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Riggswolfe
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Mandella
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Yeah yeah late to the party but I just talked the wife into watching this, and we both ended up loving it. Great on nearly all fronts, but as this is the internet I'm going to spend the bulk of the post bitching about something. Why, after shooting the show so obviously in middle and north Georgia, did they set it in Indiana? I mean, even though the town of Hawkings was made up, they still used local town and place names to the region (Cartersville, Jonesboro, the Etowah River). It's like when they scripted it they were planning to keep it set on location, but then changed plans at the last minute. Early on the show I even paid them the compliment of, even though it was set in the South, not overdoing the accents. Then I finally noticed an Indiana license plate, so compliment withdrawn! But okay, other than that, some solid "nostalgia done right."
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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« Last Edit: January 19, 2017, 06:16:09 PM by Lucas »
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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satael
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Signe
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ooooo. I can't wait for what ever the fuck that is!
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Zetleft
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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Ironwood
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I love that role playing cover. Love it.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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jgsugden
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
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2020 will be the year I gave up all hope.
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Shannow
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That was good
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Someone liked something? Who the fuzzy fuck was this heretic? You don't come to this website and enjoy something. Fuck that. ~ The Walrus
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Signe
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Oh good. On Halloween, no less. Popcorn, candy apples and spooky stuff on TV. Yay!
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jgsugden
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Oh good. On Halloween, no less. Popcorn, candy apples and spooky stuff on TV. Yay! I'll likely have finished Season 2 3.5 days before Halloween.
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2020 will be the year I gave up all hope.
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Tale
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It does look good, but Will was barely in the first season. It starred the other kids trying to find him. Can they pull off a season that seems to star Will?
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HaemishM
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I finally got around to watching this. Fuck me, really good fun, especially for kids from the '80's like me. It wasn't overly in your face nostalgia like The Goldbergs (which I also love for different reasons) but it all fit pretty well. Enough that I was questioning if X movie would have come out before this was set and such. I feel like 8 episodes pretty much nailed the right pacing so that it didn't feel padded or stretched out (something the Marvel shows that I love do - 13 episodes is a bit long).
That season 2 trailer was fucking awesome.
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schild
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Winona Ryder is nearly ruining this for me.
Stop crying, you butt.
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MisterNoisy
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Winona Ryder is nearly ruining this for me.
Stop crying, you butt.
Why? That's pretty much her entire job in this show.
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schild
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because it sucks, that's why
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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I stopped watching exactly when she entered and went full crymob. HOWEVER, I went back months later, and then got into it. The kids and maybe the Sheriff are the best actors and parts. Ryder fits in eventually by going full Close Encounters of the Third Kind obsessed and it's OK.
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schild
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literally just finished this so I could be up to speed on the new season
the ending was garbage
winona was intolerable
i care about 15% of the cast
this entire thing was just hilariously overrated
season 2 looks better (which really doesn't seem that high of a hurdle, frankly)
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Teleku
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I didn't have that big of a problem with it, but I somewhat agree. I thought the setting, general story, and direction was great. Problem was that I honestly didn't like any of the cast other than the sheriff. Most of the kids were annoying as fuck and their fights against each other felt forced and really stupid. I wanted somebody to just punch Winona most of the series. It was a good attempt at what it was going for, but the characters themselves ended up turning me off.
Season 2 has potential though!
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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Quinton
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I finally watched season one Friday night (just one episode... maybe just one more... then it was 4am) and really enjoyed it.
Starting in on season two now.
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satael
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Finished season 2 and while it wasn't bad it felt rather unnecessary (can't think of a better word to describe how I felt about the second season).
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MediumHigh
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Through the uprights and it was good...but a few why the fuck nitpicks that aren't break the show worthy but "not the best syfy" worthy.
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Bunk
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Just finished. I enjoyed it. Had some ups and downs, but it was entertaining and nostalgic, so I was happy. Far less Winona crying this season was a plus.
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Quinton
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Season two was good stuff. Not quite as amazing as S1, partially because there's no way to go in completely cold, but still very solid overall, and some nice payoffs for things from before and setup for whatever's next. Had some really great moments. And the Dustin / Steve team-up was inspired stuff. I hope we get to see some more mixing up of the main characters in season three -- now that we know a bit more about these people, letting them play off each other is fun.
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kaid
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I think most improved in season two is steve he has grown up and matured into a pretty solid all around good person.
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K9
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Steve was definitely the MVP of season 2.
Other than episode 7, which while not bad per se just felt really out of time and place, that was a bloody good successor to the first season.
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Ironwood
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Finished Season two. Loved it just as much.
I get that it started slower, but given season one, I didn't mind it all. Finished strong.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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kaid
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Steve was definitely the MVP of season 2.
Other than episode 7, which while not bad per se just felt really out of time and place, that was a bloody good successor to the first season.
Episode 7 I think was important to give some closure to eleven and make some important choices on what kind of person she wants to be it did feel a bit odd and disjointed from the rest of the story.
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Samprimary
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i have always derived better satisfaction of stranger things by understanding that its genre is movie nostalgia. shit will work like it would in a 1980's made for tv supernatural horror.
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Tale
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Also just finished season 2 and loved it.
In addition to the movie references, I thought some scenes referenced Half-Life.
P.S. I played AD&D in the 1980s, sometimes with friends, but often just writing modules by myself or finding ways to play it alone, and the Mind Flayer in the Monster Manual stuck out to me... Maybe because Expedition to the Barrier Peaks was one of my favourite modules. I love how the Duffer Brothers are able to pick that level of nerdy eighties childhood detail even though they were born later.
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Quinton
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Episode 7 I think was important to give some closure to eleven and make some important choices on what kind of person she wants to be it did feel a bit odd and disjointed from the rest of the story.
I think if they had threaded the ep7 El storyline across 2-3 episodes, interwoven with what the rest of the gang were up to, it would have worked better. Dropping it between the cliff-hanger at the end of ep6 and return to that in ep8 was clunky. It also tied in to her figuring out what/where "home" was.
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Tale
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Episode 7 set up part of season 3:
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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It was the first half of a Heroes Journey arc, made less obvious by spending most of the screen time on the gang. Very by the numbers if you look only at when Jane/Eleven is on screen.
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Ironwood
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Dagobah episode.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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