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Sense8 - Netflix original by The Matrix & Babylon 5 creators

adidaswoody said:
What are we all watching now then? Lol sense8 is nowhere near long enough
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Silicon Valley Season 2 was gripping! EXCELLENT! (with a couple of minor niggling technical fails) Not on Netflix though. And not sure it works if you're not in software engineering. Also Orange is the new black, nearly done.
 
Watched the first one last night.... Cant decide if its going to be total shit or genius.
 
Not a very original premise- people with unexplained comic book special powers are being chased around by a sinister secret agency/cabal. Most of the characters are dull as dish water (so much so they make a character played by Freema Agyeman look interesting) and the whole thing is padded out with pedestrian soapy and b-movie crime story lines. Or am I just not getting it?
 
youngian said:
Not a very original premise- people with unexplained comic book special powers are being chased around by a sinister secret agency/cabal. Most of the characters are dull as dish water (so much so they make a character played by Freema Agyeman look interesting) and the whole thing is padded out with pedestrian soapy and b-movie crime story lines. Or am I just not getting it?
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You're not getting it. It's brilliant for the opposite of all these reasons. The premise is about the most original idea I've seen on TV in a long while.
 
sim667 said:
Watched the first one last night.... Cant decide if its going to be total shit or genius.
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SpookyFrank said:
You're not getting it. It's brilliant for the opposite of all these reasons. The premise is about the most original idea I've seen on TV in a long while.
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Like sim667 I'm not convinced that I should dislike it so do try and sell it to me.

I did enjoy Van Damme's misadventures but the London and German storylines felt like some Danny Dyer gangster caper. The US copper was a nod to a similar looking cop character in Heroes and Indian woman's marriage dilemna was all a bit Eastenders.
 
youngian said:
Not a very original premise- people with unexplained comic book special powers are being chased around by a sinister secret agency/cabal. Most of the characters are dull as dish water (so much so they make a character played by Freema Agyeman look interesting) and the whole thing is padded out with pedestrian soapy and b-movie crime story lines. Or am I just not getting it?
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Nope that's about the size of it. Suspect you have to believe in a lot of hippy shit to appreciate this one...
 
youngian said:
Like sim667 I'm not convinced that I should dislike it so do try and sell it to me.

I did enjoy Van Damme's misadventures but the London and German storylines felt like some Danny Dyer gangster caper. The US copper was a nod to a similar looking cop character in Heroes and Indian woman's marriage dilemna was all a bit Eastenders.
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Many of the plotlines head off in directions you're not expecting, and deal with themes you're not expecting them to deal with. The first couple of episodes do drag a bit and some of it is quite formulaic but it gets a lot more interesting as the characters and the stories start to connect with each other. There are still soap opera bits and cartoony bits throughout the series but there's a lot more going on.

And credit where credit's due, the gratuitous fight scenes and gratuitous chase scenes are very well executed. And there's a balance to it all, scenes don't outstay their welcome.
 
bloody loved this - perfect mix of characterisation, comedy, action and soft porn :D binge watched the last 4 episodes yesterday. took a while to properly grow on me but by the end i loved every strand and rooted for all the main characters. i agree that it goes off in directions you really don't expect, it's far from formulaic imo. i had problems with the ending cos one strand was triggering for me and i had to skip over quite a lot of it.

what i thought was most impressive was the way they managed to reveal the story bit-by-bit from the characters' point of view - we never know anything they don't. although i loved the set-piece montages i think mr b nailed it when he said the karaoke scene was like an itunes advert :D
 
I'm already on a re-watch. Such a good story, and so much that I missed first time round, watching through a drug induced haze (although, I assure you, that is possibly the best way to truly appreciate it...)

*sings badly*
"And I pray, oh my god do I pray, for a second season!!"
 
Chuff said:
truly class, netflix binged the whole series, quality writing, acting and refreshing to see some open LGBT agenda's written without a soapbox
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I'm on episode 9 cos I keep getting distracted by books and computer games but you make a good point. So often these things get grandstanded like 'look at how daring we are. Consider your mind blown!'

wheras in this its all just handled with a refreshing ordinariness- heres a couple and heres their problems, same as any other.
 
DotCommunist said:
I'm on episode 9 cos I keep getting distracted by books and computer games but you make a good point. So often these things get grandstanded like 'look at how daring we are. Consider your mind blown!'

wheras in this its all just handled with a refreshing ordinariness- heres a couple and heres their problems, same as any other.
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I've got
Of Monsters and Men My Head Is An Animal
on in the background. beautiful music....



Cheers for the heads up on this...
 
adidaswoody said:
What are we all watching now then? Lol sense8 is nowhere near long enough
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Killjoys

in some far future we have a system of four human inhabited planets- and its Company town. The corporate rules everything and you can fucking forget about any notion of declaring bankruptcy. If you are in debt you are owned, thats it, debt slavery.

First episode is great, we will see how it develops from here. Two bounty hunters in this fucked up cyperpunk randian future.

People who like Killjoys may also have enjoyed Firefly, LEXX and generally any series where an embattled crew scrape by and somehow manage to fight The Man at the same time (often by accident, the rogues)
 
Okay a few things.

Was Riley supposed to have lost a child in the car crash?

Was Riley's mum a Sense8?

What's the deal with Will and the missing kid from his childhood?

How did the Nairobi thugs kidnap the big boss?

Was Jonas being controlled by Whispers or was he playing him all along?

Why did Riley have a haemorrhage at the concert?

Is Sun still in prison or is her father's confession going to release?
 
Spoke to the other half and cleared up alot of the WTF stuff. I don't know whats more implausible the premise or the idea that there are 8 four non blonde fans in the world.

Martha Jones with a strap on was a bit astonishing.
 
SpookyFrank said:
Most of the main characters seem to have at least one dead parent :hmm:
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True. Aside from india chick, we dont hear about Wolfgangs mum (I think its implied his dad molested him) we only hear about the gay guys dad, naomi mum appears but not her dad, Nairobi dudes dad was murdered, Sun's mother is dead, I had assumed the woman who spoke to Riley was her mum but she must be another Sens8. Wills mum is never mentioned.

But thats not a pattern some do have both parents others have mums others have dads.
 
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