A war for the sighted is brewing in Apple's season two trailer for 'See'
A new trailer for critically acclaimed Apple TV+ show "See" picks up right after the events of season one as Baba Voss must face his past and begin the fight for those who can see.
'See' season two premieres on August 27
Dave Bautista joins the cast as the brother of Baba Voss (Jason Mamoa) in this post-apocalyptic drama. The latest trailer shows a war is brewing around those who can see, and the potential of using sight as a weapon.
"See" is set hundreds of years in the future where mankind has lost their vision due to a strange virus. The ability to see had been lost for so long, that it had become a myth.
Season one followed the events of two sighted children on a journey to find their father. The brutal drama has drawn obvious comparisons to "Game of Thrones," and reviews didn't make it out to be quite the hit Apple had seemed to hope.
This show was a big part of Apple's promotional material when the company launched Apple TV+. It has already been renewed for a third season ahead of the season two premier.
Subscribers can watch "See" season two on Apple TV+ when it premieres on August 27. The service costs $4.99 per month or is included in every tier of Apple One.
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'See' season two premieres on August 27
Dave Bautista joins the cast as the brother of Baba Voss (Jason Mamoa) in this post-apocalyptic drama. The latest trailer shows a war is brewing around those who can see, and the potential of using sight as a weapon.
"See" is set hundreds of years in the future where mankind has lost their vision due to a strange virus. The ability to see had been lost for so long, that it had become a myth.
Season one followed the events of two sighted children on a journey to find their father. The brutal drama has drawn obvious comparisons to "Game of Thrones," and reviews didn't make it out to be quite the hit Apple had seemed to hope.
This show was a big part of Apple's promotional material when the company launched Apple TV+. It has already been renewed for a third season ahead of the season two premier.
Subscribers can watch "See" season two on Apple TV+ when it premieres on August 27. The service costs $4.99 per month or is included in every tier of Apple One.
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I mean, they do things most sighted slobs like us could not do. So the main dramatic element is constantly undermined and ultimately unnecessary. And while I understand that other senses would become heightened to compensate to the loss of vision, the action here seems far beyond this compensation...
Otherwise, there would be a lot to like about this show....
It's ok, you get to enjoy more things, have fun with it. No need to complain about other people not enjoying things, that's their problem.
But those rules and reality must be believable within the context of its own universe, and See fails in this manner, primarily because the primary conceit is rooted in something most of us are acutely and very literally familiar with - sight (and the inverse of no sight when blindfolded or in pitch dark). There is no attempt to even invent how they are able to do what they do without sight, much less how well they accomplish complicated things singularly and as a group. Dune will have Mentats - human computers - and I suspect we'll be much more likely to accept that as part of the larger universe they will be part of, partly because we don't have an immediate comparative to prove/disprove (and I say this referring to our subconscious response). I didn't set out watching See with a preconceived notion of this option. But as first episode progressed, it became acutely evident this was a problem.
Good stories and scripts do not rely on "anything goes" just because its fiction. That's bad writing. Good scripts will make it believable enough for the audience's reality and plausible enough in the movie's reality to be effective.
And See is not science fiction as much as a real drama set in a dystopian future in the aftermath of calamity. It's not Star Wars-ish, which by it's popcorn-munching comic book nature, probably has a wider berth for accepting less-than-plausible things.
Rather than the conceit of no sight, perhaps they should have been afflicted by the inability to learn new things, or invent, or communicate ideas/pass down information in certain ways, (some affliction of the brain that happened long ago), inexorably dimming their future existence - until the the children come along that have this ability, and the conflicts ensue around that. Or whatever...
They say when we lose one sense, the other senses improve to compensate. So as I watched the first season, I rationalized to myself that in many, many thousands of years maybe humans could develop sightless capabilities to "...traverse great distance, engage in complicated interactions, fights..."
The problem with that idea is the setting of the story doesn't match such an advanced development. IMHO the clothing, weapons, utensils, habitats, etc. are more appropriate to a post-apocalyptic world of only a few generations at best. The humans in the story may be blind but they still have eyeballs. So, to my mind, the show comes out looking like someone took typical dystopian movie (think "The Postman") and simply made the characters blind.