"Thank you for the update." ...loved it!
"It is not our enemies that defeat us, it is our fear.'
Poe is awesome.
Great action episode as well.
I still like the world building. I like the part where Kovacs take Ortega to the hospital. Patients have to wait in long lines unless you're filthy rich. Doctor keeps talking like a telemarketer while doing surgery, constantly asking you for new products. It's a classic play on neoliberal patients-as-consumers/doctors-as-producers where everything is measured by money. I like the tension between the police officers and the meth; also the meth lawyer and the actual meth elites. Private power vs public power. It's the good cyberpunk classic trope.
The episode spends less time on world building however, and starts to move the plot a bit faster. This can be either good or bad. The good side is a lot of things happen in a couple of minutes. The complex web of interplay of power (Dimitri's, Carnage's, Leung's, Hemingway) is seen. Kovacs and Ortega move fast from hospital to Bancroft estate to arena.
The bad side... the storywriting starts to show its weaker points. This is especially true with the cliffhanger of sister ex machina in the end of the episode. She appears from nowhere - no build-up, no character introduction save for a few flashbacks. Cliffhanger could be interesting and pose a lot of questions, but this one doesn't. Not to mention the cheesy entrance. The ninja swordplay action is a bit off with high tech as its background, and I'd guess this serve not much other than playing the classic cyberpunk ninja trope. Which, since the character hasn't been handled well enough, doesn't look really good. Same thing with Dimitri's entrance in Kovacs' original body which seems to serve the Rule of Cool.
The scenes in hospital is a bit forced. Kovacs pulled a Sherlock to the police sergeant Tanaka. I understand Envoys are meant to be highly perceptive, but the scenes don't show it well. It relies too much on the exposition - of "telling", instead of "showing". They could've handled it better. Vernon Elliot's character is also handled a bit too poorly; only sitting there watching operation and interupting it with no clear reason, waiting for Kovacs to activate his sidekick plotline.
Liking this show even better than the new Blade Runner and much better than the original one. All the futuristic elements are there, some parts seem to be directly copied from Blade Runner but the story and the characters are way more interesting.
That fight, the morgues have to be saturated
God I loved the scene in the rain outside the hospital - the internal struggle, the dialouge, the imagery the music... Perfect in every way.
Also... That end fight scene!! Intense!
What an emotional episode. I love the chemistry between Takeshi and Ortega.
Wow, it turns out to be very good, the amount of suspense in each episode is overwhelming, sometimes I suddenly check the remaining time of the episode as I don't want it to end lol XD
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I'm not prepared for Dichen Lachman's badass entrance but hot damn