OptimisticJock wrote:Altered Carbon was very good and quite original.
It started off quite well I thought - a little exposition heavy, but then, it needed to be. But the last 3-ish episodes just descended rapidly IMO, looking like it was more interested in fight scenes and justifying / setting up a second season; rather than finishing off the story it had been telling.
I also felt that a couple of the characters were suffering a little multiple personality disorder
[spoilers]Kovacs himself is all about cold rationality, picking up the little details no-one notices, and coldly manipulating and exploiting the local peons without any emotional attachment - whilst simultanesouly acting all emotional, missing fairly big details and developing real emotional ties to just about everyone who was supporting him.
Whilst the sister's about turn was never really examined, nor how she became a member of the 0.0001% of wealthy immortals, nor why she needed her brother so badly after managing perfectly fine without him for 250 year and making no attempt of her own to resurrect him, despite being obviously capable of bringing him back, in his own body... Just make her a different person, trying to get away with a crime - preferably a crime that I'd believe could take down one of the meg-rich, rather than a rather prosaic whore-murder; and leave the sister dead 250 years ago.[/spoilers]
Despite what the above may look like; the last 3ish episodes didn't ruin it for me; though it may well have done if this had been a weekly show, rather than a weekend binge. I enjoyed it well enough; but I don't think I'll be going out of my way to find the second season.
