[TV Netflix] Altered Carbon

[callipygoustp]

This pretty cool news.
http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/96...mackie-as-lead

Nice. I enjoyed the first season. Hopefully the second is just as good, if not, better.

[eschatological]

I liked the first season of this until the villain was revealed, which was pretty predictable.

Also, the female detective.....yowza. I guess she's going away in season 2 if Joel Kinnamon's consciousness is being returned to his body and they're just gonna live happily ever after? IDK.

[Strawberry]

Dichen Lachman must absolutely be back or else bust.

[eschatological]

Dichen Lachman must absolutely be back or else bust.

She was like..........the worst villain ever.

[Strawberry]

She was like..........the hottest villain ever.

Corrected.

[actiwe]

Can't stand Joel Kinnmans acting.. As a swede i've seen him in countless swedish series and he plays the same role as he always do. Lame acting

[Ergar]

I was really into the series for the first 4 or 5 episodes, but holy shit does the writing get really fucking cringey towards the end. I couldn't take it anymore after 7,5 episodes.

[Gallahadd]

Corrected.

Just saying, martha higareda >>>> Lachman.

Can't stand Joel Kinnmans acting.. As a swede i've seen him in countless swedish series and he plays the same role as he always do. Lame acting

He was kinda the weak link in the series. Thankfully, his time on the show is done and Anthony Mackie is taking over the lead. God bless re-sleeving! You can change actors at any time and it's not a problem, in universe!

[Strawberry]

Just saying, martha higareda >>>> Lachman.

Not a chance, Martha's face looks like she changed gender from man >>>> woman.

[Collegeguy]

This pretty cool news.
http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/96...mackie-as-lead

I don't know anything about the books, but I was hoping to see more of Will Yun Lee that played stronghold Kovacs. His acting was just good imo and had more emotion. Don't know how it could be done but it's the future. Maybe a cloned body or what not that his sister had.

[Perune]

any news on 2nd season, i read it costed too much and not enough viewers, but still hopeful

[BloodyAngel12]

any news on 2nd season, i read it costed too much and not enough viewers, but still hopeful

Did you not read the link where they just cast Antony Mackie for Kovacs.

[Perune]

nope, must have missed it, good news

[BloodyAngel12]

Season 2 has a release date of the 27/02/20.

[Gallahadd]

Season 2 has a release date of the 27/02/20.

Oooooh nice. Was worried it'd gone a bit silent. Given how cancel happy Netflix have been recently, I feared the worst.

But now, we have a release date!

[Shibito]

Season 2 has a release date of the 27/02/20.

yay cant wait

[Endus]

Season 2 has a release date of the 27/02/20.

Oooooh nice. Was worried it'd gone a bit silent. Given how cancel happy Netflix have been recently, I feared the worst.

But now, we have a release date!

yay cant wait

Reminder that Season 2 is likely to have an almost entirely new cast, even Kovacs as the main character, if they're following the books. This is where you'll really start to notice the re-sleeving.

Not being critical either, I'm just pre-empting a "why did they recast all the characters?" spiel. It's got nothing to do with how well/poorly last season went, it's just a consequence of being re-sleeved into a new body on a new planet, the core conceit of the setting.

It may also undergo a pretty hard genre shift. I haven't read the Takeshi Novacs books in a while, but I recall there being a really serious dynamic shift between books at some point (again, not in a bad way at all).

[Tiwack]

Awesome, at the same time the Matrix movies are being pulled from the library, I'll be rewatching them to fill in the wait.

[Koriani]

Oooooh nice. Was worried it'd gone a bit silent. Given how cancel happy Netflix have been recently, I feared the worst.

But now, we have a release date!

Yea Netflix just has a (IMO) sucky habit of taking 1 1/2-2 years for a lot of their 'new' seasons on shows. Seems to be more their 'norm' now, rather than an exception. Something I noticed in most of the shows I enjoy from them in the last 3+ years - each new season taking almost two years to come out.

That coupled with their trend of only giving popular shows 2-3 seasons before yanking them for zippo reasons (or, if you're really lucky you get FIVE whole seasons!) has me more and more convinced to never be paying for that service, long term, again.

More and more reason to only pay for Netflix for 2-3 months every few years - just enough time to catch up on the new seasons of new shows that come out and then cancel again and wait another few years before handing them more money.

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Hubby and I are greatly looking forward to (FINALLY) getting season three of AC! I actually enjoyed season 2 but do agree it wasn't the better of the two seasons.

And while I certainly get the appropriateness and 'in universe' canon of resleeving main characters- I am curious to see if the American Populace will adapt (or whatever small subsection is still into the show...lol). It can certainly work - or it can certainly just cause a disconnect and backfire on the show and turn people off who don't want to give time for their brains to adjust. (Cuz Human Brain Hate Change grrr...)

[Endus]

And while I certainly get the appropriateness and 'in universe' canon of resleeving main characters- I am curious to see if the American Populace will adapt (or whatever small subsection is still into the show...lol). It can certainly work - or it can certainly just cause a disconnect and backfire on the show and turn people off who don't want to give time for their brains to adjust. (Cuz Human Brain Hate Change grrr...)

That's more or less what I was getting at. It works great in the written form, because "Kovacs" is "Kovacs", and you have to remind yourself that he looks different. In a visual medium like TV, you see the appearance first, so you've got to somehow internalize that Anthony Mackie is Joel Kinnaman, since both play Kovacs. And also, neither are Original Kovacs, who we also saw in S1.