• Re: Apple TV just released the “Murderbot” trailer on Youtube.

    From Jerry Brown@21:1/5 to defaultuserbr@yahoo.com on Sat Apr 12 07:51:21 2025
    On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:52:36 -0000 (UTC), "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

    Lynn McGuire wrote:

    I did not know that there was a Dexter book.

    There was a whole series of books, but only the first season of the
    show was based on them. They changed the ending so much that first
    season that they couldn't use any other books after that.

    The standard approach in recent years seems to be to adapt the first
    book fairly closely, but expanding to include scenes away from the POV narrator, then starting to swerve off towards the end and then doing
    their own thing with subsequent books. As you say Dexter did this;
    also True Blood.

    On the other hand, The Expanse and Silo both had/have the original
    authors on board, so stick fairly close to the source.

    BTW, I far preferred TV Dexter to literary Dexter.

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    Jerry Brown

    A cat may look at a king
    (but probably won't bother)

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