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[Stranger Things] The Rollerskate Of Justice (Season 4 OPEN SPOILERS)
Melkster
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I went in totally blind, and I highly recommend that you do the same. The less you know about the show the better. It'll surprise you, and you'll be delighted with every second.
Wish I could go back to Friday and start it over again.
It's very, very good.
Non-spoilery intro follows here. Putting it in spoilers because even the campaign poster -- though cool -- gives a few things away. If you're at all curious about the show, open a new tab, go to www.netflix.com, close every other tab, and come back after at least the first episode. :P
New show on Netflix, came out 15 July 2016
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/07/16/drop-what-youre-doing-and-watch-stranger-things-on-netflix-right-now
Wish I could go back to Friday and start it over again.
It's very, very good.
Non-spoilery intro follows here. Putting it in spoilers because even the campaign poster -- though cool -- gives a few things away. If you're at all curious about the show, open a new tab, go to www.netflix.com, close every other tab, and come back after at least the first episode. :P
New show on Netflix, came out 15 July 2016
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/07/16/drop-what-youre-doing-and-watch-stranger-things-on-netflix-right-now
Here's the setup: Stranger Things is set in Hawkins, Indiana in the mid-'80s. It revolves around the sudden and inexplicable disappearance of a local boy named Will, who vanishes into thin air one night after seeing something strange in the woods. The very next morning, a terrified young girl in a hospital gown stumbles into town. Unable to speak and seemingly baffled by everything around her, this girl (who we'll come to know as "Eleven") joins forces with Will's pals to help track their friend down and find out where she came from.
Stranger Things cherry-picks the best of both King and Spielberg with dizzyingly awesome results. It's expertly-plotted, stylishly-directed, creepy, funny, touching, and a million other things. I don't know who the Duffer brothers are, but I'm enormously impressed with what they've done here, and I'm here today to give their show my strongest recommendation. Carve out eight hours or so for Stranger Things, the best show to hit Netflix in some time, and I'm almost positive you'll thank me for it.
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Anyone else seen the whole thing yet?
Full season spoiler questions follow--
ONLY CLICK THIS IF YOU'VE SEEN THE WHOLE THING >:(
The Demogorgon -- What was the deal with that monster exactly? Characters seemed to insinuate it was like a bear, and it did seem attracted to blood for some reason. But it clearly wasn't like a normal predator... It didn't immediately devour Will or Barb. It brought them back to its lair, the school swimming pool it looked like. And then seemed to implant them with something. Maybe its form of reproduction? If so, then what were the egg things?
If it is some kind of reproduction... Will is in trouble. I guess things aren't over for him -- seemed like in the bathroom there, that he wasn't 100% in the real world, somehow?
Then El touched it, which made it aware of our dimension or something and it opened the portal... which made the Upside Down start to take the shape of our dimension.
Getting facehugged and surviving seems to connect you to the Upside Down, which clearly can't be a Good Thing.
Also, I love that name. The Upside Down.
Full season spoilers
Re: Being touched by the Demo. Maybe it goes both ways. You touch something living in the other world, then you get connected. The Demogorgon got touched by El, allowing it get here, and Will got touched by it, and now he can go there?
Re: The Demo's natural habitat. I don't think El had direct access to The Upside Down. She was a flea that wasn't quite able to fully cross over to another side. What she could do was enter some kind of in-between state -- the water-filled world -- where she could hone in on other individuals if she focused on them. I suspect that the Demo's natural habitat was the one we saw -- a variation of our world where something had gone horribly, horribly wrong. Like the science teacher said -- infinite dimensions, right? Infinite variations on all the worlds that exist. El touched a dimension where the Demogorgon had come into being. Maybe there, crazy scientists came up with some kind of biological super predator, and it got out of hand on their world and ate everyone. It just so happened that El got distracted while spying on Russians, saw this crazy thing from another dimension, and ... led to the events of the show.
Full Season Spoilers. Seriously
It seems to implied to me that El is alive, but I'm curious where she is. Maybe shes living in a (hopefully somewhat changed Upside Down) and makes jaunts to get food in the regular world. Or maybe shes completely incorporeal now.
Also the Sheriff seems to have something up with him. I'm thinking maybe ex goverment/military spook or something? He got in that car with people the people at the end like he knew them. He said SOMETHING to the goons of the Hawkins Institute that made them believe and trust him about El's location, he seemed pretty good at disarming and beating up trained spooks, and he seemed pretty damn comfortable holding that gun while in Upside Down.
Was worried I was gonna start derailing the Netflix thread.
I haven't finished the series yet, but
People coming in and out of the house. People living in their house. They're none the wiser.
Rewatching the beginning of the first episode
Ohhh, I'm dumb. For some reason I thought "The Basement" in the Dept. of Energy building was itself part of the Upside Down. But it's not -- it's just a basement. The portal itself is a hole in the side of the basement.
I also didn't fully appreciate the timeline. Eleven discovering the Demo and opening a portal into the Upside Down and escaping all happened at the same time, and it happened the night that Will encountered the Demo.
Also, I think some of the goo we see in the Dept of Energy in Episode One is the result of a firefight with the monster... Definitely didn't get that before.
One thing that seems weird--how the hell did Will, a little boy, fight off the demo? Maybe he was able to shoot it? Ah yeah, the rifle isn't in the shed. He must've shot it. And yeah, the government guys did find some monster residue on the ceiling of the shack.
So I'm guessing he got pulled into the other side, shot the demo, and then he was able to successfully hide from it. From there he was able to talk to his mom, until lack of food and the toxic environment of the Upside Down wore him down, and he hid in his fort until later in the season.
Okay cool. Don't think I figured all that out til now...
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Wow this is good!
It wasn't without flaw, but I really enjoyed the whole series. I hope they make more.
The title "Stranger Things" sounds like anthology to me. It's not really tied to any of the characters, the setting, or even the plot. Sort of like "The Twilight Zone", or "The Outer Limits". To that end, I don't think this story necessarily needs a continuation. I would be just as happy with a completely new story of similar or better quality for season 2.
Random comments about (mostly) the finale:
I loved the kids' courage and attitude in the finale. I laughed out loud at them screaming "eat shit!" at the soldiers, and I couldn't help cheering when they were cornered by the monster and mounted a fierce defense - with slingshots and rocks.
Regarding El, my reading of the ending is that she's now in the Upside Down by herself, which is kind of horrifying. And just like the monster was drawn to our world by blood, El is able to cross over in search of Eggos? Or, maybe that's just what Chief Hopper thinks/hopes/fears is the case. I dunno.
I hope she stays asleep a while longer because I couldn't help but keep watching. This is damn good.
Edit: she stayed down through episode 2!
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Also mild finale spoilers
So I'm guessing we might see a different small town with sudden monster problems, and El showing up again as the common thread.
But there was also Will coughing up that thingie that went down the drain...
As a non-American, I am used to seeing the American flag backwards on law enforcement/military uniforms
Is there a reason why they are not in this series?
Not-really-a-spoiler Season Spoiler:
I agree with the sentiment expressed by you and others that it feels like it would be better off as an anthology series. I'd be a little concerned with whether it's possible to maintain this degree of 80's homage without it become a burden for a series to maintain, but I do think it would be sort of interesting to see them try to explore an alternate history in which this sort of dimensional overlay is a factor, but not necessarily something that results in frequently dealing with blood-thirsty monsters.
Seriously kid, get a haircut.
...an' get off my lawn.
http://screencrush.com/netflix-stranger-things-season-2-sequel/
That sounds like 'Anthology with connecting threads' to me
also WHY ARE YOU KEEPING THIS CURIOSITY DOOR CLOSED
PARKER, YOU'RE FIRED! <-- My comic book podcast! Satan look here!
"Mr. Clarke, what kind of side effects would you expect if you were to accidentally ingest several psychotropic drugs?"
"Mr. Clarke, how would you unsummon a demonic presence? Theoretically."
"Mr. Clarke, do you know anything about time loops? Specifically how to break them?"
nononono
you liked the music very gooderino pls decline accurately
i finished show it was fun but felt ending was a little anticlimactic but was overall good
i kind of liked the anticlimax
like rent this from your local video store and show your friends. maybe there will be a sequel one day. it completed the feel.
I would be 100% okay with a True Detective style anthology, where we see a totally different part of the country in perhaps a whole different time period.
Or heck I would be okay with this being a one season deal and giving the show runners mountains of cash to make literally whatever they want next.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
he has 80s version of Jean-Ralphio hair
edit: and face, kind of
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It is a month later.
I didn't notice but which shoulder were they on? The stars are always forward, so it mimics a flag flying, left and right arm patches are different although it should look "backwards" in both cases.
Most likely the wardrobe folks just got it wrong.
EDIT: Oh on the sheriff uniform....police frequently wear the flag that way. The always moving forward thing is one of those kinda dumb military reasons for the way something is.
staring all sadly at her previous fortbed which he has clearly kept up
he probably sleeps in there every night thinking about her puhleeze it's first love yo
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I really loved how
Will is trying to hide his pregnancy. Nothing good can come of this.
Steve's hair didn't get sent back to the Upside Down where it clearly belongs.
I get why everyone says this needs to be an anthology, but these things will haunt me forever if this is how it's left.
I shouldn't have watched it in one sitting, but Netflix tried to kick me off.
You can't tell me what to do!
Ending:
I mean, I'm guessing if there is a follow up, this does not end well for him.
Also, side note: the music selection for this is great. I want to find somewhere with the Peter Gabriel cover of Heroes for sale, certainly.
It's from his relatively recent album of covers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_My_Back
Shouldn't be too hard to find.