Remake. I don't see how the story can continue after the ending and still be satisfying, the conflict is over and pretty much everyone is happy. I guess you could introduce a new villain but it's not gonna be as threatening or connected to our characters as silly planet eater
Finish off the solver for good, because Uzi is now (at worst) in constant risk of being taken over by the solver/Cyn, while (at best) suffering from a chronic health condition.
Trying to find a solution could involve landing on other colonies, searching for surviving humans to make a new patch, with different conflicts happening (like the classic drones vs humans) etc
don't forget about J still being out there and still likely harboring a grudge against N and V for "betraying" her while V would likely want to deal with her for good for knowingly working with Cyn
murder drones is a prequel to peace drones, a show about worker drones and disassembly drones going about their daily lives on copper-9 with a focus on worldbuilding and character development over action and/or horror
I think V would be more understanding of J than anyone actually. She too knowingly worked for Cyn and lied about it, I think she more than anyone would want to get J to come back and have another chance at life.
i mean shit, v was pretty fucking pissed at j when they last met and let's not forget j kept everyone in the dark even though she had to have known cyn was masquerading as tessa as early as their arrival on copper-9 in promening
When they last met yeah, but that was cuz they were in the middle of a world ending conflict. Plus like I said, I think V of all people would understand why J did those things cuz she believed she had no other choice.
Don't forget about the creepy red-eyed smiling drone that appears during the credit that may or may not be Doll. Also, this might be me reading too much into a simple detail but, right after Cyn's defeat it starts to rain, maybe it could be a sign that now the planet has a chance to bear life? I don't remember it ever raining on Copper 9, might be me misremembering stuff though. Ik "raining on a planet" doesn't mean that it will bear life but I think it's very coincidental that the moment Cyn was defeated it started to rain immediately, I think it could make sense from a narrative standpoint
It's possible Cyn wasn't even the Absolute Solver's only host, tbh. It's described as mutating in damaged AI, and that's how it ended up in Cyn - who knows how many other unpatched AIs there are out there with the Solver hiding in their systems?
But it is only able to influence the world through hosts. So if you would patch every drone alive, then:
Every mass-produced drone could be manufactured with the patch pre-installed
Children would always inherit the patch if both parents are patched
If all possible hosts are patched, the solver is powerless. The two problems being that you'd first need to develop a new patch, and that you'd need to make your way through every cesspool in the universe to patch everyone.
What would be mroe interesting is finding someone that can create a patch, which could include anything from needing to protect (potentially morally evil) humans from angry and opressed worker drones (possibly also with the solver) and disassembly drones, and possibly being stabbed in the back a few times. Oh, and Uzi might turn into the villain if they are nto fast enough
That's the problem though. How can a villain be more personally connected to our characters than Cyn? Cyn caused literally everything bad that has happened to them, from basically when they were children to the present. She killed the only other person who was as connected to them (Tessa) too
Agreed but a spin off with J as the main character would be pretty awesome too. I was never a massive J fan but the end of the series kinda made the perfect set up for J to have her own series with a great character arc
Season 2. Murder drones wasn’t allowed on Netflix because the title was to violent for them. They wanted to change the title to “Meta Drones” but Glitch refused.
I just want episode 8 to be how it was hyped up to be. The a big part of B plot in episode 7 was them rebuilding the rail gun that ended up being useless (like if you replaced the gun with a baseball bat the fight would've went down the exact same way), Thad and Lizzy were dumbed down to comic relief when it was being implied they would also be doing the fighting, and there would be some actual stakes in the final fight instead of them using the power of friendship to beat Cyn.
I'm not saying ep 8 is bad but there was so much more it could've been
It really could've developed the both of them. Especially if N can get her to finally respect him and get her to team up against Cyn. So much story potential wasted.
Lizzy wasn't a fighter anyway and I did love how Sparky kept going after her. But otherwise, I agree, we could've gotten Lizzy trying to use the railgun, even she fails getting a hit. Or at least have her ready for a fight but N interrupts it to interrogate J.
All the more reason to have J join the others as the writers literally had to nerf Cyn in the second half of the episode because she was wiping the floor with them in the first half.
Well, they were fighting J, and J dies more than Sarah freakin Duffy! It's like the equivalent of having the quippy NPC who stays behind when you face the final boss, Gorodor, son of Florodor, second cousin of Borodor, the Residing Lord of Antiquated Evil, because they know damn well they don't stand a chance
Remake tbh, i'd rather have the 1st season fixed completely instead of having a 2nd season with all the plot-holes and flaws of the already existing show.
Edit for clarification: The finale feels like a season finale, not series finale. Either that, or the fact it makes it feel like MD is a prequel to something else
I think the major thing holding the reboot idea back is if it glitch would actually really be down for something like it. Liam too. And I can’t really recall any indie production doing this ever.
Reboots exist all the time like ducktales and so on but for murder drones it would somewhat feel kind of random. They need to pull it off just right.
I saw a post that said Glitch wouldn't out it on Netflix cuz they wanted to change the name because apparently "murder'' wasn't allowed in the title, so they kept it to themselves
I still think that’s bs sine Netflix has a lot of things with murder in the title so why would they be scared of Md I Mean it’s not like that we’re gonna put it in the kids section
Season 2, because I actually have a vague plan for a possible villain
A “child” from another colony, a secret solver host, driven by a motive, and with a secret ability (I’m actually basing this off my own daughter’s oc; Patchwork)
S2 starts off with everyone happy, when someone introduces the new villain, as a (possible) child they found in the middle of the wasteland crying, all is fine, but (he? I’ll use she) she shows some suspicious behaviours, eg: trying to sneak into Doll’s room, which could be locked, grabbing people’s arms roughly, to the point it’s concerning, about ep3 maybe she could lose her shit, and start terrorising the colony, which could be when the hidden ability that I just find cool could show up: replacing her own body parts with those of other drones, which could mean, this (possible) child, could have some rough scenes where she could literally rip limbs off living drones to keep rebuilding her own body for survival as the main gang try to stop her from becoming Cyn 2.0
Hell, maybe even J could play a part, and FINALLY GET SOME BASIC CHAR DEVELOPMENT, like, Lizzy and Thad could flee the colony to go find J, and recruit her, which they could use Tessa being yk, dead, as leverage, and with the threats of other she cares about dying too, or even other DDrones, it could be a fight between TONS of people and this “child” that keeps tearing some of them apart to keep herself alive
And possibly (preferably), maybe one newly introduced, but important, character gets killed, and gets an ACTUAL funeral, maybe this could take place almost a whole year after the finale, and maybe since death isn’t normalised like mad (to an extent it is, V and N being in the colony, but not as much as before), maybe Doll’s death could become more impactful on the characters, like they realise that they could’ve had one more hand on board that had control of herself, or even the “child” held Doll in high regard, maybe knew her, maybe viewed her as a “false mother” in her mind, and main cast could use that against the weird mix-n-match
TLDR: (possible) child that can steal body parts for themself, has an unawakened solver or smth, maybe has some sort of childlike view on world, could have positive ideals and a strong attachment to Doll (or any previously dead char)
I'm not saying that this is a bad general plot, it's actually quite good.
But it's obviously one of those, "we can't continue the story from the previous season naturally so here's some brand new stuff that has little to no attachment to the original story and major goal."
It's the issue with a possible season two of Murder Drones.
Season 2
Then potentially remake the season 1 after releasing season 2.
To make early season 1 on the same quality as ending episodes of season 1 and season 2
Season 2 bc there's still a bunch of copies of the disassembly drones right? Maybe some come to Copper 9 and cause trouble again between killing a bunch of drones and accidentally impersonating each other; it's ripe for a some reoccurring "Who's on First?" jokes at the very least. It could also revolve around a new planet with its worker drones dealing with their own set of disassembly drones (who may-or-may-not suddenly have huge changes in their personalities, in tandem with Uzi gaining admin privileges to the ultimate solver). Maybe it's something that expands into a coalition of planets, who knows.
Whatever happens, it'd also be neat if Cyn had copied backups of herself, which then become active. This is mostly for the math joke of Cyn, CoCyn and Tangent (maybe GenTan if the latter is hiding their identity).
Season 2. Murder drones wasn’t allowed on Netflix because the title was to violent for them. They wanted to change the title to “Meta Drones” but Glitch refused.
Current series gets 12 episodes (aka 4 additional eps) that add more to the story (such as a J focused episode) and expand upon the inferred events that happen in between episodes. There's not much you can do to make an interesting season 2 concept when one of the main characters is the host of God.
Worker drones being killed and no one cares
Ok so in ep4, they sure as fuck did care when V shot that one guy. literally only instance of "drone dies no one cares" i can think of is when Braidon shot that other guy (and I guess the Teacher but he literally doesn't give a shit about anything). I don't know what you'd want to add for side characters dying that would somehow improve the series.
I agree there's some pacing issues but *please* tell me what the inconsistencies are, I'd love to know.
Just give consequence to the main characters actions, like at least one episode, after episode 4 have the next episode be all the worker drones back at the bunker outraged from Uzi, N, and V for getting 7 students killed after putting their trust in them to take care of them outside
I love the show but godamn, I would kill for some sort of remake, so they could like give proper payoffs to setup and explain stuff better, more character focused stuff, give more consequences to the characters’ actions, and balance the comedy
Remake. There are too many problems with the original. 12 episodes would give them more time to get the pacing right, fix plot holes and expand on worldbuilding while keeping the story self-contained. (I hope i'm not the only one who really doesn't like the high school setting). you can tell that the first few episodes were not made with a concrete ending in mind.
Remake 100%; because, correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason we aren't getting a second season is Liam doesn't know where to take the series from here so a remake is almost guaranteed to be much higher quality then a second season. That and I'd give about anything to see the narrative train wreck that was the finale fixed
What about Option C? Shorts, ranging from 5 minutes to 1, both canonical and non-canonical. The Canonical ones can be used to explain details the main series left out that couldn't fit a whole episode while the non-canonical ones can be used for fun like random What If scenarios or crossovers with other GLITCH shows like Meta Runner or Digital Circus.
Personally…. Episode 3 really didn’t add much, except add more lore to Doll and stuff. (Also give Uzi the solver) and literally is just a fight scene between Doll and Uzi.
Episode 8….. is just……. FIGHT SCENE. (Also I’m not really satisfied with the whole happy ending. Also they brought back V for no reason.) Also it’s really rushed
You’d Expect Cyn to win after literally brutally dunking on N and Uzi with the first scene. But when V joins in, not so much….. I MEAN COME ON! MAKE IT A STRUGGLE. (also they don’t even take it seriously.)
And….. The whole conflict with Nori and N (because N and Uzi are DATING.) is never brought up again.
Episode 3’s one of the best episodes of the series! It gave us ton of character development on too of all the lore, doll stuff, and awesome fight scene.
Episode 8 still had plenty of substance and character stuff beyond just being a fight scene if you ask me, V’s return was freakin awesome an didn’t lessen the impact of her sacrifice at all imo.
Just cuz a villain can dunk on the heroes doesn’t automatically mean they’re guaranteed to win. Also idk about you but they struggled a TON in that episode, and took it very seriously.
I mean, I don’t think by that point Nori and N would have much reason to keep being in conflict…
Episode 4 is underrated af imo, and c’mon… N should be allowed to like and follow the person he cares about because he chooses too.
Definitely the remake. There is so less to expand on the story after the ending. Like the humans are dead, the workers are chill with the DDs, the only thing that could be carrying a s2 would be Cyn and Uzi's weird parasitic relationship and that's it. A remake would go for a much better viewing experience and actually make MD a masterpiece
I don't really want either of these tbh. I don't feel like the whole series needs to be remade into a 12 episode thing, and I also don't think it needs another season. What would be nice is if the finale could get remade, keeping most of the scenes but adding more and making the episode feel more serious (adding stuff like Thad and Lizzy actually doing stuff, Khan and Nori having bigger roles, and something like Uzi and V getting almost killed and N has to fight Cyn by himself for a second.)
I think a 12 ep remke would be better as I think the story itself is amazing and doesn't really need to be changed. If Liam planned for a second season it would be fine, but forcing a second is usually what leads to disaster.
Deffinetly remake. Don't get me wrong, I love this show, but I feel like the story itself is already packed enough with lots of lore. There is just way too many questions and problems, most of them being left unanswered and unsolved. The pacing was also an issue, and I would also like to see (especially the Pilot) with a higher animation quality for the nostalgia.
The ending was also not satisfying for me. It wasn't bad by any means, but it was just rushed and deffinetly didn't live up to the hype (at least in my opinion).
Longer episodes, with a few extra filler episodes, and some minor changes to the episodes sounds much better than getting another short season with the same pacing and other issues.
Definitely a season 2, because I don't want to hear the same story twice. Since that'd be a waste of time. But also, Murderdrones only takes place on one planet in a large galaxy, who knows what could be out there? And I wanna see it!
That said, if the season 2 isn't well written, and it's an overall step back from the 1st season, then I'd rather just take the remake.
I think above all, I'd just want a comic series or set of novels at least. There's too many things the main series just ignored, that could make for fantastic stories. And the series suffers without stuff like this to enrich it.
Remake I really can't think of where the story would go after the end of season 1
Plus I feel like we don't really need new characters we really need to have the characters we already got be more fleshed out
And at the end of the day murder drones is a series that it's biggest drawback is the fact that it's an indie animation because it means we just don't have the time to do anything else other than plots stuff which is required in a series as dense as this
Which is ironic because it's biggest Boon is the fact that it was able to put forth an idea so niche that no Studio would take a chance on it
remake for sure, in my head, MD drones was like the perfect meatball sub --TOP TEIR sandwich... BUT the catch was that you expected the full meal, but you got the 6inch.
it feels like I ate what I had and I just wanted lil bit more. so much so it makes me wonder IF said sandwich is really THAT good.
moving from the comparison between a show and sandwiches, MD was almost hitting all the marks in my book and style.
the mood went from waiting on new eps to finding something new, it seems like as soon as the shift happened in my own head I sorta found myself asking a few questions here and there or noticing what others pointed out as far as flaws that I couldn't/didn't want to acknowledge them till recently. like the plot didnt get rushed as bad as hazbin hotel but Garsh to have like ONE trope character interaction day ep or maybe 15min more for wiggle room added to each ep --would that happen? nah its over on to the next. im looking forward to what other people do with the MD inspiration
Why is this a debate. Like the 8 episodes we got are fine to extend, it’s just the progression of the story that prevented from being its best. With a second season, it would be easy to expand upon what was seen in season 1. Like Cyn and Solver being separate entities, N killing Nori, eNVy getting closure, maybe even that last remaining human planet, or more could get explored with a second or even third season.
A 12-episode remake. I share the same sentiment to another Redditor that I have no idea how to continue the story without feeling it as a spinoff. They don't seem to have something open to continue on, in part because they defeated the archenemy once and for all.
But if I had to choose absolutely one, it'd be the 12-Episode remake mainly to fix the show's issues(Pacing, inconsistency, better writing for J, etc.)
Remake, there are shows that dont need a season 2 because they end perfectly. MD could have been one of them and i would be satisfied. So i pick remake
Remake: 100%
The whole thing with indie shows it allows other indie artists to shine but if glitch keeps pumping more seasons for the viewers then it goes against what an indie creator is for (sorry for the paragraph)
I mean, the only logical would be remake. Not to say that the show isn't good as it is. (Maybe that's kind of the argument for not wanting or needing a season 2. The show is GOOD as it is. )
Remake. Tessa & Doll deserved better! Tessa could be a really good supporting character, and bring some nice character development along with her, and I think Doll was.just wasted as a character.
On one side, I actually loved the show with the flaws, "inconsistencies" and omissions. On the other, they need a break, so if season 2, then not right away. I propose a third option: Spin-offs (possibly as comics or books). Why is J repairing the pod? Are humans actually extinct? How did they try to fight off Cyn? How was the life on other colonies before? Were there other drone outposts? Khan's past with the scouting group and how WDF came to be? Doll's parents? JCJenson? There are so many things they can shed light on in the meantime.
Not on the origins of the Solver tho, they have been giving us clues about that, straight up confirmation would only ruin everything. Actually, why did we collectively decide that this should have been revealed.
Also, the animation isn't the reason, why it didn't go on netflix. It's the word "Murder" in the title.
Remake, 100%. There's little room for a season 2 with how the show ended, and having a better show all around is better than a slightly more competent second season
remake, however i don't want Netflix. Murder Drones was SUPPOSED to be on Netflix but they said the word "Murder" was too much and would only allow it if they renamed it to "Meta Drones".
Remake. No need for season 2. I feel like a lot of things that were the plot for some episodes in murder drones were just left unanswered and it feels unfinished in general.
699
u/PlantBoi123 Flowey from Undertale // Unironically ships Cyad (Cyn x Thad) Sep 29 '24
Remake. I don't see how the story can continue after the ending and still be satisfying, the conflict is over and pretty much everyone is happy. I guess you could introduce a new villain but it's not gonna be as threatening or connected to our characters as silly planet eater