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Reply #70 on: November 09, 2017, 08:41:06 PM

Loved Season 2. I also loved how Steve and his kids have become a meme along with HopperDancesTo on Twitter.

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Reply #71 on: November 13, 2017, 01:24:58 PM

This was good.

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Reply #72 on: December 06, 2017, 09:31:42 AM

Wife and I finally finished Season 2. Late to the table, but I like to watch an episode and give it a few days before the next...

Wife loved it, I enjoyed it about the same as season 1. Scumbag Steve >> adventures in babysitting Steve was pretty great. Wife HATED Steve in Season 1 but really changed her tone in season 2 - of course that's probably because she had a new mullet scumbag to hate.

Noah Schnapp (Will) needs some kind of acting award because holy shit he was amazing, especially for a 13 year old kid.

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Reply #73 on: March 21, 2019, 09:14:44 PM

Season 3 trailer.

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Reply #74 on: March 21, 2019, 09:19:15 PM

Welp, guess we're turning the Netflix sub back on.

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Reply #75 on: July 07, 2019, 06:52:25 PM

Does the third season get any better after the first two episodes? It has spent roughly 90 minutes on shots of Waldenbooks and Sam Goody at the mall and about three minutes on plot.
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Reply #76 on: July 08, 2019, 10:56:13 AM

Yes.

It's pretty fucking awesome and accelerates a lot faster than most Netflix fodder.

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Reply #77 on: July 08, 2019, 01:12:19 PM

Good to hear, thanks for confirming. I was going to put it on the back burner but I’ll power through.
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Reply #78 on: July 08, 2019, 09:46:06 PM

I thought the first three episodes of season three where pretty slow but the rest of the season is pretty good.
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Reply #79 on: July 08, 2019, 11:07:47 PM

i just powered through season 2

it was trash and i'm not sure how it got a season 3 but here we are, on season 3
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Reply #80 on: July 09, 2019, 12:17:52 AM

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Season 3 was awesome.  8 episodes that went by in a flash.  I actually wish they would spend MORE time on the slow boiling 80s nostalgia stuff.  That's much of the reason this show is popular in the first place.


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Reply #81 on: July 09, 2019, 12:22:04 AM

Yeah....... I appreciate the nostalgia of the show, and how well they craft it.  But I didn't even like season 1 very much.  Setting and overall setup was great, but almost every character was terrible.  I hated all the kids (except 11).  I hated the mom.  I hated the teenagers.  The cop was cool. 

I just didn't like any of them, which made it hard to get through, despite everything else being well done.

I made it 2 episodes into season 2 before giving up and never looking at it since.

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Reply #82 on: July 09, 2019, 06:27:48 AM

Schild dislikes pop-culture phenomenon, news at 11.


I have this thought literally every time he posts on pretty much any movie, tv show or video game. Lol

Season 3 was really good. I have some theories about Season 4 and where it might be going but we'll see. Spoilers for the end of the season mixed in with my thoughts on potential Season 4 stuff.


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Reply #83 on: July 09, 2019, 08:40:29 AM

Yeah....... I appreciate the nostalgia of the show, and how well they craft it.  But I didn't even like season 1 very much.  Setting and overall setup was great, but almost every character was terrible.  I hated all the kids (except 11).  I hated the mom.  I hated the teenagers.  The cop was cool. 

I just didn't like any of them, which made it hard to get through, despite everything else being well done.

I made it 2 episodes into season 2 before giving up and never looking at it since.

Man, I just mentally reached out through my wifi connection and slapped you.

I can see not loving all the characters, but hate?  Lost me there.

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Reply #84 on: July 09, 2019, 12:27:12 PM

You gotta be somewhat dead inside to hate Dustin, that kid is pure joy.
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Reply #85 on: July 09, 2019, 12:46:20 PM

Schild dislikes pop-culture phenomenon, news at 11.

You can't know as much about pop culture as me and hate it. Anyway, Dippin dots were/are great even if storage is cost-ineffective. So, you just take that back.

My problem with stranger things isn't how embedded it is in pop culture. It's that most of the characters are crap, the writing is... mediocre at best. The story is a mess.

The teenagers, outside of Nancy, are largely intolerable. I'm with Teleku on this one. These are not good characters. They are unlikable and bad.
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Reply #86 on: July 09, 2019, 01:32:22 PM

I enjoyed Stranger Things but it's definitely "junk food" TV. You like it for the nostalgia and some of the effects but it's writing is good at best, mostly serviceable at worst.

And then there's S2 Ep7 which was just an unspeakable abomination of shit.

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Reply #87 on: July 09, 2019, 02:20:07 PM

I'm just annoyed no-one really helped Nancy's Mom.  All she wanted was to get ridden sideways.  What the hell.

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Reply #88 on: July 09, 2019, 02:43:04 PM

She really needed some D.

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Reply #89 on: July 09, 2019, 10:47:55 PM

I'm just annoyed no-one really helped Nancy's Mom.  All she wanted was to get ridden sideways.  What the hell.


I feel like we're really on the same page on this whole topic.

Also, Dippin Dots were fucking strange.

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Reply #90 on: July 15, 2019, 07:48:09 AM

Finished binging this over the weekend, and I loved it more than season 2. It didn't have a dud episode like S2E7. The cast has probably gotten a little too big, but I thought they did a decent job of giving everyone something to do.


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Reply #91 on: July 15, 2019, 09:36:45 AM

Haha, I had to go Google s2e7.  I do remember it being bad.  Or more appropriately, I don’t remember it being bad because I tuned it out both times I saw it.

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Reply #92 on: July 21, 2019, 04:27:49 PM

They could cut out Mike and Will and no one would notice. Dustin had a fantastic season. 'What the hell?!'

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Reply #93 on: July 22, 2019, 02:08:52 AM

I stopped watching this a little way into s2 when it became too obvious that this isn't a mystery just shit happening one thing at a time with way too much portent, and the characters weren't going anywhere, they were just messing about pretending to be the goonies, but spooky. 

Did I stop too early?

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Reply #94 on: July 22, 2019, 06:59:59 AM

I stopped watching this a little way into s2 when it became too obvious that this isn't a mystery just shit happening one thing at a time with way too much portent, and the characters weren't going anywhere, they were just messing about pretending to be the goonies, but spooky. 

Did I stop too early?

If you weren't enjoying it there's no point to keep watching, it is what it is, it won't suddenly get a lot better.

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Reply #95 on: July 22, 2019, 09:22:06 AM

Yeah, if you disliked s2 enough to stop watching, this series probably isn’t for you.  As much as I thought it was less good than s1, I still loved it.

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Reply #96 on: August 25, 2019, 06:49:58 PM

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Reply #97 on: June 03, 2022, 07:26:56 AM

Season 4 part 1 is out.  Part 2 releases July 1st.

This season is pretty good.  I mostly just necroed this thread to complain that LITE BRITES DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT, EACH PEG DOES NOT HAVE AN ELECTRICAL CURRENT GOING THROUGH IT.

That is all.

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Reply #98 on: June 03, 2022, 08:53:54 AM

Season 4 part 1 is out.  Part 2 releases July 1st.

This season is pretty good.  I mostly just necroed this thread to complain that LITE BRITES DO NOT WORK LIKE THAT, EACH PEG DOES NOT HAVE AN ELECTRICAL CURRENT GOING THROUGH IT.

That is all.

not sure if new ones work the same way or not but i'm pretty sure they make a retro version of the current one

but also I don't know what happens in the show, so
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Reply #99 on: June 03, 2022, 09:26:53 AM

It's a minor thing.  There's a scene where a Lite Brite is used in a manner that's similar to the Christmas lights in the first season.

Which is dumb because the idea is that if you can affect electrical currents you can make a lightbulb flicker.  If you have a lot of lightbulbs, you can use the patterns to communicate.  But a Lite Brite isn't a lot of lightbulbs, it's one lightbulb that shines through a screen with a bunch of little plastic pegs in it.  It's like a projector.  If you mess with the electrical current, the whole thing will flicker at once, not the individual pegs.  If a ghost could bend the light in a Lite Brite to draw things on it, it could just as easily bend the light in the room and draw things in the air.

Anyway, WHATEVER.  It was an excuse to sell some Lite Brites, and I loved Lite Brite when I was a kid so I can respect that.  I can just pretend they knew Morse Code and that that whole scene never happened and the rest of the story works fine.

I was also annoyed by the way that gravity worked in the Upside Down gate.  They should have had to tie the rope off on both ends to keep it from being yanked through in one direction or another once there was weight on it.  Think with portals, bitches.  But again, whatever.  I can just pretend they did that.

Those nits aside, I wondered out loud "so wait, if every place and inanimate object in the real world is reflected in the Upside Down, what's the lag?  If I drop an object in the real world does it appear in the Upside Down as soon as it leaves my hand?" and then the show answered that question in a very satisfactory way about twenty minutes later, and I appreciated that.

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Reply #100 on: June 03, 2022, 09:47:42 AM


I was also annoyed by the way that gravity worked in the Upside Down gate.  They should have had to tie the rope off on both ends to keep it from being yanked through in one direction or another once there was weight on it.  Think with portals, bitches.  But again, whatever.  I can just pretend they did that.

Those nits aside, I wondered out loud "so wait, if every place and inanimate object in the real world is reflected in the Upside Down, what's the lag?  If I drop an object in the real world does it appear in the Upside Down as soon as it leaves my hand?" and then the show answered that question in a very satisfactory way about twenty minutes later, and I appreciated that.

The gravity thing didn't bother me for some reason. It did slightly because I thought "won't the rope move if they tug on it if it's just gravity holding it?" but then I decided the portal itself must "grip" and I was fine with it. It actually explains a lot like why you have to push through the portals and such.

I also liked the explanation for the Upside Down's timeline but am curious why it froze at that specific point in time as it seems to have. There is an explanation that works for me but...


Of course it's also possible the Duffer Brothers picked that particular point in time purely because they liked the idea of it and without any in-universe explanation.

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Reply #101 on: June 03, 2022, 10:04:43 AM

I suspect we'll get the full explanation in the second half of the season.  My theory is that


re gravity (spoilering because literally nobody cares, not because it's a spoiler)


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Reply #102 on: June 03, 2022, 11:24:39 AM

I suspect we'll get the full explanation in the second half of the season.  My theory is that




That is what I thought as well. But this doesn't work because:


As for the rope. I was surprised they didn't tie it off but I let it go. It reminded me a lot of the movie Poltergeist. Sure, in that movie originally the dad holds the other end of the rope but even when he lets go they still have to pull the mother and daughter out and they drop once they clear the portal. I think it didnt bother me too much because I just sort of mentally went "it's supernatural stuff, who knows how the hell it works..."

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Reply #103 on: June 08, 2022, 09:38:58 PM


Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #104 on: June 09, 2022, 01:35:04 AM

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