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    3 days ago

    Excellent, this series was so well done, and so funny. Alexander Skarsgård’s murderbot is so sarcastic and just wants to watch his soaps and not deal with people behaving like…people.

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      3 days ago

      I don’t think it’s excellent. It’s good, and I watch it, but I wouldn’t have been surprised if it were cancelled.

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        3 days ago

        Yeah, same here. I’ve almost stopped watching it a few times, a lot of the sub themes around the crew were kinda stupid compared to the original books.

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          The books had zero side story, if I recall correctly. It was a short novella with only SecUnit’s biased and somewhat unreliable point of view. I think the crew’s cringey moments in the adaptation were tasteful since it helps illustrate how uncomfortable SecUnit feels.

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            They were minor hints mostly, but a lot of his annoyance seemed to stem from them not always taking his advice and how they weren’t operating with efficiency, but rather trying to be decent humans. I think they went a bit over the top on the show, which detracted from my viewing of the show.

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      I love how Sanctuary Moon was depicted with real actors as an over-the-top space opera with phantasmagorical colors. The original novella only hinted that the show was a mediocre serial among many that happened to become formative in SecUnit’s development of their personal philosophies and ethics.