Hooded avenging valkyrie savior with katana? Um, yes? I scarcely have the words for how many check boxes this scene ticked off for me. I think it was a powerful and correct choice to keep their sibling relationship above the waist. In a world where you can’t even surf for the mildest white-collar porn without gag-wincing through a neo-sodomite wasteland of every type of incest fetish? (Or maybe I need a better place for my kink.) Thanks for throwing the doors open, Cersei Lannister! With the one exception of the beat where Rei is in Ortega’s sleeve in the tub and she’s like “mmmmm I see why you like her” there’s never even the hint of anything sexual, and even that scene was just about extracting information to determine if Takeshi was trustworthy. The fact that this wasn’t some bizarro ‘I want to marry my brother’ thing. #4: The conscious non-sexualization of the brother/sister story And then they Rochambeau that Kovacs off the show so he never gets to go on Ellen and give us the deets. Not even a wide establishing shot from distance. If there’s one gripe I have about the show it’s that when Kovacs double-sleeves it up and one of him goes to finish the mystery and the other goes to have fantasy sex camp with like twenty-five Miriam clones on a private island - we never see that action. My ideal partner’s sleeve would secrete hot chocolate. That you can build this idealized version of yourself and then bio-engineer it to secrete narcotics. We could write a hundred think pieces about the ramifications of that kind of obscene power over another person. And then he did it again and again and again. When Dimi burned off both of Kovacs’ legs I was just aghast. My god I get short of breath just thinking about it. In a place where you basically can’t be saved. They spin you into a virtual prison where they start to do any number of heinous atrocities to you until you die.Īnd then they reboot you and start over. Imagine that scenario: An enemy, usually of the sociopath variety, has control of your physical body. Now, I’m not saying this is a good thing, but conceptually it’s fascinating. Moms and daughters share a special bond and this show did a great job highlighting that. I enjoyed mom trying to save her daughter’s eternal soul, even in the face of pretty compelling evidence to the contrary. But I really enjoyed the relationship between the Ortega women. The same could be said for just about any non-caucasian segment of the population. No one has adequately captured their inherent complexity. In an interview I read, Dichen Lachman points out that Hollywood hasn’t really cracked the egg on Asian women yet. occurs, let’s hope that it loves humanity half as much as Poe does. How can the best character in the show be a goddamn HOTEL? It’s amazing. And when he died in the finale I was yelling NOOOOOOO! From his early interactions with Kovacs to getting square with that dickhead A.I. The flawless meth with bodies to spare against the flawed but determined messenger of justice.Ĭhris Connor absolutely crushes it. Themes of transgression and violation meeting themes of justice and fair play. I know some viewers will point to a girl-on-girl fight kink, but at its core it was a primeval return to basic human conflict. But Lachman played it with such great strength and predatory tenacity. Yes, on one level, many people will just be happy to experience that amount of raw human beauty in it’s primal form. One thing everyone seems to talk about is the naked Dichen Lachman fight scene. One thing I adored was when Lizze’s mom, Ava, shows up in a middle aged man sleeve, but somehow, someway, Lizzie knows it’s her mom in there right away. This show is great with all the various sleeves and the way that forces us to confront many of our ingrained predjudices. She was the perfect patsy for Kovacs to set up and Taylor killed it. With a wave of their hand, the Meths cast her out and broke her for fun. A chronic overachiever who earns her seat at the table only to be cast aside at the first suggestion of impropriety. If we’re honest with ourselves, it might be the character most of us could relate to.
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