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The penny drops, belatedly
Mar. 28th, 2020 03:56 pmYesterday JMS answered a couple of questions about Sense8, the characters, the development of their background etc; there's a great thread here, and also a later tweet, in which he says: You'd have to ask the others what parts went where, but for me, my shyness is in Kala, my nerdiness in Nomi, my naivete in Capheus, my family situation in Wolfgang, my belief in helping people in Will, my love of music in Riley, my painful sincerity in Sun, my goofiness in Lito.
The family situation & Wolfgang is also mentioned in the earlier thread, and now I'm headdesking for not noticing this when I read his autobiography, because yes, the parallels are pretty blatant. (Except for dear old Dad's demise.) Back when I reviewed the memoirs, I was struck by the fictional parents written by JMS, like Sheridan's father or of course Angelina Jolie's character in The Changeling being good, protective and kind parents, in a striking contrast to his own experience, but I had overlooked Sense8. Because good lord, yes, the Bogdanovs (not limited to Bogdanov père). (Whereas, say, Will's father is another wish fulfillment.)
Elsewhere in the multiverse, have some Star Trek: Picard inspired fanfiction, which is spoilery to the max for the first season, so I must disguise the recs under a ( spoiler cut )
And lastly, at the 2016 Shakespeare anniversary the Guardian had 25 actors record Shakespeare monologues. They can all be watched here. I've seen Damian Lewis' Marc Antony (the Caesar's funeral speech) singled out, and he's good, but my favourites were Eileen Atkins' giving up Emilia's advice to Desdemona from Othello, which is one of my favourite parts of the play, and Paterson Joseph doing Shylock, not the "hath not a Jew eyes..." speech but the earlier reply to Antonio when Antonio wants the money to begin with.
The family situation & Wolfgang is also mentioned in the earlier thread, and now I'm headdesking for not noticing this when I read his autobiography, because yes, the parallels are pretty blatant. (Except for dear old Dad's demise.) Back when I reviewed the memoirs, I was struck by the fictional parents written by JMS, like Sheridan's father or of course Angelina Jolie's character in The Changeling being good, protective and kind parents, in a striking contrast to his own experience, but I had overlooked Sense8. Because good lord, yes, the Bogdanovs (not limited to Bogdanov père). (Whereas, say, Will's father is another wish fulfillment.)
Elsewhere in the multiverse, have some Star Trek: Picard inspired fanfiction, which is spoilery to the max for the first season, so I must disguise the recs under a ( spoiler cut )
And lastly, at the 2016 Shakespeare anniversary the Guardian had 25 actors record Shakespeare monologues. They can all be watched here. I've seen Damian Lewis' Marc Antony (the Caesar's funeral speech) singled out, and he's good, but my favourites were Eileen Atkins' giving up Emilia's advice to Desdemona from Othello, which is one of my favourite parts of the play, and Paterson Joseph doing Shylock, not the "hath not a Jew eyes..." speech but the earlier reply to Antonio when Antonio wants the money to begin with.
