#altered carbon is tv and watching it is technically slacking from the list so i feel both great and productive and lazy and procrastinating

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Finished the first season of Altered Carbon and honestly it was kinda mid. I loved some of the ideas they had, great sci-fi, truly. The blessings and curses of reincarnation via stacks and sleeves, the acknowledgement of the inherent disparity in the system via class warfare, inclusion and abuse and corruption of the neo-catholic church, all really good. It just isn't landing. I'm trying to figure out what it is that I don't... Love about it. Was it the "we got this crazy technology from an ancient precursor race that totally looked like the nearest cheapest dinosaur fossil our prop department could rent" and "the ultra rich people that have the only intact fossil of the 'ancient aliens' are too fucking stupid to realize that its totally a fucking dinosaur"? Was it that the main character is just the worst tsundere in every way? The unfeeling murderous killer suddenly becomes a normal guy again when he sees his sister, but that his sister can only be portrayed as a Femme Fatale and when she's a horrible person to save him and nothing happens to her character developmentally? I dunno. Maybe I'll steal some ideas from here if I ever run a stargrave or starfinder campaign or something but I don't think anything about this show is going to alter me and admittedly I am a little disappointed. I was hoping it would be a lot better than it was, ultimately.