![]() ![]() Days of Future PastĪltered Carbon does a nice job of side stepping one of the biggest pitfalls of most sci-fi shows – basing your future society around just one technology or societal leap forward. Developments in Season 2 mean that he has the opportunity to work more in the shadows in future, and I hope he takes it. Sure it opens doors, but once someone knows, everyone knows. ![]() That fact that Kovacs is semi famous in the show as “The Last Envoy” is also a bit of an albatross to leave around his neck. How do you know if you could trust this man if he could be using every advantage of psychology and biology to subtly get what he wants from you? ![]() Poe, do seem a little more genuine and less manipulative than in the books, but I’d like to see Kovacs really use his envoy skills of coercion and total absorption of detail to greater effect in the series. The connections he forms, like with the hotel A.I. Less obvious ways we’ve seen Kovacs use his envoy talents include quickly building a support network and enlisting allies he can call upon in the pursuit of his mission. In the series Falconer herself trained the envoys and we’ve primarily seen Kovacs use his envoy capabilities to quickly adapt to unfamiliar sleeves and gain the upper hand in combat. In the books, “The Envoys” were created by the UN Protectorate as the ultimate enforcers and Kovacs worked for the “evil” Protectorate before being turned by Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry). What if that option was removed entirely? Stretch that envoy training to its fullest. How would his tactics change if he was in a “normal” human sleeve, with no enhancements? Even better, what if he was in a vastly under-powered sleeve? How would his tactics adapt? Until now Kovacs has had a tendency to waltz into trouble with a reasonable expectation he can fight his way out of it. It’s been pretty helpful so far that he’s been put in physically imposing and/or modified military sleeves. Even in the animated Resleeved, (which takes place soon after Kovacs’ time with Falconer as shown in the flashback from Season 1), he ends up in another soldier’s sleeve.Īs “The Last Envoy” he’s mentally prepared to adapt to whatever sleeve and situation he finds himself in, as quickly as possible. I’m contradicting myself immediately, but, after ending up in a beefy detective’s sleeve in Season 1 and a heavily modified military sleeve (with some added canine gene-splicing) in Season 2, I’d be interested in seeing Kovacs end up in totally different types of sleeves in future seasons. Developments in Season 2 mean that seeing him again in future season isn’t off the cards, so yes, more of that please! 2. Season 2 also saw our wish from season 1 to see more of Will Yun Lee. Mackie provided a much more likeable performance without losing the “edge” necessary for “The Last Envoy”. He never really gelled with the “younger” version of Kovacs portrayed by Will Yun Lee either. Kinnaman’s Kovacs came off far too harsh, too much like a stereotypical, hard-boiled detective, which didn’t quite fit the show’s cyberpunk setting. Joel Kinnaman may have launched the series with his chiselled face but he never quite fit with the world the show was creating. Downloading human minds into new bodies, or sleeves, is a core conceit of the show allowing the show-runners to cast a different face each season but we’d like to see Takeshi Kovacs’ current sleeve, in the form of Anthony Mackie, pop up again.
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