Sense8: so much joy

[shadowscast]

As I've mentioned before in this space, I've been doing a Sense8 rewatch with the_shoshanna.

Today we watched the first half of the two-hour special that went in between season 1 and season 2, "Happy F*cking New Year". Which included the birthday dance party sequence.

And it occurred to me: I don't think that any other show I've seen has ever achieved such incredible sustained periods of transcendent joy. Like, going on for minutes and minutes, and bringing happy tears to my eyes and giving me ALL THE FEELS.

(I think this show also had the most complicated filming situation of any show ever. Filming not episode-by-episode but continent-by-continent, flying the entire cast from city to city to film the ends of sentences that they'd started months ago in different time zones. I am in awe.)

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[trepkos]

I must get round to watching this.

[shadowscast]

A warning for if you do: the show has a very steep on-ramp! You may spend the first three or so episodes feeling utterly confused about what's going on (that was the case for me, and for most people that I've talked to). But it's absolutely worth it!

The show is stunningly beautiful, the premise is creative, the characters are interesting and diverse, and did I mention ALL THE FEELS? (But you have to push through those first three episodes of confusion!)

[carbonel]

I was so delighted to learn that you know Shoshanna, because that connects yet another of my worlds (and because she's a great person!). I know her from both media fandom and professional copyediting. She met Geoff on a copyediting mailing list, which led to her moving to Montreal. And I assume you know her at least partly because she's in Montreal.

I still hope to see her at Scintillation one of these days.

[shadowscast]

She is such a great person!

And yes, I know her entirely because she's in Montreal. We met first in-person, in a context unrelated to fandom, and we connected because she was wearing an OTW pin on her bag. :)

I hope Scintillation gets to happen again, one of these days! I have my membership already, for whatever year it ends up being.

[the_shoshanna]

I think, before I go to Scintillation, I probably have to read at least one Jo Walton book?

But it is fun when worlds collide! And Sense8 is such joy sometimes, oh yes.

[shadowscast]

I think, before I go to Scintillation, I probably have to read at least one Jo Walton book?

Not really! Scintillation's predecessor, Farthing Party, started out as a launch party for one of Jo's books, but Scintillation is a more generalized science fiction literary con.

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, I'd have hated to be the continuity director on that project!

[shadowscast]

They must have had so many spreadsheets!

[tabaqui]

YES YES YES!!
It had its flaws, but 99 % of this series was pure joy, pure love, pure acceptance and loyalty and friendship and awe. It was *amazing*