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because you've literally done EVERYTHING else.
Is that the episode where he suffers Post Traumatic Gender Dysphoria and changes his name to Francine Castle?
punisher p good, picks up after a few episodes
looking fwd to another season (if they make one)
SirBatesAlot
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Yeah honestly if I lived for like 300 years and had more money than I knew what to do with and someone told me I could rape and kill hookers with no consequences...I don't know. I don't think I would but I might consider it.
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ArakAtak
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I started doing that before I had 30 years on the board, it's OK. Gets you through a boring weekend anyway.
Livingdeath
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Altered carbon is really quite good. The source material of course is far better (the books are much better constructed and more nuanced), so I recommend reading them before watching the series. Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of the changes they made to the book.
However the production value is very high and you get a pretty cool vibe from the series and the setting. The acting unfortunately is inconsistent. There are some really good performers (Tak, the AI and the Bancrofts are good), but there are quite a few actors who really make things unbearable at times.
Overall, give it a solid 8.5/10 and worth a look.
However the production value is very high and you get a pretty cool vibe from the series and the setting. The acting unfortunately is inconsistent. There are some really good performers (Tak, the AI and the Bancrofts are good), but there are quite a few actors who really make things unbearable at times.
Overall, give it a solid 8.5/10 and worth a look.
Godless is the only Netflix show I'd fully recommend lately. Beautiful cinematography, good acting(although Jeff Daniels is a bit over the top), mostly non-cringey dialogue and satisfyingly traditional(mildly cliche) western plot.
Black Mirror is an inconsistent mix of great episodes and boring shit episodes.
I was entertained by Punisher; the almost comical level of hyper-violence gets a bit stale by the end though. On the downside you don't know whether to root for or against him half the time, and usually you just pity him for being mentally handicapped--which makes it pretty depressing.
I'm over halfway through Altered Carbon. The visuals are incredible and the main thing that keeps me interested. The sci-fi premise isn't bad at all, but seems wasted by the plot. Christopher Nolan could easily make a more cerebral mindfuck narrative given the sleeve/body dynamic. Instead we get cookie cutter marxist/anti-capitalist shit on rich people revolutionary storyline. I haven't finished the show, so maybe there are major twists that dramatically change the storyline, but so far it seems like a glorification of a Che Guevera-esque revoution with the cringey black chick morpheus envoy crap. The whole 'let's destroy incredible technology because not everyone can afford it' crap is immature logic that can only come from the brain of narcissistic closet-antifa sjws at gawker. However, for fun I can put aside my cynicism and go with the excuse that the technology of the sleeves represents an existential threat of oppression. But the fact that the marxist envoy chick can decide specifically that people should only live 100 years or whatever it was is complete hypocrisy when supposedly her entire philosophic aim is to prevent the oligarchs from playing god. Hope it gets better.
Black Mirror is an inconsistent mix of great episodes and boring shit episodes.
I was entertained by Punisher; the almost comical level of hyper-violence gets a bit stale by the end though. On the downside you don't know whether to root for or against him half the time, and usually you just pity him for being mentally handicapped--which makes it pretty depressing.
I'm over halfway through Altered Carbon. The visuals are incredible and the main thing that keeps me interested. The sci-fi premise isn't bad at all, but seems wasted by the plot. Christopher Nolan could easily make a more cerebral mindfuck narrative given the sleeve/body dynamic. Instead we get cookie cutter marxist/anti-capitalist shit on rich people revolutionary storyline. I haven't finished the show, so maybe there are major twists that dramatically change the storyline, but so far it seems like a glorification of a Che Guevera-esque revoution with the cringey black chick morpheus envoy crap. The whole 'let's destroy incredible technology because not everyone can afford it' crap is immature logic that can only come from the brain of narcissistic closet-antifa sjws at gawker. However, for fun I can put aside my cynicism and go with the excuse that the technology of the sleeves represents an existential threat of oppression. But the fact that the marxist envoy chick can decide specifically that people should only live 100 years or whatever it was is complete hypocrisy when supposedly her entire philosophic aim is to prevent the oligarchs from playing god. Hope it gets better.
Godless is pretty good, but then you realize there's a character named Whitey who can't get laid in a town entirely comprised of women because he never bathes and lives in a shack, so he goes to the next town and gets himself a black girlfriend who is just happy he's employed.
Livingdeath
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Unfortunately a lot of that is not in the book at all. The original book is more of a clever noir detective story. Of course you have oligarchs and typical cyberpunk tropes about systems of oppression, but its very much a backseat to the interesting ethical questions and plot points the sleeve system creates. The show sorta abandons that three episodes in, and then gets a bit preachy and invents a bunch of revolutionary crap that has nothing to do with the original premise. It's ashame b/c they could have made a real masterpiece given the production value.
While you're right in essence, let's not treat the book as if it's fuckin Shakespeare. It's good, but it's not THAT good.