Sense8 cancelled. The salt begins. - LGBT oriented show shot down by Netflix

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IMO, Rosewood didn't deserve the axe it got. But the other stuff? Yeah, I agree. Rosewood had some redeeming stuff in it, but the story was reaching some cringe levels.

On topic: Sense8 fucked me with the rainbow dildo and I never tried to watch it past that.
 
The show pretty much killed itself with its budget. They were filming on location in nine cities in eight countries, which blew a lot of money. That was way too ambitious, they should have just used special effects make different skylines and stuff.
 
I love that they think a company like Netflix (host of Dear White People) would actually make a point to cancel that show on some gay day as an extra 'fuck you' to faggots, as if their business model didn't depend on people without children spending their lives binging pointless shows
 
To be honest, I never heard of this until today.
Sense8 tells the story of eight strangers: Capheus, Sun, Nomi, Kala, Riley, Wolfgang, Lito and Will, each from a different culture and part of the world.
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...and lemme guess, they all have powers of some sort. Yup, pretty sure I've seen this before.

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To be honest, I never heard of this until today.

...and lemme guess, they all have powers of some sort. Yup, pretty sure I've seen this before.

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Their "powers" are extremely boring. The cop can shoot pretty well. The Korean chick is a kung-fu expert (lol stereotypes are ok when we do it). The tranny is a hacker. The German is a cat burglar. There are others who are entirely useless in terms of what they can bring and are only there for racial/LGBT representation, or to be romantic interests for more useful characters.

The most funny has to be that the sole African guy can drive a bus real good. I'm not kidding, that's his superpower.
 
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Out of curiosity, in what way?
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Basically, Rosewood had a bunch of likeable characters and didn't hit you over the head with the whole fact there were a pair of lesbian characters. Or the fact the main drag of characters were "POC".

Instead, it created a narrative of Rosewood's life and all the angles it could be fucked up (With his heart issues, constant need to live on the edge because of said issues, etc.) but still hit it's center with the fact it was a good old murder mystery thing.

But unfortunately into the later seasons they kind of 'changed' Rosewood's character and put the edge and heart issue on a halt so he could just have a fuck buddy and fun times and everyone was fucking somebody and it was boring to really watch. It did nothing for the plot. I could see why Fox would wanna drop it if each episode was costing so much to produce. Especially with better shows like Sleepy Hollows and Lucifer to produce too.
 
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Most shows with LGBTQIAXYZ123 leads are getting axed.
People are tired of these narcissist saying, "look at muh sex life and how much better it is than yours".
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This all kind of reminds me of Logo, a cable channel that was meant to appeal specifically to LGBT audiences, launched by Viacom about 10-12 years ago, and it ran into the same problems. The original programming included shows like Noah's Arc (soap opera about gay black males) and a few other shows. But they don't make TV shows to try to appease people (something a lot of these people still don't get), they make TV shows to make money, and that's why most TV shows have a fairly broad appeal across major demographics. And so Logo largely ended up showing reruns of other shows that just happened to be popular with LGBT audiences (Golden Girls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a few others), only briefly making it big again with RuPaul's Drag Race (before it jumped channels, at least) because even then that did have more appeal to be a financial success.

What makes this all the more laughable is that TV shows largely "normalized" LGBT characters (as opposed to having LGBT characters be creeps, villains, or comedic punchlines) and could easily be called gay friendly, yet the cancellation of Sense8, an expensive-to-make show that few watched is somehow homophobic. :roll:
 
I briefly became aware of this abortion of a series, and while I'll give anything with a novel idea a look if nothing else, I was leery because the previews seemed more about emphasizing the sex aspects than the plot.

Glad to see I was right to shy away.

And while "sex sells", it's gonna fail if the costs of marketing the sex outweigh the money derived from pandering said sex, and this just looks like a simple economics issue, not some grievous slight against the LGBT community.

And with that in mind, the series was, to my understanding, basically nigh completely porn in all but name in no time flat, with what little plot that existed at the start an afterthought at best, in which case they should have just billed it as straight up LGBT porn.
 
Boyfriend will be disappointed. Personally, I actually thought Season 2 was getting better, at least the beginning 1/4 I've seen. I think if anything the pacing there was too fast, compared to the glacial mess that Season 1 was (Ignoring the shitty Christmas Special that began the season which was probably the most pointless episode of it all).
 
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The Animatrix was basically a bunch of anime studios making short films based on napkin notes the Wachowskis made. Only the ones that are super related to the Matrix sequels like the Osiris story and the Kid's story were written by the Wachowskis entirely. And I'd argue it's awesome entirely because it let someone besides those two elaborate on the world of the Matrix. There's a lot less preachy Christ analogies and a lot more musings on transhumanism in the Animatrix.
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Ive always thought. The first matrix movie came out before the wachovski brothers became the wachovski sisters. The last two were the result of troons trying to insert everything about them into their work, ya know like troons do.
 
Eh I think most gay centric shows fail because the audiences are almost all straight and they can't relate to having sex with rainbow colored strap ons. I don't think straight normies want to see gay people having sex.

A protagonist of different race doesn't really cause the same issue, not if they are portrayed as normal relatable people instead of stereotypes in my opinion.
 
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So if shit is hated just for having LGBT content, why was Six Feet Under one of the biggest successes in TV history? Even at its worst (Seasons 3 and 4), and even though it got even more gay as it went on, it remained ridiculously popular and remains a huge critical and popular favorite, and is generally regarded as one of the best series of all time.
 
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