Altered Carbon
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- PonyBoy0
Where the show failed (to me) is it was more or less a softcore porn / bloodbath built around a main story of greed and lust... basically a Daytime Melodram at best w/a shitload of eye candy that isn't always that 'sweet' but rather bitter / boring / overdone or just not done very well (granted—it has its moments).
There seemed to be a really cool backstory along w/creative technology ideas (the aliens? the tree? ...how things got to be the way they were from a science / science-fiction pov) but they didn't touch on that stuff much and instead packed it full of *family issues*.
Scrape all the sci-fi / eye candy out of it and you have 10 episodes of All My Children... bloody episodes w/lots of T&A (and shit acting)... merely a boring Soap Opera in the end.
- *melodramaPonyBoy
- yeah deff had a soap opera vibe goingMiguex
- Agree.DRIFTMONKEY
- Miguex0
Opening titles were really nice
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- Continuity0
I actually re-watched it on a lark this week, for the second time.
It really is awfully derivative. It's a wholesale kit-bash of every dystopian or cyberpunk film and novel you've ever watched and read. Just about every theme, scene, and concept I could identify from something I've seen or read before.
That said, the production really is beautiful. And the casting was largely good; the chemistry between characters was mostly enough for me to forgive the start-to-finish rip-offs and just enjoy the show.
- I dont mind the visual ripoffs because they were very well done, but storyline was lacking, by the time the sister shows up I was like wtf is this hahaMiguex
- Ah yeah, the sister thing was irritating.
I was speaking more of thematic, plot and conceptual rip-offs, though.Continuity
- pango0
Mmmmm Ortega....
- < This.Continuity
- super sexy!
terrible actress thoughMiguex
- section_0140
I couldn't get passed the second episode. I even watched both episodes twice. I feel like it had all the ingredients for a cool series, but the execution just bored me to tears.
- prophetone0
"...it felt like they allocated 99.9% of the shows resources to production / vfx and photography and the rest was spent on snacks and a little bit of a script"
Yup.
- wagshaft0
I wish they would have followed the structure of the book. Entirely possible to do within a miniseries.
To it's detriment, the show writers combined a few characters, removed some, elevated others and even made new ones.
I enjoyed first handful of episodes, but couldn't finish it.
- inteliboy0
It really nails the aesthetic of cyberpunk - b-grade acting, awkward dialogue, dull characters.
Also the music is bland as fuck.
But still a fun watch.