Speak Up Saturday

[feurioo]

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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[tinny]

[oops, this is about murderbot]

The first season was the plot of the first novella. So it makes sense to have a fully told storyline with a proper ending in this season. I thought 10x30 minutes was a good length to tell a novella plot, and they even inserted quite a lot of extraneous stuff, some good some not so good (imho). But overall I think they hit the vibe of the books very well.

but for me it drug in places

Especially in the middle, for me. (Which is where they put the extra stuff, mostly.)

[shadowkat]

Ah, that explains it. I only remembered the bits that happened in the first episode from the first novella.

Especially in the middle, for me. (Which is where they put the extra stuff, mostly.)

Yup. That's where it drug for me as well. I don't know what they added (since I don't remember much from the books) but if I were to guess? It would be all the space opera parody stuff and the human stuff that was outside of the Muderbot's perspective?

[tinny]

I specifically reread the book after seeing the first ep, because I wanted to compare. I enjoyed that a lot.

I were to guess? It would be all the space opera parody stuff and the human stuff that was outside of the Murderbot's perspective?

Yes, all the "canon" Sanctuary Moon scenes were added. Murderbot just talks about watching it in the book, but barely mentions details. Having an actual plot played out, including the self-insert part, was added.

As for outside of Murderbot's pov... murderbot does go through all the surveillance in the book, too, so that wouldn't necessarily exclude things happening in the habitat while murderbot isn't present. The stuff I most strongly noticed was everything to do with sex and romance. Murderbot just doesn't like any of it and, if at all, mentions its dislike in passing. Everything concerning Gurathin's crush on Mensah, and the throuple, and the whole character of LeeBeeBee, was not in the books.

In addition to that: the whole ep of Murderbot and Mensah in the hopper. Everything about the flora and fauna of the planet. Ratthi not having any weapons training. Everything in the last ep that happened between Murderbot falling and waking up with its memories restored. Murderbot just has a blackout in the book and no idea what happened in the middle.

[shadowkat]

Thank you.

Then okay, I agree - the additional stuff didn't work for me. Because the space opera, the throuple, the romances and crushes, LeeBeeBee, and G's crush - did not work for me. I get that they were trying to develop the other characters? But I wish they'd found another way. And the space opera parody grated, but I don't like parodies.