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Altered Carbon - NetFlix Original scifi series Spoilers start on page 3
Posted on 12/4/17 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 12/4/17 at 2:32 pm
The trailer just dropped today and it looks pretty interesting LINK
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The show will be available on February 2nd.
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Altered Carbon takes place 500 years in the future, where human consciousness can be uploaded into a “cortical stack,” allowing the rich to change bodies (“sleeves”) in order to live forever. There are, naturally, people opposed to this, and the series will delve into this as well as a central murder mystery that will explore this strange new world.
The series is based on the novel by Richard K. Morgan‘s 2002 novel, and is being adapted by writer-producer Laeta Kalogridis (Alita: Battle Angel) and director Miguel Sapochnik (of “Battle of the Bastards” fame from Game of Thrones).
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The show will be available on February 2nd.
This post was edited on 2/4/18 at 5:08 pm
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Posted on 12/4/17 at 2:35 pm to TigerinATL
Can't. fricking. Wait.
Some of my favorite sci-fi books.
Some of my favorite sci-fi books.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 2:44 pm to TigerinATL
wow! netflix has got some balls.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 2:53 pm to TigerinATL
I WANT!
Posted on 12/4/17 at 2:56 pm to TigerinATL
Excited for this one.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 3:07 pm to TigerinATL
loved the first book. bought the second and third but haven't read them because I heard they aren't very good. ill knock them out at some point
looks like they captured the cyberpunk aesthetic pretty well. i hope it's very faithful to the book. the showrunner said it's her passion project
looks like they captured the cyberpunk aesthetic pretty well. i hope it's very faithful to the book. the showrunner said it's her passion project
Posted on 12/4/17 at 3:09 pm to Carson123987
If you liked the first one, you'll like two and three.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 3:14 pm to TigerinATL
I guess I need to pick these books up - I have a feeling this will be Netflix's "Game of Thrones."
Just has that vibe.
Just has that vibe.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 3:26 pm to Ace Midnight
the first is AWESOME.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 3:52 pm to Carson123987
Great books. It'll be interesting seeing different actors playing the same characters in the same show. That's a pretty novel concept.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 3:55 pm to BitBuster
I agree. I love who they got to play Kovacs' sleeve. Fits with what I pictured when reading the book.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 4:00 pm to TigerinATL
quote:This is gonna be an interesting movie.
Alita: Battle Angel
Can't wait for this also.
Posted on 12/4/17 at 4:41 pm to TigerinATL
In 
Posted on 12/4/17 at 5:18 pm to Carson123987
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loved the first book. bought the second and third but haven't read them because I heard they aren't very good. ill knock them out at some point
The first is the best, but the other two are excellent as well. The third is almost as good as the first.
Posted on 1/11/18 at 10:13 pm to auyushu
official trailer
Looks like a Blade Runner/Ghost in the Shell ripoff but still cool. Great production values too. I'll check it out.
Looks like a Blade Runner/Ghost in the Shell ripoff but still cool. Great production values too. I'll check it out.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 5:09 am to TigerinATL
Caught the trailer by accident scrolling around on imdb. One of the quieter Netflix debuts. It is on the top of my anticipation list now.
Posted on 1/12/18 at 5:26 am to Brosef Stalin
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Looks like a Blade Runner/Ghost in the Shell ripoff but still cool. Great production values too. I'll check it out.
It really shouldn't have much in common with those two in terms of themes (unless Netflix screwed up the story), though the setting will be similar in that it is a cyberpunk world.
Where Ghost and Blade Runner focus on what it means to be human with AI characters, Altered Carbon is a Cyberpunk detective/noir that focuses on the effects of humans being basically immortal due to the downloading of consciousness and how society would change due to that (and the ethical considerations).
The book is fantastic, can't wait to see how it translates to tv.
This post was edited on 1/12/18 at 5:28 am
Posted on 1/14/18 at 9:41 am to Carson123987
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haven't read them because I heard they aren't very good.
Don't let others think for you, baw
Posted on 1/14/18 at 11:21 am to TigerinATL
will watch
Posted on 1/22/18 at 3:54 pm to Sneaky__Sally
LINK
sounds awesome
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Netflix's latest original show throws so many far out sci-fi concepts at you in its first 30 minutes, let alone across the whole 10-episode season, that it's often hard to keep track of what's going on from one scene to the next. But for those who stick with it, Altered Carbon is an engrossing show with fascinating ideas that it sees through all the way to the end.
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This universe is as dense as they come. Altered Carbon isn't hardcore sci-fi because it's set on a spaceship or there are weird-looking aliens running around; it's because the show recognizes that revolutionary new technologies don't exist in a bubble. They alter the fabric of the world, like cars, air travel, the internet, and cell phones have.
Altered Carbon never shies from examining exactly how an invention like the cortical stack would change our reality, and this future society appears far different from our own. Yet in many ways, it's really exactly the same--which is more or less the prime directive of great science fiction.
sounds awesome
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