ORIGINAL WRITING
Sense8 deviates from your common drama to a mind-bending story involving 8 equally lovable characters who are also present in different demographics, The show tackles conventional standards without being pretentious or offensive and bringing to the table a possibility of a connection between humans through a sensorial ‘rebirth’ challenging everything we have learned and seen in life. The plot is a never-ending roller coaster of situations where our ‘sensates’ need to outsmart those who have been hunting them. 8 characters who share one mind, one enemy but in their personal lives, they struggle with challenges and judgment from their own society and acquaintances.
It’s a love and friendship drive story with a cliché subplot that in this particular context doesn’t seem too much of a ‘cliché’ and that is that love conquers all. The idea that The Wachowskis envisioned and crafted through this show is the ultimate proof that the way we live can be defied at any given moment and that the possibilities of change will be always there for those willing to live by it.
CHANGE THE FORMALITY OF THE ORIGINAL
I think you guys should watch Sense8, it’s a great show, the story is amazing, if you like fiction and shows that make you think this one it’s for you; it’s romantic, scary, exciting, quirky, and sentimental. It talks about how our mind could be capable of doing great things and how the power of friendship and love it’s the motivation for everything that it’s good in our society.
You won’t get bored of the characters, trust me, even though there are 8 of them you will surely find one to relate to so much that you can get to the point where you would want to be one of them, because yeah... Who wouldn't want to be one of them?.
The villains well... They’re at their best here, some are people with their classic “I want to rule the world” and that egotistic side but there are also the petty ones and in my opinion, those are more dangerous, these are the ones that make your blood boil. This is a show to feel and enjoy thoroughly, it talks about many things in our present-day that we often forget but just because it isn't right in front of us doesn’t mean it’s there right? So this show really opens the door to you to realize how much we’ve changed, and that’s what a great show should do. Go watch it, you’ll thank me later.
CHANGE THE TONE OF THE ORIGINAL
Sense8 it’s a show depicting characters whose pain and mistreats from others have created a way of seeing the world and behaving differently, they live to dim the pain of their scars in hopes that one day love will be greater and that their freedom as individuals won’t be just a fantasy, curiously our 8 ‘broken’ characters connect with each other through their minds after experiencing a ‘rebirth’ and becoming heightened humans where they can share experiences and live through their partner’s eyes, following this trope our ‘sensates’ heal through each other while finally experiencing what love and friendship mean whilst the fight those trying to hurt them. The villains in this show represent the most rotten parts of our society and what is scary, it’s that our main eight characters are fiction while these villains happen to be a closer reality that we can find a resemblance to in our world, which is scary and disappointing.
The struggle for love to conquer all is met with many crossroads, making you wonder whether if goodness is bound to be disrupted by those who claim a higher purpose, invalidating the idea that love conquers all to love might conquer all but what is wasted while we are doing it? This show demonstrates how goodness overcomes evil eventually, but also how evil happens to be present in almost everything.
(writing prompt submitted to Berkeley University of California for a MOOC)
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