A bittersweet ending for a phenomenal series! Netflix continues to amaze me with its programming. This is by far the BEST sci-fi series I have ever seen and far surpasses many of the blockbuster movies as well. Every piece was fully orchestrated. I will definitely be re-watching this over and over again.
How did the critics get it so wrong? This show is excellent! I can’t wait for Season 2!
IMO this show is neither as bad as the critics make it out to be nor as good as other comments here or other forums say. And that is mainly because of the second half (after the main villain got revealed). First half was very interesting murder mystery and cyberpunk at it's finest (also great world building). Then it just became a boring and generic hero fights villain from his past. With the villain being the absolute worst part about the show. Just unbelievable and over the top.
And I know books won't ever be put on film one to one but the changes they made here really made no sense. They don't take away from the show but are just unnecessary.
Also the dude that played the abuela and Dimi is fucking fantastic.
One of the best sci-fi shows I had the pleasure of watching. Hoping for a season 2.
OMG, THEY KILLED POE!!
YOU BASTARDS!!
I admit it, this is a great show really, I enjoyed watching it. However, it started strong and ended a bit weak...
Decent closure sounds about right, but there's a feeling it could have been so much more. They had the balls to change up a lot of elements of the book in an interesting way and expand on some elements to try and give it more emotional weight, but it kind of falls short in trying to merge that change into book ending. I was hoping they would go all the way and change the ending to fit the changes to Reis character, but now there's just feeling left that the ending in the book has much more sense than this. Too bad, Reis entrance to the show was totally badass, but ultimately her character dragged the show down.
Neverthless, I applaud authors for audacity to not just make straight adaptation. I loved the expansion of envoy angle, loved Poe (even though they were forced to make a change from Hendrix because of the rights). In the end, I even loved Ortega, even though the actress didn't feel nowhere near book version, both physically or characterly. All the changes made it interesting for me even though I read the novel (which I recommend everyone to do, it's phenomenal).
In any case, there's a lot of talent behind the scenes here and I have high hopes that season 2 might be good.
Unbelievable.
Literally. I did not find the ending believable. Too clean. Too simple. Too schmaltzy. I was hoping this series would have something to say beyond Good vs Evil. At times it almost did but... the final 3 episodes unraveled all the promise the first 7 offered.
So this show just threw all the sci-fi cliches, and other cliches as well, they could find and make it all over the top, character development for most of the characters are weak, and sometimes barely there, bad casting, I still can't believe they chose a tibetan-descendent actress to play a japanese-descendent character, that's offensive, racist even, and that's a show that thought it would be important to inform the audience about the characters origin, and bad acting from a lot of key characters. And at first, the actor that plays Dimi and Ortega Grandma seems to be amazing, but then you realise that his accent is the same in both characters, and that his acting when making the Ortega is basicaly the same as the actor that was playing Eva, feminine manners, poses and reactions that don't match ANY of the female actresses behaviour, you just take that as offensive. I also never thought I would say that, but why adding so much LGBT characters? Most of them were just there for the sake of being there, like the bi character that literally only shows up to be killed, if it's just to add and say "hey we added you guys", no thanks. And don't get me started on the 4 black characters, I meant, japanese name for that lady? Because why? We didn't had Hidden Figures movie just last year telling the story of four balck women very capable of saving NASA's ass? Do we always need to make intelligent people japanese? Do black people with daker skin always have to be poor and with short temper? And do you always need to put the black woman with lighter skintone to be the bitch that everyone hates for being sucessful and ambitious? Terrible, waste of a good ideia that should have been handle by a better prepared team.
What an excellent first season! This show gets almost everything right: the visuals, the complexity of the plot and the acting (I especially love Poe).
What I didn’t like was Rei as the main villain. I think her whole motivations were poorly portrayed. If she was only incestuous or only angry, or only wanted power or revenge or hide a crime, it would’ve been enough. But it looks like the writers threw in a lot motivations to see if something sticks. They created several layers to explain why she is like that, but all these things together don't look natural. They tried too hard to make her story look complex.
I think with Rei’s storyline the changes to the book made no sense. By mixing Takeshi’s sister with the main villain in the novels they screwed it up.
Why not throw in some ex machina character...lol...lizzie....righiiit
A disappointing end to what, along with The Expanse, is probably the best sci fi show ever.
Rei's entrance was fantastic when she appears and, ninja like, saves Kovacs. . I don't know anything about Dichen Lachman, I really want to like her, but her acting in this is wooden and unconvincing. I pretended in the previous episodes that it wasn't that bad. But in this episode, it was so bad, I couldn't ignore it anymore. And her dialog in general, but in particular in the scenes in the Head in the Clouds, was abysmal. Although all the dialog in the scenes in Head in the Clouds was abysmal!
The final episode felt like they had at least another episode to go but then had to throw everything together into one final episode which made it feel contrived and rushed.
I gave the season finale an 8 for a great plot, mostly good acting, mostly good dialog, great scenery, and great fight scenes. I knocked it down to a 7 for Dichen Lachman's acting and the overall weak dialog. As an aside, I'm reading the first book right now and the dialog doesn't seem as bad to me as it was in the series.
I hope season 2 is at least as good with a better ending!
Lizzie sucked. The comments are right, the series got weak. I like the actor they brought in for Takeshi in season two, but I don’t have much hope for the writing.
Everything nicely wraps up. The problem is, it's too nicely wrapped.
I liked how the finale evoke Kovacs' word about Envoys: make friends with the locales, then leave them after a while. Kovacs leaving the city and leaving Ryker's sleeve is the most physical manifestation of this word: season ends, body ends, his story in the city ends.
However the episode seems to hangs too tightly on a typical blockbuster ending: the good triumphs evil after all. Mysteries are resolved, the "bad guys are caught", and our heroes won again. It's even complete with sacrifices, which a typical Hollywood ending usually requires, but not one that ultimately causes bittersweet moment that makes us reflect what the season has been all about.
The conflict with Reileen is too easily resolved. It alsmost seems like they attempt to make Reileen's motivation complex, something beyond a sisterly love or obsession, some sort of fable, that long age does not necessarily give one wisdom but a twisted view of the world (as they seem to take this theme with Bancroft). But it ended up as something weird, as it wasn't properly outlined. Perhaps it's due to factor that Reileen appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the season.
Not to mention that Kovacs' last moment with her was counterfeited thanks to his body double, which leads to the "heroes ganging up the baddies" moment explained above. Speaking of which, the theme that plays when Ava kicks ass simultaneously feels a little bit satisfying and completely out of place. We get to see how she rises up, but it is knitted in a very loose thread that makes the hard-boiled cyberpunk world Altered Carbon has built the whole season to a typical action movie.
The finale is disappointing, however I still hope for season 2 to come. Hopefully with something more engaging.
Season finale, I liked it a lot, that contempt of the rich, that believe superior
This was one of the best sci-fi series I've seen. Now I need to read the book.
Poe....
Some decent closure, with answers and a couple of twists in the mix. While I await ALTERED CARBON II: THE SEARCH FOR QUELL, I'll just sit here and be extremely grateful to live in a time when television of this quality is available for me to enjoy.
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I've rated very few series with a 10, but wow this show came out of nowhere! Easily the best sci-fi show I've seen in a long time (maybe ever?). Kudos to Netflix - this was one hell of an original.