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Things are getting Stranger all the time
BlankZoe
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Season 2 of this show is out!
I'm only through Episode 5 but it's real good so far!
Let's all talk about how amazing Steve's hair is!
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my one wish is that they would chill on the music cues just a little bit. just a bit, now
Which makes sense obviously but gets a bit much
all the music just kinda beats you over the head. I like the score but it was just blippin and bloopin away real loud trying to sell me way too hard on the emotion of the scene
On the flip, Dustin and Steve becoming total bros was great.
I thought he was pretty bad
There was just a tone of goofiness that came through that really didn't match the tone of the series as a whole for me. It was like he was acting for Wet Hot American Summer.
Standouts. Only minor spoilers but just in case:
My wife and I yelled OH NO STEVE! POOR STEVE! OH MY GOD ITS STEVE! so much and the recurring joke of people being surprised to see him was so much fun.
2) I continue to love Dustin and his actor.
3) 11 and Hopper's relationship was sweet, funny, sad, and overall amazing.
4) Dacre. Fucking. Montgomery.
I liked him fine in the power rangers film, but holy crap he is absolutely INCREDIBLE in this. Billy and Max didn't get all that much to do, but Dacre chews the scenery so fucking well that even though he's horrific it was so much fun every time he was on screen.
Likes!
The mind flayer was appropriately creepy. Especially when it was shown all shadowy through the gate as Jane was sealing it.
Steve's hair
The core kids. Still great, all the actors are great, they're great.
Steve giving Dustin hair care tips.
Paul Reiser. I expected him to be basically the same sort of jerkass doctor from last season, just a jerkass in a new way. Instead he was really just someone trying to clean up someone else's mess in the best way he could.
Steve and Dustin as bffs.
Lucas's family, especially Erika. She was delightful.
I was actually a fan of how they integrated Barb into the plot. Nancy knowing what happened, and seeing the pain Barb's parents were going through but not being able to do anything about it was really interesting.
Dislikes!
Jane's arc in general. Not a fan of how it little it was interwoven with the rest of the plot. I still really like the character, and there's a really great plot about growing up with those kinds of powers in there somewhere, but she was really detached from the rest of the show.
Max and her douchey, shirtless brother. They could have been removed from the show entirely and nothing at would have changed. I have no idea why they were in this show.
The way the immediate threat upgraded. "One demogorgon was mean, what if we just had them fight 100 of them?" The creepy vines under the city, with them spitting and oozing things and turning Hawkins into the upsidedown was much spookier.
The way Nancy tried to deal with the whole Barb thing. It was really weirdly done, reporter guy didn't fit into the rest of the plot at alln despite having an interesting introduction in episode 1. It was just way, way too easy to wrap that all up.
I get why they wanted to expand the world some, but I didn't really like how they did it.
Scrolling through my FB feed and glance at one of their post that links to an article about what ST needs to answer in season 3 and it contains a huge spoiler right in the fucking post.
We are tied and she is very smug
Season Spoilers
- Eleven + Eight's mini side trip I liked the least in the season, but I understand it's part of ElevenJane's overall development. All in all it's still getting a thumbs up for me.
- Honestly thought the new Doctor was just another shady government guy just with a smile, but turns out he's actually a decent dude trying to do the right thing but does not have all the information.
- Really wish Max did more, but it's the Party's own fault they kept shutting her off and in the dark.
- Really like what Nancy did for Dustin in the end, there.
Overall, I liked everyone's stories, but Will, Dustin and Steve are the highlights of season 2 for me.
watched through ep 4 now
and yeah the music is a BIT much, mostly I wish when they pick a song they'd stick to it, but instead we get like 10 seconds each of Talking In Your Sleep and Push It To The Limit and then fade out
It got so bad they could not find it on Netflix because they were searching for the wrong thing. This resulted in me and my sister relentlessly teasing them whenever we saw them about it, which culminated last Christmas when I got my dad a Michael Stackpole book of the same name as a gag.
Anyways, new season is good stuff so far
This show reminds me of it a little, what with the general horror theme and kids facing the supernatural and whatnot.
Like it just strains my credulity that people keep opening up on them with assault rifles and... nothin'. They don't even slow down. Hell, they don't even bleed as far as I've seen.
You’re not going to like episode 7.
Also it seems like you hate it anyways so probably just stop?
Doesn't hold a candle to the first season.
Steve/Dustin and Hopper/Eleven were both absolutely fantastic pairings that I loved to death. Everything about Hopper's growth as a reluctant father and Eleven realizing he genuinely cares about her hit home for me.
Overall I really liked it, maybe a little weaker than Season 1, but still a fuckin' great show
Not that it was bad but it felt like it was really dragging its feet in a lot of places.
And it seemed like they mostly just didn't know what to do with Nancy and Jonathan.
And Mad Max felt like she was kind of just... there. I mean I don't object to her being there or anything, but you could basically take her and her brother out entirely and nothing would change.
I stand by my belief that this show would've made a better anthology. This story didn't need a sequel.
I think Eleven's little detour to find out about her mom was... strange (heh). That whole episode with 8 felt like it was from a completely different show, and the "don't take my revenge from me! You're weak! You can't be weak because they'll just see you as a monster" schtick felt really hack-y and trope-y.
And it felt so strange for them to spread all the characters out into these little pairs, when the first season's arguably biggest strength was the chemistry between the four kids. This is what I mean when this season felt bloated; there were too many plates spinning and it felt like it could've used some more focus.
I like the idea mentioned that the threat could've evolved in a way that wasn't just "a demigorgon x 100." The slow rot and transformation of Hawkins into Upside-Down 2.0 would've been a great hook on its own, and the Mind Flayer would've made a great villain for that... if it didn't look so f u c k i n g goofy
I could go on. This was just a messy season of television. Hopper and Steve are the MVPs, though.
Which is amazing.
I personally didn't mind it it all. *shrug* I saw it as a tribute to all those 80s punk movies.
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