Sci-Fi Stranger Things (Netflix) - Part 1

[Kane52630]

 

[Broseph44]

I am ready, one of my absolute favorites shows.

 

[Brother Jack]

That's a clear X-Men reference, right?

 

[Arachnerd]

Oh god, please tell me they're not gonna bring Eight and the misfits back.

 

[Drizzle]

Oh god, please tell me they're not gonna bring Eight and the misfits back.

Did you really think that they’d never bring Eight back? The rest of her gang doesn’t need to come back but there’s clearly unfinished business with her.

 

[Arachnerd]

Knee-jerk reaction. Eight was alright, but I wasn't fond of her friends at all.

I figured they were going to bring that plotline back sooner or later, just didn't expect it to be the first episode of season 4 (assuming it's about her and her gang, that is; could be about Brenner's other experiments).

 

[Lencho01]

Will she be back?

 

[Arachnerd]

It's an inevitability, though hopefully they use her better next time.

 

[Ninjablade]

I wasn't a fan of her or any of the misfits with her, so can't say I'd be thrilled to see them again. But I do think they probably have to address that whole plotline at some point and I'd much rather they start the season with it integrated instead of making it a completely worthless episode smack dab in the middle of the season like last time.

 

[Morg]

Stranger Things is now a pinball machine that lets you fight the Demogorgon


someone better get this for me

 

[Iceman]

If she comes back, this time we dump the misfits.

 

[Pennywise]

Ask Ausiello: Scoop on Ozark, Outlander, This Is Us, TWD, Flash, Stranger Things, Resident and More

Question: Any new intel on Stranger Things? —Kyle
Ausiello: There’s chatter that Season 4 may actually consist of nine episodes, one more than initially planned. That would make Stranger Things 4 one the Netflix drama’s meatiest seasons ever (tied with its sophomore run). I’m also hearing that a fan-favorite character may have his/her origin story told in one (or more) of those nine episodes.

 

[MadVillainy]

I don't think there's any character whose origin I want to see

 

[Ninjablade]

Same here, granted don’t we know just about everyone’s origin at this point? Who the hell is left, Murray? Half the cast is kids and there’s only like 3 adults.

 

[Arachnerd]

Only character background that would sort of make sense is Hopper's. We know there's been discussions about them exploring his past in Vietnam and such.

 

[Wheels]

I love episode 7 of season 2 so.......

 

[Brother Jack]

Only character background that would sort of make sense is Hopper's. We know there's been discussions about them exploring his past in Vietnam and such.

This would make the most sense. They could go as far back as looking at Hopper and Joyce and teenagers, paralleling the kids' story.

 

[Arachnerd]

Spoiler

It would also make sense given that they're most likely bringing him back (whether he's actually the prisoner in the Russian facility or stuck in the Upside Down).

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I love episode 7 of season 2 so.......

There are dozens if us!

Dozens!!


Never got the intensity of the hate, again, not just not liking an element but the full on whole body dry heave the fandom had with that episode.

And... I enjoyed season 3 but... It felt like a reactionary course over correction on the creatives' part.

For me season 3 was when the caricature of the show in some folks' mind as just being only a lazy nostalgia driven "Hey... Remember the 80's" schlockfest finally had some validity to it.

I would take five episodes of 11's "sister" and her gang over Dustin singing Neverending Story just cuz or Erica's sassy 80's brat act, both just so obviously manipulative sops at silliness, forced nostalgia driven humor and bald faced cliche without nuance.

I felt seasons one and two were a lot more toned down in terms of mining the nostalgia just cuz. Then it was a show set in the early 80's, but it made lots of room for more quiet and contemplative moments. Season three was a lot of "fun" but at the expense in my mind of the more rich, slower and subtler aspects of the first two. Added to that was the issue of the expanding cast who now each need some spotlight.

I am on pins and needles for the fourth season but I hope it is a more balanced and less frantic season than number three.

 

[Kane52630]

Nah, Season 3 was near pitch perfect. All it needed was a mall security robot.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Nah, Season 3 was near pitch perfect. All it needed was a mall security robot.

Of course you would want to give handout jobs to your digital brethren.


But... Eh... Pitch perfect is not sideling original cast members. Pitch perfect isn't going totally ludicrous just cuz you have scifi/fantasy elements. Pitch perfect for me for sure isn't Dustin singing for no reason other than they know the next day online people will crow about how "cool" it was despite happening merely because "Hey... Remember the 80's?"

And... I cried my eyes out multiple times during the season. I LOVE these characters and am invested in what is done with them and was still in that mode by the end of three... But it was a more overstuffed, bloated, less character driven season than the previous two.

 

[antsman41]

We need Val Kilmer or Fisher Stevens in this season.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I keep hoping for Molly Ringwald or Jennifer Grey to show up as Ryder's old High School rival.

 

[Silvermoth]

It would be fun if they could get Matthew Broderick. I mean, what’s he up to these days?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

My pipe dream is Eddie Murphy coming in playing Lucas' uncle.