Stranger Things

[KTrain]

That was a great trailer.

Now that song is going to be stuck in my head for another couple weeks.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by sa226

This season is my favorite so far. Hard to say though, the first one was so unique.

I feel like they're pulling story cues from the Civil War to Endgame arc in the MCU. The heroes are scattered, some in hiding, some presumed dead. A great threat to the city and world has emerged and against great odds they must unite and save the world again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all in, love it, and the writing is great. Some of it just seems familiar.

Stranger Things has paid homage to/stolen from so many different types of source material....but End Game? It's really nothing like that. Yes, they have a team of people who have to come together to fight a bad guy. End Game did not come up with that concept.

There's definitely a lot of things about ST that seem familiar, and many of those are purposeful. It feels a lot like It, Nightmare on Elm Street, Aliens, the Goonies, etc...:

https://strangerthings.fandom.com/wi...%26_references

The Marvel comparison is just kind of odd.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by sa226

This season is my favorite so far. Hard to say though, the first one was so unique.

I feel like they're pulling story cues from the Civil War to Endgame arc in the MCU. The heroes are scattered, some in hiding, some presumed dead. A great threat to the city and world has emerged and against great odds they must unite and save the world again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all in, love it, and the writing is great. Some of it just seems familiar.

I think it has more to do with how you tell a story with this many characters. They've expanded the cast so much you couldn't have them all in the same place for the entire series. Giving them different storylines that drive towards the same finale helps give all the characters enough screen time, probably helps with production and lets them tell a few different stories within the season.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by blankall

Lol....for me it just shows how much effort they put into getting all of the details they did correct. If your biggest gripe is an appliance, that only people in the appliance industry would know about, they are doing a lot of things right.

My biggest gripe was talking IP addresses and Internet in 1984.

Wouldn't the only people who knew about that at the time in the US military?

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

My biggest gripe was talking IP addresses and Internet in 1984.

Wouldn't the only people who knew about that at the time in the US military?

Yeah, I think if they left it off at BBSs and maybe war dialling or something, it would have been a lot more believable.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Yeah, I think if they left it off at BBSs and maybe war dialling or something, it would have been a lot more believable.

I first logged into the BBSs in 1991 so I doubt they would have been around in 1984.

5 minutes to download a nudie and you never knew what you were going to get...

[Icon]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

My biggest gripe was talking IP addresses and Internet in 1984.

Wouldn't the only people who knew about that at the time in the US military?

I just presumed that whole scene was to make her seem like an uber-nerd among normal nerds, so much that she's way ahead on IP addresses and Internet that she's basically speaking a different language to them.

I think it worked if that's what they were going for.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

I first logged into the BBSs in 1991 so I doubt they would have been around in 1984.

5 minutes to download a nudie and you never knew what you were going to get...

They existed, but we’re talking 300 baud stuff. There was literally just one or two in Kelowna, but they gained more wide spread use in the 90s for a few years and then around 95-96 there was actual dialup internet and eventually they started dying off.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

I first logged into the BBSs in 1991 so I doubt they would have been around in 1984.

5 minutes to download a nudie and you never knew what you were going to get...

This season takes place in 1986. Still not likely, but less not likely.

[timun]

Yeaaaaah, Suzie's scene was a bunch of technobabble that made no sense... She was talking about "geolocating using the IP address" and that's just silly: she direct-dialed the computer using a phone number. She was not using the internet, such as it existed in 1986, to connect to that system.

[jammies]

There was a photocopied one page list of BBS numbers going around Calgary by the mid-80s for the hardcore geeks. My 2400 baud US Robotics modem spent many an evening connected to one or another of these .

Internet though? You could get onto Usenet or use Gopher by the end of the 80s or early 90s, if you joined CUUG (Calgary Unix Users Group) or had access through the U of C, but there definitely weren't any home users with IP addresses in 1986. They should pay me to vet their IT talk in future.

[Wormius]

Fidonet was around earlier than Usenet, I think. I remember sysops asking for donations to help pay their phone bills for uploading and downloading all of those messages.

Google archived a bunch of that, embarrassingly enough. So if you want to submit your letters to penpals from the K12 chats about Star Trek or how you hate grade 10 chemistry for one of those “Mortified Guide…” shows, there is a treasure trove of material.

[getbak]

Damn, those were a long final two episodes. Not sure if they needed to be that long either.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by getbak

Damn, those were a long final two episodes. Not sure if they needed to be that long either.

Episode 9 felt like it dragged a bit near the end. But overall I thought those last 2 episodes were excellent.

Spoiler!

Eddie's death was quite sad. I grew to love that character over the last few episodes and I was hoping he'd make it to season 5.

Eleven and Hopper's reunion at the end got me all emotional.

So I guess Max's body is still alive, but her consciousness/soul is lost somewhere in the Upside Down? I thought it was interesting that Eleven couldn't find her when she tried to enter her mind at the hospital. And even if Max makes it, will she ever be able to walk again? Vecna gave her quite a beating.

[Duruss]

Conan's sword!

That was a fun couple hours. Vecna is such a good villain with a great design I love his giant monster hand.

[Cole436]

While they could have cut down the finale a bit, I immensely enjoyed the final two episodes.

I loved the reveals around Vecna and all the actors absolutely killed it. I could praise each performance all day, but Sadie Sink, Caleb McLaughlin, and Joseph Quinn in particular were spectacular.

It does feel like we just watched the Infinity War of the series and now we're heading into Endgame for season 5. It's going to be a long wait.

[NOISIA]

Loved it!!!

[Sr. Mints]

There were a number of brilliant, emotional scenes during the final two. However, the season suffered from a bit of a Return of the King ending; the final episode felt like it dragged on about 30 minutes too long.

[Johnny Makarov]

Would it have killed Nancy to shoot him in the head? i mean how many shots do you need?

[ripTDR]

Me and Mr. PeanutButter are going to open a leather jacket and Michael Myers emporium before halloween and make a killing!!!