Murderbot TV

[lydamorehouse]

I finished watching Apple+'s Murderbot series last night. I will not spoil the show for anyone but I will say that I spent the first half of the last episode EXTREMELY STRESSED OUT thinking that the producers might take the story somewhere it had never gone in the novellas/novels. The friends I was watching with probably did not appreciate my feelings, but I couldn't help but saying, "I don't like this" a lot during those first fifteen minute or so. Things turned around and returned to 'true,' as it were, but there was a bit of sloppy writing that may haunt me for the rest of my life. Okay, so two seconds is all I needed. Just to be absolutely certain the Murderbot had freed itself from the newly reinstalled !! governor module.

But, otherwise, I'd give the series a big thumbs up. It was more than decently faithful to All Systems Red and many of the changes were improvements. I have more to say about it, some of it slightly less than glowing, but since it's still quite new, I will save much of my critique for in-person panels and private discussions. 

We also ended up watching The Ying Yang Master Zero, which I really loved. It features a semi-historical figure Abe no Semei, who like King Arthur, just gets a lot of play. 

I'd talk more about it, but I need to run off to take Shawn back to the knee doctor. She's develop a new pain in her knee and so we're off to make sure it's nothing serious.  

Comments

[replyhazy]

I had the exact same experience watching the Murderbot finale!

[lydamorehouse]

RIGHT??? Just gimme the two seconds of certainty at LEAST!

[pameladean]

THANK YOU for this heads-up! I'll be watching the series at some point and that would have created REALLY UNNECESSARY stress for me too. I have a very low expectation of any adaptation of prose fiction, but somehow this does not exist with any kind of resignation or calm about any particular violation produced.

P.