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

ok, that was a stupid way of putting it. I'm saying I have known teenagers who looked like her and have not worried about them.

The actress is 19, and you can find pictures of her from the last few years online. I wish her well.

xp

As did my wife and I, to the point I began questioning the producers' judgment in hiring her. Like, why validate someone who's obviously abusing themselves? It's a slippery slope I guess, but after a while, it was hard to notice anything else about her in the show.

― Dominique, Monday, August 15, 2016 12:17 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is not a good post

in fact, it is a bad post

yeah, armchair diagnosing people with serious diseases is nagl. Neither is body policing. She could really just be skinny!

Srsly. I've seen dangerously skinny people before. I never once thought this was that while watching the show. Did you guys not ever know a gawky angular teenager before?

Yeah, this is just a weird variation on finding non-acting reasons to pick on female actors, this time under the veil of "concern".

I hope so, it just seems unlikely. the whole culture of trying to be as skinny as possible seems weird to me, and when I see someone who looks like that, it's hard not to imagine what they're going through to do it

yeah, yeah, point counterpoint. Go look at her in "I Believe in Unicorns", filmed two years earlier. Watch her facial elasticity or arm musculature there and compare it to Stranger Things. She is a terrific actress and I was able to enjoy her performance. But.

Cool, well as long as it's not just random guys policing women's weight, that's fine.

Sorry, am I policing weight or seeking out non-acting reasons to pick on her? I'm getting confused. Of course, there are no unhealthy pressures on young actresses that would drive them to eating disorders, what am I thinking?

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/natalia-dyer-attends-the-i-believe-in-unicorns-new-york-premiere-at-picture-id475196852

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/546344842-actress-natalia-dyer-attends-the-premiere-of-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=X7WJLa88Cweo9HktRLaNXsfGs2ZstcR4XGNVF8RhCDvGqsozAKlnoqmLJOd1zMWsW4RcjwwM2s%2FwzSJ0%2FFimHw%3D%3D

There is no significant difference between those two pictures that cannot be explained by "aging from 16 to 19 years old."

Dunno what you're seeing there, you pro-ana weirdo, but let's just leave it.

You probably need to step away from the internet for today.

At least the parts centered around interacting with other people.

For you, and only for you, I'll stay.

not really getting the policing thing either. To me, it's seeing someone who looks like they're suffering, and not being able to get past it for the sake of entertainment. Nothing to do w/her acting, which like the rest of the cast, seemed good to me.

obv I don't *know* anything about this person other than her name, character and what I see on the screen. In that respect, yeah, this is an armchair, gut-feeling kind of thing. But it certainly isn't about judging her for the way she looks, it's more about empathy for someone who might be suffering, especially considering how often that kind of suffering is rewarded in the entertainment industry.

TWU is probably just mad that she has spoken out about how pointless personal trainers are

no, it's more like hermeneutic certainty; i have interpreted this young woman's body, like a hieroglyph, correctly. TWU, you getting super-aggro in this thread lends that certainty an offputting quality.

i think in general, assuming you can undertand what's inside a person you don't know from how they look on the outside is poor form.

aaaaaanyway the little kids on this show are my favorite thing to ever happen.

Horseshoe OTM. Thanks be to you concerned men, for shitting all over this thread.

I'm more concerned about her TV boyfriend, who has clearly been pressured into sporting a hairdo that threatens the structural integrity of his cervical vertebrae.

i think that kid kind of looks like river phoenix!

otm

well... I certainly have more thoughts on this, but in the interest of not shitting on an ILE tv show thread, will board them up

xxxp he reminded me, in style if not in substance, of jean-ralphio from parks and rec

Everyone's so good it's hard to pick out people no one's mentioned yet, but I would like to rep for the Chester Rushing (real name!) who does an amazing job of being an even bigger shithead than the up-until-that-point principal shithead Steve (aka Jean Ralphio).

I would also like to rep for Steve's Christmas sweater in the final few minutes.

My school was *full* of fucking cackling Iagos like that guy.

x-post: Nah, it's you righteous fuckers certain that genuine concern is not possible and taking my expressions of it as a controlling diagnosis that made the last few lines of this thread shitty. There are no pathologies, everything is ok except thinking not everything is ok, which is really not ok. God bless you all.

xxxp he reminded me, in style if not in substance, of jean-ralphio from parks and rec

― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, August 15, 2016 1:40 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw that someone said this upthread (maybe you?) and it's the exact thought I had when I first saw him.

the other boyf is the river phoenix one. the one who looks like river phoenix.

right! sorry to be unclear. steve is totally jean-ralphio.

it's a fainter resemblance but to complete the 80s yearning package natalia dyer does have a bit of mia sara about her

Uhh, just learned that Finn Wolfhard, the actor who played Mike, is Richie Tozier in the upcoming IT movie.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJCA1gVjzdq/

this whole deal is so immensely well cast, it's still p astonishing to me. what a bunch of lucky picks.

what a bunch of lucky picks.

are we still talking about the skinny girl's arm musculature?

somewhere, probably

Uhh, just learned that Finn Wolfhard, the actor who played Mike, is Richie Tozier in the upcoming IT movie.

That reminds me, Time Out had an "if you like that you might like this" for Stranger Things where they recommended IT, with the caveat that the show improved on it by not having a scene where the kids had group sex in a cave.

Have any of the recent editions of IT improved on that scene by excising it entirely? I know King has gone back and changed elements of The Stand and the Dark Tower.

yeah, it's all done via Snapchat in the latest version

IT could use a better adaptation than the one that currently exists, but I can't help but think that, even with the inclusion of Finn Wolfhard, this show is going to be hard to top re: a well-cast group of kids who will have to pretty much carry the remake.

great show

i know i said that ages ago but i felt like reiterating. i actually watched it twice through.

just want to repeat

Finn Wolfhard

It's the best actor name I've encountered since learning that Armie Hammer's real name is (seriously) Armand Hammer.

My two favourite actor names: Mimsy Farmer and Randy Mantooth.

Thank you for adding substance to my life.

are we still talking about the skinny girl's arm musculature?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, August 15, 2016 12:03 PM (1 hour ago)

skinny girl = cocaine

I was rooting for Steve to get horribly beheaded, but once he saw the monster & got the living shit scared of him I found him hilarious & ultimately kinda likeable

i dont know what that says about me

also i like how all of the attractive ppl are attractive in a Canadian public television /Degrassi Jr High kind of way where they still look like ppl you kinda know irl

It's the best actor name I've encountered since learning that Armie Hammer's real name is (seriously) Armand Hammer.

Pre-wiki, i had an argument that lasted for about a year over whether the tycoon Armand Hammer (who is Armie's great-grandfather) was a real person or some kind of made-up Col. Sanders style corporate avatar which was only resolved by me finding a photo of his tombstone.