I just finished blasting through the entire series so the first book is a little fuzzy now. I always thought the humour worked because the over-arching plot was serious and he was a serious killing machine that happened to be awkward, which made it engaging/thrilling with charming/funny moments. I just think they leaned way too hard into the goofiness of it all, I don’t remember the scientists being absolute hippies, but that is all just my opinion. The show seams to be doing pretty well and good for them, its just not for me and thats fine.
I didn’t realize there was an overarching plot until book 3(?). It really impressed me, and to this day I wonder if she started the series knowing the arch, or made it up after the success of the first book.
Read the first one again! He definitely initially views the Preservation scientists as hippies. Their society is essentially an extremely socially liberal communism; I don’t remember it Wells makes it explicit that it’s post-scarcity, but she does make a point that visitors to the Rim from Preservation have trouble with the concept of money.
Written in memoir form, how people are presented evolves along with Murderbot. They start out loopy and not very bright (from MB’s POV) and get more rational and clever the longer he’s around them.
I just finished blasting through the entire series so the first book is a little fuzzy now. I always thought the humour worked because the over-arching plot was serious and he was a serious killing machine that happened to be awkward, which made it engaging/thrilling with charming/funny moments. I just think they leaned way too hard into the goofiness of it all, I don’t remember the scientists being absolute hippies, but that is all just my opinion. The show seams to be doing pretty well and good for them, its just not for me and thats fine.
I didn’t realize there was an overarching plot until book 3(?). It really impressed me, and to this day I wonder if she started the series knowing the arch, or made it up after the success of the first book.
Read the first one again! He definitely initially views the Preservation scientists as hippies. Their society is essentially an extremely socially liberal communism; I don’t remember it Wells makes it explicit that it’s post-scarcity, but she does make a point that visitors to the Rim from Preservation have trouble with the concept of money.
Written in memoir form, how people are presented evolves along with Murderbot. They start out loopy and not very bright (from MB’s POV) and get more rational and clever the longer he’s around them.