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Kegslayer posted:It's still funny watch people demand that Kovacs has to be white though. Literally nobody did this, they just said that complaining about "whitewashing" a character who is explicitly and repeatedly described as a white man is loving dumb.
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Not really a spoiler but stacks being Martian technology really fucks with a plot point from a later book, although now that I type this they hosed with that book in a more significant way already.
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Feb 8, 2018 22:21
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Even the name Quellcrist was selected to emphasize her pro eternal sleeving ideal, its so goddamn bizarre for them to not only change it that way, butbtondo such a half-assed job of it.
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Feb 10, 2018 13:49
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Zaphod42 posted:"Quellcrist Falconer" is still the worst name I've ever heard in fiction It's a pseudonym, and when explained I found it pretty appropriate. Of course, the changes to the character make the name completely inappropriate in context though.
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Feb 11, 2018 06:52
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:honestly this really isn't that different from the Star Trek transporter problem, and I remember Star Trek's canonical answer to that being kind of really loving disturbing In Trek doesn't the physical process of scanning for transport destroy the original? Or am I thinking of something else? I remember reading that due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle it's necessary to cease all living function to accurately map body/mind. Although now that I mention that if I was reading about it it probably wasn't Trek. Neddy Seagoon posted:Kovacs was in storage forever and ever for being a big bad Envoy terrorist (instead of just Erasing him because...? Still doesn't really make sense if Rei is a 200 year old Meth with a flying high tech whorehouse that caters to the ultra rich. Even if her own money and influence weren't sufficient for the President, she could have used the money and power had Bancroft or someone like him help her out any time. pile of brown fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Feb 12, 2018 |
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Feb 12, 2018 07:51
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) and Rei needed Bancroft's pull with the Protectorate President to get him out.
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I think part of the reason everyone who read the books is so bothered by this is that just adapting the books to the screen without making weird changes would have been an awesome sci-fi action TV show, and the following books basically double down on sci fi action as it time jumps another hundred years and Kovacs goes from moonlighting as a noir detective to realizing his full potential as a balls out mercenary hired to fight a war but also secretly plotting his own big score.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:38
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No, Poe was adapted from a book character that they couldn't use for licensing reasons. If you'd said abuela, you'd have pinged on literally the only good thing the show writers thought up.
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Jun 16, 2018 17:32
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If you want to enjoy the books, forget the show
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