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So the Matrix Siblings have made a tv show, and season 2 is about to launch on the netflick. There are a whole bunch of characters but only eight that actually matter.  Will Gorski, a Chicago cop haunted by an unsolved murder  Riley, an Icelandic DJ with a troubled past that made her run away from her home to London  Capheus, a compassionate Matatu bus driver in Nairobi with a strong sense of justice, who is desperately trying to earn money to buy medicine for his mother dying of the AIDS virus  Sun, a Seoul businesswoman and burgeoning star in the underground kickboxing world, who becomes accused of embezzlement thanks to her brother  Lito, a famous Spaniard actor living in Mexico City who maintains in secret a same-sex relationship with a character named Hernando, out of fear of ruining his career  Kala, a Mumbai pharmacist who is also a believer of God that faces the unfortunate situation of having to marry someone she doesn't love  Wolfgang, a Berlin locksmith and safe-cracker, who has unresolved issues with his father and participates in organized crime  Nomi Marks, a San Francisco trans woman political blogger and hacker, who must have extensive brain surgery to save her life these may not be up to date after the first season and christmas special (the christmas special was beautiful by the way) but gently caress it, watch the new season now and enjoy! quote:Deadpool posted:
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Heck yes, I'm ready. I'll probably be done with it by tomorrow
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May 5, 2017 08:09
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what are these guys, some kinda sensates?
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May 5, 2017 08:26
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Oh man s2e02 That fake out where it turned out they played Matheson the exact same way, but without revealing their hand was so badass e: loving christmas special counts as episode 1, woops. Looks like you guys made the same mistake as well. Should we go by how Netflix lists it or what? Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 10:29 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 09:21
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s2e01 it's just started, but i'm enjoying the poo poo out of this interview scene
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May 5, 2017 09:23
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S2E3 Holy poo poo there's another sensate in the Berlin crime scene Supercar Gautier fucked around with this message at 09:53 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 09:28
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S2E2 Show is awesome so far. So happy to see Sun's free!
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May 5, 2017 09:38
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Still one of the most original and interesting Sci Fi seires ever made. Just got started on Episode 2 ( I guess it's episode 2 since they count the Christmas thing as Ep 01).
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May 5, 2017 14:40
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Yeah it took me a while but the Xmas special (which I only just watched, good poo poo) is now counted as s02e01 with the episodes that just released counting as s02e02-11.
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May 5, 2017 16:34
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Finished rewatching Christmas special, just started s2e2 and the Lito/Capheus interview sequence is amazing.
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May 5, 2017 19:54
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The only bad part of the Xmas special was where they casually sass evil government man instead of barely holding it together in pants making GBS threads fear.
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May 5, 2017 21:34
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i saw a tity
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May 5, 2017 22:11
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Finished it, was pretty good though holy poo poo did it need one more episode. 2x11Like they deal with the cluster finally meeting in person for the first time, capturing Whispers, and Jonah's betrayal and subsequent capture all in the last five minutes of the season it's insane.
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May 5, 2017 22:51
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S2E7 I thought it was interesting in season 1 how they avoided writing Rajan as an overt rear end in a top hat just for being Wolfgang's romantic competition. But hoo boy he has a big heel turn this season.
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May 5, 2017 23:31
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2x06: VOTE CAPHEUS Man I love this show. It hasn't quite hit the highs as s1 yet but it's much more cohesive than the Christmas Special so far.
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May 6, 2017 00:30
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I passed out and don't know how far in i got. I'll give it another try tomorrow probably
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May 6, 2017 01:48
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Ugh I am so worried that this will end on a cliff hanger.
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May 6, 2017 03:41
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Oooooookay yeah that ending was vurry confusing. I think more stuff technically "happened" in this season than in the first, but it also felt like there was more "padding" than the first season. There are way more scenes this time around that I think didn't quite need to happen, whereas I felt like every scene last season did have a purpose even if they sometimes messed with the pacing or whatever. All things considered I'm going to have to end up rating this below season 1, though ultimately it's the same show that I still quite enjoy. Sinistral posted:Finished it, was pretty good though holy poo poo did it need one more episode.
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Just finished the season. My immediate impression right now is wow, the finale is weirdly paced. It starts extremely granular with the detailed 20-minute blow-by-blow of the Joon-Kyi sequence, then ends extremely condensed with the final 10-15 minutes containing like two episodes' worth of massive plot developments. It would definitely have driven me nuts if they had cut it off at the obvious cliffhanger points, but the resolutions to those cliffhangers were crammed in too immediately, and it would probably have been worth trimming down some earlier material to make some breathing room. I actually had to re-watch the sequence to double-check who all had come to London (everyone plus Amanita, possibly Lito's pals too?), and whether they picked up Wolfgang in the process (nope). Supercar Gautier fucked around with this message at 06:28 on May 6, 2017 |
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May 6, 2017 06:22
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Man, as with last season, I'm really invested in every part of this show except the main story. Give me more of Capheus and that reporter, or Lito and his telenovela life, or Kala's star-crossed romance with Wolfgang! I really don't care about Doctor Sense8 or whatever his name is. ... That said, the end of 2.1 was really satisfying where they finally put a scare into him and Will is all WE'RE COMIN FOR YOU MOTHERFUCKER
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May 6, 2017 06:42
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This show had to been absolute hell to edit and direct.
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Supercar Gautier posted:Just finished the season. My immediate impression right now is wow, the finale is weirdly paced. It starts extremely granular with the detailed 20-minute blow-by-blow of the Joon-Kyi sequence, then ends extremely condensed with the final 10-15 minutes containing like two episodes' worth of massive plot developments. Yeah, it's not just that the last ten minutes of the final episode are weirdly paced and borderline incoherent. It's that nearly every other plot ends without any kind of resolution. Sun's brother escapes, Lito is about to be seduced (possibly literally) by the Hollywood gays, Capheus' speech is interrupted by a riot, Leela (Lila?) makes a play for Berlin, Rajan tells Kala to run away to Paris. It's like all the plots stop suddenly in the middle of their third act, completely unresolved. We never meet the Cannibal (unless that's Whispers?) and there's literally no resolution to anything at all. And we never got any resolution to that monk subplot. It's very, very odd, like they were expecting an extra episode or two this season and didn't get it. Maybe the Christmas episode hosed up some sort of contractual thing? That said, so so much cool stuff this season. The Sensate "google" montage that's actually an alternate version of the main credits, the Leela / Wolfgang fight, that amazing car chase. Lito doing some really bad am dram acting in that museum, the mixology montage, Nomi's sister's wedding, that bit where Kala reenacts her introductory monologue to Will but Will keeps interrupting, Dani's phonecall... it was pretty great, actually.
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May 6, 2017 08:00
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BrianWilly posted:I think more stuff technically "happened" in this season than in the first, but it also felt like there was more "padding" than the first season. There are way more scenes this time around that I think didn't quite need to happen, whereas I felt like every scene last season did have a purpose even if they sometimes messed with the pacing or whatever. --edit: Supercar Gautier posted:...then ends extremely condensed with the final 10-15 minutes containing like two episodes' worth of massive plot developments.
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May 6, 2017 15:06
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So I finished the entire Season 2 and I have to say I actually liked this one waaayyyy more than the first one.
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I was expecting this show to go the way of Heroes after the Christmas special but the 2 episodes I watched today were really good! There's already been some really moving moments.
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May 6, 2017 20:13
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I just finished season 2, i too enjoyed it more than the first one, because they really expanded upon this whole idea season 1 introduced. Like, retroactively, as cool as season 1 is, it kinda feels like "Homo Sensorium: A Survey Class". BUt yeah the pacing was weird in places tbh but there were a lot of fun moments, and that's what i'm all about the TV for. Thanks, TV. thanks Lana Wachowski.
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May 6, 2017 20:22
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Thana Wachowski.
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May 6, 2017 20:23
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Whole show is kind of indictive of the nuclear family.
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May 6, 2017 22:35
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I'm on episode 8 and depressed Lito I think is my new favorite.
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Digital Jedi posted:I'm on episode 8 and depressed Lito I think is my new favorite. Depressed Lito was pretty much the best in season one too! I just finished the season, and drat, I really love this show. Echoing some others, I care way less about the main plot than just watching the different characters interact and have their own life stories going on. At least we got a lot more movement on the main plot this time. Everyone is right that it seemed to need one more episode at the end. Having to wait a year (or more?) to see what happens with any of the characters or stories will be maddening.
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May 7, 2017 00:35
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What the hell was that for a conclusion?!
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Episode 11 was basically Straczynski and Lana realising "gently caress, the Christmas special was two hours long, wasn't it?" and just cramming an episode's worth of plot into fifteen minutes. That said, the Nomi stuff in Episode 9 is perfect. Absolutely perfect. "Get your hands off my daughter!" 
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This is the best queer show since like Queer as Folk or The L Word.
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Hollismason posted:This is the best queer show since like Queer as Folk or The L Word. I normally hate shows that focus on gay themes but I love this. Great season overall but the ending was a bit meh.
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It was a very good new season. I enjoyed all of the episodes, although yes the ending was abrupt and frustrating at times. I kind of like that they went for a solid win for the cluster this time, as opposed to what happened in the first season finale, and hopefully if there's another season, this will allow the show to focus easier to its strong parts which are the stories for the main characters, and how they help each other, and (surprisingly for me) the interaction with new sense8s from other clusters, who may or may not be lovely people. I certainly want less of the "we are hunted by an organization for years and no one know the people in the high hierarchies and its more complicated than you think etc". It's disappointing that they didn't resolve a few of their storylines, which they spent time building up, not satisfactorily anyway (mainly Kala's and Sun's stories, but Capheus story also stopped mid-way). Also, what happened to Wolfgang in the end? Did they rescue him? It seems that he is not with everyone else... and the screenplay focuses to the kidnap of Whispers and not-Sayid.
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May 7, 2017 15:32
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Lito and Sun in the hotel. Depressed Lito is still the best.
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BrianWilly posted:I think more stuff technically "happened" in this season than in the first, but it also felt like there was more "padding" than the first season. There are way more scenes this time around that I think didn't quite need to happen, whereas I felt like every scene last season did have a purpose even if they sometimes messed with the pacing or whatever. Argue posted:Man, as with last season, I'm really invested in every part of this show except the main story. Give me more of Capheus and that reporter, or Lito and his telenovela life, or Kala's star-crossed romance with Wolfgang! I really don't care about Doctor Sense8 or whatever his name is.
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mobby_6kl posted:I can't remember what the main plot is even supposed to be right now. This grey-bearded dude wants to catch 'em all I guess? Other than what's going on in the individual character subplots, and the basic Sensate mechanics (any non-connected sensate creates a permanent unique mental connection through eye contact) that's all you really need to know. It's not a complicated show.
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I forgive all the rushing at the end simply for the scene where Will beats the poo poo out of Whispers and Jonah opens his door to find an angry Sun on the other side. I can't get over what an overall joyous show this is. The Pride scene alone had me grinning like an idiot.
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Joong-Ki's "My sister is a Terminator?" in that perfectly stunned tone of voice is the quote of the season for me.
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