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I guess it's a good moment to recommend Altered Carbon on Netflix to everyone. I love cyberpunk genre, played through every single Deus Ex game multiple times,
by d33 7y ago
I guess it's a good moment to recommend Altered Carbon on Netflix to everyone. I love cyberpunk genre, played through every single Deus Ex game multiple times, watched most of the relevant movies, etc.
What I loved about AC is that it adds a few concepts I hadn't seen before: separation of body and mind, virtualization of the mind and perception of time in those simulations. If the brutality of the series doesn't put you off, I think there's a chance you'll agree that many of the ideas are pretty thought over in general.
I didn't like the books though - while the first one was OK, the second just didn't engage me enough and I was glad that the TV series greatly deviated from it.
- asdf123wtf 7y agoI second that recommendation. The first season of Altered Carbon was fantastic.
- SirLotsaLocks 7y agoI just rewatched it last week, amazing show. Second season was less so, and it had a much different cyberpunk feel than the first, but it's still fun to watch if you don't pay attention too hard
- gentleman11 7y agoWe should go out and (re) read the books. They are fantastic, some of my favourites of all time since they were published. They are similar but are also importantly different, especially season two. The books are more focused on character and setting development and less on grand interconnected plots and action (season two is loosely based on book 3, with parts of book 2 remixed and reinterpreted into it. The book revolves around Kovachs mental health instead of what happened in the show) (Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies)
- mindcrime 7y agoI haven't watched Season Two yet, but Season One was, IMO, very good. But I went into it without having read the novels, even though they'd been on my "to read" list for some time. I still plan to go back and read them at some point.