Altered Carbon

[CaptainRAVE]

The actors have all changed?

 

[Terminal_Boy]

The actors have all changed?

That’s down to the core premise of the universe these stories are set in. Human bodies are basically treated as we treat airport hire cars. You hire one at your destination and digitally transfer your soul there so the rental company can download you into it.

 

[llamadal]

It wasn't "his" body, he gave it back. While it's gutting as Kinnaman is awesome in it - see this https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/12/19/altered-carbon-explains-body-swapping/

 

[SixTwoSix]

Still need a trailer where we see Mackie in action, I remain uninspired by the casting choice of the new Takeshi Kovacs

 

[Steampunk]

This time around are we going to get any virtue signalling reviewers complaining about how a black actor has "stolen" an asian role?

 

[MissChief]

This time around are we going to get any virtue signalling reviewers complaining about how a black actor has "stolen" an asian role?

Those people don’t understand the concept of the books or the series itself and have never watched it.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Those people don’t understand the concept of the books or the series itself and have never watched it.

Indeed, sounds about right.

 

[Steampunk]

Indeed, sounds about right.

Those people don’t understand the concept of the books or the series itself and have never watched it.

You would think so, but it came up at the beginning of this thread when Empire magazine reviewed the first series saying:

While the narrative is true to Morgan’s literature, it feels a little uncomfortable watching a character with Japanese heritage become “trapped” in the body of a white man.

Now I know that the virtue-signalling access media is going to do what they do, I was just wondering if they were going to add hypocrisy to the upcoming reviews, or if their heads were just going to explode trying to figure out which skin colour to be more offended for/by. If there's anything shown by Morgan's fictional universe, it's that the body you're in (and it's colour) doesn't matter with regards to who you are.

 

[MissChief]

You would think so, but it came up at the beginning of this thread when Empire magazine reviewed the first series saying:



Now I know that the virtue-signalling access media is going to do what they do, I was just wondering if they were going to add hypocrisy to the upcoming reviews, or if their heads were just going to explode trying to figure out which skin colour to be more offended for/by. If there's anything shown by Morgan's fictional universe, it's that the body you're in (and it's colour) doesn't matter with regards to who you are.

It’s not like there wasn’t an Asian actor playing the character in the flashback was it? He was clearly Asian then.

 

[Glanza]

 

[Akagi]

Not fussed about the change in actor because its the very nature of the show.

 

[Steampunk]

Have they taken aspects of the third book and stuffed it into the second series? Are they afraid of not getting a third series?

 

[SixTwoSix]

Ok, i'll be honest, despite being on a downer about Mackie throughout this thread, I think he might just about pull this off based on that trailer.

Not fussed about the change in actor because its the very nature of the show.

Me either, just wish they'd generally cast a better actor

 

[Akagi]

Anyone seen Surrogates with Bruce Willis? I think some of the ideas in AC came from that movie.

The surrogates are the sleeves, and the consciousness is stored in a chip in the back of the neck, like the stacks.

 

[Shamikebab]

Surrogates was a comic book first. It's a fairly common sci-fi theme though.

 

[Steampunk]

Anyone seen Surrogates with Bruce Willis? I think some of the ideas in AC came from that movie.

The surrogates are the sleeves, and the consciousness is stored in a chip in the back of the neck, like the stacks.

The Surrogates comic the film is based on ran from 2005-2006. Altered Carbon was published in 2002.

The main difference in Surrogates is that your body drives a better body while you sit at home. In Altered Carbon, you only exist in one body at time (illegal double sleeving excluded). You consciousness can be transmitted interstellar distances to be installed into a new body.

 

[Akagi]

The Surrogates comic the film is based on ran from 2005-2006. Altered Carbon was published in 2002.

The main difference in Surrogates is that your body drives a better body while you sit at home. In Altered Carbon, you only exist in one body at time (illegal double sleeving excluded). You consciousness can be transmitted interstellar distances to be installed into a new body.

Ah yes I forgot that AC was based on a book.

 

[Glanza]

 

[sihartley25]

Looking forward to this. in the trailer is poe still alive? the hotel ai was only in the first book. I enjoyed the character in the book and the change from the hendrix to poe so am happy that they seem to have expanded his poe / hendrix role

 

[rotters]

3 more days..looking forward to this.