the case wasn't solved until the last episode, though! that was a fake solution
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
i wouldn't have recognized KARL AGATHON from BSG if i hadn't read the cast credits.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
in that last actual-solving scene i said aloud “i’ve brought you all here to the accusing parlour...” in a prof farnsworth voice
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
i would have bought the "accusing parlour" scene more if there weren't fifty other people just lounging around, i guess the Bancroft storyline was always very stagey and theatrical tho, accentuating their rich narcissism and sociopathy.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
it went full Law and Order in that last ep.
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Thursday, 1 March 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
― mh, Thursday, March 1, 2018
obv. but it slid off the rails real fast after that.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
The scene w/ Peej's "This Wicked Tongue" is so cathartic.
― Meme Imfurst (Leee), Monday, 9 April 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
i’m 3 eps in, havent read the books, completely hooked so far.
it pushes so many Chandler buttons, in a good way... and I am a total sucker for cyberpunk in general....aaaand i have a huge crush on Kinnaman though it is v weird to see him so ripped these days after all those years being scrawny in The Killing.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 05:11 (five years ago) link
Hoping you like this as much as I did!
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Thanks to vegemite’s post I am going to edit my goatee to match kinnaman’s facial hair from The Killing and also maybe even watch the show
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
The weird way he looks on ‘roids & ripped fuel is basically what happens to most lanky dudes when they decide to get swole later in life IMLE
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
good to know*updates .xls*
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
it gives me similar enjoyment to Expanse, like i just think abt how i love living in a world where scifi like this exists
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 23:35 (five years ago) link
Breaking: Altered Carbon has been renewed at Netflix. Anthony Mackie is to replace Joel Kinnaman in the lead role of Takeshi Kovacs in season 2. pic.twitter.com/fsspxvl6n6— Den Of Geek UK (@denofgeek) July 27, 2018
― groovypanda, Friday, 27 July 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Was just going to post!!
Having read the first book after watching season 1, I prefer the show simply for how much it consolidated and focused the story.
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Friday, 27 July 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
Also curious for Veg's opinion of the show.
innarestin’does kovacs change sleeves in between books or is this just a convenient way to cover an expedient recast?
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 July 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
this show is so bad but I’m trudging through it anyway. Enjoying looking for signifiers of the future and whenever visual reality turns cyber trippy
― calstars, Friday, 27 July 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
pretty sure Kovacs changed sleeves in each novel.
the best stuff here reminds me of Blade Runner, the worst still reminds me of BSG when people started screwing Cylons and getting New Age feels.
― omar little, Friday, 27 July 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
yah diff sleeve per book
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 27 July 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
i really like this show but I am way behind bcz I keep insisting on watching sport tournaments instead so i will hopefully catch up when tour de france is over
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 July 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
Season 2 coming next month!
Your re-sleeving is now complete. 2.27.20. #AlteredCarbon pic.twitter.com/h4VtaCp6Wh— Altered Carbon (@AltCarb) January 21, 2020
― groovypanda, Friday, 31 January 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
Two episodes in, it's been kind of tepid so far, maybe the condensed narrative is also making it hard for me to follow the happenings.
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Sunday, 1 March 2020 06:05 (four years ago) link
Yeah. It seemed to get decent reviews but I'm also two episodes in and not warming to it yet.
The Wedge fight scene/massacre was ridiculous.
― groovypanda, Sunday, 1 March 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
not half as ridiculous as the naked swordfight in s1.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Sunday, 1 March 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
Only watched the premiere so far. Mackie is a far better actor than Kinnaman, so I'm on board from that angle but the plot is not holding my interest so far.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
in a way the problem with this -- i'm still only in s1 -- is that the chandler-noir is itself now a worn-out sleeve for the fuller form of story this wants to tell
― mark s, Sunday, 1 March 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
Also, Poe should have been played by Paul F Tompkins
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 07:30 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
poe i kind of like, it's like the AI-in-the-reality is programmed to manifest as fourth-rate steampunk, which seems p likely (it's a third-rate hotel)
― mark s, Sunday, 1 March 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
Third episode is warming up a bit, particularly Poe's storyline which has a poignant scene, but also some troubling codependency.
― Feminism-Appropriating Regressive Transphobe (Leee), Sunday, 1 March 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
ugh here is why chandleresque noir is the wrong frame: it's always just village politics and the scope of this needed to be bigger, i don't mind ppl in difft bodies living across centuries, that's part of the cap-I issue under examination, but they shouldn't all be running into one another and all doing all the stuff
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
otoh it does have real men not afraid to show emotion
https://i.imgur.com/YRtZLqc.jpg
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Thursday, 5 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
tbh that is the best kovacs actor
― mh, Friday, 6 March 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link
Finished this, kind of a disjointed season not helped by how Mackie's Kovacs is mostly one-note (sour, grumpy). Finale is pretty good though.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Friday, 27 March 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
the anime movie they've released is low on plot, high on action
― mh, Friday, 27 March 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
i loved the first season, feel like s2 is just a Total Recall remix.
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 27 March 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
Huh, I didn't even realize Netflix had a spinoff. Will definitely check it out!
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Friday, 27 March 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link