So I'm...

[selenak]

...currently watching Sense8, and in the middle of a scene wherein two of our heroines spy in the lair apartment of one of the potential (well, pretty obvious at this point) villains, the character played by Freema Aygeman discovers a photo of said villain with a prominent rl character.

"Oh my god", says she, half mocking, half serious, "BFF with Cheney! He's got to be evil."

JMS: still not over the shock of Dubya liking his show and ensuring it won't happen again. :)

Comments

[sixbeforelunch]

JMS is behind Sens8? Huh. I might have to check it out.

[selenak]

He co created and co wrote it together with the Wachowskis.

[likeadeuce]

*blinks* W liked Babylon 5?

[selenak]

Well, he clearly didn't see himself as Clark. He saw himself as Sheridan. Totally underestimated by those stupid historians!

[likeadeuce]

I have no doubt.

[jesuswasbatman]

Karl Rove aparently told Bruce Boxleitner (who met him somehow) that GWB was a B5 fan. Rove might have been flattering Boxetiner, but it sounds plausible to Selena and me given the political issues we both have with how Sheridan and the Earth politics plot were developed in S4-5.

[andraste]

I think the only way he could have been less subtle is if the credits including a big sign saying 'GO AWAY REPUBLICANS.' But hopefully nobody who wants to maintain ties to the Christian Right will admit to watching something with full-frontal male nudity and so much gay sex *g*.

[selenak]

What about closeted Republicans? Given scandals in recent years, there must be still quite a few....

[andraste]

Ah, but they won't admit that they watched the show with the bisexual psychic orgy, and thus JMS will remain un-annoyed by them. We'll only suspect that they saw it when the next one gets caught and insists that the other guy is his new bodyguard ...

(Hey, it's at least as plausible as 'I hired this male sex worker to carry my luggage.')

[selenak]

True!

[monanotlisa]

Hah -- that is such a good line. I like Sense8; it's such an important step forward for US series, but I think everybody and their momma realize it's not exactly a show with a sense of humor.