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.
Riley: Oh, yeah. Sorry 'bout last time. Heard I missed out on some fun. Xander: Oh yeah, fun was had. Also frolic, merriment and near-death hijinks.
'Never Leave Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
juliana - Dec 15, 2023 7:42:08 am PST #27871 of 28095
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Calli - Dec 17, 2023 6:18:51 am PST #27872 of 28095
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yeah, this will get me to sign up for Apple TV+. Might watch Ted Lasso while I’m there.
meara - Dec 17, 2023 2:39:07 pm PST #27873 of 28095
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?
Consuela - Dec 18, 2023 12:47:16 pm PST #27874 of 28095
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I really want ART to be played by David Hewlett.
I do not think I will get my wish!
meara - Dec 18, 2023 1:19:28 pm PST #27875 of 28095
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)
-t - Dec 18, 2023 2:30:29 pm PST #27876 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Consuela - Dec 18, 2023 6:18:27 pm PST #27877 of 28095
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
this is an amazing story: [link]
Dana - Dec 18, 2023 6:23:19 pm PST #27878 of 28095
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Wow, what a dumbass.
-t - Dec 19, 2023 5:17:54 pm PST #27879 of 28095
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Jessica - Dec 20, 2023 8:16:28 am PST #27880 of 28095
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Did you stick with it?
I did not - pretty much abandoned it as soon as I posted that and haven't had any desire to go back. AH has been diminishing returns for me since Rosaline Palmer, more or less. (I did really love Husband Material, but all of his other recent ones have been somewhere on a spectrum from Meh to Nope.)