camera eyes. In some shots, the pupils/irises are fairly rigid, as shown in episode 2, while in others they squish and contract, which I think hurts the episode a little, especially because it only happens _sometimes,_ and thus is more pronounced when it occurs.

[@insertnamehere1398]

I noticed a lot of people didnt recognize error 606 from the zombie drones video and didnt recognize V till the final stretch (prolly cause episode 2 was over half a year ago)

[@jessebridgeman767]

I think humans being indistinct silhouettes is intentional not for simplicity for production but actually an intentional choice for the story. We saw in the first episode that N saw Uzi as a silhouette when he was on the fritz pre J rebooting him and his review of memories leading up to the massacre in the pilot. The way he sees Uzi is different from how humans are seen, but i feel this is moreso an indication of what humans do to the OS of the drones in order to intentionally obfuscate themselves from the drones. Why do the drones need to know anything outside of "human"? Any human is above a drone as implied by their treatment, so why would they allow themselves to be individually identified outside of necessity? Why not make every human into a generic silhouette in order to keep humanity in and of itself safer if any given ai decided to go rogue?

[@errorx_x1063]

Yeah I always figured that the drones themselves aren't supposed to see humans. Drones know eachother as alive, but to humans it's just a talking appliance. No reason to have them recognize what being alive looks like. IDFK

[@comet.x]

ngl i hust thought it was the drones just not remembering what the people looked like, probably due to cyn

[@squishy.mp4]

The humans all being shadows with glowing eyes reminded me of shadows house a lot.

[@nightlight2499]

SHADOWS HOUSE MENTION

[@lavatarh]

imo, i think this was one of the best episodes. episode 4 was one of the most confusing to me, and... like a little weird

[@babydeansplaytime7988]

1:23 Cyn doesn't have a voice made by AI @FitzyVA voiced her

[@jamesgiles4517]

3:15 EXACTLY Thats one of my main gripes with this episode is that we literally got no payoff in that dream sequence and it felt like a huge waste of time

[@jacquelinewright868]

This is probably my favourite ep cant wait for ep 6! Only flaw was me being confused* by characters (v and cyn)

[@josukex42]

the most jarring part was it felt like we missed an episode in between 4 and 5. the explanation why we were is N's memories is fine, but why was V also linked up in the hack other than we can't leave her alone because she is V. don't get me wrong, I love the show, but i do think this was a weaker episode

[@IronDino]

I enjoyed episode 5. I didn't really give us too many 'new' pieces of the puzzle, but it did help us piece together a few parts that we already did have. It seems like we have maybe just under half of the picture (or maybe, two separate quarters). I feel like the next episode is going to be quite intense. If we don't just straight into a three-way bruhaha, then we're going to get a Mexican standoff where alliances are going to get strained. N and V are probably going to want to work with Tessa and J. But Doll likely won't work with V. J may be willing to allow Doll to work with them, but might draw the line at Uzi. Will Uzi be willing to work with Tessa, a human? If they don't fight at the onset, then there's going to be a lot of gritted teeth 'teamwork' as we make our way back to Camp 98.7.

[@lynxlynx4149]

i think them giving us more questions then answers is the goal and they are trying to do a effect where the mystery Snowballs into a huge thing and when the mystery is finnaly solved it makes the satisfaction bigger the bigger the mystery the bigger the satisfaction when you figure it out

[@Firebringer121]

It's funny cause your series review got the algorithm to recommend this episode to me

[@Spencer_Thatcher]

"I'M helping... you cute, WEIRD! weird, butler." Uzi's slips of the tounge are some of my favorite jokes

[@bamo1461]

This episode was super good more exciting than satisfying and we got to learn more about N’s past and V and N are getting there memories back. And this part 8:34 is almost right because Episode 5 is 19 minutes and 42 seconds 😢

[@flawedandnotperfect]

Episode 5 ending: cliffhanger Me: que Roundabout... Like right now... I said NOW

[@justcallmeleonardo]

This is actually my new favourite episode. I don't mind it being setup for the future in some parts, it was overall just a lot of fun and I enjoied what we did get reveal wise

[@Sommion]

At this point, everything that Murder Drones throw at me, i´ll just take it! Im not gonna stop watching this show for 1 or 2 bad episodes(honestly, i think that there is no bad epidodes yet lol)

[@LordDoom10]

I do believe they are rushing to the finale. The last two episodes felt like we skipped over plot points to get where we are. Like them going into N's memories, that did not feel like that is where we were headed at the end of episode 4. And I'll agree the whole "It's a memory" confuses things, as we can't tell what really happened. And I felt we didn't really learn anything significant from it.

[@jourdanfarquharson4697]

I think all the events that happened where that n supposedly either died by the crows or was kidnapped when cyn left the room where she was chained. Either she killed everyone everyone at the galla except Tessa . Then made v lobotomize n and that's where there modifications into murder drones began. It also explained where the centipede mutation came from. I do agree that their is missing details where current Tessa and doll's interaction is concerned. Some people say that the time between episode 3 and 4 is 8 months. So Tessa and j where doing maintenance for 8 months which would mean Tessa probably carried plenty of food otherwise I doubt she'd be their so long without grub. And sometime in between would be when doll found them.

[@Mozzie876]

What this show will probably lead up to is a final battle of them going up against the Absolute Solver and beating it with friendship in the end and sprinkled with some horror. Uzi and N will probably get together and everyone will try and live on. What I want to happen is for them to do is for them to beat Cyn and then when Uzi confesses to N, N will reject Uzi as friendly as possible because he still has feelings for V, but Uzi won't take it well and the Absolute Solver will fully corrupt Uzi. Then there will either be Season 2 or a final fight where morally no one will win.

[@randomedoc]

Its kinda confusing but at the same time it give us lore idk how to fell about that I still think this episode is amazing ,like V avoids N because she opened N's head to cyn modifies N's memories Edit:grammar correction

[@Gring3]

Finale? I think we're at the halfway point unless glitch mentioned what episode they're ending on

[@Sasquatch-ff1pj]

Dunno. I got entertained and questions answered. Even a little character development from V. I guess Sarcastic Chorus didn't notice.

[@pyronuke4768]

I've watched Sarcastic Chorus on and off for a few years now, and I've noticed he tends to jump to conclusions a lot.

[@ReissSpangenberg4470]

this episode was like a friend gives you a puzzle to salve and 60% of the peaces are from different puzzles

[@renegaderiley888]

In this episode N did what every horror movie protagonist SHOULD do

[@Wooo323]

Uzi crushing on N just gives her a cute Uwu personality it’s cute!

[@dtbrex08]

"!!! DAD, GET OUTTA MY ROO---....." Honestly my favorite line probably lol also ngl Uzi in different forms especially speaking to N was probably my favorite part of this episode in general lol

[@lifeisdeath3042]

The episode was literally ment for context into what caused the n,j and v to become disassemble drones which was CYN and giving context into how Tessa life at home was like and how her only friend where the drones

[@blitz3391]

IT's a very good point you make; the episode was very lore heavy...but in reality barely answers any questions. And this is a bit frustrating. One of the biggest question is : How N can see/discover all this. He can't have lived everything. It would have made quite a bit more sense to have V be the narrator, as she most probably saw more than N, and maybe even went so far as to help deleting his memory. Or we can take it the other way around, and assume that what really happened was that N got under control and participated in the Murders, alongside V and J. WE can kinda deduce that we see part of the evening through V's eyes, but even this is a stretch, for example with the part in Tessa's room. None of the two were there.

[@jourdanfarquharson4697]

Remember it's a memory space shared by v and n and to an extent the cyn/ absolute solver program which has piece of her data/ ai in every murder drone. Events in Tessa room are probably events that occurred as the actual events since uzi had no influence. So all the parts with Tessa are the solvers memory of solver/cyn did. The one in the basement was the the internal program solver in current n trying to reformat him and v.

[@pinkgazelle3445]

Wow!!! New thing was just pointed out to me and I thought i'd share given i missed it. Back in episode four V calls Uzi Cyn. The exact line is " New body same horrors, huh, Cyn?" The clip starts at 16:44 in the episode.

[@jet4697]

I love this show, and it has a lot of potential to be even better.i just hope that potential isn't wasted like RWBY.

[@Bombers57]

Same though I feel the potential of RWBY wasn't wasted it went with Monty Oum

[@WorldWeave]

I largely agree with this…most episodes of this show leave me with more questions than answers…but this one especially suffers because of it…it’s still a great episode, but it leaves me more confused than most, with my biggest questions being “what’s up with Cyn?” And “how much of this actually happened?”

[@pyronuke4768]

Typically a mystery is a slow buildup of information that only clicks in the end; We're only halfway through the story right now.

[@neuralstrings8015]

11:20 just want to point out that Doll literally teleported there, so Tessa would've already known about the absolute solver thing, the gunshot is most likely to make sure it's not a absolute solver illusion thing

[@samklibaner7252]

I kind of agree that this episode feels like more of a set-up episode than a reveal. I'm still wondering a lot about what happened, especially since it's a bit hard to tell what's real and what's not. One thing though, but I think Uzi giving up the key was actually on purpose, and she somehow used it to trail Dol to Tessa and J. But overall, the humor was great my personal favorite was N's peace sign before leaving the library, and him at first laughing at the crow attacks as if they are tickling him. It just says a lot about his character, how much of an inherently good person he is, and how it can sometimes be a weakness because is not good with confrontation and tend to just turn the other cheek.

[@drantino]

the moment i saw N throw the stick and a crow swoops and instantly cetches it and it turn back to them, i knew death glare. i was not expecting green death glare.

[@Stranger-gl6ie]

I think the basement is a place where u send defective murder drones and thats why and how there are dead murder drones and The zombie worker drone? Is trying to save them but deletes theyr memory to not make another zombie drone like her Or She the zombie drone lady looks for zombie drones and tries to fix them using murder drones parts But fails I might be Super Wrong

[@RobertPage562]

Thank you for intoducing me to this great show!

[@ultimateninjaboi]

THANK YOU. This whole time i was legitimately confused about what was happening because of the blatant "the memories are being fucked with," plot point. Like, still love the episode, but the criticism is worth making

[@Plastic_Spork72]

"Adorable littke psycho" Best way to describe every main character in murder drones

[@joaco545]

Dont forget to mention that she not only is part of the tini bit who wakes up, but she also is part of the 0.7% who have a "hazardous mutation" when waking up (pie chart you can see at the end of zombie drones)

[@EvaShogouki01]

This is actually one of my favorite episodes. I really like that we didn't get solid answers but only hints and more questions. The plot thickens as well as the creepy and hilarious Cyn.

[@AJ_the_Dragon]

Ok, I know I'm wrong for multipul reasons, but when I first watched the episode I thought the version of abosulute solver in the memorys was a futuer infection, like what Uzi was doing

[@pyronuke4768]

I got that impression too. I think Mr chorus is jumping to conclusions as usual.

[@khgamerof3899]

they just cant hit me with that ending bro thats dirty

[@Anton-de5vu]

My biggest problem with this show is that it feels too vague, or that it breezes by new information too fast for it to click in, maybe I’m just not paying attention but I had no idea the girl in the flashback was the same as the corporate exterminator lady.

[@SkilledNub]

J is the one who got character development here, also we finally learn the purpose of the Green/Golden robo-roach

[@DrMutran]

I like how they did the humans. It reminds me how Rooster Teeth did background characters in the first episodes of RWBY.

[@casualbird7671]

As a bird lover Uzi being a cute birdy for a good portion of the episode made me so happy on its own

[@Plzinsertnameplz]

I heard that Micheal implied the existence of season 2 at comic con but I can't find any videos of any GLITCH comic con panels so I can't confirm it myself

[@BrotherMag]

I was kinda lost this whole episode. Thanks man!

[@JoopiterGD]

A lot of this series is just a bit confusing, as unless I just haven't been paying attention, a lot of things that it seems like everyone else is understanding, I just don't. Was Cyn teased at some point, why is that bug important, etc. It seems like there must be external details, but idk.

[@IhaveaPHDinBoredom]

Cyn was teased since episode one, Her name was shown in the text when N was rebooting after J slapped him, the bug probably has connections to the solver and Uzi’s mother as it called Uzi , her mothers number.

[@pyronuke4768]

I mean it feels like we're only halfway through the series at this point, and it is a horror-mystery, so not having all the answers just yet is kind of a given.

[@JoopiterGD]

@@pyronuke4768 Don’t quote me on this, but im pretty sure there is only going to be 8 episodes, so we are slightly past halfway, but yeah, I agree that not all answers should be here. It just feels confusing and broken in some ways.

[@darkmetal2412]

Yeah in terms of story arcs I have a feeling this will be the weakest episode of the season just my opinion. But at least it's filled with lore which is awesome. And the scene that been living rent free in my head is when Tessa says "it wants payed time leave, for union negotiations." And J is absolutely losing her shit while screaming "this is a unrelated layoff!" Lol

[@ryanphillips4123]

This review covers my thoughts nearly perfectly!

[@wafasaysondkibidi]

The way you literally predicted the name of the next episode 🙏😭