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Speak clearly!
Until I got a blowjob, I thought those slurping noises in pron were just a bit. But they're real.Until I lived in Texas, I thought Boomhauer was just a bit. In real life there's no subtitles to turn on.
I've been trying to find my copy of the book.
Pretty sure there's one major plot divergence, but I'll have to re-read to be sure.
Art direction was fan-fucking tastic. Loved the AI/hotel dude.
The one downside (same is true of any dense source material I suppose) is that it was hard to unpack all the info hitting you. The social/political/religious intertwining has WAAAAY more time to play out in the book. You struggle to get it all straight as a TV viewer I think.
My other critique will depend on my re-read.
8/10.
Still about 4 episodes left but I'll say this:
I'm happy we got to see that Mexican chick's tits a few times, but I would have given up the titty shots in exchange for her not having so many lines of exposition. Especially all the stuff that was 5 minutes into the first episode. Rewound that part like 3 times because I had no clue what she was saying due to the accent. Ended up having to just Wikipedia that shit. Definitely glad I did. Helped with a bunch of stuff later on.
There's about a dozen youtube videos that describe the basics. IE: stacks, sleeves, needlecasting, clones, etc.
The Asian guy is him in his original body. When you die, you can be 're-sleeved.' If you're rich, you can be put back into a clone of your own body. If you're just wealthy, you can buy upgraded sleeves with combat programming and all the bells and whistles. If you're poor, and the govt, wants to bring you back to find out, say who murdered you, you might get re-sleeved in a wrong sex junkie, or whatever they have lying around.
The books are highly recommended, at least by me. The original won the Phillip K. Dick award when it was released.
I am only into episode 3, fell asleep watching so I need to go back a bit, but so far I like the AI guy as the best part.
I am not having a hard time with material per say but I do want more explained. Meth = rich. How they get the name Meth and so forth.
Meth = Methuselah. Who according to the bible lived something like 900 years.
5 dicks up
Started off real strong, then kinda went to shit IMO. The writing fell off once sister showed up.