Modified Carbon it's never a show to get away from the original, the jargon, or the crazy ideas. Even the thoughtful repetition of the show is a difficult knot for the news, politics, and technological threads. And that's exactly what the writers make clear.
There are some things that shows say, past brushes, or characters that only tell through obscure ones. Let's talk about something that comes in both seasons: double hand piercing.
DHF, stacks, sleeves, needlecasting and backups
Basic of Modified Carbon go like this: people have found a way to keep their minds as digital human responsibility (DHF) on stacks (those silver discs around their necks) fitted sleeves (bodies), keep them from dying.
Having an entire human personality in a digital format (such as DHF) is only one step Modified CarbonProcess. DHF is just raw data – file. When stored on a physical disk, the stack, is removed from its original storage, and located only on the train.
DHF is transmitted between stacks and sleeves through needing needles. Think of it as wifi faster than light. Needlecasting allows for the flow of processes (assuming that something is transmitting and receiving to the other end). A human DHF is thrown from one stack to another, and that stack is inserted into a clone of some kind – a clone that has been raised jointly or vertically. We meet tasty hunter Terrell on how to make (santh) on episode 1 of season 2, for example. Synth is a cheaper option, while the rich (meths) tend to develop a new biological capability when traveling.
Backups they are slightly different. Backup a stored copy of DHF – used image of that person. In Season 1, Laurens Bancroft created backups every 48 hours. As for her death, her latest backup has been used to bring her back to life, but she doesn't remember anything from the last 48 hours – the time between her last and when she wakes up. In Season 2, the process seems to work very well, with backups and transfers happening in real time.
Two handshakes
The important thing is that there is only one copy of the DHF in the same batch at any one time. In fact, it is a crime for the government to have the DHF in more than one sector at the same time – so-called double hand piercing – and punishable by actual death (destroying one's DHF completely).
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Illegal is not the same as impossible. In fact, double circumcision goes up several times in both seasons of the show. In Episode 1 of Season 1, we meet Dimi the Twin whose name shows her confession. Double wrapping plays a huge role in solving season 1.
Double Murder in Season 2 (SPOILers)
Season 2 takes the concept of double backups and sleeves, and integrates them in a whole new way.
We learn that the UN Protectorate (the government that includes the Earth in which season 1 happened, the season 2 of the Harlan Earth Plan, and other stable worlds), and his army (Colonial Tactical Assault Corps or CTAC) are backing most of their troops its important.
In Episode 4, we find out that former TCAC soldier, Takeshi Kovacs is one of those important soldiers. The copy, with the Protector, appeared more than 250 years ago – before he found his sister and joined the Quellcrist Falconer and his Envoys.
"Because of the stack technology, because the mind or body can be separated from each other and copied, one can be copied, and that obviously opens up a whole bunch of potential issues in every show you write. It's going on," Alison Schapker, showrunner told Polygon about "And then we like to get that Modified Carbon, and we liked getting season two that, for Kovacs, he would have to deal with his younger version. And not just a small genre, but his version before he met Quellcrist Falconer, the kind that was loyal to the Protector, who was loyal to his commander, and had not yet known the power of communication and love for this revolutionary leader by a woman who changed his life.
Colonel Carrera (formerly Jaeger), calls this version of the Kovacs "Evergreen." His secret weapon. Carrera twice deals with this old version of Takeshi (Takeshi Prime) in the Clone of Kovacs Birthday sleeve (played by Will Yun Lee), and sends it to kill the current version of Takeshi Kovacs (played by Anthony Mackie).
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Even as part of a military operation, the double murder of twins is illegal and punishable by Carrera's death and in both types of Kovacs. At the end of the last episode of the year, Kovacs Prime points out that there is only one DHF and one sleeve, so it's a tricky point.
The big reveal during the final game of the show, however, is something that will definitely come out in season 3. But in Season 2, the showrunner actor Schapker says it was just an important part of the Kovacs controversy.
"I think for all of us, and we have been a troubled time in our lives and have that desire that if I could talk to my little one, or teach you, or wish my little one to know, or if I only, you know, that idea of long association, as we all go through versions And so we really tried to give the Kovacs an arc where he had to fight for his version and also to reconcile the conflict between his identity as to who he was again, and the guilt of what he did in relation to his sister, part of what worries him about season 2. ”
