Yeah, feels like they made pretty much all the female characters super cringey.
Ortega - loud stereotypical latina. Good god was she hard to watch.
Rei - whoever came up with her agenda should never work in any sort of entertainment business again. That shit made zero sense.
Quell - some hippie forest dweller where you meditate and then you're this badass Envoy. Dumb.
Lizzie - lets train for 1 day and then put on some sado maso clothes and go full ninja.
The Envoy hippy commune thing was so gay. They never explained how they gained superpowers by sitting in a random forest. Or how they had access to all that technology. Or what the fuck an average off-world mission looks like for anti-immortality commandos. Their skillset also made no sense for what they were. And wtf was up with Kovacs' wallhack that he had briefly for two episodes and was malfunctioning the rest of the time?
Like with many other things, the show took a premise from the books, then changed aspects of it and the premise no longer made any sense. Like Reileen loved and missed her brother so fucking much that she.... waited 250 years before bringing him to Earth? Wut? And she got him involved in an investigation that put him in an adversary role to her? And then continues to do everything in her power to antagonize him instead of, say, just walking up to him and going "omg i luv u hey there."
And they had to add katanas, of course. Best weapon 300 years in the future, a katana.
Seriously none of the changes they made from the books made sense. If they'd done a faithful adaptation, GoT or The Expanse style, it could've been the best show on TV.
