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I was thinking about how the adaptation for the next season might go.
I think that it's possible to get all three of the other novellas into one season without it feeling too rushed, if they decide to bring it full circle that early. After all, they had to add a *lot* to the first novella to get it out to 10 episodes, and that's with extremely short episodes! They basically only had 4-5 episodes worth of material in All Systems Red, max, if not less.
So I think it's not that much of a stretch that they could do it all in one season if they didn't want to have Murderbot apart from PresAux for more than a season. (Alternatively they could obviously do an anthology-type series with Murderbot traveling around having standalone adventures, Doctor Who style, but I'm not sure if they would do that.) Rogue Protocol in particular - the third book, the one with miki - would probably work fine as a single episode, if they get full-length episodes; it's a fairly tight plot that takes place in a compressed time frame (aside from things like MB on the transport with Gerth and Wilken, but I don't think it's necessary to show that). Artificial Condition should probably be spread over a couple of episodes because there's a lot of important character and long-arc stuff that happens in it (ART and MB getting to know each other, MB finding out what happened in Ganaka Pit) and it shouldn't be rushed. But you could still do that in 2-3 episodes if they get full-length ones this time.
Even if the episodes are still short, I don't see that it would really need to compress or leave out too much to do 3-4 episodes for AC, maybe 2 episodes for Rogue Protocol, and that leaves plenty of time for a big wrap-up with Mensah's kidnapping and the whole cast. (Which we could still cut back to now and then - there was clearly a lot going on with her that MB didn't see, so now we'd get to see that, and everyone mounting the big rescue effort.)
Obviously they don't have to do it like that - I saw someone suggest on Tumblr that they might do the ART book with Murderbot and the Miki book with PresAux, more or less at the same time; which also might work pretty well. And they also could make Artificial Condition a lot more of a thing in the way they did with the first book in the show. I really don't think there's a whole season in Rogue Protocol, but AC has room to expand if they wanted to lean into MB's new humans in that book, and the search for answers at Ganaka Pit, and MB's general weirdness about Comfort Unit and make a whole season out of it. Or throw in some new adventures with MB meeting more people - I would admittedly miss PresAux and hope to see them at least SOME, but that could work too. Anyway, though, there are a lot of ways it could go and I'm excited to find out what they decide to try!
I was thinking about how the adaptation for the next season might go.
I think that it's possible to get all three of the other novellas into one season without it feeling too rushed, if they decide to bring it full circle that early. After all, they had to add a *lot* to the first novella to get it out to 10 episodes, and that's with extremely short episodes! They basically only had 4-5 episodes worth of material in All Systems Red, max, if not less.
So I think it's not that much of a stretch that they could do it all in one season if they didn't want to have Murderbot apart from PresAux for more than a season. (Alternatively they could obviously do an anthology-type series with Murderbot traveling around having standalone adventures, Doctor Who style, but I'm not sure if they would do that.) Rogue Protocol in particular - the third book, the one with miki - would probably work fine as a single episode, if they get full-length episodes; it's a fairly tight plot that takes place in a compressed time frame (aside from things like MB on the transport with Gerth and Wilken, but I don't think it's necessary to show that). Artificial Condition should probably be spread over a couple of episodes because there's a lot of important character and long-arc stuff that happens in it (ART and MB getting to know each other, MB finding out what happened in Ganaka Pit) and it shouldn't be rushed. But you could still do that in 2-3 episodes if they get full-length ones this time.
Even if the episodes are still short, I don't see that it would really need to compress or leave out too much to do 3-4 episodes for AC, maybe 2 episodes for Rogue Protocol, and that leaves plenty of time for a big wrap-up with Mensah's kidnapping and the whole cast. (Which we could still cut back to now and then - there was clearly a lot going on with her that MB didn't see, so now we'd get to see that, and everyone mounting the big rescue effort.)
Obviously they don't have to do it like that - I saw someone suggest on Tumblr that they might do the ART book with Murderbot and the Miki book with PresAux, more or less at the same time; which also might work pretty well. And they also could make Artificial Condition a lot more of a thing in the way they did with the first book in the show. I really don't think there's a whole season in Rogue Protocol, but AC has room to expand if they wanted to lean into MB's new humans in that book, and the search for answers at Ganaka Pit, and MB's general weirdness about Comfort Unit and make a whole season out of it. Or throw in some new adventures with MB meeting more people - I would admittedly miss PresAux and hope to see them at least SOME, but that could work too. Anyway, though, there are a lot of ways it could go and I'm excited to find out what they decide to try!
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Yeah, that's what I'd been thinking I'd do in their place! It sounds very feasible to me, even with showing all the stuff that Team Mensah was up to offscreen in the books.
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Of course it was.
Lol I wonder if they will film S2 here too. I should find out if it's nearby somewhere XD
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Not me having even more reasons to visit ...
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The Expanse, Umbrella Academy, mostly everything that pretends to be Boston or New York XD
Having actually been to Boston a few years ago I can't tell you what a weird feeling it was to walk to one intersection there and go "wow this feels *exactly* like a familiar intersection I know in Toronto!!"
(Of course Due South as well... that one I actually recognized when I watched it!)
Stargate of course filmed in Vancouver XD
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Maybe I'm the only one who wants to see more Pin-Lee as a lawyer, but I remember someone in a book describing Pin-Lee as "scary lawyer," and at one point there's an argument about whether Pin-Lee taught MB certain cusses or the other way around, and that's a side we didn't get to see of Pin-Lee in s1.
Of course Murderbot has to remain central, but I love seeing it interact with others in the books: realizing that PresAux humans are not the only ones it can care about and who can reciprocate, constantly wanting not to be drawn into relationships with humans and yet developing ties over and over, and then discovering that it can also have relationships with other constructs. So much wonderful material!
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I would love that! I don't know if it would make for riveting enough sci-fi television to get the seal of approval from the execs, but I think honestly having Murderbot off in an action-adventure serial while PresAux are in like .... a slice of life drama, a legal show, a domestic sitcom, whatever, would be really enjoyable, at least for a few episodes. And it would be so nice to see more of their everyday lives when they aren't offworld!
I love seeing it interact with others in the books: realizing that PresAux humans are not the only ones it can care about and who can reciprocate, constantly wanting not to be drawn into relationships with humans and yet developing ties over and over, and then discovering that it can also have relationships with other constructs.
Yes, this! I like that it's not just PresAux that it has relationships with on the show; I feel like it's important to its gradual recognition and acceptance of its own personhood that it doesn't just find friendship with the first set of people who were nice to it, but keeps making new friends elsewhere. That's pretty great.
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