I wasn't familiar with Altered Carbon previously but the thing where the protagonist gets turned into a prepubescent girl because that's the kind of body that's most receptive to torture is... eyebrow-raisinghttps://twitter.com/FreyjaErlings/status/1215611968951914496 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Altered carbon is cyberpunk for people who really don't want any queerness in their cyberpunk.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect
gender swapping! but not in a way that makes you think about gender swapping! it's kind of impressive how they take this really provocative concept and then do as little as possible with it.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect
yeah, from what i remember of watching the show, the resleeving process is fundamentally approached as a "terrible deviation from nature," i.e. a basically conservative viewpoint
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
even that gives it too much credit I think. They don't even acknowledge the queer possibilities that would make reactionaries opposed the sleeving process. It's really used just as a plot gimmick.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect
yes, in-universe there are christian conservatives who regard it that way but i meant that the show itself actually views it that way, with resleeving almost invariably seen as this hideous torture than dehumanizes everyone involved
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it induces psychosis in most normal people, and the only people who take to it naturally are monsters
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there's one sequence that really stuck with me, with a husband and wife fighting each other to the death in an arena but the thing is, if they fight well, they don't really die, they get rewarded with even better bodies and the show just regards this as a Moral Abomination
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which is a fundamentally conservative approach -- the question of consent doesn't matter, nor autonomy, nor choice within a constrained system rather, it's just Unnatural that a husband and wife should fight like that and they're Depraved for engaging in that activity
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Replying to @perdricof @nberlat
This is just a general thing about science fiction, including cyberpunk, that it's just as often about invoking fear and disgust at the possibility of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know as it is optimism and curiosity
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The whole Caveman Science Fiction joke from Aaron Diaz
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Really you could argue "cautionary tale" science fiction has always dominated the genre in one firm or another and is generally more influential than "gee whiz wouldn't it be cool" science fiction
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Like where's the "Fuck yeah more smartphones" counterpart to Black Mirror
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