I dunno—Sense8 hasn't exactly been the typical representation of gay (or trans/lesbian) couples in entertainment… That doesn't seem to be Lana Watchowski's style (though I can see Hernando being kidnapped and tortured or something to lure Lito at some point…)

Wait—was it an actual ad?

I watched it on CBC too and was mostly won over—despite a childhood love for the original. And, yes, I was concerned—showrunner/creator Moira Walley-Beckett talked a lot to the press about how she would write what Montgomery left "between the pages" (wha?) and, though she did write one of the best Breaking Bad…

Clearly we associate with different people :P

Right, but it's become as annoying.

Right—but I still find it to be a different experience—an Arya chapter still exists in the same "world" as a Tyrion chapter. And in this case—though different voices, still in the same style. Completely different than switching between two vastly different novels.

It's common across the internet, really. So many times someone will post something about an act, a movie, a person who may or not be fairly mainstream and a number of people will feel the need to chime in with "I've never even heard of this." Like, somehow that is a sign of their own sophistication, or… something.

Just to get my pretentiousness out of the way—I'm a lit grad student (which should lead to very lucrative career opportunities!) and so like to think that I'm a fairly sophisticated, and experienced reader. But I personally do disagree with this:

Maybe it was revenge for the way her grandfather, uber producer Dino De Laurentiis infamously treated actresses in the past.

I completely agree. And perhaps I am not being fair to Lana, but in the past from interviews with both Watchowski siblings, I have felt they were a bit naive when it came to their unguarded optimism for such ideas (I can't remember the quote exactly, but Nomi's comment about how we all have to break the system or…

It seems silly to complain about the individual character storylines in season one being stereotypical since that was obviously the point to an extent. The three creators all have great affection for genre, specifically pulp genres, so it makes sense we started with a Chicago cop show, a Bollywood style story about…

The reviewer has already said that it's one of the worst songs of all time (of all time?) so…

I get the feeling that Lana Watchowski anyway, in her optimism for technology as community, does only see the positive in groups like Anonymous

David Mitchell and the other author, Alexander Henson I think his name is, are also both story consultants this season…

I still don't see him at this point as full on villain. Season one they did do a bait and switch where it looked like he would be though.

Especially in season one I thought the individual plots were self consciously playing on genre stereotypes. You had a telenovela melodrama with comedy style for the Mexican story, aChicago cop drama, a Bollywood story etc. The creators all love playing with genre and have an appreciation for pulp genres—and I found…

I suppose lover sounds better than (random hook up as a teen)?

Not a surprise when it comes to character parts, as opposed to leads, in tv and movies…

And the other writer was novelist and essay writer Alexander Harmon. Both Harmon and Mitchell are official story consultants on season 2.

Lana has said she was amazed at the similarities too. I think she said it was like Jupiter Ascending and Sense8 joined