There is a dearth of really good science fiction these days, so when I heard the Wachowskis teamed with Micheal Straczynski of b5 fame, I was hooked. I tried to see it as a new look at humanity through the eyes of masters but wound up seeing it as the Wachowskis trying to work out a few things surrounding lana’s sex change.
Sense8 is supposed to be about a new stage of human evolution where people are linked mentally in clusters of 8. The non. Clustered are trying hard to hold them down. In reality it is a soap opera delving into the romantic lives of multiple characters suddenly faced with the situation where they have other people linked to them.
Want to know the hardest part of the show? The show lives in the edge of retardation and it is so very easy to slide off. The 8 alternate between failing to acknowledge the cluster to acting like they’ve always known. The opposition is driven by unthinking fear. And that hasn’t worked well to establish motivation. The protagonists feel disparate and lack appeal as a collective beyond a few episodes. Sleep is closing too fast. More tomorrow
Note: This was written via text messages to my email and published tonight prior to the new blog.