Altered Carbon | Cyberpunk x Netflix Series | Starts 2nd Feb

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by Corazon de Leon » Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:03 pm

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Tafdolphin wrote:Having read the books, they've completely strawberry floated up the tone of this. The book is far more cynical about the state of the world and every action questions the state humans exist in, questioning whether the person that comes out of the stack is the same person who was put in there. This is just 'look at these pretty graphics and marvel at our clever ideas.'


I finished the series, and I hated parts and really enjoyed other bits, but this was the one thing I really didn't get, it seemed such a major thing about a copy just taking over, and they never really address it.


There were a lot of directions to take the story - I hope if there is a second series that they will actually go into some of the many things they skipped over quickly in this one.

I have a feeling that it won’t get the necessary uptake for a second series though.

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by Tafdolphin » Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:56 pm

As I've finished Peaky Blinders I went back to this. Up to the end of Episode 3 and yeah, it's not getting any better. It's exploitative, cheap and nasty. In fact, its primary raison d'etre seem to be "lets see how nasty we can make the future." It revels in a sexist, teenage-boy view of the world it has created which it cannot even present in a clever way, resorting to copious tits and violence.

There's no deftness or invention to the writing, nor innovation in the aesthetics. It's Blade Runner passed through Black Mirror with the style and intelligence of neither. It's infuriating really: these people were given a fantastic set of novels as a baseline and a budget in the tens of millions and they made this.

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by Death's Head » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:01 pm

I've watched the first 2 episodes and finding it pretty boring, even though there are some titty and vag shots in the 2nd episode. Does this get any better?

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by Victor Mildew » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:08 pm

We've given up on it after three episode. Looks great but it's so boring.

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by Tafdolphin » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:13 pm

Death's Head wrote:I've watched the first 2 episodes and finding it pretty boring, even though there are some titty and vag shots in the 2nd episode. Does this get any better?


Tafdolphin wrote:As I've finished Peaky Blinders I went back to this. Up to the end of Episode 3 and yeah, it's not getting any better. It's exploitative, cheap and nasty. In fact, its primary raison d'etre seem to be "lets see how nasty we can make the future." It revels in a sexist, teenage-boy view of the world it has created which it cannot even present in a clever way, resorting to copious tits and violence.

There's no deftness or invention to the writing, nor innovation in the aesthetics. It's Blade Runner passed through Black Mirror with the style and intelligence of neither. It's infuriating really: these people were given a fantastic set of novels as a baseline and a budget in the tens of millions and they made this.


Up to episode 5, the above still stands

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by smurphy » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:14 pm

Aye it's not all that good. Aside from some futuristic technology it does literally nothing with its setting. I love the way this guy gets cloned over and over and everyone just acts like he's living forever. Probably one of the most looked at themes in sci-fi and they just pretend it doesn't exist. It's nice to look at, and somewhat entertaining, but I really abhor wasted potential and this is that.

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by Tineash » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:57 pm

All that money and they picked such a trashy book to adapt. I like Joel Kinnaman, but not enough to carry on with this (very unsexy) nonsense.

Check out The Expanse if you haven't already!

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by Tafdolphin » Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:03 pm

Tineash wrote:All that money and they picked such a trashy book to adapt. I like Joel Kinnaman, but not enough to carry on with this (very unsexy) nonsense.

Check out The Expanse if you haven't already!


Eeeeh, I enjoyed the first book at least. It certainly had more to say than the Expanse books (which I also like, and which got a much better TV adaptation)

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by Tineash » Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:22 pm

I haven't read either - from just having seen both TV adaptations I've come away with the opposite impression. Interesting!

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by Oblomov Boblomov » Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:05 pm

I'm going to go against the grain here. I am really starting to enjoy this. Episode 7 is outstanding and episode 8 isn't far behind. Really looking forward to the denouement.

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by KjGarly » Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:48 am

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:I'm going to go against the grain here. I am really starting to enjoy this. Episode 7 is outstanding and episode 8 isn't far behind. Really looking forward to the denouement.


This.

Plus tits and clunge.

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by Lotus » Sun May 13, 2018 1:28 am

Just finished watching this. Really enjoyed it. Generally liked the setting, the themes, the characters (with a few exceptions), and the different subplots. The different pacing between episodes was interesting and the way it's set up for another season has me interested for sure.

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by Monkey Man » Thu Nov 08, 2018 8:05 pm

Renewed for Season 2 - https://deadline.com/2018/07/altered-ca ... 202434841/

Netflix also developing a Anime series -

Set in the same universe as the Netflix-live-action sci-fi series — which is currently in production — Altered Carbon
will explore new elements of the story mythology. The series comes from the animation studio, Anima and will be written by Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) and Tsukasa Kondo.

https://deadline.com/2018/11/netflix-an ... 202498191/

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by Meep » Thu Nov 08, 2018 8:21 pm

I wonder if they will have the same lead actor from the first season or will they have him back in his original body (or a copy of it, anyway). I quite like the actor who played him in the flashbacks so I'm fine with either.

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by KjGarly » Thu Nov 08, 2018 8:40 pm

Meep wrote:I wonder if they will have the same lead actor from the first season or will they have him back in his original body (or a copy of it, anyway). I quite like the actor who played him in the flashbacks so I'm fine with either.


Joel Kinnerman won't be in it, Anthony Mackie (Falcon from the MCU) will be playing the new "sleeve"

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by Ironhide » Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:27 pm

Thought S1 was dogshit so it stands to reason they've made a second season.

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by Monkey Man » Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:59 pm

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PostRe: Altered Carbon | Cyberpunk x Netflix Series | Starts 2nd Feb
by Jenuall » Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:04 pm

I heard this was gooseberry fool the first time around right?

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by Corazon de Leon » Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:14 pm

Hopefully they’ve taken on board the criticisms of the first season. There’s a great show in here but it needs work and they need to tone down some of the sleazier aspects of the show(IMHO of course) for it to really work.


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