ALTERED CARBON: a takeshi kovacs netflix series adapting richard k. morgan's cyberpunk pulp novels

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

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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.

Also curious for Veg's opinion of the show.

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does kovacs change sleeves in between books or is this just a convenient way to cover an expedient recast?

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

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.

yah diff sleeve per book

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

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

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.

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.

not half as ridiculous as the naked swordfight in s1.

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.

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

Also, Poe should have been played by Paul F Tompkins

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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)

Third episode is warming up a bit, particularly Poe's storyline which has a poignant scene, but also some troubling codependency.

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

otoh it does have real men not afraid to show emotion

https://i.imgur.com/YRtZLqc.jpg

tbh that is the best kovacs actor

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.

the anime movie they've released is low on plot, high on action

i loved the first season, feel like s2 is just a Total Recall remix.

Huh, I didn't even realize Netflix had a spinoff. Will definitely check it out!