Liz Submits
Added 2025-04-09 00:31:17 +0000 UTCEsmerelda is cool
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Weirdly, I think Murderbot and Crushbot would get along. Crushbot's motivations are at least easy to interpret.
enchantedsleeper
2025-04-15 17:51:38 +0000 UTCWait, Murderbot is an actual thing? I thought you were talking about a Crushbot movie!
Nipper
2025-04-11 07:00:43 +0000 UTCMaturin_did_ draw the attention of a pirate queen -- well, of a an adventuress, anyway. But perhaps you are thinking of the scene, (I've forgotten in which book this occurs) issuing from the imagination of an incidental character, involving a Rodrigo, a Sophonisba, and an iron maiden. And anyway, I can't see Dr. Maturin in the story. Quite involuntarily, my mind keeps seeing (and hearing) the animated Puss in Boots.
Ursus Ridens
2025-04-10 18:09:08 +0000 UTCI've realized from the Rodrigo part of the discussion that my mental picture of Rodrigo and his adventures is heavily colored by imagining a taller, more handsome Dr. Stephen Maturin, the secret agent and Catalan revolutionary of the Patrick O'Brien books. Mind you, Stephen is not handsome, and looks like anything but a swashbuckling romantic hero, but he does some fully dramatic and swashbuckling things anyway, and would be quite capable of drawing a pirate queen's attention.
Clifton Royston
2025-04-10 04:40:33 +0000 UTCMy main initial issue with the trailer is that it really looks like “a comedy”. The books were great because it was pretty straight SF - you just had murderbot’s dry sarcastic take as commentary on top of it. Which was funny, but a different kind of funny. No one else was in on the jokes for the most part, it was a drama aside from in murderbots head.
erutan
2025-04-09 21:44:59 +0000 UTC
