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What is Altered Carbon?
Altered Carbon will be discovered on a distant planet, allowing, among other things, near-immortality.
- The substance can store and transmit our consciences in a kind of battery (covers, in the language of the series) that can transport from body to body.
- However, there will be no shortage of those who question this kind of immortality.
- These are the quests (the name comes from their leader, Quellcrist Falconer), who will become a kind of rebellion against the Protectorate.
- The bad guys, come on, why complicate and will try to destroy the new status quotes.
Altered Carbon Season 1
- In the first season of Altered Carbon, we met Takeshi Kovacs, the last of those rebels.
- Debris from another age who brought to the present against his will to return to the planet Harlan.
- His home planet where the carbon in question was discovered to investigate a crime.
- Although entertaining, that first season was a carbon copy – an intentional joke – of many science fiction references.
- Blade Runner and Neuromancer did not finish curdling or were a light show whose only intention was to entertain with somewhat liquefied concepts and sword fights.
One more time now with rhythm
- The start of the second season does not invite you to get too hopeful.
- Although it takes advantage that we can change the leading actor – Joel Kinnaman leaves with the change of cover, Anthony Mackie enters.
- The series returns to a starting point almost identical to that of its initial season.
- 30 years after the first story, Kovacs brought to Harlan against his will and ends up investigating a crime.
Altered Carbon Elements and Cast
- Being able to go anywhere in the space and calmly use an entirely new cast.
- The beginning of the recent Altered Carbon season seems not to risk an iota.
- It repeats the recipe of its first season and even repeats elements almost identically already.
- But soon, this new story is going in other ways.
- Reduced to eight episodes instead of ten, which concentrates and empowers it, the story deepens and explores the mythology of the planet Harlan.
- Thanks to a couple of narrative jumps -something easy-, our characters will end up.
- It’s exploring against their will the origins of this world and the altered carbon, especially the relationship with the Ancients.
Story Mode
- This extinct alien race inhabited the planet before the humans’ arrival, which gives the story Love-craftian touches.
- Of course, the Protectorate is still there to provide the quota of combats in each episode.
- There are twists and turns of the serial – persecutions, alliances, betrayals
- And a future that allows us to consume the series without questioning too much if we waste time (as happened sometimes in the first installment).
- The protagonist’s change is positive – Mackie is far more versatile than Kinnaman.
- There is an attentive look from the filmmakers regarding enhancing what worked best in the first season.
- Although Altered Carbon is not an essential science fiction series, this time, it takes on a specific epic character while highlighting.
- The “people who change their appearance and we don’t know who they are” component inherent in its own story.
- We look forward to that third season to discover what Kovacs will look like now and where his adventures will take him.