{"id":21358,"date":"2025-05-24T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=21358"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:15:19","slug":"murderbot-the-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2025\/05\/24\/murderbot-the-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Murderbot: the TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Kam and I have been watching the Murderbot<\/cite> TV series, and we\u2019ve both been enjoying it quite a bit.<\/p>\r\n

I\u2019ve read several (but not yet all) of the books; Kam hasn\u2019t read any of them.<\/p>\r\n

I started out pretty dubious about the show; the first few minutes of the first episode didn\u2019t inspire confidence in me. But over the course of the first episode, it won me over.<\/p>\r\n

I enjoy the humor; I enjoy the characters; I enjoy SecUnit being an avid media consumer (and I enjoy the snippets of Sanctuary Moon<\/cite>); I really enjoy SecUnit\u2019s loathing of having to interact with people and make eye contact and such. (All of which are things I also enjoy about the books.)<\/p>\r\n

(There was one moment in the show that I especially liked in that eye-contact regard, though I\u2019m not sure whether it was intentional or not: The camera is focused on SecUnit\u2019s face from the front, and as SecUnit turns its head, its eyes jump from just-to-one-side of looking directly at the camera to just-to-the-other-side. That is, it seemed to me to be treating looking into the camera like making eye contact, and therefore avoiding it.)<\/p>\r\n

I don\u2019t find the casting of SecUnit jarring, but I know that a lot of people do, and I sympathize; I suspect I would have a much harder time enjoying the show if I had pictured someone browner and more androgynous-looking and shorter and less typically-male-voice-sounding. (Someone in the WisCon discussion of Murderbot<\/cite> just now suggested that Vico Ortiz (Jim from Our Flag Means Death<\/cite>) would\u2019ve been a good choice; I suspect that they would have been a better physical match for a lot of readers\u2019 mental image of the character.)<\/p>\r\n

But for what it\u2019s worth, the show does feel a lot like the books to me. Not an exact or perfect rendition, of course, but a pretty good adaptation.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speculative-fiction","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21359,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358\/revisions\/21359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}