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I have not read any book by Thomas Pynchon, but the reason of my interests is that I saw Paul Thomas Anderson's Conspiracy -Mystery-Comedy, Inherent Vice (2014) when it came out, and was blown away by it! How could he have made a film that accurately describes the sort of stoned whacky Conspiracy-Enlightenment feeling, that if there are witnesses, they see you as stupid or paranoid, and make it as a movie that kind of makes sense, or does it? Truly one of my favorite movies because I have lots of experiences of going nuts on drugs. As I had to quit it and have not touched it for years.

So I had to know about who wrote the script or of who it was based off. I learned about this weird hermit author, that somehow has been able to keep himself as anonymous and from the public life, his whole career. In this documentary, moviemakers from the UK, go over how there has been a trace of him, his lovers and friends interviews and those that are trying to find him.

The same as in 2014, happened yesterday in summer 2025. I came across an article about Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie , One Battle After Another (2025), that's due to be released in fall 2025, and learned it's supposed, in some ways, made from another book by Thomas Pynchon, and learned that another movie by him called The Master, has connections to the writer also. And that, at 88 yo, Thomas Pynchon is due to release his 9th novel in next October. Very interesting stuff!

So this documentary, that I watched on YouTube, is a great start if you want to go down this rabbit-hole.

But in the credits, we can see they got some financial support from all over. Australia tax cuts, Canada or whatever. So it must have been quite hard to raise the money. I recognized the environment in episode 9 as Iceland. I have not googled it, but I'm pretty sure that episode was shot here.

I have only listened to the first book, it's based from. I listened to one night, 6 months ago, before I knew there was a tv show in production. Furthermore, I stumbled upon a good review online and listened to a clip on YouTube that got me hooked. Searched for The Murderbot Diaries Book 1: All Systems Red, saw it is a series with many books. Began to listen to the audiobook around 23:00 and listened to it the whole night, finished it around 04:00, with little breaks, that same night. It is that captivating. How the author wrote it in first person, was so funny, creative and exciting at the same time. I'm 46 years old, but this is content that anyone from their teens and up, could also fall for. If they like satirical sci-fi with lots of mystery, in the Robotic first-person perspective.

Like anybody else online today, I have been fed this AI Propaganda from any tech corporate, billionaire, podcast''sudo- intellectual techno-fascists'' there is. That it's going to kill us all, or that, we will live in some Utopia with Universal Income, and all the health issues and energy problems will be solved. It's all bs, to distract us from some Project 2025 and Big Beautiful Bill. They will save us, with their own ethical AI's that just want to be of service.

The book shows us in a funny way, how a Robot with self will would, perhaps, think and how it can do anything computers can do, by thinking it. It's incredibly funny, and I'm so glad they did not take the humor and irony away, made it more PC and comfortable, even though the book is gorier , more noir, and harsher than these series, they left a lot of the underlying character-defects, and follows lots of the same storyline that's in the first book. If we are lucky, Murderbot could become at least 6 seasons, if they work each off the books. I wish they make it darker, more dystopian and violent but, it's a good start!

This could have been cut down to 4-5 episodes, easily! But the tendencies of the British to preach to the choir and play morally above the ones that, in some cases, break the law, is so old and boring that I'm as gray as the fog that's over the color pallettes in the show after seeing it! It surley was an depressive and hard time to live in, 197 up to early 80s, but the exuction and choices to let the cops be that blinded by the prostitutes breaking the law and that they let the attack on the survival black one slip, because they know better is just torture to look at! This show just could have better respect for the people than anybody in it hates those women, and there is nothing done to paint anyone as miserable as they can be. It's a waste of production money because the writers could at least think about the audience, without shouting at anybody that this is wrong and if you do this, you will be an outcast! But well acted and nothing about this show is not professional, it's just like it's made by a conservative comitty at the BBC. It's just an old fashion production! 3/10.