Finally, been looking for where to discuss Sense8! I have thoughts! I marathon watched it over the last 2 days. especially last night so I had interesting dreams!

I think the way the characters jump in and help each other is a perfect metaphor for Buffistas.

Of the 2 characters who have relationships with non-sensates, only 1 partner is aware of what is going on with the sensated. Though I adore both relationships.

I was very confused by the first 3 episodes and will go back and watch them, knowing what I know now.

Will's and Wolfgang's partners really should be let in on the secret.

I was waiting for Lito and Kala to do something useful, glad they did.

Sun is a serious badass!

Now the mystery part. I think Jonas is playing the spoiler to the doctor's plan because he knows he screwed up working with him in the past.

Does anyone think that Nomi's mother really knows what the doctor will do, or is she so blinded by her hatred of her son's transition that she doesn't care about the consequences?

Capheus' mother has been getting bad drugs, Kala's future father in law runs a drug company that is concerned about counterfeit drugs, Sun's father's company has something to do with drugs? Is Uncle Benjen also a sensate?

The only characters that I got a little tired of were Will and Riley and their relationship. It just seemed like the most cliched thing about the whole series.

Favorite moment: when Nomi got in the car and remembered she can't drive then Capheus jumped in and said "but I do!"

quester, I think most of the last half of your post should be whitefonted. Only a week out right now.

Favorite moment:

THAT WAS THE FUCKING BEST.

I did notice the drug connections, and I wonder if that will come up more in the future.

The only characters that I got a little tired of were

They were cute but yeah.

Fixed enough, I hope, P-C! I forgot it has only been a short while. I felt like I was the last person to watch!

omG. You guys. I was so totally focused on the characters that I 100% missed the drug company connection.

How dim am I?

Ohh. Interested to see what happens with that.

I've watched enough genre shows and read enough Chekov plays to know, if something keeps getting mentioned in passing it eventually will turn into Something!

On the one hand, I like that the characters are not connected except psychically and on the other hand I like wacky plot connections!

I've watched enough genre shows and read enough Chekov plays to know, if something keeps getting mentioned in passing it eventually will turn into Something!

Truth.

Thank goodness for Netflix. We've been watching The Fall, just finished the second season. And of course, have enjoyed Daredevil a lot, and are waiting as patiently as possible for its second season. And just recently we started watching Hinterland, set in atmospheric Wales.

Something all three series have in common is a slower pace. I've become accultured to fast-action, big explosions, quick pans and cuts, a lot of exposition got across by camera work instead of acting. On network shows there's a growing tendency to jump time, leaving gaps of uninteresting to jump to the next "event" in the exposition. My attention span works that way naturally anyway, but I've heard complaints about such shows being "hard to follow," and I can see why.

The three series I mentioned all seem deliberate and more real for taking time to breathe between explosions or crises. It gives a viewer time to breathe, to assimilate a change in facts, in circumstances for the characters. It may be less exciting for the constant edge of crisis the viewer is asked to surf, but it benefits from increased tension, slower build, and ultimately, more emotional bang when the heavy blow is delivered.

At least IMO. Other thoughts? Opinions?

Adding quickly--I caught the first two episodes of Friday Night Lights recently, and was struck anew with the filming style. The slow shots of driving--the booster signs for the players in the scraggly yards, the slow-moving trains on tracks across empty fields, that wide open sky above the school football field, and the weeds in the sidewalk around the rundown businesses. Such evocative images. They say a tremendous amount about the setting and the people who inhabit it before any of the characters ever say a word.

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