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Post by elkawho on Aug 18, 2016 17:14:55 GMT
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Post by aemiliapaula on Aug 18, 2016 17:17:53 GMT
Goosebumps. Adorable.keep an eye on this kid
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Post by bohnny on Aug 26, 2016 5:45:24 GMT
It's a direct followup, according to David Harbour/Hopper at least. He's teased a few things about it already, and about Hop's backstory not being as simple as it seems. It works wonderfully as a standalone so I hope there's a real reason for more to follow. I'm sure, given this season, I've no reason to worry. Intriguing. i have to say I was a big disappointed when I saw they were going to make a second series. I can see why they would want to from a business point of view, but sometimes less is more from a story point of view. And this seemed just right as it was, loose ends and all. still, I'll certainly watch a second series, and hopefully enjoy it as much as the first.
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Post by kimalysong on Aug 26, 2016 10:00:46 GMT
I'd love to watch it but don't have Netflix. Wish I could buy it on ITunes or Amazon but it's not available there yet.
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Post by Ela on Oct 23, 2016 5:01:08 GMT
I watched it all in a week. I'll probably beat you. I started today. I expect to finish by tomorrow (or Monday, at the latest ).
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Post by Ela on Oct 26, 2016 1:51:57 GMT
Honestly, Ela, I've yet to hear anyone not really dig the show. That's cause you haven't met my sister. She was underwhelmed. I finished on Sunday, as expected and really enjoyed it. {Spoiler}I'm guessing El must still be alive, but I don't see why the people doing the research would tell Hopper about it. Doesn't make sense. I'll be interested to see what they do in a second season.
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Post by Ela on Feb 12, 2017 6:39:56 GMT
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 12, 2017 15:56:21 GMT
I cant wait for Season 2. Its gonna be great, but i dont think i can wait until Halloween lol
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 8:13:26 GMT
The actress who played Barb was in Ep 3 of Riverdale as Ethel - and they have a "Justice For Ethel" gag. The Barb will never die.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 13, 2017 20:40:41 GMT
I am so ready for the second series. I have several friends who have read for it and they were all excited about it just based on the sides they have seen for audition purposes.
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Post by Ela on Jul 12, 2017 3:21:18 GMT
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Post by Ela on Aug 1, 2017 4:31:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 12:03:27 GMT
Season 2 thoughts
{Spoiler} I've now binged Season 2 - it's still pretty fantastic. I was a bit worried in the first couple of epsit was getting a bit too selfaware of it's status as a pop culture phenom with quite a lot of self-referencing but that quietened down.
I loved the new dynamics - I've always been a Steve fan but didn't realise I needed him and Dustin teaming up so much. Likewise Hop and Eleven - what an amazing duo. They act so well off each other. Lukas needs more of a part though and Mike wasn't as likeable this year. We had Barb's death playing into things a bit more than I expected, but not enough it felt shoehorned in to appeal to the rather OTT (ironic?) love for the character.
How awesome too that Paul Reiser and Sean Astin - main bad guy from Aliens and main good guy from The Goonies - get to join the gang this year! Not quite so sold on Max and Billy though. Not really sure why we needed either.
Eleven being seperated from the gang till very near the end reminded me of this year's Twin Peaks revival where Dale Cooper didn't get back to TP until about the same stage Ell did, just in time for the curtain call.
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Post by theotherjosh on Nov 2, 2017 13:49:08 GMT
This is slightly spoilerish, in that I talk about the story in a general sense, but I don’t give away any plot points. I’ll spoiler tag it anyway, just to be safe. {Spoiler}One year ago I went into Stranger Things with what I thought were appropriated calibrated expectations. I’d been burned before by critically lauded productions that failed to live up to the hype and there was no way, I thought, that it could possibly be as good as everyone said. Well. I was pleased to be wrong. And here we are at the end of series two. Again, I thought my expectations were adjusted appropriately. The sophomore slump is real. I knew that going in. The Duffer Brothers had a lifetime to create season one and ten months to craft the second. The first one had been an experience. An event. A phenomenon.
The second season was merely competently-produced TV hobbled by three big problems. 1.) It’s become too cutesy and self-referential. Eleven in particular is merely a catch-phrase spouting caricature of her earlier self. I'm fond of observing that Star Wars (A New Hope) is the only Star Wars movie that doesn't take place in the Star Wars universe. A lot of the tropes that would come to define it were still being codified. It drew on Kurosawa and Flash Gordon serials and managed to combine them into something entirely new. Same with season one of Stranger Things. It's imitating itself for season two and like the ripoffs that followed Star Wars, it is missing a lot of what worked the first time around. 2.) They're trying too hard to please their most vocal critics. #JusticeforBarb does not need a series long arc, we didn't need an entire sitcom family for Lucas because his parents were not conspicuous in the first series. These are both addressed in excruciating detail. It couldn’t have been less subtle if his dad had mugged for the camera at breakfast. The Star Wars prequels were awful, but there was one thing I respected. After George Lucas got some flak for the note-for-note Tarzan yell in Return of the Jedi, he doubled down with TWO Tarzan yelling Wookiees in the prequels. Likewise, when Classic Doctor Who painted themselves in a corner they simply smashed through a load-bearing wall to get themselves out. Nobody twisted themselves into knots trying to reconcile the different versions of Atlantis. Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Not everything has to be wrapped up in a bow. 3.) Much like later seasons of A Game of Thrones, it's essentially a bunch of stories that are happening at the same time rather than a single coherent storyline. They don’t even converge as much as they happen to drop the characters in the same location. I’ve run a lot of role-playing games since I began playing in the Stranger Things era of 1980s small town America. There were often times when I saw that attention at the table was flagging so I would hustle things along with a handwave. Rather than worry about the logistics of travel, I’d just say, “Okay, you all wind up at the castle at the same time.” It was lazy, but we accepted it because it got us closer to the interesting part. I was thinking of that when everyone happens to arrive at the lab at the same time. Ugh. I can get away with it because it’s something I’m doing it on the fly with a small group of friends. I’d like a little bit more effort from my entertainment, especially when I know they’re capable of it.
Picayune complaints/stuff that I didn’t like (as distinct from stuff that I thought was objectively bad) Billy is poorly integrated into the story and it drives me crazy when writers fall back on the “I have a hunch that happens to be correct!” solution to their problems. I don’t know if Kali and her group of weirdos was a back door pilot or a hook for series three, but either way it was boring and awful and should have been cut entirely. Mike is kind of a tool and if he was a real person, he’d be on track to grow up as an Internet Nice Guy.
This probably makes it sound like I hated it, but it had elements that really worked too. Any reference to Aliens is welcome. Sadie Sink was astounding as Max and gives a breakout performance. Only Will is better. He carries the show with his vulnerability. Sean Astin was a wonderful addition to the cast. Hopper and Eleven were great together. Steve is great, as always. Nancy and Jonathan do have great chemistry together (too bad they have so many scenes with Murray, who is just this side of an offensive stereotype).
Bottom line, it wasn’t bad, but nearly as good as it could have been. Series one set a high bar and series two fails to deliver. The more I think about the first series the more I like it, but the more I think about the second series the clearer its problems become.
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Post by Ela on Nov 19, 2017 2:56:32 GMT
I binge-watched Stranger Things 2 and enjoyed it very much. The first episode of season 2 didn't suck me in the same way that season 1 episode 1 did, but I kept watching and I liked the plot developments and the changing relationships of the characters. The kids in the series are great, very good acting.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 20, 2017 8:37:39 GMT
The girl who plays "11" was in my hometown over the weekend for Comic Con- they didnt anticipate the crowd for her.. was insane.. was talking to some volunteers, because she is a child of 13, so many rules and regulations for her.. It was a bit creepy seeing grown adults fan girling over her.. Her father was right next to her pretty much the whole time.. But yes.. great show. it has children in it and its set in the 80's but it's not a "kids show" .. If we go chronological I reckon they are about 4-6 years younger than me..?!
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Post by theotherjosh on Nov 20, 2017 16:25:30 GMT
The girl who plays "11" was in my hometown over the weekend for Comic Con- they didnt anticipate the crowd for her.. was insane.. was talking to some volunteers, because she is a child of 13, so many rules and regulations for her.. It was a bit creepy seeing grown adults fan girling over her.. Her father was right next to her pretty much the whole time.. But yes.. great show. it has children in it and its set in the 80's but it's not a "kids show" .. If we go chronological I reckon they are about 4-6 years younger than me..?! I saw a picture online of a grown man posing next to her with a "Sexy Eleven" picture she had just autographed. It was very uncomfortable.
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Post by Ela on Nov 20, 2017 16:40:15 GMT
That does sound uncomfortable, theotherjosh, as well as highly inappropriate.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2018 12:52:56 GMT
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Post by Ela on Mar 22, 2019 3:32:23 GMT
Stranger Things season 3 trailer:
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