HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
edited July 2016
I liked this show more than any show in recent time.
Non spoilery thoughts:
1. The intro song is dope as fucking shit. Mmmm what a good intro song.
2. Winona Ryder, known to me only from Alien 3, was surprisingly totally epic. What a performance!
3. This was a really good show.
I liked this show more than any show in recent time.
Non spoilery thoughts:
1. The intro song is dope as fucking shit. Mmmm what a good intro song.
2. Winona Ryder, known to me only from Alien 3, was surprisingly totally epic. What a performance!
3. This was a really good show.
i don't think el is holding the gate closed? Will/hop/Winona were all deep inside the upside down when el killed the monster. They wouldn't have been able to get out otherwise
Unless he and Winona saw her on the way out and that's how he knows she's alive? Seems really unlikely
Also I don't really understand why the teenagers were able to wound the monster but 30 guys with machine guns couldn't
I've explains before....DnD rules
It was was immune to piercing but not blunt
I kind of figured that maybe it isn't really a three dimensional being, so maybe what looks like a deep penetrating bullet would to us is more like a scrape to it. So fire is still somewhat effective because the heat can spread in every direction, even the ones we can't perceive.
The thing I find odd is
that it didn't seem to be bulletproof. At both the Byers' house and in the school it looked to me like there were spouts of black ichor when it was shot.
General gripe about sci fi action movies in general (and not really a gripe just an observation)
From Stargate to Stranger Things
Good god bring something bigger than 9mm! You wouldn't go bear hunting with a 9mm, if there's an alien in play bring high caliber rifles, shotguns, and maybe a flamethrower or two for good measure!
If those fail, and if possible, keep a few shoulder fired missile launchers and rotory grenade launchers around
Ironically I have to give Michael Bay of all people credit for this, in Transformers the military kept throwing different kinds of weaponry at the horrifying alien robots until they found something that worked
again that's not actually a gripe, especially in this show where they were
seemingly taking all measures to avoid the creature, the 9mms were because they were for use against any people who got in their way
Loved this. Finished it last night. Think my favourite part was
the fourth wall break at the end where the kids are complaining that the campaign seemed too short, what about the knight (hopper) the princess (elle) and the weird flowers in the strange garden (either the egg on the upside down or the weird breeding ground)
One thing I think I missed though was when the government woman went and met with the science teacher. What was the point of that?
Loved this. Finished it last night. Think my favourite part was
the fourth wall break at the end where the kids are complaining that the campaign seemed too short, what about the knight (hopper) the princess (elle) and the weird flowers in the strange garden (either the egg on the upside down or the weird breeding ground)
One thing I think I missed though was when the government woman went and met with the science teacher. What was the point of that?
She needed names of kids who had access to radio equipment
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
Loved this. Finished it last night. Think my favourite part was
the fourth wall break at the end where the kids are complaining that the campaign seemed too short, what about the knight (hopper) the princess (elle) and the weird flowers in the strange garden (either the egg on the upside down or the weird breeding ground)
One thing I think I missed though was when the government woman went and met with the science teacher. What was the point of that?
She was trying to find out who the kids were. They'd seen the burnt out ham radio set at the school and knew Elle had been there. They also knew the science teacher was the one in charge of the radio. So they assumed Elle had been brought there by kids the science teacher knew, and went to trick him into handing over their names by pretending to be looking for young enthusiasts who would be perfect candidates for their fake organization she was pretending to be from.
Loved this. Finished it last night. Think my favourite part was
the fourth wall break at the end where the kids are complaining that the campaign seemed too short, what about the knight (hopper) the princess (elle) and the weird flowers in the strange garden (either the egg on the upside down or the weird breeding ground)
One thing I think I missed though was when the government woman went and met with the science teacher. What was the point of that?
The G-Men knew Eleven was with nerdy kids so they approached the science teacher to find out who the nerdy kids were.
Mego Thor"I say thee...NAY!"Registered Userregular
One of my favorite scenes comes towards the end of the season...
when the kids call up their science teacher Mr. Clarke to ask about alternate dimensions. Not only does he interrupt his date to discuss theoretical quantum mechanics, he drops some D&D knowledge like it ain't no thang.
One of my favorite scenes comes towards the end of the season...
when the kids call up their science teacher Mr. Clarke to ask about alternate dimensions. Not only does he interrupt his date to discuss theoretical quantum mechanics, he drops some D&D knowledge like it ain't no thang.
I had Benny the cook pegged as an "endgame adult" right away and was excited because he reminded me of my dad, but then he got Game of Thones'd. :bigfrown:
So I watched this show over the course of last week, and I have some long, rambling, and very personal thoughts on it. Writing them down seemed like a good idea, and this seemed like a good place to do it.
This show was basically made for me. The small town horror that Stephen King is so masterful at creating is one of the reasons I pursued a degree in writing in college. I love those types of stories, and I want to be able to tell them some day. Twin Peaks, Alan Wake, Salem's Lot, Gravity Falls, and the X-Files are my jam.
What I wanted to specifically address though is that the finale hit me like a fucking freight train. When i was 19 (I'm 27 now) my mom (a single mother) died of pancreatic cancer after fighting for a year. Having a character dying of cancer is an easy way to immediately make me sad (looking at you Guardians of the Galaxy), because even with all the time that has passed it feels like something I'm not ever supposed to be OK with. It's always a fresh scab. So everything about Chief Hopper's backstory floored me. Every flashback was very painful to watch, but i thought they did an excellent job of weaving the loss of his daughter in with trying to save Will.
Somehow that wasn't even the worst of it though. Having to watch Eleven go out in a blaze of glory to save Mike and the others super sucked. I don't even mind melancholy or dark endings. The Thing, The Mist, and Drag Me to Hell are all movies I think have great endings.
I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but something about Eleven sacrificing herself makes me profoundly sad in a way I haven't felt since Steve Zissou found the jaguar shark. The Life Aquatic was a movie I saw after my mom passed, and it's movie about two grown men trying to find themselves after the loss of a loved one (including one who lost their mother to cancer!). I wouldn't even consider it to be one of Wes Anderson's best films, but it's the only time I've been truly touched and left to reflect on my own life by a piece of media, and Stranger Things has evoked similar feelings in me.
As I said above I don't mind a dark ending, but I need Eleven to get her happy ending. I'm glad season 2 is revisiting these characters because I'm hoping she gets left in a better place next time.
So yeah. I know I took a pretty deep dive in this spoiler tag, but this show hit some very personal notes for me, and I really wanted to get my feelings out there.
So I watched this show over the course of last week, and I have some long, rambling, and very personal thoughts on it. Writing them down seemed like a good idea, and this seemed like a good place to do it.
This show was basically made for me. The small town horror that Stephen King is so masterful at creating is one of the reasons I pursued a degree in writing in college. I love those types of stories, and I want to be able to tell them some day. Twin Peaks, Alan Wake, Salem's Lot, Gravity Falls, and the X-Files are my jam.
What I wanted to specifically address though is that the finale hit me like a fucking freight train. When i was 19 (I'm 27 now) my mom (a single mother) died of pancreatic cancer after fighting for a year. Having a character dying of cancer is an easy way to immediately make me sad (looking at you Guardians of the Galaxy), because even with all the time that has passed it feels like something I'm not ever supposed to be OK with. It's always a fresh scab. So everything about Chief Hopper's backstory floored me. Every flashback was very painful to watch, but i thought they did an excellent job of weaving the loss of his daughter in with trying to save Will.
Somehow that wasn't even the worst of it though. Having to watch Eleven go out in a blaze of glory to save Mike and the others super sucked. I don't even mind melancholy or dark endings. The Thing, The Mist, and Drag Me to Hell are all movies I think have great endings.
I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but something about Eleven sacrificing herself makes me profoundly sad in a way I haven't felt since Steve Zissou found the jaguar shark. The Life Aquatic was a movie I saw after my mom passed, and it's movie about two grown men trying to find themselves after the loss of a loved one (including one who lost their mother to cancer!). I wouldn't even consider it to be one of Wes Anderson's best films, but it's the only time I've been truly touched and left to reflect on my own life by a piece of media, and Stranger Things has evoked similar feelings in me.
As I said above I don't mind a dark ending, but I need Eleven to get her happy ending. I'm glad season 2 is revisiting these characters because I'm hoping she gets left in a better place next time.
So yeah. I know I took a pretty deep dive in this spoiler tag, but this show hit some very personal notes for me, and I really wanted to get my feelings out there.
The ending seems to indicate
eleven is still alive somewhere since Hopper was specifically leaving eggos in that food cache
Finally finished this last night. I was watching it an episode or so a day, with family, which took quite a bit of willpower to not sneak and finish it when they weren't around.
Initial impressions are basically this:
1) "Nostalgia done right". ST seems like a kind of gestalt composite of a lot of 80's entertainment media, the sort of thing that a lot of entertainment back then was trying to be if not always achieving. Not just the big bigs that it modeled itself after, but a lot of minor stuff that is now forgotten, but still kicks around in the back of your brain when you think of movies and books from back then. The homages were subtle instead of showy and clever, and most importantly, they were organic, and never distracting.
2) ST seems to be to its predecessors (Amblin-era Spielberg, 80's King, etc.) what Indiana Jones and Star Wars were to stuff like adventure serials and Flash Gordon. Weird stuff like that can happen fifty+ years into the postmodern era.
3) The set dressing and attention to detail puts even Mad Men to shame, especially since it seems realistic, instead of overly stylized.
4) Great job on the old-fashioned plot work where everybody has an arc and all the plot threads converge at the climax. A lot of post-2000s "mysterious" spec fiction series treat that sort of thing as an afterthought to obfuscating the viewer. Here, it was front and center, as it should be.
5) All of the child and teenage actors were fantastic, and displayed a great deal of courage in committing long-term to atrocious haircuts.
6) I liked how they didn't go overboard on gore and other forms of adult content, while not shying away from actual violence and death. The show is accessible for nearly any audience, even kids as young as the protagonists, provided they can handle the scares - which seems very thematically appropriate.
7) This made me want to reread Firestarter, which is pretty remarkable, as Firestarter is kind of a shite novel.
8) Barb. Just... Barb
I have a feeling I'll be watching this multiple times in between now and next summer. Hopefully with some people I plan to introduce to it.
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Someone's already making videos like that.
So I've heard..
Non spoilery thoughts:
1. The intro song is dope as fucking shit. Mmmm what a good intro song.
2. Winona Ryder, known to me only from Alien 3, was surprisingly totally epic. What a performance!
3. This was a really good show.
Edit: It's Alien 4 but who's counting.
She's the right age to have been Eleven.
@Honk watch Beetlejuice and Heathers bro
If you liked this there are p good odds that you will like those
Matthew Modine is pretty damn 80s too.
General gripe about sci fi action movies in general (and not really a gripe just an observation)
Good god bring something bigger than 9mm! You wouldn't go bear hunting with a 9mm, if there's an alien in play bring high caliber rifles, shotguns, and maybe a flamethrower or two for good measure!
If those fail, and if possible, keep a few shoulder fired missile launchers and rotory grenade launchers around
Ironically I have to give Michael Bay of all people credit for this, in Transformers the military kept throwing different kinds of weaponry at the horrifying alien robots until they found something that worked
again that's not actually a gripe, especially in this show where they were
Just checking. For reasons.
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One thing I think I missed though was when the government woman went and met with the science teacher. What was the point of that?
She needed names of kids who had access to radio equipment
they called him
the D&D discussion was earlier
science teacher was awesome though
Yea loved that dude, was worried in that one scene.
"Oh no, not Mr. Clarke too!"
Also Steve twirling the nail bat got a chuckle out of me.
I read an interview that said they were planning on sticking with the same setting
if they get a second season
Not only sticking with the current setting, but continued to be told from the current characters perspectives.
Like do it in early 90s where all the kids are young adults now
What I wanted to specifically address though is that the finale hit me like a fucking freight train. When i was 19 (I'm 27 now) my mom (a single mother) died of pancreatic cancer after fighting for a year. Having a character dying of cancer is an easy way to immediately make me sad (looking at you Guardians of the Galaxy), because even with all the time that has passed it feels like something I'm not ever supposed to be OK with. It's always a fresh scab. So everything about Chief Hopper's backstory floored me. Every flashback was very painful to watch, but i thought they did an excellent job of weaving the loss of his daughter in with trying to save Will.
Somehow that wasn't even the worst of it though. Having to watch Eleven go out in a blaze of glory to save Mike and the others super sucked. I don't even mind melancholy or dark endings. The Thing, The Mist, and Drag Me to Hell are all movies I think have great endings.
I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but something about Eleven sacrificing herself makes me profoundly sad in a way I haven't felt since Steve Zissou found the jaguar shark. The Life Aquatic was a movie I saw after my mom passed, and it's movie about two grown men trying to find themselves after the loss of a loved one (including one who lost their mother to cancer!). I wouldn't even consider it to be one of Wes Anderson's best films, but it's the only time I've been truly touched and left to reflect on my own life by a piece of media, and Stranger Things has evoked similar feelings in me.
As I said above I don't mind a dark ending, but I need Eleven to get her happy ending. I'm glad season 2 is revisiting these characters because I'm hoping she gets left in a better place next time.
So yeah. I know I took a pretty deep dive in this spoiler tag, but this show hit some very personal notes for me, and I really wanted to get my feelings out there.
The ending seems to indicate
He did yeah.
Since there's no follow up I guess they were like, "Bro, we all made some mistakes here. How about we just forget any of this happened aight?"
Videogames flourished and music died
A fair trade.
Metal didn't die, it was just sleepin'
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
Initial impressions are basically this:
1) "Nostalgia done right". ST seems like a kind of gestalt composite of a lot of 80's entertainment media, the sort of thing that a lot of entertainment back then was trying to be if not always achieving. Not just the big bigs that it modeled itself after, but a lot of minor stuff that is now forgotten, but still kicks around in the back of your brain when you think of movies and books from back then. The homages were subtle instead of showy and clever, and most importantly, they were organic, and never distracting.
2) ST seems to be to its predecessors (Amblin-era Spielberg, 80's King, etc.) what Indiana Jones and Star Wars were to stuff like adventure serials and Flash Gordon. Weird stuff like that can happen fifty+ years into the postmodern era.
3) The set dressing and attention to detail puts even Mad Men to shame, especially since it seems realistic, instead of overly stylized.
4) Great job on the old-fashioned plot work where everybody has an arc and all the plot threads converge at the climax. A lot of post-2000s "mysterious" spec fiction series treat that sort of thing as an afterthought to obfuscating the viewer. Here, it was front and center, as it should be.
5) All of the child and teenage actors were fantastic, and displayed a great deal of courage in committing long-term to atrocious haircuts.
6) I liked how they didn't go overboard on gore and other forms of adult content, while not shying away from actual violence and death. The show is accessible for nearly any audience, even kids as young as the protagonists, provided they can handle the scares - which seems very thematically appropriate.
7) This made me want to reread Firestarter, which is pretty remarkable, as Firestarter is kind of a shite novel.
8) Barb. Just... Barb
I have a feeling I'll be watching this multiple times in between now and next summer. Hopefully with some people I plan to introduce to it.