but you miss out on ortega, whom now is basically a diversity show hire
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I already watched the show, but now reading some of the changes from the book, the book sounds much better.but you miss out on ortega, whom now is basically a diversity show hire
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On topic, I think I'll probably finally read the books soon as well. I really want to see more of envoys being badasses, which we didn't really get at all in the show.
She's definitely hot in that pic, but she's one of those rare women that transcends to another level when they get naked. Most women you can more easily see minor flaws when they take their clothes off (not that that lessens them in any way), but she gets fucking better. Her body is fucking outrageous. Those tits are goddamn perfect, and I think I remember seeing she's in her 30s maybe?
Yeah, I know a lot of work with lighting, camera angles, makeup, etc. probably went into those scenes, but she had to have the raw materials in the first place.
On topic, I think I'll probably finally read the books soon as well. I really want to see more of envoys being badasses, which we didn't really get at all in the show.
She's definitely hot in that pic, but she's one of those rare women that transcends to another level when they get naked. Most women you can more easily see minor flaws when they take their clothes off (not that that lessens them in any way), but she gets fucking better. Her body is fucking outrageous. Those tits are goddamn perfect, and I think I remember seeing she's in her 30s maybe?
Yeah, I know a lot of work with lighting, camera angles, makeup, etc. probably went into those scenes, but she had to have the raw materials in the first place.
On topic, I think I'll probably finally read the books soon as well. I really want to see more of envoys being badasses, which we didn't really get at all in the show.
Finished this over the weekend, and never having read the books I quite enjoyed it. I agree that there were a lot of problems and the plot got a lot worse towards the end, but we had Ortega's incredible second nude scene to bolster it. Jesus Fucking Christ she is just about perfect, body-wise.
I liked a lot of it, but see the flaws in a bunch of things that I just chose to overlook. I pretty much hated the whole Lizzie thing, except I really liked the wife that got sleeved into a man, I thought that actor nailed it. I also absolutely loved Poe, and am pissed that he's gone. Even if he would have never showed up in another episode, knowing he's dead just irks me. I also thought grandma in the thug was amazing. Things like that really stood out to me as awesome, whereas a lot of the more story-related stuff fell pretty flat. I also really disliked how they did scenes like the AIs playing poker. The visual distortion effect was annoying. Sure, it let me know immediately that it was VR, and they carried that through most of the VR scenes, but sometimes it was just way too much, especially like the early Lizzie scenes. Also, maybe I'm just slow, but the whole whore falling in the water thing didn't make sense to me for a long, long time. They kept referring to it as some big important thing, which it of course ended up being, but when that episode started off with it, I had zero clue wtf was going on. Maybe I missed a section of dialogue explaining it, but if I didn't, not having read the book, I was totally lost.
I still liked it for the most part. It was mostly coherent enough and I enjoyed the overall premise. After talking to a friend that read the books I can see where I would have MUCH more preferred that they get into what badasses envoys were, because that really didn't make sense in the show. They appeared to be guerrillas that just trained but never accomplished anything, yet somehow they were feared by everyone, even 250 years later. Obviously they were leaving out a ton of back story there, that I even noticed it without having the book to fall back on. I would have liked them to spend a lot more time on that instead of all the shittier aspects of being an envoy they chose to focus on.
And again, holy fuck is Ortega hot.
When you get to Kovacs "making it personal" at the clinic, you'll appreciate the books a hell of a lot more then the show. The second book has even more action, and there's another pretty fucked up scene toward the end that makes you realize how badass Envoys are.
which one you talking about, just the big fight with the wedge or something else?
they really managed to fuck up the wedge part then. so ho hum boring.Guess there’s two moments really:
The fight against the nanotech deal when he goes nuts is pretty good, but was referring to him slaughtering all of the Wedge. First time I heard it on the audio version, I was pretty blown away.
You thought his fight against the Wedge was boring in the book? uhh.. ok?
I dunno maybe I'm just getting soft on Sci Fi lately.