These are all of my thoughts as I watched Apple TV’s See this week. I was kind of tweeting as I went on Twitter. So this is just all those, copy and pasted together.
So I decided to start watching See on Apple TV this morning.
Only like half way through. And it’s, uh, interesting.
First of all, I always find it ironic when stories about blind people make you read to get some or all of the details.
I know that most of the cast and crew were blind, which is amazing. But still, first part of the show, read about how we got here. Lol
No narration unless you turn on audio description.
Anyone else uncomfortable about Queen Kane’s praying being a sex thing?
“Just because birth gifted you with sight, doesn’t mean you’re better than everyone.”
Don’t think that’s the exact quote, because I am tweeting about these episodes after I watched them instead of during, but nevertheless, A+ line.
Alright, gotta be honest, the throwing the gravel on the floor thing, so that he could now hear their footsteps, brilliant.
So I am watching this show on my iPad. And I couldn’t remember / really understand the names of the characters and stuff when they said them, so I turned on subtitles. So now here I am, a visually impaired person, watching a show about the blind, with subtitles on. Lol
Quick shoutout to Apple though, for all of the subtitle and audio description options they have for so many different languages. But also have to be honest, only have AppleTV right now because I got a free trial.
So I forgot about what the show said at the beginning, explaining about how we got to where we are, until I was telling a friend about the show.
I know this came out in 2019, but I think I’m just going to ignore the fact that this blind world was caused by a virus.
In my opinion, since even before 2020, there were so many pandemic plots, I think this should’ve just been an AU situation or something.
(If you don’t speak fan fiction lol, AU stands for alternate universe.)
Being stuck in the cave and not having light is interesting. I would think that a sighted child growing up in a blind society would still develope skills that blind people use. Like being able to navigate without light. But maybe not, maybe I’m wrong.
Also Baba Voss being like, “well follow me then,” when the flame goes out. Great. Love.
Are they using real ASL for the blind when they communicate without talking, or is it just made up?
I do know some ASL myself, but not for the blind, so I can’t tell.
Either way, it is neat that they do have a solution for nonverbal communication.
Paris’ speech when they separate from the kids in episode 7, yes.
Yes Kofun! Turn out the light!
Obviously all fantastic representation.
But I don’t know if this story was for me, wasn’t my favorite.
I think there is supposed to be a season 2, but got delayed because of COVID. I’d probably watch it. If not just for all the really cool fight scenes.
I was worried, for quite a bit of it, it seemed that the message was that vision is “better”, but I thought that couldn’t be right. But now I understand that I have seen all of it.
I am curious to know how they did their casting.
It is not my place to go in-depth on this topic, but I felt the cast was very diverse.
And I think a show about a blind society is the perfect time to do true color blind casting.
Well, I think those are all of my final thoughts.
I think Queen Kane should’ve died, but anyway...
I don’t know if it was controversial that 2 of the actors that played main characters weren’t actually blind, but no matter what, I think they did an excellent job.
If anyone is actually interested in my thoughts on blind representation in media, I would gladly do this again.
Could do Toph in Avatar, or In The Dark, or any other suggestions.
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