Altered
Carbon Season 2
I just
watched one episode of the new season of Altered Carbon and that was
enough for me. Enough, I say! I loved the first season of the show
but after reading the book knew I would have hated it. So glad I saw
the show first. Then I was gifted the rest of the series of books
(except the fourth one) so I like to think I know a metric shit ton
about the universe of Takeshi Kovacs. In that post (click here for
that) I mentioned some of the differences between the first book and
the first season of the show. Now that I have read the books I was
being super judgmental of this new season. From the start I was
pissed! Well, maybe not pissed so much as insulted by the terrible
writing. Also, Netflix is notorious for having shitty second seasons.
The
basic premise is that people avoid death by having their
consciousness into these things called stacks and can be inserted
into new bodies or synthetic ones pretty much living forever if
possible unless someone destroys the shit and they are dead for
reals. Anthony Mackie replaces Joel Kinnaman which is not an issue
since he switches up bodies with no problem. Except in this show. He
loses his fucking mind whenever he wakes up in a new body. Speaking
of new bodies he starts off in the body of a lounge singer. Some lady
is looking for him and talking to the Edgar Allen Poe AI who can not
say where. He is a ghost at this place since the hotel is gone I
guess. This guy brings money for Kovacs and people claim they are him
and start brawling. Turns out the singer is Kovacs who is shot by the
lady looking for him.
He
wakes up in a virtual reality and promised to keep this body as well
as find out where Quellcrist Falconer is. They are running with this
bullshit story! They really doing it! I was so pissed because after
finding out that he never even met her in real life and that she was
a legend people talked about and used her teachings I am mad that he
had this whole relationship with her and they are still doing it in
the next season. I watched this with someone who never finished the first
season and even with that being the case she should have been able to
watch this (including the recap) and understand some of what was
going on. I have read three books and watched the first season and
shit was baffling to me or straight up made no sense.
They
have taken Kovacs and Poe and made them a team he can bring with him.
I get it. He was my favorite character of the first season but having
him in a necklace is just silly in a reality where people sleeve
themselves into new bodies. For those that don't know Kovacs from the
books, when he wakes in a new body he adjusts extremely fast and
learns what the body can do. In this series he freaks the fuck out
and goes insane as he adjusts. It is done just for the visuals
because an Envoy that goes insane when he wakes up would be the worst
kinda soldier. Oh, and this fucker stabs himself to get information
from...himself. The pain gives him flashbacks so he can remember
things he forgot. Who wrote this shit?! At this point they start
throwing away very important information from the books regarding
skeletons from Mars, song spires, and Harlan's World. He got back to
that planet in the third book and it was a big deal. In this he just
goes, like, whatever.
I
would watch this just to hate-watch it and I'm not trying to do that
anymore. I am this close to giving up on Hunters and seeing what else
I can watch. I have also started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender
and season two of Brockmire. There is zero need for me to continue
watching Altered carbon if this is how the shit is starting off.
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