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Murderbot, An Unexpected Surprise
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It's no Sanctuary Moon, but still a pretty good show. :-)
The tropes in the Sanctuary Moon episodes really do have me laughing. 😁💜
That's premium quality television
The show definitely needed John Cho. I have never seen him in a role quite like Chau in Off Centre though.
The first season adapted the first book pretty faithfully. I'm hoping the second season does as well for the second book. The first three books in the series are all part of a single connected story and it would be nice to have at least three seasons to conclude that first arc.
Alexander Skarsgård carried that show so hard. If it weren't for his excellent performance I would have given up for sure.
"War on Everyone" was the first time I saw him. That movie is fuckin amazing and super underrated. And he was awesome. LET'S GO FUCK SOME SCUMBAGS
My friend tells me the books are much better, but I enjoyed the show a lot. I made the mistake of binging it though, definitely should've kept it to one episode a night.
I think both book and show are very similar. The show is quite a good adaptation, but it is an adaptation and you might get different things from the books. It's definitely worth a try and the books are very short and quick to read. For me, one thing I hate in the books are descriptions of fights. Those work much better in the show.
I just finished the first book along with the show. Honestly, the book is… fine? I would hope the writing improves with growth, because the book was weirdly monotonous and expository, partly by nature of the narrator, but that doesn’t make it less dry. So much was just stated explicitly and plainly, it made potentially exciting things feel boring. In the end it felt like a pretty good story told pretty poorly.
The books stay the same. I liked them. I read the first two in a single sitting on a (verry) long flight. They are popcorn books. Fun without too much substance. The action is told from his point of view which is pretty jaded, its supposed to be humorous, and yes its a very dry humor.
The humor is dry, yes, but so is the writing, which isn’t a good thing. It’s not nearly as immersive and evocative as it could be. I’m not recommending against them, just tempering expectations.
I love the books and have read them through multiple times now. I just started the show and finished the first episode last night.
I'm hoping as Murderbot learns more about Preservation Aux in the show that they will be characterized less... degradingly. In the books rhey're competent, empathetic and sensible humans which comes as a shock to Murderbot, and I was disappointed to see them played as silly naive goofballs.
I also have some major issues with the intro and general way they handled Murderbot's origin so far, but there were also scenes that were straight out of the book so I will keep watching.
I was less than impressed, sorry to say. I did finish the entire thing. The story had some potential, but I never really felt that connection to the cast. They felt like a group of bland individuals to me. It was just about good enough to keep watching.
I definitely felt the connection with Murderbot, but it wasn't until the end of the final episode that I was finally connecting with Gurathin. I think the short episodes make it a little challenging to connect after only 10.
Well yeah those were the only two characters that stuck with me. I couldn't really tell you who the others were and what their part in the whole thing was.
But I couldn't really tell you what it's about either. The story felt a bit all over the place.
jeez. it's not the greatest show in the world but it was coherent enough to know what the characters did and what the plot was.
It was coherent enough for me to get to the end of the season but for me, I'll say it was just okay
Not to get too spoilery but if it is like the books (which so far it's a faithful adaptation), Dr. Mensah is the only character from the first book who really continues to play a major role in the rest of the series, so it kind of makes sense that more time and effort was given to her character.
I think you're confusing Gurathin and Dr Mensah
I think you're right, I watched it sll right when it came out and I haven't gone back.
I never read the books but I really liked this show. Skarsgard was great but so were the others. I really liked Gura and Mensa. LeeBeeBee was funny too but I totally knew she was going to be a rat. She just had that energy. Glad Murderbot shot her.
I hope Murderbot gets up to some crazy shenanigans in season 2 now that no one knows he is a secunit.
LeeBee was certainly something. Haha.
I always find the anthropomorphism of robots kinda lame and boring. Robots should be slaves. They shouldn't have any personality. I don't want to be their friends, and I don't want to care about them. I don't even like it when TTS tools sound like humans.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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