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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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[–] Sternhammer@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree. Subtly different but overall and surprisingly very similar.

PresAux are more hippy like and a little less like the academics in the book which I find just a little annoying but it’s OK (I’m an academic).

One of the things I’m really curious about is how they flesh out the contrast between the capitalist dystopia of the Corporation Rim and the clearly socialist Preservation Aux. I feel like it’s a politically charged topic in the current capitalist dystopia American context (at least that’s how it looks to me from outside America). I keep waiting for them to water it down but they haven’t done it so far. Good on em.

[–] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I hope they stick to their guns and keep it fully anticapitalist like the books. Right now is the time for that kind of media, there is a massive appetite for it, so if they fail to do it they are shooting themselves in the foot.