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

that'll be in the sequel, E.T. Commando

Commandic Gump, E.T.

starring the guy that played the dad on Alf

For some reason I thought he (Max Wright) was dead, but he's just been sick.

disappointing that the stranger things monster wasn't alf, would have really contributed to the textural richness of its lattice of reference points

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).

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

ha

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.

In the ALF comics, he technically lives in the Marvel Universe, so maybe he'll cameo in the next Avengers movie?

would pay good money for an alf / modok roadtrip comedy

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

They could maybe use cats as bait, in stranger things, and accidentally catch alf.

I'm devastated that I can't find any ALF/MODOK mash-up art online. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.

*must not make 'alf wants to eat modam's pussy' joke*

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 mentioned
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/06/20/04/29C8D7FB00000578-3131715-image-a-37_1434772329336.jpg

The ALF set was all built on a raised stage with tons of holes and slots concealed in its floor, so that the puppeteers could race around and have ALF pop up where he needed to be, or have him 'walk' across short distances.

The space underneath the set, guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0K0VpPjMjQ

A super easy, super tired gag at this point, but still effective imo

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 mentioned

That and the parts in Permanent Midnight where Jerry Stahl is writing ALF while completely strung out on heroin.

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_odb54zJYQX1uh91oc_480.mp4#_=_

There's something I find awesome in Tangerine Dream responding to this show and its soundtrack by putting out their own covers & reworks of music that wouldn't exist were it not for their own work decades earlier.

http://pitchfork.com/news/68221-tangerine-dream-covers-stranger-things-soundtrack-listen/

https://m.soundcloud.com/tangerinedreamofficial2015

it's like a (dieter) moebius strip!

So Tangerine Dream recorded songs inspired by the songs in the show inspired by Tangerine Dream? That's funny.

Who is td at this point? Jerome froese and...?

Josh Freese.

that's so rad

love some tangerine dream albums

"Who is td at this point? Jerome froese and...?"

"Josh Freese."

and Josh Wink. sometimes they do secret shows as Triple J.

I thought ulrich schnauss was in td as well?

Thorsten Quaeschning - keyboards, drums, vocals, guitar (2005–present)
Hoshiko Yamane - violin, cello (2011–present)
Ulrich Schnauss - synthesizer, piano (2014–present)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs8LOhzWEAAo3yQ.jpg

god these kids are awesome

http://www.factmag.com/2016/09/19/s-u-r-v-i-v-e-survive-mix/?

i did say this:

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

― goole, Monday, August 15, 2016 2:02 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but tbr the growing social media cult around these kids is creeping me out

social media is a 24/7 creepout, why would this be any different

I haven't looked at clickhole in an eternity but they must have ruined stranger things as an internet thing by now right? I thought about badass women and cars every single time any internet person said anything about mad max

xp yeah true

i'm not really on social media so i'm being spared

http://www.clickhole.com/article/so-cool-obama-just-invited-kids-stranger-things-jo-4863

Will Byers gets tortured some more in the new Panic at the Disco video.

I watched three eps of this, and it was appealing in a way but I did not really feel compelled to continue because it just felt overly forumlaic and contrived to please certain demographics, like a middling IPA.

At least you stuck around long enough to get the Barb references.

Like I get that it is *playing with genre conventions* (omg no way the virgin gets captured by the monster instead of the girl who has sex!), but it even does that in a formulaic way.

Also, I kept thinking of
http://i.onionstatic.com/onion/8573/original/800.jpg

I would watch more of it, just don't feel that binge-watching urge that the best shows have.

My biggest gripe is STILL that they used The Bangles' version of "Hazy Shade of Winter" in a scene set in autumn 1983.

i 100% agree and the ipa metaphor is apt.

I guess I still have this snobby reflex against the current era of prestige tv and other yuppie-aimed cultural products where it used to feel like there was a cultural space where you could get away from art that feels designed by committee, but now it's like they just have more targeted and more refined committees that have our number.

I mean, it's a show on Netflix. Also, middling IPAs are by far the best thing at the liquor store on the corner. Except when they have Lagunitas, which is not middling.

I guess I don't really get the 'formulaic' criticism. I don't think they set out to do something avant-garde but this seems less formulaic to me than e.g. most romcoms or comic-book movies or shows (even Luke Cage so far).

if it weren't for the zeitgeist constantly churning this show back into my mind i probably would've m/l forgotten i even watched this.