A cheesy parable on discrimination against LGBT people. The problem is it tries to sell itself as a sci fi flick... It has good ideas, but it's campy, sometimes ridiculous. A real kitsch binge. I got the pride message after 10 minutes and I agree, but to base a whole series on pride propaganda is an overkill. You want to educate? OK! But do it frankly, don't lie. Don't disguise it as a sci fi flick. What you do is counterproductive. This way you show gay people as brainless soap-opera fans who trade story, characters, consistent plot for loong artsy shots of (bi)sexual scenes played by Barbies and Kens. If you want to influence people - create values, do it like Morrissey in The Smiths.
The same moment S8 tries to fight against sexual prejudices, it reinforces social ones by using stereotypical clichés. Bollywood prince charming and princess to be who doesn't love him. The poor African guy trying to save his mother. The suppressed korean girl, who is a born fighter, and so on. A mix of bollywood, Mexican soap opera, Vandam B-movies, and so on.
Quotes from movies that influence real life decisions: so transparent. To tell people to do something it's not art. It's propaganda. Use metaphors, hide the message, make me search for it, make me think. Sense8 is simple and plain as an IKEA DIY guide (well most of them...). After the horrible sing-along at the 4th episode I decided to quit if there will be anything similar again. The song of 4 Non Blondes was one of the low points of western pop music, and here it was so forced, ridiculous it put me off absolutely. Then came the next blow with the bearing scene. What did they wanted to achieve with it?
Usually for a series it's great to see characters develop. There are episodes and episodes to represent them, to paint a picture. You grow to like them, or not, but they have some effect on you. In S8 there is nothing like this, the actors are not bad, but they don't have the material to act on. The characters are weightless, insignificant and they leave no traces. You try to care about them, but you just can't. My biggest problem is that many great ideas got stocked under an avalanche of kitsch. The makers could have built a really good series on them. The user score is on 8.4 now and that is a joke. Just as by anime series, where the results are influenced by the votes of a strong community, you get way overrated scores. The same here: the LGBT community shows its voice through votes. That won't change the fact that this series is just average...
The same moment S8 tries to fight against sexual prejudices, it reinforces social ones by using stereotypical clichés. Bollywood prince charming and princess to be who doesn't love him. The poor African guy trying to save his mother. The suppressed korean girl, who is a born fighter, and so on. A mix of bollywood, Mexican soap opera, Vandam B-movies, and so on.
Quotes from movies that influence real life decisions: so transparent. To tell people to do something it's not art. It's propaganda. Use metaphors, hide the message, make me search for it, make me think. Sense8 is simple and plain as an IKEA DIY guide (well most of them...). After the horrible sing-along at the 4th episode I decided to quit if there will be anything similar again. The song of 4 Non Blondes was one of the low points of western pop music, and here it was so forced, ridiculous it put me off absolutely. Then came the next blow with the bearing scene. What did they wanted to achieve with it?
Usually for a series it's great to see characters develop. There are episodes and episodes to represent them, to paint a picture. You grow to like them, or not, but they have some effect on you. In S8 there is nothing like this, the actors are not bad, but they don't have the material to act on. The characters are weightless, insignificant and they leave no traces. You try to care about them, but you just can't. My biggest problem is that many great ideas got stocked under an avalanche of kitsch. The makers could have built a really good series on them. The user score is on 8.4 now and that is a joke. Just as by anime series, where the results are influenced by the votes of a strong community, you get way overrated scores. The same here: the LGBT community shows its voice through votes. That won't change the fact that this series is just average...