#altered carbon 1x04

[pirathotten]

I'm watching Altered Carbon 1x04 "Force of Evil"

[cesaray]

[dailyalteredcarbon]

Takeshi Kovacs + Emojis

[kinghardy]

Joel Kinnaman in Altered Carbon (2018- ) | 1x04, “Force of Evil”

[diabolicaltendencies]

Joel Kinnaman in Altered Carbon (2018- ) | 1x04, “Force of Evil”  (ꜱᴏᴜʀᴄᴇ)

[fyeahvulnerablemen]

Hey! Could you recommend me some scenes where the actors are barefooted while ted up/chained/locked up etc. Thanks in advance 😊

So sorry for the delay!  Here are a few examples:

Hell on Wheels 3x10, Hanna 1x06, Altered Carbon 1x04 (I think he was barefoot?), Banshee 3x10, MacGyver 3x11, Legend of the Seeker 1x08 (that ep has so many amazing captive tropes) and Torchwood Miracle Day. Edit: Hawaii Five 0 5x07. 

Also I think they were barefoot in Teen Wolf 1x10 and The 100 2x11 too. And in Supernatural 12x01 the captor burns Sam’s foot. :)  Hope you like those, and check out the #chains tag for more inspiration! 

[redfield5x5]

Dichen in Altered Carbon 1x04

[pirathotten]

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[acecroft]

Altered Carbon | 1x04

[mkaand]

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[seriousfic]

Altered Carbon 1x04

-One of the problems with just giving Kovacs a black partner because that’s just what you do in TV shows, is that the narrative really isn’t designed for it, so you get Kovacs having this ‘partner’ who doesn’t do anything in this episode but show up after Kovacs has already rescued himself. Feels a bit pointless; a movie-shaped movie thing.

-It’s especially weird because later in the story, Kovacs does assemble himself a bit of a posse, so you’d think they could just do that a bit earlier instead of inventing all these newish characters to come in right at the jump.

-Also, did we really need this whole ‘Dia de los Muertos’ subplot when, by skimming over Kovacs’ torture, they kinda decrease the effectiveness of it? In the book, there’s a lot more to Kovacs’ escape than just bluffing and then shooting everybody, the bad guys actually try to verify he is who he claims to be and that gives Kovacs the opportunity to break free and go on a roaring rampage of revenge. By ‘streamlining’ that (and adding in endless amounts of Quell), the villains are less intimidating and so it’s not as impressive when he beats them. Call it ‘The Last Jedi Syndrome.’

-I wouldn’t mind the Dia de los Muertos subplot so much, because I know they want to add nuance and shading to Takeshi Kovacs’ world... it’s just a lot of this new material seems to remove nuance by coming down against sleeving, showing how awful the Meths are, talking about how bad being resleeved is, etc. You could probably say the same about the books and its anti-religion stance, but I don’t think swinging to the opposite extreme is much better. It’s never “I was paralyzed from the waist down, but then I got a new body that could walk!”, it’s always “look, a husband and wife who murder each other because they can get new bodies! Isn’t that F R E A K Y ?”

-Part of it is that I don’t really buy this big controversy with the Catholics (or Neo-Catholics, because it’s the future) and stacking. Like, theologically, how can something done to a person externally condemn them to Hell? If Bill B. Catholic dies and doesn’t want to be resleeved, but someone else comes along and resleeves him anyway, how can that be a sin on his part? Even if it is a sin, can’t he go to confession and be forgiven for it? “Yup, I was murdered, it was Joe, now ten Hail Marys and I’m going back in the ground!” Doesn’t that seem a bit more reasonable? I think the book was a little less extreme about this, where the Catholic position was just that someone who was resleeved was not the original person, but a soulless copy or something like that. They were still against resleeving, but they weren’t all fire and brimstone about it (that’s more of a Protestant thing, right?). 

-How much can one roll their eyes at a scene where a Strong Female Character beats up a suspect because he says something misogynistic and it’s meant to be taken as some fist-pumping moment? Police brutality: it’s okay so long as they’re politically incorrect. I mean, fuck, do you think black victims of police brutality have never said shitty things? Obviously, as peace officers, we expect police to put up with that and execute their duties professionally, not to just start kicking because they were disrespected. And it’s especially weird because, with Ryker, the show is presumably going to tackle police brutality and corruption, so it really needs to have a baseline there. If it wants to show Ortega beating up suspects and play that as a shitty antihero thing, fine, the book Ortega wasn’t such a straight shooter either. But like I said, the Noble Minority/Evil Whites thing doesn’t fit well over a noir story.

-It’s also odd that we’re basically going into this subplot with Cadman/Miller having admitted that he set Ryker up. You’d think in a ten hour show, we’d have room for a little ambiguity. 

-With Takeshi’s father being white (unless that’s meant to be a stepfather), I guess they’re going with Takeshi Kovacs being mixed-race, and I still think it’s weird that you can have a mixed-race character like Kovacs being played by an entirely Korean actor, but if you have a mixed-race white/Hispanic character like Bane played by an entirely white actor, then it’s bad. Surely, if we can make believe that Will Yun Lee is half-white, we can also make believe that Tom Hardy is half-Hispanic?

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