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

I would watch a show of Steve and Robin working in a video store and solving mysteries.

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).

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.

I would watch a show of Steve and Robin working in a video store and solving mysteries.

Yes, except I would like them to somehow continue wearing the sailor uniforms.

Bloodhound Gang remake. Erica in it too obv.

Saw some of the new season at a friend's, having skipped s2. They sure leaned into making Hopper incredibly brash and annoying, huh

I think he was just overacting.

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

"American Pie" was close to great...I've progressively lost interest in the monster (in all its various incarnations), otherwise I wouldn't equivocate.

Winona looks so much like Harry Dean Stanton in her Russian uniform. I can’t unsee it.

Leave Winona alone

Obviously I’m very sorry

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

dusty and steve spin off when

Rewatching ssn 3 with my wife
It is so apparent that the ice cream shop storyline is the golden one

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".

I think this was the most fun season

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.

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

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

I don't know if cool would be the right word for it, but basically.

DUSTIN CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE MY GOD THIS SHOW IS ACTUALLY BRILLIANT.

THE WRITERS ARE HAVING A BIT OF FUN THIS SHOW IS ACTUALLY TERRIBLE!

FIREWORKS SALES WERE NOT LEGAL IN INDIANA UNTIL 2006 WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Sales were legal before 2006, setting them off instate was not. Indiana's fireworks laws are and were an amusing mess.

^ This. It was the dumbest shit ever, and so completely unenforced. I don't know how many times as a minor in IN me and my little friends bought fireworks, requested free packs of matches from convenience stores, and set shit off in clandestine places we really shouldn't have, but it was a lot.

I'll have to bring this up with the editors of IMDB's "goofs" section.

It's funny/horrifying to think about now. The ethics of selling fireworks to children aside, they were only able to sell them on the tacit promise that they would be fired off in another state. But where the hell is a ten-year-old gonna go to shoot off bottle rockets, really (if you said 'a city park restroom' you are correct).

Although if it had occurred to us, we would've happily gone with 'from the balcony of a mall'.

Are there age restrictions of fireworks in the US?

reminds me of the slot machines in bars long ago with "DOES NOT PAY CASH. ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY" written all over them

I feel like there must be stricter regulations these days, but, well, y'know. The past is in so many ways like the wild west compared to today. We used to fuck around with my grandparents' contraband jarts, too.

misread that as jorts

Hot dog on a stick doesn’t exist west of the Barstow iirc

if you only heard of this show through the ads/clips they've been running on FB you'd have no idea there was any horror or sci-fi element to it whatsoever

thought that the plot and pacing and visuals and sounds were all great this third season, but aside from steve and robin the other characters really were in the way of the above as opposed to either being accepted as established or actually developing them in a non- annoying way.

hopper and joyce in particular became sitcom characters, a real step back from previous

also, im not seeking hyper realism, but they went from two seasons of intradimensional madness, govt all over it, we know theres something goin on here to:

everyone fuckin disbelieving and clueless that strange things are happening, and the same scooby doo troupe left to handle it bar one phonecall to the cia switch?

also, didnt even *try* to pretend hopper had actually been ~spoilered~

ramping up the horror was good tho

8/10 will watch season 4

my niece is at this show's convention in Atlanta w/ her parents right now

true sacrifice

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

From Russia with love… pic.twitter.com/ZWEMgy63Et

— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) February 14, 2020

glad they're not even pretending that he might have died

Yeah, that could have been excruciatingly bad. The Russians did overtly mention "the American" at the very end of last season, and if that had been misdirection and it was someone other than Hopper, I definitely would have lost fucks for the series.

Was he not in the final shot? Or am I imagining that?

Last shot I remember is the Russian prisoner being fed to a demogorgon.

i'm gonna turn into the shakey mo of this thread. show lost me completely early in season 3 and i joyfully dngaf

unless shakey is already the shakey of this thread. not going back to check lol.

you rang

the main kid in this goes to a school in my old neighborhood and it's very odd to see this global star trudging along the street in his school uniform with his backpack and headphones on like an average moody teen

looking forward to the breathless introduction of compact discs in season 4, but which character will be the one to do it?

hahaha

2. Jonathan saying how cool Miyazaki is, somehow having seen Laputa: Castle in the Sky screened in rural Indiana
3. Reporting on Chernobyl, cut to "Where's the beef?" Wendy's ad
4. Cameo by digitally-deracisted Morrissey, torn apart by demo-dogs