I think there's a weird tendency to sneer at or disregard women in domestic roles (e.g. Winona in this show) as if they're inferior, invisible or immaterial to the story. That seems especially strange with this show when it has three really awesome, active central female characters (Winona, 11, Nancy), with only one in a traditional domestic role. Hopefully more for Faye Miller next season tho?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbqiN9hHyJo
― nashwan, Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Was sightly thrown by Eleven's english accent there, for some reason.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
She has an American accent in the show
― Number None, Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
That might be it
Thanks.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Thursday, 1 September 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
lol
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 September 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
Is this the worst thread on ilx or are the ones for tv shows I don't watch worse?
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 1 September 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
might i suggest the Community thread to help you get a baseline reading
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
the lost threads should be stapled to the barbed wire when we finally abandon this place for good
― Clay, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
ilx ruins everything I enjoy, tbrh. I stopped reading ilm years ago because of.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 1 September 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
how exactly does ilx ruin the things you love?
― circa1916, Thursday, 1 September 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
yes let's have this convo now
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 1 September 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/KOEc8ca7DELmw/giphy.gif
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 1 September 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQt9tM3fWsY
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 1 September 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
omg at Eleven rapping
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 1 September 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
finally got around to watching this last week. did 3 episodes on Wednesday, 5 on Friday. first time my girlfriend and i have binge-watched a show, fucking draining experience, very much like overindulging in drugs. at least on the second night. anyway, loved this show, but two things really bugging me that haven't been extensively discussed here:
1) Fuck Steve. To whoever said upthread that Steve is "basically more or less reasonable 80-90% of the time" - are you high? Steve is not only an idiot, he's an aggressive asshole, up through the end (when he tries to bust into the Byers house, sees Nancy's hand, then looks at Jonathan and screams "DID HE DO THIS TO YOU??????" He's a Grade A asshole in every scene, and while I appreciate the show avoiding annoying cliches and tropes, I'm shocked that so many people are basically OK with Steve. What the fuck? I hope he gets gored in season 2.
2) I have a hard time believing the town going back to normal so quickly, although as someone else pointed out, the ending takes place during Xmas, so they were probably just putting on a brave face. The bodies at the school could've been cleaned up quick, but what about the architectural damage?
3) No one cares about Barb and her mom only shows up once. Before I watched the show, I saw soooooooo many memes about Barb and how awesome she was/how much she sucked. She's a pretty distinctive type, and I think her sudden absence was intentional, to start some Internet hysteria...
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 September 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
Steve might be my favourite character.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Sunday, 4 September 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
And I think he is morally complex! If you see him as a Biff Tannen-type bully jock, I think you're missing a lot.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Sunday, 4 September 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
But he's really, really dumb and a raging asshole. At no point does he redeem himself - the whole "need a hand?" thing with the marquee was just nauseating.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 4 September 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
he tries to bust into the Byers house, sees Nancy's hand, then looks at Jonathan and screams "DID HE DO THIS TO YOU??????"
I just rewatched this scene. He really doesn't scream that line. I don't think it's a wildly unreasonable thing to wonder of a woman who is visibly injured and making weak excuses for it when you know she has been spending time with a weird stalker-ish guy. Forcing his way into the house might be beyond the pale. The circumstances were pretty exceptional, though, and it's not exactly the worst thing someone did in the series.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Sunday, 4 September 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
Not to keep the discourse churning, but I like this article's take on the series's gender politics, and it seems relevant to the question of Barb's (probably unintended) appeal:
People like Barb, because she’s the nerd girl, the point of access for a part of the audience neglected by this Boys’ Own Show. She is at least the beginnings of a character we could be happily attached to, the possibility of a show that honored female friendship as much as male friendship, and as much as heterosexual romance. People like Barb in defiance of what Stranger Things says is important, in defiance of her cut short existence and her lack of development. Liking Barb is the finding/making our place that fans do, attaching ourselves to characters who are underserved by the narrative, that resonate for we parts of the audience that are underserved by the narrative. Liking Barb, or Eleven, or Joyce, or Nancy is about making Stranger Things better than it sets out to be.
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2016/09/01/the-cool-girls-missing-girls-of-stranger-things/
― one way street, Sunday, 4 September 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
I liked Barb as on-the-nose visual shorthand of a very particular nerdy '80s type. She didn't have the opportunity to be much of a character though so, yeah, I think the hype is a little overblown.
The actress is going to be playing Ethel on the forthcoming Riverdale show, FYI.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 September 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
http://images1.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Square-Pegs-cast-square-pegs-1268226_285_290.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 September 2016 06:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLdQc53Glbw
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
hey but likewhat 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??
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??
It was all over the papers at least.
http://i.imgur.com/Gsc1die.png
― mick signals, Thursday, 8 September 2016 03:24 (seven years ago) link
Kinda sad the show was set up as yet another guys-in-suits-walking-slowly conspiracy type series, let alone that there will be another season. It probably would have worked better as a stand-alone mini-series type event, not least because it is so redolent of "It" and "Firestarter" and other adapted (and equally erratic) Stephen King works.
Would have been a funny ET callback if instead of Modine they cast Peter Coyote. Maybe too old, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 September 2016 11:51 (seven years ago) link
Don't fret: they're planning to replace all of the guns with flashlights for the home video release.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 September 2016 12:00 (seven years ago) link
I think it would be awesome if shows like this quietly retroactively altered or replaced things in past episodes, just to mess with people and/or reward anyone rematching. Like, in season 3 have someone say "whatever happened to my lucky octopus," and then you go back and rewatch an episode from the first season and they've inserted a scene with a lucky octopus. Just to mess with nitpickers and also, you know, space/time continuum/alternate dimension. Or even sneak in a stand-alone episode under a different name, somewhere on Netflix, that is just a humming "stream" of the parallel dimension, where every once in a while a creature or kid wanders by.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 September 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
Your first idea sounds like stuff that didn't work well when George Lucas did it. Second idea kinda neat.
― how's life, Thursday, 8 September 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
kinda like the futurama dvd set that has a full-length episode of everybody loves hypnotoad
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 8 September 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
I was thinking subtle on the former, just little retroactive Easter eggs.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 September 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
I think it would be kind of great if they did a VHS release and added that. Although Spielberg would probably sue at that point and Whiney's head would implode.
― Position Position, Thursday, 8 September 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
that'll be in the sequel, E.T. Commando
― Neanderthal, Friday, 9 September 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
Commandic Gump, E.T.
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 September 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
starring the guy that played the dad on Alf
― Neanderthal, Friday, 9 September 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
For some reason I thought he (Max Wright) was dead, but he's just been sick.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Friday, 9 September 2016 12:21 (seven years ago) link
disappointing that the stranger things monster wasn't alf, would have really contributed to the textural richness of its lattice of reference points
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Friday, 9 September 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
Unfortunately, ALF is busy appearing on another current show (which I don't want to name for the sake of those who have yet to have their minds melted by ALF's appearance on said show).
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 September 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
bit early to say that the monster isn't alf - i live in hope that we'll see this scene in s2
https://s3.amazonaws.com/stranger-things-netflix/adb97419-2859-42b8-9243-475ef97b1a01.gif
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 September 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
ha
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 September 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link
Was looking for a visual description of Melmac to confirm that it is in fact the Upside Down and came across some crucial info:
In the original version of the theme song, the line "'Cause there ain't no one like you in the Melmacian race" was sung "'Cause there ain't nobody like you in the Melmacian race," where the word "Melmacian" was pronounced in three syllables as MEL-may-shin. Reasons for this are unknown, but the second version of the song (as shown in the lyrics above) uses the 4-syllable pronunciation of "mel-MACK-ee-yan" for which a precedent was set in the ALF TV series.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 September 2016 12:53 (seven years ago) link
In the ALF comics, he technically lives in the Marvel Universe, so maybe he'll cameo in the next Avengers movie?
― Tuomas, Friday, 9 September 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
would pay good money for an alf / modok roadtrip comedy
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 September 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Alf could be a villain in the next Avengers and in the climax, when surrounded with nowhere to go, he yells "I *KILL* ME!" and jumps off of the building
― Neanderthal, Friday, 9 September 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
They could maybe use cats as bait, in stranger things, and accidentally catch alf.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Friday, 9 September 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
I'm devastated that I can't find any ALF/MODOK mash-up art online. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 September 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
*must not make 'alf wants to eat modam's pussy' joke*
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 September 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
I never watched ALF but for some reason remember seeing this issue of the National Enquirer when it came out so the dad being a crack addict is all I can think about when I hear it mentionedhttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/06/20/04/29C8D7FB00000578-3131715-image-a-37_1434772329336.jpg
― joygoat, Friday, 9 September 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link