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

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cnct06yUIAAzUFB.jpg

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

totally, and unlike the british children's tv of my youth, where everyone looks they've been locked under the stairs for a decade

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?

― how's life, Monday, 15 August 2016 17:46 (3 hours ago) Permalink

More than one!

xpost oh god that is otm

lol if you pause the title sequence at just the right time, you get a bit of subliminal advertising

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpzBMK8WgAA4Sum.jpg

no you don't

no two H's or a W in

I just laugh at what twitter tells me to laugh at.

It's been about a month since I binged the whole thing, so I'd forgotten that the title pretty much comes together in right angles. It's obv shopped. Now I must fall on my sword.

i was gonna say

fp'd u Johnny Fever for being gullible

it's a pretty good shop, tho!

solidarity - it got me too

hey guys i just heard that today is the day mikey mcwheel travels back in time to in "stranger things," pretty crazy stuff huh?

Haha, I just remembered this: https://twitter.com/PFTompkins/status/754010500279566336

Paul F. Tompkins ‏@PFTompkins Jul 15
"Time's almost up, you two. Those stage names ready yet?"
"Almost there."
You have 5 seconds left."
"SHIT."

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