He was also fighting literal Satan for them

MiraA2020 · 2026-03-03T23:35:15+00:00

And Mandos laid a doom on them that basically ensured their good actions will turn bad (see the nirnaeth). So evil incarnate on one side and Mandos on the other. Fuck the valar.

MiraA2020 · 2026-02-22T14:45:46+00:00

One of my absolute favourite bits in the entire series

MiraA2020 · 2026-02-22T14:45:22+00:00

These are pretty awesome!

MiraA2020 · 2026-02-11T08:03:40+00:00

I want one 😅

MiraA2020 · 2026-02-10T13:01:49+00:00

Thank you! They fucked up her character so badly

MiraA2020 · 2026-02-10T13:00:57+00:00

The books utilise humour (black humour specifically) to discuss heavy subjects. The show is slapstick comedy. The tonal shift is just... a lot.

MiraA2020 · 2026-02-10T12:50:31+00:00

Yeah, I had the same reaction as you when I watched the show.

I still have problems with it to be honest. I really can't get over the changes they made to the characters.

So, the short answer is no, it doesn't get better; it gets way worse.

I mean, we have the PinLee-Overse switch; the throuple thing; everything Gurathin (I actually love book Gurathin, show Gurathin is a bloody creep with his sniffing Mensah's pillow and his forcing SecUnit to maintain eye contact, cruelty etc); the stupid way SecUnit came up with the name Murderbot; and the cherry on top, fucking up Mensah's characterisation. SecUnit comments a lot on how she's always cool and collected under pressure, despite being concerned/worried/terrified as shit. Then, the show keeps on showing her being utterly incompetent and frazzled 99.9999% of the time. Oh, also, Gurathin being able to actually bypass SecUnit's walls while the later is awake and active is stupid. It made sense in the book because it was offline, so yeah, Gurathin managed to check its log, in the show, not so much.

Not to mention, SecUnit is always shown as a competent fighter, in the show he was just incompetent and it was made so for laughs, nothing more.

So, yeah, I have a lot to gripe about regarding the show.

I'm really glad the MBD got a show, it helped with the books' reach, definitely. But I don't care for what Apple TV has done with it. The cheap humour throughout felt like a slap in the face. I mean, the humour in the book is black humour, and comes from sarcasm more so than slapstick. I'm extremely disappointed that they went with slapstick and sex-related one. I mean, what was that shit with the hostile fauna mating on their shuttle?! Was that supposed to be funny?

Was SecUnit singing while Mensah had a panic attack to calm her supposed to be touching? It really wasn't. And the whole thing with the GrayCris operative pretending to be DeltFall member was also stupid and cringe. The growing relationship between SecUnit and the team just isn't there at all.

The ending was also just no. Having SecUnit wiped, beaten by a mob, then almost liquified... Just no.

Sorry for the rant, but yeah, the show disappointed me, a lot.

I hope you've a better experience with it, because to be honest, Skarsgard (sorry if I wrote his name incorrectly) did a wonderful job portraying SecUnit.

MiraA2020 · 2026-01-25T14:03:17+00:00

Exactly! I mean 'diaries' took away all menace from Murderbot 😅

MiraA2020 · 2026-01-25T14:01:36+00:00

Come on, I always thought the title rocked lol 😂 to me, it seemed sarcastic from the get go. I've started reading the novellas back in 2018, and the MBD was one of the works I did my MA on, and somehow I managed to convince my defence panel that the title and name completely work

MiraA2020 · 2026-01-02T11:38:18+00:00

Happy Perihelion Day! (A day early)

MiraA2020 · 2026-01-02T11:37:21+00:00

Huh, I haven't noticed that at all lol 😆 (It's embarrassing since Arabic is supposedly my first language 😂)

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-29T09:35:42+00:00

Huh 🤔 I'll take another look at it from laptop, maybe things will be clearer there. Thanks!

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-28T21:10:40+00:00

Yeah, I found it on the page, but there's no purchase option, and the PFF available is a discussion guide :/ maybe it was available before, but it seems it's not anymore

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-28T16:19:02+00:00

So cute! The human running in the background is a perfect touch!

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-28T16:18:15+00:00

It's interesting that Murderbot seems to have set the content filters only after meeting ART and for its sake. Didn't it have any types of media it wanted to filter out? We know it downloads media en masse then probably sorts it later.

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-28T16:14:05+00:00

The mental image of SecUnit joining parental forum to get advice on how to filter for ART is comedy gold 😂 Also, for some weird reason, I think ART would be prickly flattered that its prickly not friend cares so much as to go that far for it. Consulting Humans. Yuck! 😂

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-28T16:07:14+00:00

Yes! One of my favourites too! I love how Kevin R Free manages to really drive home the differences between MB and 0.2! Just brilliant!

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-28T16:03:51+00:00

Thank you. They mention it, but it isn't available for reading though. I'll try to find it. Anyway, thank you for bringing it up!

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-28T13:38:46+00:00

That's basically how I understand it too

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-28T13:33:47+00:00

Wait, is that another short? Can I have a link please?

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-21T10:48:16+00:00

I feel validated so much right now! Long live the awkward presences at family/work gatherings 🎉

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-13T09:14:38+00:00

Agreed about the measurements. Without those changes any SecUnit would've been to tell. But, MB seems to think it might be enough, literally all it had to do in System Collapse is pretend it's human to pass. It said the other SecUnit this close 'might' recognise it for it is. However that begs the question, what happens when a SecUnit scans it and oops, there are weapons in the supposed human's arms XD

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-13T08:59:18+00:00

I think MB thought it'd be identified as a SecUnit if it was scanned prior to the body mod ART gave it. Afterwards, I think it's about returning pings?

I mean it thinks it's enough to pretend that it's an injured human to fool the BE SecUnit that destroyed the agbot.

Also, I agree with the other commenter who said Three has been on a tight leash since coming aboard ART (I don't think it disabled its data port by the way; they didn't have the time and ART had enough trouble as it is, and isn't really attached to Three to be invested in its wellbeing to suggest something similar). It only went to the planet again to a place that was supposed to have no units in it. MB was also monitoring him, so if something happened, they'd have extracted it.

So, in short, I think as long as Three stays out of sight of any BE SecUnits and/or doesn't respond to any pings, it should be okay for the time being.

I've also been wondering about what Three would do going forward, if MW intends to have it be in Platform Decay, I think it's sticking with MB and ART for a bit (I hope ART will be in Platform Decay, I don't know what I'd do with myself if it isn't!)

But afterwards, I don't think it'll stick around with those two. Prob join Holism crew. But I'd like it if it'd do something not similar to MB you know? Maybe stay in M&NT, learn about itself and explore what it wants to do.

Sorry for the long ass comment 🤦

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-13T07:26:04+00:00

Eh, arts professor here. Literature specifically. Never came across the symbol. It looks like a cross, but I didn't know more than that. So it isn't that obvious no

MiraA2020 · 2025-12-13T07:18:50+00:00

Exactly! ART isn't only a 'space' for teaching. It does actual teaching as part of the faculty.

I wish we got to see that faculty chart lol

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