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Murderbot - thoughts
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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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I disagree that it’s a faithful adaptation from the books.
There have been plenty of lore and story changes. The overall ‘tone’ is different too. Books are more hard sci-fi.
That being said, I’m still enjoying it as its own thing and I wish the episodes were longer.
My general head cannon for the discrepancies especially with the additions is that the books are written by Murderbot as a record and it has admitted to being an unreliable narrator including glossing over things that it's not interested in or doesn't understand the value of. The show is more of a third-person perspective so it's entirely possible some of what we are seeing was those moments that Murderbot didn't see fit to include.