Stranger Things

[A Grey Cat]

This is still a thing? It feels like this show was partly responsible for all the "80s nostalgia" even by people who weren't even born in that decade just as nostalgia for the 80s was dying off.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Dumb question but how accurate to the 80s is the show?

I can confirm the BMW 7 series one of the dudes drives is period correct. It's the E23 generation that ended production in 1986.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

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Not very. Not enough rapes or N words.

Anyway, it was really good but some parts felt like they were written and directed by RL Stine. The CGI deaths were crap. I don't like the predictability. We know none of the main cast will die. The addition of that guy with the ratty long hair as a main character ft unnecessary. The trope about the sassy black sister feels redundant. They were one step away from making her snap her snap her neck and say, "GIRRRL".

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

No lie that bottom picture is hitting me with some powerful nostalgia. The portrayal of the 80s in most shows goes one of two directions, the first being the extremely glossy and colorful to comedic degrees. The second is that its shitty, miserable, and dreary. When in reality it was a mixture that could vary wildly. Also weird ass yellow, orange, red, and brown shades.

The first part of the 80's was just an offshoot of the 70s, with plenty of feathered haircuts, avocado green and brown. And rainbows. For some reason, right around 1983, there were rainbows everywhere. And they weren't even gay. People just liked rainbows. Watch Jaws 3 if you want to see a world filled with non-gay rainbows.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

The first part of the 80's was just an offshoot of the 70s, with plenty of feathered haircuts, avocado green and brown. And rainbows. For some reason, right around 1983, there were rainbows everywhere. And they weren't even gay. People just liked rainbows. Watch Jaws 3 if you want to see a world filled with non-gay rainbows.

The Color of the 70s is Orange. The Color of the 80s is Purple.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

I am once again asking you to read another book.

I wish the Duffer brothers would read another book.

 

[Agarathium1066]

The first part of the 80's was just an offshoot of the 70s, with plenty of feathered haircuts, avocado green and brown. And rainbows. For some reason, right around 1983, there were rainbows everywhere. And they weren't even gay. People just liked rainbows. Watch Jaws 3 if you want to see a world filled with non-gay rainbows.

Brown and greens were very popular but I never knew they were big holdovers from the 70s. A lot of things had sunset tones though thinking back I recall the love of bands of particular colors continued on into the 90s with the teal, blues, and purples. It's just themes chosen on some things though rather than EVERYWHERE.

I still love rainbows even though now you see them almost exclusively in a pride flag sense. It's a set of beautiful colors that occur naturally in the sky. It's pretty and neat.

 

[Trilby]

The first part of the 80's was just an offshoot of the 70s, with plenty of feathered haircuts, avocado green and brown. And rainbows. For some reason, right around 1983, there were rainbows everywhere. And they weren't even gay. People just liked rainbows. Watch Jaws 3 if you want to see a world filled with non-gay rainbows.

Yep, that was the world I experienced.

 

[Pickle Dick]

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Whenever I watch old home movies of my parents from the 80s, I always see them live in houses like the bottom pic and never like the above pic. I don't know why people always associates 80s rooms like the above pic, whether it has something to do with Saved by the Bell or something. It reminds me of this post from the Consoomer thread of what a 90s room allegedly should look like.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Watched it through. Not bad. Don't know if it's the gap but I think I enjoyed it more than the prior season.

However, I do feel that you are kinda right - The fact that Vecna / Henry Creel / 001 naturally had psychic powers is weird as fuck, because it was established that Eleven got her powers via MKUltra experiments on Eleven's mother that included dosing her with LSD and submerging her in sensory deprivation tanks while pregnant. This somehow made her (weakly) psychically active, and her powers were passed on to Eleven. This is low-key supported by Hopper talking about (the very real, very historical fact) that men in Vietnam who were exposed to Agent Orange passed on horrific genetic defects to their children. And yet Vecna / Henry Creel / 001 just developed them spontaneously? And the "Department of Energy" (CIA, lets be honest) just happened to figure out that dosing pregnant women with LSD and submerging them in Sensory Deprivation Tanks would replicate 001's powers? THAT makes no sense what so ever.

Has it been confirmed who Eleven's biological dad is? Because my guess was that Henry's probably the progenitor of all of Papa's little creations. The LSD, sensory deprivation and various other things were to try to bring out/intensify the powers Henry had but he was the one used as the sperm donor for the various woman as part of the experiment to replicate his abilities

 

[Mango Cobra]

Watched it through. Not bad. Don't know if it's the gap but I think I enjoyed it more than the prior season.


Has it been confirmed who Eleven's biological dad is? Because my guess was that Henry's probably the progenitor of all of Papa's little creations. The LSD, sensory deprivation and various other things were to try to bring out/intensify the powers Henry had but he was the one used as the sperm donor for the various woman as part of the experiment to replicate his abilities

In one of the tie-in books / comics it was explicitly stated that Eleven's mother was already pregnant during the MKUltra experiments they did on her, and her biological father was drafted for Vietnam because of strings pulled by Dr. Brenner, where he was killed (possibly by some glow in the dark like Dr. Brenner). However since it wasn't said on the show so it wouldn't be hard for them to retcon that they're made from genetic material of Henry, like X-23 / Laura from the Movie Logan.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

In one of the tie-in books / comics it was explicitly stated that Eleven's mother was already pregnant during the MKUltra experiments they did on her, and her biological father was drafted for Vietnam because of strings pulled by Dr. Brenner, where he was killed (possibly by some glow in the dark like Dr. Brenner). However since it wasn't said on the show so it wouldn't be hard for them to retcon that they're made from genetic material of Henry, like X-23 / Laura from the Movie Logan.

Thanks. Was not sure if it was confirmed in show or not.
They still could get away with keeping both canon but it seems more likely they will just go "fuck you tie-in comic!" if they went with that.
But it is just a theory, I've no proof for it. There just seemed like a possibility of it fitting. And that nice added level of tragedy to it all if Henry had murdered his family once, was used to make a new one then did it again minus Eleven.

 

[Flaming Carrot]

Is Season 4 worth watching? Season 3 was such hot garbage it killed my interest entirely:

I got through all the episodes and it's fine. I think the show should have ended after one season, but so far this isuch better than season three.

NO ONE saw The Thing back in the day. It's a masterpiece but it bombed back then so the only kind of kids who would be aware of it would be hard core horror kids with Fangoria subscriptions where issues of Fangoria came with a poster. TLDR: first season was the most accurate.

It threw me for a loop when the kids all went to a packed theater to see Day of the Dead. I remember seeing an ad in Starlog for it with a little note saying no one under 17 would be admitted.

 

[Mango Cobra]

It threw me for a loop when the kids all went to a packed theater to see Day of the Dead. I remember seeing an ad in Starlog for it with a little note saying no one under 17 would be admitted.

That's why they had Steve let them in the back way, so they could get smuggled in without tickets.

 

[BrunoMattei]

It threw me for a loop when the kids all went to a packed theater to see Day of the Dead. I remember seeing an ad in Starlog for it with a little note saying no one under 17 would be admitted.

To be fair, they get around it by sneaking in and it was a special preview.

 

[Oats12345]

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those complaining about Vecna. Oh i'm sorry if im tired of generiac Eldritch abomination villian who doesn't talk. I'm sorry if I like having villains who talk and are interesting

 

[XYZpdq]

NEVER MIND THAT SHIT
HERE COMES EL SANTO

 

[Tor Lugosi]

S4 was definitely the best season since the first. Still, it had its fair share of problems:
- Running into the Walking Dead problem wherein the cast is so huge they have to constantly find reasons to break them up into groups to make it more manageable.
- Mike, Will, and Jonathan's parts in particular after Eleven leaves feels like the show just spinning its wheels with them to fill time.
- The Russian parts could've been a lot more interesting. Make the facility where Hopper is prison at a place that's also studying the monsters and Upside Down world or something like that, so it at least feels like its adding something to the show.. That entire plot just doesn't make a lot lot of sense -- Russians somehow randomly find a guy in an alternate dimension and... decide to make him build a railroad.
- The US government acknowledges that Eleven is psychic... but refuses to believe in the Upside Down world despite having had a facility built to monitor it.

Overall its biggest strength was its return to being more horror like S1 than "lol '80s" that S3 did. I liked Vecna, though I called the twist during Victor's flashback story. Also, holy shit did Mike's actor grow up to look awkward as fuck, and Will just looked goofy with the tight clothes and haircut to make him look half his age.

EDIT: Also, what the fuck? Volume two of season four is only two episodes long and airs on July 1st? Why even split it?

 

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-mom I want the 80's!
-we have the 80's at home
*80's at home:

- The US government acknowledges that Eleven is psychic... but refuses to believe in the Upside Down world despite having had a facility built to monitor it.

yeah, that was such a stupid line of dialog- "who do you think did it? a 12 year old girl with superpowers trained in a secret govt. facility with other kids with superpowers? oR a sCaRy BoOgEyMan MoNsTeR? "*scoffs with derision at the latter being an utterly implausible scenario*

 

[Commander X]

Speaking of Eleven, or rather Millie Bobby Brown, is she being given the Ariana Grande treatment?

Ay yi yi, I am, how you say, fam-eeleear weeth de spicy foods!

Furthermore, I guess having "psychic powers" makes you look like you're 45, yikes. Chalk up another child star being put through the Hollywood machine.