Huh, that's a neat little real world fact to squeeze in there. Knowing this retroactively makes that scene more palatable to me, since originally I saw it as a very clumsy attempt to "foreshadow" Lito's future as an actor.

Oh I didn't intend it as an analogy, more of an open realization of how tepid the response has been towards Sense8 by comparison. The stark disparity in terms of success between both shows alarms me. I guess it wasn't until I thought back on how much more successful Daredevil was (…deservedly) that it really dawned on…

Another thing I started noticing recently, again, compared to Daredevil's own comment section. That was more of a free-for-all affair, usually closing on a hundred comments before so much as an hour had gone by. I miss it.

Fair enough lol

I was just wondering the other day… Wasn't Daredevil renewed within, like, a week or two after the first season came out? And yet, Sense8's future is still up in the air…

Exactly. I trust Ylsa a hell of a lot more than I trust Jonas precisely because of how cutthroat and detached her demeanor is—which is more inline with how I imagine someone in her situation would act—compared to Jonas' overly paternal and suspiciously earnest assistance towards a bunch of people he doesn't even know…

I'm sticking with 1988 because: A) IT HAS MORE 8s! (and Sense8 is aaall about 8s *wink wink*) and B) The series seems to take place in the present day, and while I would buy all of them being 27 (Lito being the one to stretch it the most), I don't think most of them could pass for 35 yr. olds (namely Kala, Riley, Will…

Wait for it, I'm calling it now, it will be revealed at some point in S2 that they were all born in 1988 because… 8s, basically.

…Guilt?

I concede your point.

Naaaaah they tried to tie everything up too neatly (something that didn't need tying up really) and it came off as cheap and cheesy. I expect that kind of amateurism from someone writing a fanfic, not professional screenwriters.

Well, that's kind of what bothers me about it. It reeks of pseudo-scientific numerology bullshit; not everything has to mean something, least of all something as random as the number of the day you were born. Trying to imply that the numbers of their date of birth somehow tie to the overarching conspiracy/plot is…

You are right. Thomas Ligotti's writing got plenty of praise.

I refuse to acknowledge that… that thing as a Metroid game.

I'm not sure this was intended, but I found Wolfgang's nonchalant reaction (or lack of thereof) right after the orgy absolutely hilarious. It reminded of that infamous Bison sequence in the Street Fighter movie, and I swear I almost rolled out of my chair making noises I'd like to think resembled laughter but were…

Eh, if Will seemed uncomfortable (I actually thought he wasn't uncomfortable enough all things considered) I'm pretty sure that was how his character was written and not an issue on behalf of the actor, given that Brian J. Smith has played several gay characters in his career.

Am I the only one that cringed at how on the nose that date is? Least we forget this is a show called SENSE8, about eight people, that were born on the eighth day, of the eighth month(!). Next they are gonna reveal this is, in fact, an alternate history show taking place in the year 1888 (!!!).

Oh I'm not greedy. I don't care about awards so long as they keep getting renewed (and apparently, neither does FX).

Well, if The Americans is anything to go by, sometimes networks are content with unabashed critical aclaim.

In the discussion of the previous episode we spit-balled the notion that Capheus borrowed from Sun's state of mind when walking up to the ring in order to gather the guts to chase after the robbers. So if we read that right, it was more a case of Capheus fighting the robbers because Sun was in a MMA fight, rather than…