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Post by bobod on Aug 8, 2016 10:02:39 GMT
Have we had a thread about this and I just can't find it? Or are we yet to discuss?
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Post by elkawho on Aug 9, 2016 0:08:44 GMT
I'm dying to see this show. Planning on watching the first episode tonight. My brother-in-law can't stop talking about it.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Aug 9, 2016 3:12:45 GMT
I watched the first episode this evening. Color me hooked. I know it has been descriped as Stephen King meets Steven Speilberg but one hour in I'd also add John Carpenter to the mix. Attention to period detail looks pretty flawless to me. I only regret that I watched the first episode too late so I'm not able to binge a bunch of episodes tonight.
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Post by elkawho on Aug 9, 2016 4:00:37 GMT
Two episodes in and WOW! It feels like my childhood all over again. Just like Audio Watchdog, I'm wishing I was able to binge a little more. The period work is terrific, and I think the kids are perfect. I'll be watching more of this sooner rather than later.
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Post by bobod on Aug 9, 2016 8:31:53 GMT
I watched it all in a week.
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Post by Trace on Aug 10, 2016 1:02:18 GMT
It's a brilliant show! A huge salute to the 1980's, a great twist and turn horror story, great acting, visuals, style...and all those Easter Eggs and little nods to the shows/movies/books of the past! The attention to period detail is wonderful, but that's really nothing new because shows like "Mad Men" and "Downton Abbey" have beat it to the punch! But, it IS an era that needed a good salute!
I can post more after many of the others have seen more episodes. I realize that many are just starting. I know we can use the "Spoiler" tag--but I don't really like to do that on a brand new show. For me personally, the "Spoiler" tag is an open invitation to read ahead, and although I have a lot of self-control (I never sneaked a peak at Christmas presents), I don't like the temptation!
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Aug 10, 2016 2:06:25 GMT
I'm four hours into it and if I didn't have work in the morning I'd finish it up tonight. I did have an odd thought. At what point would The Doctor show up if this were Doctor Who and which incarnation do you think it would be?
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Post by bobod on Aug 10, 2016 8:15:14 GMT
As I said on my Facebook, anyone enjoying this should check out Bloodlust from Big Finish - their gang of Scoobies are (mostly...) older than the Stranger Things ones, but Nancy Wheeler basically is Jackie Tate. Anyone who wants to find further parallels, let's do it in the Dark Shadows section so as not to derail this topic.
Episode one FREE here.
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Post by bobod on Aug 10, 2016 8:26:56 GMT
And for the next 12 hours or so this t-shirt is on sale at Qwertee.
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Post by aemiliapaula on Aug 10, 2016 13:54:39 GMT
I'm four hours into it and if I didn't have work in the morning I'd finish it up tonight. I did have an odd thought. At what point would The Doctor show up if this were Doctor Who and which incarnation do you think it would be? I'm up to 4th episode too. If a Doctor showed up I think it would be the 5th. Partially becuase of the year it's set in and becuase of his personality. He's good with young people/kids and people in emotional situations such as the worried mom. I hope soon {Spoiler} The kids and adults investigating meet up and shared what they've learned so far and start working together.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Aug 10, 2016 20:42:28 GMT
I totally get 5th Doctor. I was thinking it would be either a 7th or 10th Doctor kind of thing. I'm about to start on episode 5.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2016 1:19:36 GMT
I think more Doctor Loomis than Doctor Who, gang. As much as I love the show itself, it's the soundtrack I've been loving for the past 3 weeks. I had a fan-bootleg of it, but it's now being released officially. I'll be glad to cough up for it. Will go well with the soundtracks to Drive and The Guest which both also had that retro-synth.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Aug 11, 2016 1:49:24 GMT
I finished it up tonight and I walked away amazed that something was so able to totally carry me away. So many references, so little time. Watching it make me feel like my much younger self when the TV version of 'Salem's Lot was first broadcast in the 1979. Anyway, top notch stuff and it did a really nice job of setting up another run of episodes. I might need to find my copy of The Talisman and give it a read. Or watch The Goonies. Anyway. Happy now.
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Post by Ela on Aug 11, 2016 22:15:49 GMT
I just added this to my Netflix queue after a friend of mine said he'd binge-watched it in a day and loved it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2016 2:28:22 GMT
Honestly, Ela, I've yet to hear anyone not really dig the show. Even if you take out the era, the feel and tone of the 80s...just as a piece of drama it's fantastically well paced, tightly plotted but never too frenetic or lackadaisical, and the actors are all ridiculously well-cast. It's the best I've seen Winona Ryder in years. The casting of the kids in something like this has to work or it's dead in the water and they're great. Instantly a great bunch and believable as friends. Anyone else thing Matthew Modine's character is the double of David Cronenberg, right down to the hair and love of a black tie suit?
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Post by elkawho on Aug 12, 2016 3:57:41 GMT
I finished episode 4. My son was home sick today and he watched the first 7 episodes.
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Post by ollychops on Aug 12, 2016 22:02:28 GMT
I just finished watching it! I felt like the first couple of episodes were kind of slow, but by episode 4, I was hooked. Amazing show!
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Post by elkawho on Aug 14, 2016 13:38:17 GMT
I binge watched the last 4 episodes last night. Wow! That was fantastic. I didn't realize that there were only 8 episodes, but it was a good thing. I wouldn't have gotten any sleep if there were too many more than that.The ending left a lot of questions. {Spoiler} Hopper leaving the food implied that El is alive. If so, then where? It also makes you think that when the government guys from the lab take Hopper away to talk to him, they were informing him that she was alive. But that doesn't make sense, because then why did he need to leave her food in the woods if the government had her. And poor Will.
I wonder if the second season will be with the same characters/town, maybe the future of them (doing a 90's motif?) or something completely different.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 2:06:33 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.
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Post by bobod on Aug 18, 2016 17:06:03 GMT
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