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Dang. That blows. This is a really good show. Smart, innovative, well acted, and based on Gibson's best-selling material. It just kills me how adaptations of his works seem to always whither on the vine. Also sad that every show that doesn't hit super-mega streamed numbers just gets tossed in the bin.
Yeah it was one of the better things they had going. Would easily pull the lotr or wot series as they were not very in line with the literature. At least this was its own creation (or im just unaware of what book series it comes from so was not disapointed.)
Yeah, it's from two published books so far, called the "Jackpot" series. The Jackpot is a Black Swan Event that decimates the population in the future and creates a new kind of techno-oligarchical society. These future oligarchs are in constant conflict with each other and as such develop a way in which to infiltrate the past through VR sims to alter their destiny.
I got a little lost following the plot with this one to be honest. There are some shows I whip out my phone because I don’t anticipate it being that complicated, and I made a miscalculation with this one.
Yeah, I think it's a bit easier to digest if you have some background with Gibson's world building. It didn't seem like it was too opaque to me, but I'm coming in with a bit of previous context. I think you'd find that Gibson's writing is a lot more opaque when you start one of his books. He writes notoriously short chapters at times and tosses from one POV to another rather often. It can be disorienting but it is intentional. Like when you watch a thriller that seems inchoate going in, flooding you with disparate unresolved information, then when it's snaps together, you get the satisfaction of mentally revisiting all those previous clues/details with that "ah ha!" feeling. I believe it's meant to work this way. It's a more satisfying reward for the reader/watcher.
Given the comments people in the know had said, about the renewal being “a mistake,” I’m sadly not as surprised as I would have been. I had expected S2 to be the final season, but to pull the season completely even after the renewal is just sad.