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Angsty Kovac is tough to swallow. Melancholy and jaded should be his tone. Also it was jarring as fuck to watch all 3 of the main characters be black for no reason other than Wakanda.

I always thought of the 3 books as very different genres which Kovacs and his flexibility as an Envoy adapts to deal with. 1 was a Noir Detective story. 2 was War Porn + Raiders of the Lost Ark. 3 was a classic Heist caper. The bones of the stories are a well worn path, what Morgan does well is...

S1 was visually shot more in a film style, S2 looks very TV. That combined with a lot of the actors chewing the scenery its pretty rugged. SyFy with a bigger budget. Mackey is pretty horrible and I cant think of role where he wasnt. If you havent read the books you really are missing out. This...

Col Carerra is also book 2, opposite number to Kemp. The bounty chick is 2 characters they merged together. Very odd. Semiter and the Soul Market are book 2, but the use as a plot point is super different.

Well I watched EP1, they are sorta mashing book 2 & 3 together, sorta. Joshua Kemp and his freedom fighter faction are book 2 and have zero to do with Harlan's. They really took liberties with their tortured Takeshi chasing a lost love (that aint Morgan's book character, he is a stoic MFer who...

I'll get around to it eventually. I kinda noped out when they announced casting. Putting a black dude as lead because 'diversity' was retarded when everyone in the book is some kind of mixed race and it should have been a hapa or a pacific islander, ACTUAL diversity. Once I knew it was gonna be...

I am just happy they are actually making content in the genre and spending money doing it, if this was a SyFy series it would probably be unwatchable. And I am glad AC became a series instead of the film it was first going to be, Morgan got to finally write full time because Joel Silver bought...

I need to sit down and watch the show. I am kinda balking because S1 left out a lot of the more interesting concepts of the books and Kovacs was a bit of a crybaby pussy on the show in comparison. I need to re-read the books, they hold up pretty well. I wish they would do a one off series of...

Isnt that the Book 2 sleeve? when the rest of his team was wearing Maoris because of Radiation resistance and he didnt want to swap out of the top tier combat sleeve? Also the Wedge sleeve in book 2 gave him command authority on that planet vs. most of the local military forces. So he didnt...

Doesnt in the book, also in the book the Hotel Poe isnt Edgar Allan. It's Jimi Hendrix.

Did Kovacs get the 'Gecko' sleeve in the show? edit- I guess not if they left out the Decomm teams and the climb.

In the books Kovacs searches out a local legend (now part of a cult that only lives in VR) who long ago free climbed the Harlan spire in protest and he tells him the path he used to summit El Capitan.

In the books the size of aircraft determined whether the alien defense orbitals would fire on them. little 2-3 person choppers were the only things that could fly without setting them off, and even they would occasionally get smoked randomly. There were bald spots on the coverage of the defense...

Envoys in the books are super soldiers, highly trained in combat but also diplomacy, politics and psychology, but what makes them 'super human' is they have hyper acute perception and pick up a lot of subliminal cues / body language / unconscious reflexes. it helps them out maneuver in combat...

I havent watched S2, but the things you are describing are book 3. Book 2 was mercenary for corps mining martian loot in the middle of a civil war.

A shit ton more Nazca lines.

It will be interesting to see who buys it.

I am gonna go out on a limb and say this dude posts on 8kun. https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/02/29/police-woman-stabbed-with-possible-semen-filled-syringe/

Yeah that and the addition of the sister were pants on head. Takeshi being a Quellist was his dark secret and what made him eventually abandon being an Envoy. That and being tired of having to always kill the evil Space Muslims. IIRC his Arc was poor street kid gangbanger finds Religion in...

One of the few authors who didnt fuck up the concept of FTL travel was Peter F Hamilton in the Commonwealth series. A lot of time was spent on the back story of how the tech came about and the expansion across the galaxy. He managed to have it happen over 100s of years and still include some...

One of the interesting angles in the books is Envoys would needlecast in as a small force to a planet and use their 'empathy' skills to manipulate locals to their side and build a local guerrilla army to put down insurrections. This was faster than bringing warships into orbit.

IIRC the Needlecast tech and Stack tech was reverse engineered from abandoned Martian 'artifacts' scattered all over the galaxy and abandoned. Martians could bend space time with portals. Book 2 was all about scavenging Martian tech

They didnt need FTL travel in books. They could 'Needlecast' the consciousness from a stack across the galaxy and upload into a local sleeve. Kovacs biggest 'skills' was not going schizo getting downloaded all the time into unfamiliar body and adapting to it quickly. Its part of what makes an...

I remember what happened last time they tried to tell a story where Jedi had lots of .... Many Younglings are gonna die.

My Pops friend was a Czech Mercedes mechanic whos specialty was buying a half dozen 600s at a time from Saudi Arabia, he would snap up the ones that were damaged in big sand storms, all the paint and glass trashed, they were dirt cheap salvage priced. He would repaint, swap the glass and add...

Welp the problem with Mad Mike and his skepticism of science is that it wasn't just focused on geoscience. He didn't seem to believe conventional wisdom about aerospace design. Not a lotta lift there buddy. Was he worried he would hit the ceiling in the sky?

There is something very poetic about trying to prove the earth is flat and end up flattening yourself in the process.

INB4 sous vide derail. Edit

Biggest problem trying to get those old cars up to the level of modern automobile is that the fundamental geometry just isn't there no matter how much money you sink in. 'Upgrades' for suspension and braking on classic rods are usually based on Mustang 2 parts. So you are going from 50s-60s tech...

Not at all surprised. Function over fashion. Classic cars will never drive as well as even a modern entry level shitbox. Owning a classic is more about nostalgia and art than it is about comfort and performance. I had a Beamer in high school for a while. It was a fun surf mobile, rather peppy...

I said I missed you. What more do you want? I wasn't gonna get all gay about it.

Old fashioned Negro wisdom is still a thing. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/02/19/boosie-badazz-to-dwyane-wade-after-transgender-child-comes-out-at-12-dont-cut-his-fking-dk-off/

Super low miles, only 1 accident. https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-auctions-herself-to-pay-medical-bills-after-car-crash-234841138.html