Comment by EvanAnderson
Comment by EvanAnderson 4 days ago
Thanks for the analysis. I've been reading it with a thought toward how I might've adapted it for video. The narration seemed incredibly challenging (and kept making me think of "A Christmas Story", of all things). The integration of "Sanctuary Moon" sounds particularly fun.
I definitely see Murderbot as genderless and seeing it as gendered is going to be weird. Fortunately, the series isn't particularly "dear" to me and I think I can deal with the trauma of having my mental pictures wiped-out by somebody else's.
(There are properties like "Neuromancer" and "Snow Crash" that I hope are never adapted to video and, if they are, I will steadfastly refuse to ever see, because I can't imagine anybody else's mental pictures will be better than mine...)
Yeah, I have solid mental images of both those books too, and I'd be really hesitant to watch any version of them for fear they'd be too... generic? Not that it's someone else's vision (for me), just that it would be Netflix/Hollywood Cyber Slash Noir. I can't imagine anything worse than them looking like every other set-in-the-future adaptation.
I've never seen "A Christmas Story" (Wikipedia shows it as very American-cultural-icon) but reading the synopsis, I'm surprised how many parts of it are semi-familiar, perhaps culturally reflected in other ways. It'll go on the to-watch list. And looking forward to the narration!