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We need more cyberpunk shows. What was the last one? Almost Human?
By the way, how was Woken Furies? Couldn't get into it.
i thought it was great and probably the most cyberpunk of the three.
We need more cyberpunk shows. What was the last one? Almost Human?
By the way, how was Woken Furies? Couldn't get into it.
Of course more white washing. Before that though a truly overrated book.
Scandinavian blonde white actor Joel Kinnamon is playing Takeshi?
Ok
I absolutely don't see the issue here. The brain imprint of Takeshi Kovac was inserted into a generic athletic white male body when he was defrosted from his multi-century sentence. Did people really expect his first body in the show will be some half-asian dude? If they have flashback back to Harlans World, for those sections I expect Asian casting.
I'm glad they got great actor for it. Joel Kinnaman can definitely deliver the goods.
Have you people read the book? He spends literally 100% of the story in a body that is not his own.
The more I think about it the less I'm interested in watching a TV show based on the book
I mean, the book is alright, but wouldn't the screen adaptation just be a stereotypical hyper violent cyberpunk show?
Have you people read the book? He spends literally 100% of the story in a body that is not his own.
Everything defaults to white male though. He could be in a Black vessel. He could be in an Indian vessel. He could be in a Middle Eastern vessel. He could be in a female vessel. But the industry always defaults to white. Always. And that's the problem.
i honestly never pictured his primary sleeve in the novel as white.
it'll be interesting to see how they handle flashbacks and virtual.
People are just working on the nugget that his name is Takeshi. The planet he was from was culturally Japanese so it doesn't tell you what he looks like. You couldn't say a guy called John from the USA should be played by a white guy because it's a white name.
I do.
His surname is Hungarian, my imagining of him was as a Hungarian/Japanese but I don't know if that was just me extrapolating or if the text was explicit. His sleeve has a Dutch surname.
i honestly never pictured his primary sleeve in the novel as white.
it'll be interesting to see how they handle flashbacks and virtual.
There were also parts where he used special ninja body from what I remember so it will be interesting how it's done.