Stranger Things (Netflix)

I have to be a complete ass.. I am totally disappointed with it. Really really let down...

Seeing everyone else’s positivity really questions what the hell is wrong with me?

I think there’s something bigger going on with me because it just doesn’t make sense anymore..
 
I’m three episodes in, and I’m not really loving it. I mean, it’s good, but I don’t feel it’s great at all.

I could really do with a bit less Whiny Will. We get it...you want to play D&D. But you know what? Nobody else does...so shut up about it already.
 
Gimpdiggity said:
I’m three episodes in, and I’m not really loving it. I mean, it’s good, but I don’t feel it’s great at all.

I could really do with a bit less Whiny Will. We get it...you want to play D&D. But you know what? Nobody else does...so shut up about it already.
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I think it starts getting better in episode 4. But again the episodes are weird. I end up disliking it, then there’s 1 or 2 little things in the episode that make me go OH BOY!! And then it’s never touched back upon or doesn’t go anywhere

Sitting back here re watching episode 1 thinking now.. I literally only laughed at 1 part in the whole 8 episodes..

I hate being a negative nelly but I just don’t get it...
 
OK, my one nitpick with their depiction of “life in the 1980’s” is their depiction of the use and capability of walkie talkies back in the 1980’s....

1980’s WALKIE TALKIES DID NOT WORK LIKE THAT!!!

To put it bluntly, walkie talkies sucked in the 1980’s. The Walkie talkies (many brands and models), that my friends and I had, could barely work within a 100 yard radius around the neighborhood and drained their batteries rapidly. They were a novelty item that fell out of use pretty quickly after being gifted for Christmas or a birthday.

In “Stranger Things” they use them as proto-cell phones. They are always left “on”—and at the ready at all hours—by the kids with super clear communications quality and a range that seems to stretch for miles and miles.

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Walkie talkies were not used like they depict them, rather, we had to rely solely upon our corded house phones to make immediate contact with our friends.
 
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Binged 6 episodes yesterday, but didn't finish because of 4th of July stuff with friends. Finally finished the last 2 episodes about 30 minutes ago. As Ted Wheeler said, holy smokes!! What a season! I don't know why you guys didn't enjoy it, but I thought this was the best season yet. It felt more like an 80s movie than the other 2 seasons and I'm glad they took it a different direction instead of just continuing with the same stuff we've seen before. Half the time I felt like I was watching a blockbuster movie it was so BIG. Absolutely bonkers. They really stepped it up in pretty much every way this time: the special effects, the cinematography, the action, everything. Loved the inspiration from the Terminator and gory horror flicks.

Final episode was wild and really messed me up in my emotions. Hop's speech really got to me as it was half about El and half about the show itself. I might just rewatch the whole series again this week
 
Halliwax said:
Watching ep6 right now, little Easter egg I think I found spoiler below



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When the kids are leaving the movie theater if you look to the far left (steve right shoulder) the man walking behind him is dressed like Steven Spielberg in BTTF when he’s driving the Jeep

I don’t think it’s Spielberg in stranger things, but I’m willing to bet this is a little wink at him because they made sure to keep him in frame 2 different times
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Spielberg wasn't driving the Jeep. It was Robert Zemeckis.

Additional Edit: I could be wrong, as it might have been Bob Gale or Robert Zemeckis (it's been a considerable amount of time since I last watched it, so my memory is fuzzy). But I am 100% certain it wasn't Spielberg.
 
My roomate has been wanting me to watch this show. So tonight we watched the first 2 episodes from season 1. Not bad. Keeps you wanting to watch more.
 
CB2001 said:
Spielberg wasn't driving the Jeep. It was Robert Zemeckis.

Additional Edit: I could be wrong, as it might have been Bob Gale or Robert Zemeckis (it's been a considerable amount of time since I last watched it, so my memory is fuzzy). But I am 100% certain it wasn't Spielberg.
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I just had to google this because I am 100% positive it wasn’t bob or zemeckis and positive it was Spielberg

Guess what I was wrong!! All these years I thought it was Spielberg but come to find out it’s

Walter Scott, the stunt coordinator for them!!

Wow! Can’t believe this
 
JediMichael said:
My roomate has been wanting me to watch this show. So tonight we watched the first 2 episodes from season 1. Not bad. Keeps you wanting to watch more.
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I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes

I guess I’m a weirdo because I really liked season 2, when others think it sucks

Now it looks like season 3 is really liked, but I don’t get it.. and I mean I don’t get why I don’t think it’s good?

The acting was awesome, the kids did a great job

I just feel that season 2 was the same story as season 1, and now season 3 seems to have the same story

Even the same actors are playing the same role again as they did in the previous seasons.. wills mom should be a FBI agent she discovers all theses paranormal problems..

I just feel it’s the same thing just different colors

I’m really upset with the ending of episode 8..
 
Guess I'll see. Thankfully its only 3 seasons to get through and not like 10 or something. I just can't sit there and watch tv for too long, normally anyways. Now playing a game, I usually can, its weird.
 
Stranger Things really became Darker Things in this series, absolutely loved it. Casting is the most important thing next to the writing and they really nailed it with the entire series. As someone else said, it really had a cinematic feel to this latest series and was a real emotional roller coaster for me.

Does anyone else think that Hopper is the "American" spoken of in the end credits scene? It was strange to me that after the cavalry arrived, there were no Russians seen being held or even walked out afterwards. Seems like they had a way of getting out and maybe took Hopper with them.
 
I had to skip through the entire last episode. Ugh. Are these people on some planet where they are the only town in America? Pretty weak plot with a bunch of cutsey trying to be funny stuff thrown in.
 
Clutch said:
I had to skip through the entire last episode. Ugh. Are these people on some planet where they are the only town in America? Pretty weak plot with a bunch of cutsey trying to be funny stuff thrown in.
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Actually, they give a pretty good reason why Season 3 is still occurring in Hawkins in one of the previous episodes: because that the Gate to the Upside Down had opened in Hawkins, and even though El sealed it up, the entryway was still "healing". It makes a lot of sense that they'd try to open a new gate in the same area where the previous one was because the area is still a "thinnie" (to use the Dark Tower terminology, seeing how King's work also influenced the show). Also, if anything goes wrong and they can't control it, it'd make sense to do it in the enemy's backyard so that they're at risk instead of having your home being at risk (but like the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark, they're stupid enough to think they can control it).
 
And neighboring towns are totally unaware of the absolute batsht crazy stuff happening there?
 
Clutch said:
And neighboring towns are totally unaware of the absolute batsht crazy stuff happening there?
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Living in a small town myself, I can say that I have zero clue of what happens in any of our neighboring towns, even with this day and age of having the Internet. Even if "absolute ******* crazy stuff" happened in a neighboring town, unless the news reports otherwise, people will more than likely chock it up to a series of unfortunate events that just happen and have no connection to one another (which to those who are outside of certain characters and situations, all they know is Will got lost in the woods and another unidentified dead kid was mistaken for him, that Barb and Bob both died due to exposure to chemicals from a nearby lab, and that over 30 people died in a fire at a mall, among those included happen to be the town's chief of police).
 
Alright, I finished it. I thought it was pretty good, but I felt there were many “show-stoppers” in it. Like when Nancy and Mrs. Wheeler are talking about finishing that article. It felt very stretched out. But on the note of Back to the Future, I was blown away! Like the Kit-Cat clock in Ms. Driscoll’s house being the same as in Doc’s garage, and Johnathon falling down while trying to put on his pants, much like how Marty did in Lorraine’s bedroom. Of coarse the biggest reference was the movie theater playing Back to the Future, with four of the main characters watching and commenting about it.
 
I love these kids and characters in general, so my attachment to them is what endears the series to me, but I think the last 2 episodes (honestly maybe three) suffered because of the villain.
the Mind Flayer is much scarier when it’s an immaterial eldritch horror. The body snatched citizens were much more compelling for me and the majority of the tension was lost once they turned to goo so the Mind Flayer could physically pursue them, and quite weakly at that.
 
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