I’ve just finished reading the last of the books, and I’m pretty excited to see what they do with the series.
So this is being developed by the people responsible for - variously - The Creator, American Pie, and Foundation?
Not exactly inspiring huge confidence in their ability to create thoughtful science fiction that respects and understands the core themes of the source material.
I’ve read the Murderbot books and enjoyed them, but I wouldn’t call them deep.
Each one’s a novella at best, going for full price, too.
I bought the audiobook for the most recent book. 3.4hours for the whole thing.
The mental health journey of murderbot is pretty subtle. That would be a pretty easy thing to screw-up.
Sure, but Foundation isn’t exactly deeply layered either. It expresses its themes (theme, really) very directly. And despite that Goyer still managed to adapt a series of books about how no one person really influences history in meaningful ways, it’s the power of social movements that matters, into a TV show about how the whole of history can turn on the actions of one person in the right place at the right time. There’s “trashy” and then there’s “Managing to somehow miss the core theme of a book where characters frequently turn to the audience and literally state the core theme outright.”
