Wait, so now we're not allowed to mention her trans identity in the context of writing about her portrayal of a trans woman? Cause I can sure as shit tell you if she was born with a vagina playing a trans woman there would be all sorts of complaining about not casting a trans woman for a trans role.

It takes about an episode and 3/4 to settle down out of that mode. I kept waiting for it to get better, and it did in many ways, and by episode 9 it was still uber preachy with little substance and I gave up.

Right? The constant making out of characters who love each other is so gratuitous. Every episode seems to awkwardly pause the action for a sensual makeout sesh.

Ok, so she's famous already? Maybe it is just her "American" accent, but I thought she was hands down the worst actor on the show. Again, maybe it was the dialogue she was asked to deliver, but between her and her trans friend holy moly those were some rough lines.

Sense8 is preachy as hell, you'd have to be blind not to see it. The characters are literally: a trans woman struggling with societal acceptance, a career woman fighting the patriarchy, a regular woman fighting the patriarchy, a man struggling to get medicine kept out of reach by greedy pharmaceutical companies, a gay…

No, don't watch it. Maybe others liked it more than I did. But after watching 8 episodes, I am so done. What a God awful mess of a television show.

I take it back, I take it all back, that was fucking awful.

I did too, ultimately. God that was AWFUL!!!

Wow, no, I take back everything nice I thought and wrote about this show. It's a jumbled mess from start to finish. Sex takes the place of character development. There's not nearly enough use of the actual main plot device in the show, which is the transmission of senses between people. Way too many flash-backs for…

Hey, say what you will about Chrichton, RIP, he wrote well-researched, logically consistent books in a dozen genres. I still enjoy a good Chrichton novel on the beach. Even if he had certain literary stylings I find slightly obnoxious in the books, he had a way of capturing an audience like no other.

Girl Next Door? Twelve Years a Slave? Prisoners? He's kind of made a career out of being a slightly/extremely offensive weirdo.

Yeah, the overbearing weight of conformity, as personified by sci-fi straight-up bad guys. It is true that this is a well trod path for the Wachowskis. And quite a boring one.

Ok, it's official. If you are going to review a Netflix show, with all episodes available, do not write your review about the first few episodes. I know this will be weird to television reviewers. But several reviewers wrote their reviews off the pilot alone, and that's just wrong. It's a good show, but it's more of a…

So he is.

Bullseye: a villain who's entire shtick is never missing, spends half of his fights repeatedly missing.

Ah Punisher, the Death Wish of comic books.

That just reminded me of the end of The Bank Job: where Jason Statham spends the entire movie just acting and being a normal Hollywood star, then hits a guy in the face with a brick ten minutes before the closing credits. It's like they couldn't resist the impulse to use his God-given talent for ass-kicking.

The biggest flaw in the MCU in my opinion is the lack of alternate story lines. The best we get are the Sony/Fox pictures, and they really just don't give a fuck at all. Everything needs to tie in to each other in the MCU or have cross-overs or make consistent sense. I too would like to see different takes on stories…

I'm just a sci-fi nerd and the worlds they create are elegantly beautiful.

"Yeah, I never really wanted to make an installment in one of history's most memorable film franchises. Too much pressure."