There have always been more on cyberpunk than the basic premise of being more than human. It can also be tempting to boil the genre of ordinary aesthetics: futuristic, neon intertwined metropolis, top technology and society at the same time on the brink of progress and ruin. However, Cyberpunk narratives routinely criticize the saturation of capitalist ideology While highlighting the full attitude of mankind with technological progress. These stories are also strictly political, where shadows of organizations and corrupt megacorpos have a corrosive monopoly over people's lives, going to digitization of consciousness in the name of progress.

Although all these genres of the genre find a way to gather in Richard K.'s novel. Morgan in 2002 "changed carbon", mankind appears as the most intriguing aspect of such a dystopian world. Only when you think you've seen it all before, the "altered carbon" awakened you with the ingenuity and cynicism necessary for cyberpunk to advance as a genre. The novel brings its effects to the sleeve - from the trilogy of William Gibson's "Rasplun" to "Does Androids Dream of Electrical Sheep of Philip K. SEC?" -But, Morgan chooses the genre specific to madness and hedonism at 100. It also forces us to get philosophically with the idea of ​​the body being "again sleeves" forever, as a dystopian society rarely takes into account the most critical part of the human experience: the soul.

Netflix's interpretation of Morgan's "altered carbon" is intriguing. On the one hand, it relies on tricks that help every Cyberpunk sci show, but treats these tropes well enough to guarantee high praise. Takesi Kovac of the show, a solid mercenary who wakes up 300 years after his previous sleeve was killed, is the perfect vehicle for the type of ultravional cynicism that the story requires. While critics favored this Netflix show despite its shortcomings, the "altered carbon" was canceled abruptly after only two seasons. Is this another example of the unstable approach of streaming service to stories, or is there a more practical reason behind the cancellation? Let's dive into it.

Season 2 of the "altered carbon" ended in broadcasting in February 2020, so post-final talks for a potential third season were inevitably drowned by the Kovid-19 pandemic. When the news of the show's cancellation collapsed in August, it was naturally to assume that the pandemic could have caused enough failures to guarantee the decision. After all, the uncertainty about the dates of the air and the increased budgets were the main problems that most emissions were supposed to oppose during that framework of time, especially the one that had such a huge ensemble actor. However, the sudden end of the "altered carbon" was not at all connected to Kovid, as all signs indicate low viewership rates for Season 2, which influenced talks on recovery costs.

Netflix's policy on the recovery of the series (at the time) can be better understood through the next statement made in 2018 by Cindy Holland, a former Netflix for original programming (through Digital spy):

"The biggest thing we see is, do we get enough viewership to justify the cost of the series? We also look at other things: how much is the fans' community, how much social title is. There are many other things we see."

Although the "altered carbon" was not a "black mirror", it was sufficiently thematic to activate the discourse of the scientific shows that pushed on Netflix, along with his contribution to the Cyberpunk genre. However, it was quite expensive to do, as the premise itself was very dependent on precisely made props and details-heavy sets that conveyed a sense of excessive consumption and technological progress.

The name of the game is here, especially for the rich who declared a monopoly over the sky (as opposed to the grounders whose socioeconomic circumstances forced them to stay on land, considered inferior). It was also a show that was looking for great diversity, as the view and feeling of the planet dominant in the water, like the world of Harlan, would be significantly different from the melting of the melting of latimmer.

Although Netflix did not announce the viewership rate or the estimated budget for "modified carbon", the leading season 1 leading ELOEL Kinaman previously told Yahoo! News That the show had a "bigger budget than the first three seasons of Game of Thrones". "Some sources claim that the price of each episode was nearly $ 7 million (!), But Kinaman's claim easily indicates a much larger number.

It is not controversial to say that the first season of the show is superior to its monitoring: Sentiment that is true despite the recognition that The "edited carbon" is a deep disadvantage of the first day. The novelty of the first installment immediately climbs in Season 2, thanks to a drastically altered approach to the story, which changes the view of obsessive hyper-specific. Season 1 juggles two versions of Kovac-Villy Jun Lee as "original" blacksmith and ELOEL KINAMANMAN as newly-shaped-and these different versions seem to be fully connected despite sporting great division.

Ultimately, the Loveube exceeds the time, along with the limitations of the (IM) mortal coil, a leading blacksmith to seek a long lost Loveub with one -way hunger for re -connection, regardless of costs. This is perfectly associated with Season 2, where Kovacs move to a new sleeve (played by Anthony Mackie), causing a whole new journey that must find a way to connect to those still in the air.

To say the obvious, softly inhales a new life in the blacksmith, applying the character with a humorous edge that was previously completely absent. There is a praise and dynamics of this performance, where the actor used his natural charisma to fit into and out of chaotic situations even when running the same goals as his predecessors. However, this is the problem: Takeshi Kovac does not smile or joke around, nor does he have a charm as a continuation of himself. The soft blacks feel like a completely different image of the character, which inadvertently teaches the central theme of the show, which claims that the soul persists, no matter how many sleeves are inhabited. Kovac, for better or worse, is a difficult, frightening presence, trained to encourage his body into multi-use weapons.

Even without this fatal shutdown, the "modified carbon" feels more generic until the second season, despite stricter control over the story and general direction of the series. As I said above, Cyberpunk has an endless more to offer from her connected aestheticsBut Season 2 makes the confusing decision to leave its precise, high-concept roots and rejoice in the shallow stylish surplus of the world of cyberpank. In addition, the vision of adaptation moves so far from that of Morgan's novels that the end result is unrecognizable. What remains in the end is an empty world that is self-propelled because of its disturbing lack of depth or originality.