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

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

But you weren't bothered by the Moby tune from 1995 in the final episode?

Both were clearly used as non-diegetic music, not something the characters were listening to.

The scene with 'Atmosphere' was the most tonally jarring imo.

I think it says a lot about the show that I remember it fondly despite the stupid fucking Moby tune at the end

I was just thinking of when the monster is coming through the wall at the house for the first time - that was some good old creepy shit. And when the sheriff gulps and pauses before he cuts open the fake corpse at the morgue, and you're like oh gross this is going to be awful and nope, it's a rubber doll filled with cotton stuffing, what did you expect, you idiot?

Yeah that was good :)

And yeah the meat-wall was scarier than any other incarnation by far

saw on msn.com that one of the more popular costumes this year will be

https://i.imgur.com/ryODdGb.jpg

Moby song was great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XPpm-igsRE

^^ that is really good.

two decent gags in a three minute video

I wish they hadn't given it the misleading subtitle 'A Gagfest'.

Three minutes and only one dance scene? Ridiculous.

http://www.interrobangstudios.com/images/comics/52b7a4e336078.jpg

I'd be interested in your thoughts about pop culture reappropriation sometime, Whiney. You're so uncharacteristically reticent to hold forth on that particular subject!

I'd be not interested in your thoughts about this EPIC MASH-UP of Calvin and Hobbes and Star Wars

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/12/star-wars-force-awakens-calvin-and-hobbes-mashup

DAE enjoy sharing quotes of movies like Anchorman with friends?

Only in E.T. voices for extra epic bacon

"Ellioooooottt... I love scotch. Scotchy scotch scotch."

The piano gag needed a synthwave "Linus and Lucy".

I'm pitching a Robot Chicken spinoff that's basically the same show except that instead of action figures it'll be stop motion animation of mustachioed bacon and cupcakes in pirate costumes acting out Family Guy scenes while Buffy footage is projected behind them. They're only planning to run as many episodes as it takes to make Whiney's head explode.

http://comicsalliance.com/files/2012/08/lwa26b.jpg

i just saw that the other day and i had no other place to put it...

also, uh, this...

http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/0/4/69864-11651-102862-1-jughead-as-captain-h.jpg

lol, there are 6 archie threads on ilx...

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

cc whiney

Our local nerd-targeting bar, Side Quest, had its annual Halloween party/costume contest on Saturday and this group won:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14908420_1270068886378818_1533600651443614785_n.jpg?oh=e5903f329441a6c20d47aec56425a1ef&oe=5899D093

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/stranger-things-inside-austins-synth-explosion-w447262

:)

Nice! Switched On is an awesome store, they repaired my PreSonus recording interface.

I coveted all the cool synths while I was there

Trailer for Season 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Egf5U8xLo8

lol at lack of response

must admit I am half-intrigued half-dreading

I like the glimpse of Lovecraftian beastie

I'm very excited about this, although I admit the Ghostbusters costumes seem a little too much. Was hoping it would be another summer show though. Halloween seems forever away.

this show was mostly garbage

you're garbage

Mostly.

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsH/7829.gif

ok lol

I'm not gonna watch that trailer, probably more fun to guess what super-obscure stuff they can rip-off this time like Gremlines or War Games

Theres almost zero content in that trailer

maybe they can have special glasses to see the upside down xp

Theres almost zero content in that trailer

cool, just like the show!

Shhh, I'm trying to come up with a "Gremlines" joke. It involves Nick Cannon, Phoebe Cates and heavy Photoshop work.

Trailer double downs on the intertexuality. As much as I like this show, it's crazy how hyped people get for nostalgia pablum.

lol Phil

The people I know most into this show are 12, tbh, so the fact that they are so into it despite not getting most of the references says ... something. Maybe that it's successful for the same reasons the stuff it references/rips off was successful?

It worked for us re: the 50s during the 80s

You mean, like, the Stray Cats?

the outsiders ?