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Ive watched with some amusement the noisy scramble among the genre commentariat to enthuse about Altered Carbon S2s enhanced diversity this time around. Add to that some bemusement too, because how its any more diverse than Season 1 is beyond me. But then Im the guy who struggled to understand two years ago how casting a character called Takeshi Kovacs as a Swedish-American was scandalous whitewashing, but casting a character called Nadia Makita as an African-American wastotally fucking cool,...
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I believe Joel Kinnaman did an amazing job with the character in season one. And let's not forget, they are all just sleeves...
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I really didn't like the show, I didnt like it so much I'm not even watching the second season. Mostly because of the long lost sister plotlines which were just cheesy and stupid. I understand they had to dumb down the book due to reasons, but this is the opposite of dumbing down, whoever was writing this was inventing whole new unnecessary silly plotlines. It's a shame what they have done with this wonderful book :(As for the diversity crowd, it's best to just ignore them like the trolls they are.
People just get bored of the default hero in these types of things being white. But very few of yours are....
I figure it goes something like:
(probably white, definitely idiot twitter) person: OMFG! HOW COULD THEY CAST SOMEONE NAMED TAKESHI KOVACS WITH A WHITE DUDE!!!
normal humans: but... sleeves, also, I mean look at Nadia Makita over there
(probably white, definitely idiot twitter) person: Foreigning sounding name, black person... [checks clipboard] No that gets the normal allocation of Diversity Points, but OMFG LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO KOVACS
(probably white, definitely idiot twitter) person: OMFG! HOW COULD THEY CAST SOMEONE NAMED TAKESHI KOVACS WITH A WHITE DUDE!!!
normal humans: but... sleeves, also, I mean look at Nadia Makita over there
(probably white, definitely idiot twitter) person: Foreigning sounding name, black person... [checks clipboard] No that gets the normal allocation of Diversity Points, but OMFG LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO KOVACS
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