This doesn't detract from the viewing experience, just makes this cyberpunk future a bit more heavy on the futuristic comfort rather than the "beat it to fit and paint it to match" aesthetic of wrote cyberpunk. I like to call it Ikea-Tech as it has a subtle euro-Nordic influence to it's design sensibilities. Here the tech was high tech looking with colorful polished surfaces, metallic sheen and a slightly computer generated look to it's design. Granted the future was very stylish, not the beat-up grungy used and recycled vision of cyberpunk that visionaries like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling gave us in their novels. However the series taken from the four Universal Action Pack movies that aired in syndication months before the series debut was one of the most futuristic and visionary cyberpunk stories to air on television in the early/mid-nineties when VR and Cyberspace was beginning to become common buzzwords in the lexicon of the 90's. I would have given it more stars but for the simple fact that some scrimping had to be done in order to create the world of 2045.
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