That’s supposed to be MDMA right? Was that around in 85?
― frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
MDMA has been around since the early 20th century
but I don't think it was supposed to be MDMA
― Number None, Monday, 15 July 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
finished tonight, show continues to be insanely watchable and very silly if you spend even one minute thinking about it after it's over. it looked great and a lot of the action scenes were really well done. they have an amazing cast that just keeps getting better. the steve/robin chemistry was so good.
and i won't remember a thing that happened by the time season 4 starts up.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
Yeah Steve/Robin was the best thing in the series so far
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
Even if all the rest of these meanies are gonna pretend to ignore it, I'll admit that I noticed your pass-agg performative bitching, shakes, don't worry, we didn't forget that you hate things
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
shakey thank you for consistently delivering dramatic tension
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 04:48 (four years ago) link
I am prehistoric, but I can't help but think that the mall fight would have been more impressive looking with a non-CGI monster and actual pyrotechnics.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
MDMA was definitely around in '85 and being discussed seriously as a drug used in psychotherapy. I think they just lazily invented a mixture of MDMA and sodium pentothal because the side effects of an SP overdose aren't fun.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
Non-Stop Ecstastic Dancing from 1982 famously inspired and made under the influence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_Stop_Ecstatic_Dancing
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
one thing that I noticed this season is that the spooky title sequence which fit so well in S1 just feels goofy now, the series now is basically The Goldbergs + some Russians and a big ass spider
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
xp: so was Meat Puppets II (1984)
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
We just finished this last night. At this point, I've come to mostly just expect some spooks, some laughs, a dece cast that I enjoy watching, and a shitload of frothy retro pop cultural nods, all wrapped up in a sleek visual style. So I wasn't disappointed. Stuff like Hopper's letter at the end and Steve's evolving relationships (and just the evolution of Steve in general) are icing on the cake.
THAT SAID: while I contented myself last season with the likelihood that they weren't planning on stretching their supernatural wings beyond whatever's going on with the Upside Down and its monstrous inhabitants, we're now three seasons in with all those crazy goings-on but without much fleshing out of the premise. Like, cool, this particular bubble of weirdness is going to be the focus of the show, but could we maybe explore that bubble a little more? We have basically no better understanding of what this shit-crazy dimension is or why people are trying to access it or what interest its denizens have in our world than we did at the start of the series. If the next season is just about everyone running away from a hundred foot tall Demogorgon/Mindflayer hybrid, I might start turning into shakey.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
It might be better not to. When mysterious fantastical things are explained they lose their magic and wonder.
Let me tell you about midi-chlorians...
― Evan, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
yeah it's weird why would you want to learn more?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
I don't need the nature of the weirdness to be explained, I'd just like the reasons for people dabbling in the weirdness or the weirdness encroaching into the real world to be a little more complex than 'because'.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
Maybe they'll published a novelization where they flesh out details
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
well, if you found a scab on the surface of reality you would pick at it, wouldn't you?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
yeah it's a bit weird they don't expand on it at all since I felt like S1 explained just enough to make it spooky but not enough that it would be bogged down in making no sense whatsoever. like...it's an opposite world or 'shadow realm' in which all our physical structures exist (there was a Castle Byers in the Upside Down right?) but the only way beings in there can effect the real world is through electrical pulses, or something? wasn't there a scene in S1 where a gorgon hand started pushing through the wall? and a random portal in a tree that Nancy got sucked into for a small while? idk I kinda feel the writers didn't exactly think about this a whole lot so maybe it's foolish to speculate too much
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
I am 100% okay with depictions of the inexplicable, but when there's a variety of shady parties in the narrative who seem to have gleaned something explicable about the 'inexplicable', there's only so much longer you can continue to depict the 'inexplicable' as inexplicable before it ceases to be narratively satisfying.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
I kinda feel the writers didn't exactly think about this a whole lot
plenty of evidence that not a lot of thought went into this show. You want a Netflix 80s pastiche that had some thought put into it, watch GLOW.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
do they explain what is ladies?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
they are gorgeous QED
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
Just starting the third season (intentionally avoided this thread the last few weeks). I liked the Fast Times at Ridgemont High inversion but not a whole lot else in the first episode. I remember the sheriff was starting to grate on me towards the end of the second season, and he now seems to have officially taken over from the early Lucas (he got better) as the show's most annoying malcontent. Winona Ryder's still good.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
After finishing S3 i really like Billy, and Steve & Robin. At least those characters were the most memorable for me. Billy’s “Moving In Stereo” scene was so greathttps://media.giphy.com/media/uTBMqJFIrLU8BuWHnc/giphy.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 July 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
When the two girls are in the mall and poke their heads around a corner in the second episode, where's that image taken from? Is it Desperately Seeking Susan?
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 July 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
...they repeat the image next episode with Dustin and the ex-boyfriend. Driving me crazy trying to place it.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:03 (four years ago) link
I would watch a show of Steve and Robin working in a video store and solving mysteries.
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
I am putting in my formal request for them to do a series arc that is an homage to Electric Dreams (keeping up with the Giorgio Moroder).
― Yerac, Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
I feel like the evolution of Steve can largely be chalked up to the realization that they made a huge mistake in casting Joe Keery in the role of an unlikeable jerk.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
Yes, except I would like them to somehow continue wearing the sailor uniforms.
― trishyb, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
Bloodhound Gang remake. Erica in it too obv.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
Saw some of the new season at a friend's, having skipped s2. They sure leaned into making Hopper incredibly brash and annoying, huh
― Simon H., Thursday, 18 July 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
I think he was just overacting.
― Evan, Thursday, 18 July 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
talk about not learning anything from your parents
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/uma-thurman-daughter-tarantino-film-cast-maya-hawke-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-a8504081.html
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
"American Pie" was close to great...I've progressively lost interest in the monster (in all its various incarnations), otherwise I wouldn't equivocate.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 July 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
Winona looks so much like Harry Dean Stanton in her Russian uniform. I can’t unsee it.
― Mule, Friday, 19 July 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Leave Winona alone
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 20 July 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
Obviously I’m very sorry
― Mule, Saturday, 20 July 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
love this season, all the Steve and Robin stuff was A+, I loved how he deftly turned the "reveal" into a friendly debate about the hotness of her crush
not so keen on the "Russians as villains" arc that they seem to be setting up for S4
the monster was better when it was a creepy gooey crawling pile of partly dissolved rats and flesh, once it gained a form it was a cartoon
― Skip Spence None the Richer (sleeve), Saturday, 20 July 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
dusty and steve spin off when
― meaulnes, Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Rewatching ssn 3 with my wifeIt is so apparent that the ice cream shop storyline is the golden one
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 21 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Not much to add, was at least as fun to watch as any of the other seasons, A+ top marks for fashion game. It was also kind of a mess. Pushing further out in both tonal directions at the same time made it harder and harder to get that Flayerhunters and Scoops Crew are in the same show: "Scooby-Doo meets Cronenberg" is more difficult to land than "Goonies meets X-Files".
― Today he dances jazz, but tomorrow he will sell his homeland (seandalai), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
I think this was the most fun season
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
I stopped after three episodes of the third season (will resume) to go back and rewatch the first for something I'm working on. The contrast was stark. The first season is really tense most of the way; again, only based on three episodes of the third, but they seem to have completely lost that part of the show, try as they might to keep it alive.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
a My Little Pony episode that had not yet been made
Good news. 'Nerd tropes' discussion notwithstanding,that episode was from 1984. And now, the Sea Ponies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TedkQP_hM
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:22 (four years ago) link
when he started talking about My Little Pony, I was like, wait, no, that was absolutely not a nerd thing in the '80s in any way
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
I don't know if cool would be the right word for it, but basically.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
DUSTIN CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE MY GOD THIS SHOW IS ACTUALLY BRILLIANT.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
THE WRITERS ARE HAVING A BIT OF FUN THIS SHOW IS ACTUALLY TERRIBLE!
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
FIREWORKS SALES WERE NOT LEGAL IN INDIANA UNTIL 2006 WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link