Haven’t seen any chatter here a out the new Murderbot show.

My wife and I are absolutely loving it so far, feels like a really faithful and respectful adaptation to the books, with most of the changes being positive!

Anyone else watching this?

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    It was only after ART’s modifications that Murderbot was able to pass for a heavily augmented human. That was the point of them.

    I hope they show the Preservation more seriously later. It was all vague at the start in the books. Though I will be rereading!

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      ARTs modifications helped, but he did walk around prior to receiving them. ART adjusted his height, how his hair grew, ect, but didn’t fundamentally change his looks.

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        But the whole point of the modifications was so it could pass as human. Which means beforehand, it was a struggle to.

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          Yes, but most of them were things like shortening the legs, growing out the hair, changing their gait, and adding “fidget” algorithms.

          Not major cosmetic changes, and as he says a security would still identify him as a sec unit, but making it so the meatbags… Err, humans, are less likely to notice.