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Murderbot - thoughts (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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Haven't seen any chatter here a out the new Murderbot show.

My wife and I are absolutely loving it so far, feels like a really faithful and respectful adaptation to the books, with most of the changes being positive!

Anyone else watching this?

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

I disagree that it’s a faithful adaptation from the books.

There have been plenty of lore and story changes. The overall ‘tone’ is different too. Books are more hard sci-fi.

That being said, I’m still enjoying it as its own thing and I wish the episodes were longer.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    My general head cannon for the discrepancies especially with the additions is that the books are written by Murderbot as a record and it has admitted to being an unreliable narrator including glossing over things that it's not interested in or doesn't understand the value of. The show is more of a third-person perspective so it's entirely possible some of what we are seeing was those moments that Murderbot didn't see fit to include.

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