Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

i can’t get over how Extra™ the production of Sense8 is

sensaetes:

they honestly seem to do everything in the most unnecessary over-complicated and expensive way possible, can’t say the end result isn’t worth it (best show i’ve ever watched) but like:

- they film everything 99% of the time on location, season 2 took 8 months of traveling around the world to get done, the main cast didn’t go home for 4 months straight at some point, they also hire local actors and crews

- talking about traveling, that scene where capheus visits riley when she’s on a plane to iceland? yup, you guessed it, they casually filmed that while they are actually on the plane to iceland

- they also don’t separate, everyone goes together from place to place even if some actors only have a few lines in one location # the sense8 travelling circus

- honestly just the way ‘visiting’ works is so extra, they have to shoot the exact same scene up to 5 times all over the world and then edit it to together in a coherent way, imagine how hard it’s for an actor to repeat a scene in the exact same way they did it 3 months ago in a completely different environment and mood, kudos to them

- this entire post about how the english dialogue for the not english speaking characters is structured will blow your mind

- riley’s opening scene when she’s playing at a club? that is an actual club with normal people not actors, they didn’t know tuppence wasn’t an actual dj, they had her go and pretend to dj in between two actual djs

- that applies for everything else really, if something can be done for reals they do it for reals, you know the scene at the end of season 2 were they all get electrocuted (aka the most stressful thing to watch ever), well, they got themselves electrocuted for reals, no, i’m not shitting you, they had to hire experts to make sure they didn’t accidentally kill themselves or sth, i love this cast but i’m also really concerned

- the wrestling match lito, hernando and dani attend was a real match with a real crowd

- also both pride scene were filmed at actual pride, the brazil pride was improvised except for lito’s speech which lana wrote on their way there, because they found out very last minute that they could actually fit it in the schedule

- the way the cast talk about the show sounds like they’re talking about their newborn baby sometimes like: ‘wolfgang is the biggest gift i’ve ever received in my career’, doona owns more sense8 merch than any fan in the world, freema and jamie crying at the table read when they got to amanita and nomi’s engagement scene as if they were actually getting married, brian’s letter after the cancelation and all their tweets about it, honestly this entire video of them basically talking about how much they love each other is the most extra and adorable thing ever

- the ‘sharing’ scenes are mostly done through stunts and not post-production, the actors actually jump in and out of frame changing places, instead of you know, just editing the scene together afterwards

- they got fined filming the ‘sex-nic’ part of the orgy for public nudity, just sense8 things

- bollywood dance scene? all shot in one take, for no reason other than make it more complicated lol

- the pretty underwater scenes from the christmas special? they went to malta EXCLUSIVELY to shoot those, what?, 3 minutes?, i’d say that was the most expensive montage ever but the fine for public nudity was $10k so idk

- talking about orgies, kind of unrelated but i’m mentioning it anyway bc i can’t believe them, apparently the cast casually goes through life organizing netflix talent orgies? life imitates art?

- they also were in scotland for 9 days for some reason, even though only like 10 minutes of the actual show happen in scotland (i’m guessing this is what happens when u double their budget for s2 lmao) 

- max riemelt dubs wolfie in german, also the dude that dubbed V from V for Vendetta dubs The Guy in french, if u gotta be extra don’t forget the details i guess

i’m probs missing a million things so feel free to add more lol

tl,dr: Sense8 is Extra™ and I Love It™

(via aethersea)

slyrider asked: Fam Im so happy sense8 is getting a 2hr finale but like that cliffhanger left so much to be explained and season 2 openee up a whole new world to explore i just dont know how they can do it all in 2hrs. Im happy but also nervous but mainly happy

THESE ARE ALL MY FEELINGS IN A NUTSHELL.

slyrider asked: MORAN IM SO DISTRAUGHT. SENSE8 IS MY FAVORITE AND SO IS THE GET DOWN AND NOW ILL NEVER KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO MY FAVS. like they both end on cliffhangers and I'm dead. Honestly I'm fed up

I’M SO UPSET LIKE I NEVER EVEN GOT THE CHANCE TO WATCH THE GET DOWN (mcfreaking college, y’all) AND THEY FUCKING CANCELLED IT???  AND THEY CANCELLED SENSE8 WHICH IS LIKE THE ONLY THING WITH MULTIPLE QUEER RELATIONSHIPS ON THE FIRST DAY OF PRIDE MONTH LIKE THE FUCK???  AND DON’T EVER TALK TO ME ABOUT THE CLIFFHANGER THING OH MY GOD OH MY FUCKING G O D honestly this is why I appreciate shows that actually wrap shit up at the end of each season BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THE EXECS ARE WAITING TO FUCKING SCREW YOU OVER.

LIKE?

CAN WE FUCKING SACRIFICE SUPERNATURAL ON THE ALTAR OF SOME KIND OF MEDIA DEITY AND SWAP IT FOR THESE?

anxieusly:

tell me what time it is & what ur thinking about

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

For @twistedangelsays: AU where Wolfgang takes up his uncle’s criminal empire.  Obviously, spoilers for the special episode of Sense8.

• So Wolfgang’s uncle was a fucking crime king.  He doesn’t know why he’s surprised.  He’s all ready to shoot the offer down and go on his merry way—who the fuck offers a quarter of Berlin to some safecracker just because he happened to off the old boss, anyway—and then…  He imagines Sun, in prison because she wouldn’t throw her brother under the bus, and her dark eyes glittering in the harsh light of her cell. He imagines Nomi, constantly reaching out to visit them in order to not go stir-crazy in the hiding places the American government is forcing her into.  He imagines Lito, barely treading water against the downward drag of prejudice, and Capheus, who has already swapped so much of his innocence for medicine. He imagines Will, already taking on the pale look of an addict to protect them all.

• Look, it’s simple.  Wolfgang has always been good at looking out for number one, and now number one is an eighth of a whole.  Looking out for number one, these days, means making sure that he looks out for all of his fractional selves, and they need money, and clout, and somewhere safe.

• He takes the offer.  He’ll figure it out as he goes.

• It’s dark in Seoul when he visits Sun that night—he’s really gotten himself in over his head this time, and he needs her steady presence—and she gracefully flips herself down from where she’s doing a handstand against the wall.  He’s sitting against the wall of her cell when he says, “I’ve got a fucking story to tell you.”  Sun nods, folding herself into a cross-legged position, and he takes a moment to wonder how he’s supposed to explain.

• He can’t come up with anything particularly diplomatic, so he takes a deep breath and says bluntly, “My uncle was in charge of a quarter of Berlin, and it turns out I’m his fucking heir.”

• Sun stares at him like it’s the craziest thing she’s heard in weeks, which he finds unlikely.  “What?”

• Wolfgang bares his teeth and says, “I got promoted.”

• It’s a fucking trip to explain it to the others. Kala is disappointed, which…he wishes he was surprised by that, but it’s not like he’s lied to her about who he is. Nomi probably rolls with it best, except for Capheus, because Capheus is just unconquerably happy whenever the cluster is together and no petty little criminal empire is going to change that.  He hugs Riley and gets a kiss on the cheek from Lito and actually laughs like a kid when Wolfgang admits to the situation.  Nomi starts making suggestions immediately, and under any other circumstances Wolfgang might be offended, but the truth is that he needs the help, so he nods and writes down what she says.

• Riley is the first one to bring up the obvious question, because for all that she’s quiet and shy even within their cluster, she’s ferociously loyal.  “So,” she asks, a quiet murmur that nonetheless brings debate to a halt, “can you help get Sun out of prison?”

• Sun looks up in surprise from where Lito is teaching her a clapping game to keep her busy in her cell.

• Wolfgang grins.  “Well, I didn’t take the offer for the fucking benefits.”

• It’s unfathomably weird, some month and a half later, to have a tiny Korean woman in a business-formal dress turn up at his door, really truly there and scowling at his bodyguard (he only has one, and only because he couldn’t make him leave).  She’s been yelling in Korean for five minutes by the time someone gets Wolfgang, and her frown evaporates as she throws herself at him in a hug.

• “Look!” she shouts in Korean that he understands, dragging him outside into the perpetual Berlin rain—worse than usual today, plastering her hair to her face. He lets himself be dragged, because it would be bad for his reputation if he was beaten up by this tiny woman, and Sun-Capheus-Riley-Lito grabs his hands to spin in a circle.  “I am free!”

• “Yeah,” Wolfgang laughs, feeling his fractional selves at his back.  “Yeah, you are.”