writing in eight dimensions
Apr. 24th, 2023 09:49 pm
Mostly prompted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tafadhali 's (very NSFW but very good) "Super Bass" fanvid for Sense8, I decided to go back and give the show a rewatch, which I haven't done since it finished. I think I watched season 1 at least once before with a friend, and I definitely went back to see the movie-length finale episode after it aired, but all of this was in The Before Times and my memory is fuzzy.
First off, I have to give the writers a lot of credit here -- they had to basically make eight separate shows with their own protagonist and arc and pacing, AND THEN ALSO figure out how and when all of those protagonists will intersect. It's a lot! It would be a feat of superhuman artistry lot for anyone to try and pull off, and I'm not expecting them to get it 100% right all of the time.
But listen. We have to talk about Riley. I'm sure this has already been talked about in meta posts and Important TV Journalism, but it's annoying me now just as much (if not more) than it did the first time I watched this in 2015, so I'm going to talk about it too.
( Spoilers for Sense8 season 1 )
tafadhali 's (very NSFW but very good) "Super Bass" fanvid for Sense8, I decided to go back and give the show a rewatch, which I haven't done since it finished. I think I watched season 1 at least once before with a friend, and I definitely went back to see the movie-length finale episode after it aired, but all of this was in The Before Times and my memory is fuzzy. First off, I have to give the writers a lot of credit here -- they had to basically make eight separate shows with their own protagonist and arc and pacing, AND THEN ALSO figure out how and when all of those protagonists will intersect. It's a lot! It would be a feat of superhuman artistry lot for anyone to try and pull off, and I'm not expecting them to get it 100% right all of the time.
But listen. We have to talk about Riley. I'm sure this has already been talked about in meta posts and Important TV Journalism, but it's annoying me now just as much (if not more) than it did the first time I watched this in 2015, so I'm going to talk about it too.
( Spoilers for Sense8 season 1 )