A thread for Stranger Things, the "Goonies meets X-Files" new Netflix series (with SPOILERS!)

another huge influence: Silent Hill

also the flower-faced monster getting doused in flames was pure Thing

xp i wouldn't be mad if they made a second season.

hey the synth band that did the soundtrack nailed the vibe so, so hard. they also scored "the guest," and more ppl should watch that movie if they dig 80s retro pastiche/homage. also, it has a RAD soundtrack beyond the original score.

slight quibble: monster looked shite

they didn't reeeeally have an idea for the alien actually but it's OK, it was enough that it was gonna gitcha

i've been watching the resident evil movies again (i like them!) and i always liked their plant zombies.

http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/resident-evil-afterlife-movie-image-22.jpg

and the skinless devil dogs of course.

man as soon as Mike started in with "you'll have all the Eggos you ever want!" I knew 11 was a certified goner

The sudden rehabilitation of Steve was really touching I thought. And I liked his swagger with the nail-bat.

emmy for steve please

EMMYS FOR EVERYONE

http://www.silenthillmemories.net/sh1/screens/pics/sh1_screen_09.jpg

hey but like

what about the funeral, and will's "body"

and the pathologist from "state" who presumably submitted an autopsy report?

and dr brenner?

and the trashed school?

how did the town process any of this information??

Love all the ineffectual and/or evil dads in this show. Especially Nancy and Mike's dad. Cracked me up every time he was on screen.

Sorry if this was already discussed but why did the chief put food, including eggos, in the box in the woods at the end? Is he sending food to El on the dark side somehow?

Is he sending food to El on the dark side somehow?

Tune into S2 to find out!

Things I totally loved about this show:

1) The kids, particularly Eleven and Dustin, and the teens.

2) The score and soundtrack in general.

3) That it avoids a bunch of obvious stuff (Sheriff and Winona fall in love, dorky kid gets girl, etc).

4) Any scene with the science teacher.

5) That despite being close to six hours long it still felt pretty tightly put together.

Things I didn't love:

1) Looks like there will be a sequel.

2) Hopper's "strategy" makes absolutely no sense (although I guess Modine was like who cares go into the stupid hole just save me some time).

3) As Tracer Hand notes the whole ending is a little "la la la" considering the level of mayhem...

Overall though this was probably the best Netflix series.

Neat article on the typography of the title card:

https://blog.nelsoncash.com/the-typography-of-stranger-things-e35771f40d31#.79trnn9z2

Feel silly I missed the obvious King homage, I was thinking of Carpenter instead, probably more due to the score.

My only very minor quibble, re the post above, is the skip one month and how reset everyone seemed. It feels like there should have been more fallout from what happened.

well it was Christmas. They were probably trying to put on a brave face

So, who does 11 remind me (you) of?

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/stranger-things-finale-duffer-brothers-interview-season-2-1201816664/

Matt: We talked about “Silent Hill,” the video games were an inspiration, and “Alien” was an inspiration, in terms of the look.

:D

font also quite reminiscent of this: http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1306028600l/190958.jpg

:-) Has someone recently added that to the References in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITC_Benguiat

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Smiths_-_Strangeways_here_we_come.jpg

Did anyone else laugh when the monster was on the floor literally burning to death and then eyebrow kid suddenly comes in WITH A FIRE EXTINGUISHER like "oh here let me get that for you buddy, all better? great"

i was sorta like, wait why are you putting him out

I assumed they didnt want the whole house to burn to the ground?

I made the same assumption

lol ok that makes sense. still he was a little on the rare side i thought

oh yeah it's definitely still funny I was correct to laugh

I'd have left it on a little longer but I am probably guilty of being over-cautious with unstoppable interdimensional monsters

Are we assuming the monster is male btw? The characters called it a "man w no face" at one point iirc but that's a pretty terrible description all round so we can prob discount it as poor eyewitnessing

I kind of think of unstoppable interdimensional monsters as being gender neutral.

So, who does 11 remind me (you) of?

Charlie/Firestarter
Ripley from Alien III for the look
Tetsuo from Akira

Young ScarJo?
https://goo.gl/images/MB0cnG

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/ff/20/6f/ff206f00e534054b952001a9ee1d8163.jpg

okay so i know 11 is hardcore leggo my eggo but surely modine fed her something else during the 12 years she was in the govt facility.

by the way the supermarket scene was badass

Probably soylent protein gruel 7d/w in the facility

11 is gonna grow up to be the lead singer of the band Savages.

"okay so i know 11 is hardcore leggo my eggo but surely modine fed her something else during the 12 years she was in the govt facility."

see i don't think she got anything like that living in the lab and that's why she wanted the junk food all the time.

Yeah

Soybean paste fortified with lsd

vs whatever the fuck an eggo is

how did the town process any of this information??

idk, it reminded me of how at the end of Buffy episodes all the townsfolk just go on about their lives like it's not at all weird that the world almost ends every couple weeks.

11 is Imperator Furiosa, surely?

font also quite reminiscent of this: http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1306028600l/190958.jpg

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, July 30, 2016 12:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's the most bored looking kid fantasy hero that I've ever seen! Dude is like, "I'd rather be hitting the bong and listening to Return to Forever".

i thought this was really lovely

contextually it did help that all the other big-ticket neflix shows (OITNB, JJ) have left me totally cold. i liked how clear and focused this was.

i didn't mind the shaggy ending either; showing the loose ends is what an episodic show ought to do.

so, Hop is a fed now?