#doomed polyamory

[iamacatlulz]

zabooboo. when i fucking GET YOU. DONT SEPERATE THEM THEY COME IN PAIRS THEYRE SUPPOSED TO BE A TRIO MY. OSUSHHWAGGSGAGAGJAHSHSHDHFDHJJF my moezegeft pelase

[drizzledrawings]

Doomed cowboy polyamory

[faerestoffaemall]

Murderbot TV show is fine. Whenever the show does stuff from the book, it works really well. Whenever it ventures outside book stuff, it's hit or miss. I feel like murderbot kinda cared about stuff way too much way too quickly. In the book (at least in All Systems Red), Murderbot felt appropriately distant in ways that I understood and got. In the show, Murderbot starts off that way, but then just starts caring about stuff and being kind of mean. All of the characters were kinda mean in the show. It was hard for me to go "oh yeah they really do all love and care about each other" because half the scenes were just them being assholes to each other. I mean, yeah, they were scared as hell and running for their lives, but like, c'mon you guys are friends and lovers and stuff, at least TRY to be more empathetic. The doomed polyamory was a neat concept, but executed strangely. It served more as a distraction from everything else since it didn't weave into existing themes and narratives very well. It really felt like the show was making fun of polyamory or something. The show's portrayal wasn't the most inaccurate thing in the world, but it felt kinda tropey and kinda felt like how people think polyamory is, rather than something closer to the truth of it. ALSO why did the show care so much about Sanctuary Moon. The Sanctuary Moon scenes were neat, but there was so much shit in the real world about Sanctuary Moon (Murderbot referencing it often, characters either making fun of the show, the show being a core part of Murderbot's personality) that it started to get annoying. Like yeah we know Murderbot likes the show, but it also watches other shows too. And the point about Murderbot watching shows isn't to be like "Hey! Look! Hyperfixation! It's so hyperfixed on it!" I feel like the point of watching shows is to show that that's all that Murderbot really wants to do. It isn't necessarily looking to weave it in all the time. It just likes em and wants to watch em.

There's also something to say about adapting the story to TV kinda traps the humanity and importance of the story by making it have to follow conventions of the medium. I don't fully know how to put it, but basically I think All Systems Red doesn't work when adapted to a TV Show or Movie, but would make for a wonderful graphic novel.

Good stuff, the show looks AMAZING. The world feels very lived in, the color schemes all work really well with the show's aesthetic, and clothing design + set design are wonderful. The clothing and architecture look pretty functional, which is nice. The tech looks very imaginable (meaning that nothing looks super fantastical tech-wise, just somewhat futuristic).

TL,DR: Murderbot show is cool, but if you read All Systems Red, don't expect it to be the same and the people that made the show don't seem to fully get it. Watch to see the book but with pretty colors and pretty people

[quailfence]

doomed yaoi this doomed yuri that. what about doomed polyamory. three or more characters who love each other very much but alas the narrative has dictated that they cannot be together forever

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

Saw this meme and thought of Frex

[olivias-hyperfixation-corner]

they're holding hands:)

IN LOVE FOREVER