I don't have a sense of how far AppleTV can be trusted. I think all I've watched has been Ted Lasso and Severance. Those were both better than they really had any right to be, is that the expectation to have?

That's been my experience too - their shows aren't GREAT most of the time, but they've got a solid track record of putting out shows that are PRETTY GOOD.

I always thought of MurderBot as a Brienne or Bobbie Draper sort of physical presence, even if it's actually genderless.

Yeah, Frankie Adams [link] would have been my choice, too.

Yeah, this will get me to sign up for Apple TV+. Might watch Ted Lasso while I’m there.

Definitely worth it to binge Ted Lasso if you get the channel!

I just re-read Best of All Possible Worlds and am shocked that when I went on AO3 there is zero fanfic. Like, I get that it is in itself rather fanfic-y, but I still might’ve thought there’d be a couple of things?

I really want ART to be played by David Hewlett.

I do not think I will get my wish!

Interestingly talking to a friend who just started reading the Murderbot books, I let her know they’re doing tv adaptation and she was shocked Murderbot wouldn’t be played by a woman. I thought that was funny since that wasn’t at all my assumption (though the casting maybe isn’t what I’d expect either)

I really want ART to be played by David Hewlett.

I can see that.

I had a complete and total mental block about who could possibly be cast to play Murderbot. Just refused to think about it. I'm ok with Skarsgard, though, at least until I can see it on screen. Then I will judge.

this is an amazing story: [link]

Wow, what a dumbass.

Well, I've never DNF'd an Alexis Hall before but I truly don't think I can make it to end end of his latest. 25% in and I don't care what happens to either MC, and I *hate* the amnesia plot.

Did you stick with it? I never did warm to the amnesia business (I can kind of see why “Overboard but Goldie Hawn is faking it” might have seemed like a good idea in the abstract but I think it’s just too, I don’t know, icky. I spent the first half of the book dreading that our narrator would also turn out to be awful. But I eventually did get invested in the characters and their romance, and immediately listened to the audiobook which I enjoyed much more (since I already liked the characters when it started, presumably). Was halfway through that listen before I understood that it’s labeled as “part of Material World” because of Boyfriend Material et al, not because of, I don’t even know, something about bathroom fixtures or capitalism?

I seem to run hot and cold on Alexis Hall. I looovvved The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, but then the Kate Kane books didn’t grab me (possibly I am over saturated with urban fantasy detectives) and then they fell off my radar for a while. Not that I have actively disliked any, just some I loved and some I didn’t love as much and some I have looked at the titles/covers/descriptions and couldn’t tell if I would like them. Just finishing up Mortal Follies and I love the premise/setting but am not very invested in the MCs or romance and trying to figure out what that tells me. If anything.