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Sense8: Season 2 is out
That_Guy
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So, Sense8 premiered today. The crazy assholes who brought you Fetch, The Matrix and a bunch of other terrible movies joined up with the creator of Babylon 5 and a bunch of comic books you probably haven't read. Together they have created an action scifi series exclusive to Netflix.
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/80025744?trkid=1
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9c_KSZ6zMk
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/80025744?trkid=1
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9c_KSZ6zMk https://www.youtube.com/hesthatguy | https://www.patreon.com/hesthatguy | https://steamcommunity.com/id/ThatGuy3141/
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So it's pretty good, then? Like on a scale from The Matrix to Matrix Revolutions, how good is it?
Still seems to be coming together, but the action definitely stepped up at the end there.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Not really, it's the usual interesting ideas but muddled presentation the Wachowskis always deliver. So if you're a fan of their work it's probably pretty good.
That's 3 seasons after the flashback.
Sense8 an ensemble show, it can't possibly bring its full force at the end of one episode.
Turns out it's German and means butcher
Seems appropriate.
or possibly both
It is definitely muddled. But in a way that makes sense? You're bounced back and forth between people's minds and I enjoyed the disorientation. And laughed out loud at hallucination chicken.
Everyone is introduced but not fully explored. You get a decent idea about everyone's situation though. The first episode mainly focuses on the cop, thief, and DJ. I'll probably watch one more episode tonight. It's by no mean amazing but the concept of a shared mind is something I've always loved and this show definitely nails that aspect.
Episode 2
Episode two was a bit better, if only because more happened.
hAmmONd IsnT A mAin TAnk
Anyway, I just got to the end of Episode 3. Fuck. Yes.
I also couldn't stop thinking of
I also really like some of the non-Sensates. Daniela and Hernando are amazing, and of course Neets... is it wrong that I'm kind of pissed at Wolfgang (Episode 5)
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Regarding Nomi, where do you get "numerous" pride parades from? They're in DC which has a huge one every year. Also her mother is behaving pretty much exactly how some posters have described their parents.
Also Korean business woman doesn't do yoga. In the park it was more akin to tai chi and the trailer showed her doing kick boxing/muay thai.
I may have lost count, but it looked like she attended at least two? Followed by a desire to attend more (though obviously spurred by her girlfriend, who seems to be a regular).
I won't say the mother's behavior isn't accurate, but they certainly want us to hate her guts.
The Korean girl doing martial arts and exercises....is still kind of stereotypical. :P
It's not so much that these portrayals are "incorrect", but rather that they're being played up for televised drama. Or streamed drama, in this case.
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I don't know that I could even name a movie where a business woman was a skilled fighter.
I think a lot of those people could be stereotypes if they were developed less but doesn't seen to be the case so far.
And he's not just a hot, gay Mexican movie star, he's a hot, gay Mexican action star.
I'm pretty sure Sun (ok, I lied) is supposed to be doing Hapkido.
Nomi (maybe I'm better at this than I thought) actually seems to have the best grasp of what's going on, which is impressive given that she hasn't gotten the in-person explanation from anyone yet.
I'm a little disappointed that the person who is sort of putting it all together is the white cop guy. That just seems kind of lazy.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
It meandered a bit but the last half was fantastic.
Are you sure they aren't in SF?
It's just, I remember Delores Park/Gay Beach (the park with all the people, which has a hill so pretty definitly isn't the Mall, where you can absolutely fimd edibles) looking a lot like that, in other parts of the episode they show the Golden Gate and Pyramid Building and in later episodes they get a cab to the Castro.
Not disagreeing with your point. If you are queer and don't go to pride in SF its for a reason(like, you don't dig touristy crowd scenes with tens of thousands of people, understable but it is a conscious decision not to go).
Edit: I don't know where they are sitting talking about their first pride with all the white concrete. Which is in the future from the flash backs to the but on the grass, but later pretty danged sure they are in SF cause of the cab thing. And it seems weird that they would have been in SF, went to dc, and went back to SF.
I am there now.
And this show has been fantastic so far. Maybe not for everyone but it has clicked perfectly for me.
I mean, the mom seems like an idiot so she probably believes she really is "helping", but I can't believe any of the others actually believes this is on the up and up.
The action is really good. I like how they have 3 distinct fighters.
Capheus digs the shit out of mind-traveling to strange new places.
Though I could probably have done with seeing fewer
I admit that the show is not subtle. Will saving the kiddie gangbanger with the gunshot wound and then almost getting refused medical help at a hospital was a little ridiculous. Capheus's mom having AIDS is a bit on-the-nose. The Hindu monks praying for the death of Kala's future in-laws because they are trying to merge American and Indian ways of life seems a bit unlikely and anti-religion. Nomi's mom is practically a caricature of an evil parent of a trans person (seriously fuck that lady).
It's clear to me, though, that the show is swinging for the fences. It's going big, real big, and, with eight interconnected characters and their respective supporting casts, going for nuance is going to put people off faster than clear, obvious conflicts and set-ups.