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Netflix to Adapt Altered Carbon

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Posted 03 February 2018 - 01:21 AM

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View PostTapper, on 02 February 2018 - 01:27 PM, said:

Well, I am really, really happy with the first two episodes. Great actors, very faithful to the book so far. Also, a fair amount of full frontal male nudity to offset all the naked ladies on display was a good choice.

I have a minor gripe about how they portray Quell: I always figured she'd be way less intense: more laconic, with a sense of humour underneath the philosophing. Plotwise, there's two things that might have impact as well:
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Pretty sure the revision was to conflate three different fairly complex things from the books... the Envoys, the Quellists, and the anti-stacking movement. Simplifies things greatly.

I agree that for season 1 it's fine, but it might be problematic if they get all the way down to Woken Furies.


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Posted 03 February 2018 - 04:30 AM

Up to episode 7.... YESsss!!!

Totally badass

Sidebar: Anyone besides me thinking they should do fucking heroes die next. I keep watching this one and I think it could translate well
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Posted 03 February 2018 - 10:27 AM

Partway through ep 3. Utterly absorbing. Love "Poe".

8.8 on IMDB, but only 65% on RT? Some people are hard to please. 82% liked it though.

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Posted 04 February 2018 - 08:48 AM

Suntouch House's garden is UBC's Rose Garden and the entrance to the house is the south entrance to IKB at UBC.

I'm 3 episodes in and this has been great so far. I don't like the actress who plays Ortega (she seems to be overacting all the time). On the other hand, I really appreciate their interpretation of Quellchrist.
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Posted 04 February 2018 - 09:38 AM

Half way through ep 6. Good stuff.

As I haven't read the books, I didn't come to the show with preconceptions. Which probably has turned out to be a good thing.

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Posted 04 February 2018 - 03:16 PM

View PostTsundoku, on 04 February 2018 - 09:38 AM, said:

Half way through ep 6. Good stuff.

As I haven't read the books, I didn't come to the show with preconceptions. Which probably has turned out to be a good thing.


I'd only read the first book, but that was over 5 or 6 years ago. I don't really remember it. I remember vague details, just enough to give me a little added flavor to the show, but not enough for me to be pissed about changes. I'm really liking this.
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Posted 04 February 2018 - 11:50 PM

That ending to episode 6.

Holy shit.
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Posted 05 February 2018 - 09:23 AM

View PostEmperorMagus, on 04 February 2018 - 11:50 PM, said:

That ending to episode 6.

Holy shit.


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Posted 05 February 2018 - 10:58 AM

Watched one and two last night.

Definitely in for the season
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Posted 05 February 2018 - 11:21 AM

Halfway through.
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Posted 05 February 2018 - 11:27 AM

for any book readers, how does an AI hotel stay in business for 47 years without a customer?
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Posted 05 February 2018 - 12:48 PM

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for any book readers, how does an AI hotel stay in business for 47 years without a customer?


I seem to remember something about them being pretty gifted at exploiting the stock market... maybe?
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Posted 05 February 2018 - 02:54 PM

From io9, Kinnaman re he thinks he's not returning for S2...




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Speaking with TV Guide, Joel Kinnaman confirmed he’s probably not returning for season two.

I don’t think so, no. We have no idea what the second season would be, but my guess is that they would follow the two other books, and they are all on completely different planets, completely different worlds, and my guess is — and I don’t know — my guess is that it’s sort of going to be an anthology show where maybe a couple of the characters continue into the next season. But no one knows what’s going on in the second season.





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Posted 05 February 2018 - 08:24 PM

I nominate Idris Elba
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Posted 06 February 2018 - 07:50 AM

Loving it so far. Think I am up to episode 9. I hear the critics are not fans. I cant imagine why.

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 05:53 PM

Only up to episode 5 so far. It's really good. I feel the need for a reread as soon as I finish.
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Posted 07 February 2018 - 02:42 PM

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Only up to episode 5 so far. It's really good. I feel the need for a reread as soon as I finish.


Ep4 here and same.

Really enjoying it.

Also, damn, Kinnaman got ripped as fuck for this show.

Ambivalent about Ortega... it feels like they're trying too hard to make a plotline for her because they wanted a female co-lead to appear in gratuitous tight dress and underwear scenes play off Kovacs, and are ending up with something very basic and uninteresting. Doesn't help that I find the actress' delivery varies from convincing to phoning it in.

The rest of the cast are pretty great, tho, no fault of the actor's, every time Poe is on screen I sort of wish he was Jimi Hendrix.
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Posted 07 February 2018 - 05:33 PM

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I rather liked Poe. Brought an elegance to it.


I like him and the performance works... just some little part of my brain keeps thinking about how the scene would have been otherwise.

Like how

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and, well, dammit, now I'm doing it again.
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Posted 07 February 2018 - 06:40 PM

Poe works, but Jimi would have been so much cooler.

It's been about 6 or 8 years since I read AC.

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Posted 08 February 2018 - 04:18 PM

Finished last night. It was good. I'll push the show to friends I think will like it and then really push the book. I personally didn't like the Reileen changes.
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