{"id":12056,"date":"2017-07-05T01:56:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=12056"},"modified":"2017-07-05T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:56:39","slug":"sense8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2017\/07\/05\/sense8\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sense8 notes<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve been wanting to be more thoughtful about the media that I consume. I know that I want to make a living as a writer, and that I want to write and tell stories one way or another. And so it makes a lot of sense for me to write down my thoughts about what I watch, and consolidate them, examine them, re-examine them and so on. Every writer must have her favorite books, and know what she likes about them, and why.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sense8 is by the Wachowski siblings. They previously made The Matrix, which was a massive hit and influenced culture in all sorts of interesting ways (today we still have The Red Pill). They also wrote V for Vendetta, and then Cloud Atlas (which they seem to think of as their magnum opus, the movie they hope they will be remembered for.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s interesting to consider and examine the Wachowskis&#8217; personal identities and histories, and their relationship with their work over time. The Matrix was in a way a sort of &#8216;coming out&#8217; movie, about waking up to reality \u2013 a Plato&#8217;s Cave allegory. V for Vendetta is pretty similar. Both have all these interesting aspects and elements of authoritarianism and police states and oppression and whatnot.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After that, they made Cloud Atlas &#8220;everything is connected&#8221;, which seems to be maybe the tale they wanted to tell. I don&#8217;t know, I need to watch it to have an opinion on it. It looks like Cloud Atlas is a show that depicts relationships over time, while Sense8 is a show that that depicts synchronous relationships across space. Kind of like, portrait and landscape ways of graphing relationships.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s so cool that The Wachowskis have this continuing body of work \u2013 that they didn&#8217;t just make The Matrix and then quietly retire. I&#8217;m really thankful to them for that. It&#8217;s really nice to witness what they&#8217;ve come up with, and I&#8217;m really excited to see what they come up with next.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Anyway, Sense8 thoughts:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s interesting to me how blatantly tropey the characters are. Practically all of them have daddy issues one way or another. There&#8217;s a cop, an actor, a corporate heiress&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The show has some of my favorite moments in television \u2013 which is making me think that I must have some top 10 or so moments in TV and I should like to list them down.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>WIP<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sense8 notes I&#8217;ve been wanting to be more thoughtful about the media that I consume. I know that I want to make a living as a writer, and that I want to write and tell stories one way or another. 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