![]() She felt abandoned by him when she was sold into the Yakuza after he joined the Protectorate, but they soon mended their fences, and joined Quellcrist’s rebellion. Reileen Kawahara (Dichen Lachman) – Reileen is Takeshi’s sister. Now 250 years after his previous death, Kovacs finds himself in a strange body in a strange world, having to help the kind of all-powerful rich person he was trying to prevent from existing… An abusive father, a sister he had to protect, time served in the Protectorate army and time as part of a rebellion fighting against it. Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnamna / Will Yun Lee / Byron Mann) – Takeshi has had a complicated life. Takeshi on the left looks quite a bit different for most of the series… He is given the choice to either spend the rest of time in prison for his crimes, or to help solve the murder of Laurens Bancroft, one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds… Takeshi Kovacs, a political operative with mercenary skills, wakes up 250 years after his previous sleeve is terminated. Physical bodies, called “sleeves”, are disposable vessels that can accept any “stack”. In the future, a person’s memories have been decanted into “cortical stacks”, storage devices of alien design which have been reverse engineered, duplicated en masse, and surgically inserted into the vertebrae at the back of the neck. I mean, it was kind of funny that this month I’ve reviewed the two Blade Runner films and a bunch of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, and this series has strong beats from both (although I will point out that the book “Altered Carbon” came out before the new BSG, so I’m not saying the similarities to resurrection technology was this show copying that!) So with that all said, let’s take a closer look! End of review… No, seriously, I loved it, and I knew nothing about it before it was suddenly advertised by Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Altered Carbon is a great blend of many sci-fi tropes and ideas, beautifully brought to life with a high budget and a great cast. ![]()
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