Stranger Things

[Jeff Dunham]

Turning up my chudposting to the max, but as entertaining albeit dumb the ending is, the series is forever tarnished because it got Netflix'd. Why do we need interracial couples and homos in 1980s rural Indiana? Why is that their only personality and the only thing they end up contributing to the end of the series? When Mike is giving the epilogue and discussing how everyone is leading fulfilled and productive lives, the interracial couple's ending is just...being an interracial couple and Mike's ending is hanging out in queer bars in Milwaukee. It's so forced and tired.

I loved S1 & 2. It felt fresh for the time and was one of the few pieces of "It's the 80s" media that didn't go overboard with it ala "The Goldbergs". It wore its influences on its sleeve but weaved them into its own unique identity and even the worst seasons had entertaining things about them. Overall, Stranger Things' legacy to me is that it's a series that became it's own flanderization, that got scared to take real risks, and is littered with ideas that were clearly being saved for an anthology, but Netflix put a gun to the Duffer Bros. head, told them to accept a large amount of cash and give them a generic product they can franchise with homosex and interracial kissing because diversity or something.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

Turning up my chudposting to the max, but as entertaining albeit dumb the ending is, the series is forever tarnished because it got Netflix'd. Why do we need interracial couples and homos in 1980s rural Indiana? Why is that their only personality and the only thing they end up contributing to the end of the series? When Mike is giving the epilogue and discussing how everyone is leading fulfilled and productive lives, the interracial couple's ending is just...being an interracial couple and Mike's ending is hanging out in queer bars in Milwaukee. It's so forced and tired.

I loved S1 & 2. It felt fresh for the time and was one of the few pieces of "It's the 80s" media that didn't go overboard with it ala "The Goldbergs". It wore its influences on its sleeve but weaved them into its own unique identity and even the worst seasons had entertaining things about them. Overall, Stranger Things' legacy to me is that it's a series that became it's own flanderization, that got scared to take real risks, and is littered with ideas that were clearly being saved for an anthology, but Netflix put a gun to the Duffer Bros. head, told them to accept a large amount of cash and give them a generic product they can franchise with homosex and interracial kissing because diversity or something.

all Hollywood Productions end this way, either rot from within the team, or without.
Success in Hollywood brings the jackals in to suck out the marrow of your success's bones, its just how its always going to be for a long time.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I can't stand Millie's botox face. Who told her she needs that at 21?

Drake thought she was starting to look a little old.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

The show started sucking after season 1 and this just confirms I made the right move dropping it some time during season 2. Also 80s throwbacks suck.

 

[Private Tag Reporter]

what the fuck was op smoking when they wrote that post.

im watching through it slowly and it getting increasingly woker and shittier as it goes on is both funny and sad

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

what the fuck was op smoking when they wrote that post.

Well to be fair, they had only watched the first season, and while not perfect that first season is pretty good.

 

[khaine]

Re-watching Season 1 and it is so much better. The kids act like kids, the teenagers act like teenagers. The story is simple about a missing kid, with some secret government lab and a weird girl with powers adding some spice. The upside down is genuinely creepy, with its organic look, and all the particles in the air.

 

[Dr. Dickhead]

what the fuck was op smoking when they wrote that post.

im watching through it slowly and it getting increasingly woker and shittier as it goes on is both funny and sad

OP was literally 10 fucking years ago retard. Season One was mid but compared to other shit back then it was good. Like when a 5/10 surrounds herself with 2s and 3s. It was also originally supposed to be 1 season only if memory serves, but I can't be fucked to go dig up a source. I stopped watching after Season 2, but the online sperging has been funny as hell.

 

[Private Tag Reporter]

OP was literally 10 fucking years ago retard. Season One was mid but compared to other shit back then it was good. Like when a 5/10 surrounds herself with 2s and 3s. It was also originally supposed to be 1 season only if memory serves, but I can't be fucked to go dig up a source. I stopped watching after Season 2, but the online sperging has been funny as hell.

yeah but you'd have to be especially retarded to interpret the upside down as multiverse shit even in context like what the fuck?

"spooky alternate world" has been a trope since forever, it's literally the basis of the distinction between literary high/low fantasy

 

[innocent jogger]

He is survived by his pet gerbil

ARMAGEDDON!!

what the fuck was op smoking when they wrote that post.

[has a gay anime avatar, also uses 'they': opinions and comments disregarded]

I just made it through the finale. [I never watched S4 or any other episodes of S5, just read synopsis of them on Wikipedia.] Thoughts:

It was...ok. Better than I expected. The first half moved pretty quick (I switched up to 2x on VLC during the "drama" shit) with some good action and interesting situations. Then there was 45 fucking minutes of epilogue.

I am probably alone here but I always liked Kali and the "side trip" episode from S3(?) that everyone hated. It was cool to see her again and she wasn't annoying or overused.

The forced interracial shit between Max and the black kid was mega cringe.

Will's "happy future" is a Milwaukee gay bar..in the same time period that Jeffrey Dahmer was cruising those bars.

The cute blonde with the retarded lesbian "twist" from S3 now looks like a meth vampire and was shoehorned into way too much importance and screen time. In fact all of the women look terrible except Max who is, of course, with a dindu.

Christ on Ice that cast was fucking bloated. I didn't figure out who was who until close to the end.

Mike needs to do something about that nose. Fucking Toucan Sam. Oy Vey! Hide the coke!

...meh. I don't really have anything else. The music was OK, Pixies are always a good choice. I hate the fuck out of that "At Last" song though and wish I could erase it from history. Also Prince is overrated.

 

[FatalTater]

Season 5 was just the writers taking what should have been a 10 minute skit and turning it into an hour long episode seven times in a row plus a 2 hour finale.
(If you are a writer don't do that shit. We see you.)

First season was best season. I'm glad it's ended now.

 

[whoishomermynameis]

 

[Fireman Sam]

I happened to catch some parts of the last few episodes thanks to my mother in law who was watching it on the TV while knitting and playing Candy Crush or whatever. I came to a realization that I probably should have a long time ago (I forced myself to hatewatch Rings of Power for fucks sake and that was leagues worse)...

A lot of Netflix shows are written precisely as "secondary entertainment" where you could be doing literally anything else and look up at the show every ten minutes and still know exactly what's going on. That's why there's so many unfitting monologues, everything is tell-don't-show and characters seem to explain what's going on the second after something happens. Seriously once you notice, you can't not notice it.

It takes you out of it if you're actually trying to give the show your full attention, but all the facebook moms and redditors glued to their phone soyjaking about the show can still follow along without missing anything.
This probably speaks to my lack of interest in modern shows and movies but it turns out that this is a known thing and that Netflix likely demands shows to be written in this way.


Beating a dead horse here but nobody would have reacted to Will's coming out speech with such blind acceptance in the 80s. And god damn everyone acts like massive crybabies and keep talking about their feelings and shit. That's gay, why couldn't this show just be about cool mysteries in a small American town and scary fucking monsters? Why does everything have to be gay and emotional all the time?

There's so many characters flooding the runtime I'm not even sure watching the seasons 3 and 4 would have given me much more to go on here. I'm all for interesting and well rounded characters and plots but Season 1 sets up pretty much everything a viewer needs to know about the show. I feel that it's almost designed to be that way.

That's all I have to say. I watched season 1 and thought it was neat. But the memes about the unintentional implications of Will being a gayboy have been pretty great,

whats up with the fat tard i dont watch this shit but he went viral by cursing like a sailor.

Call me a faggot redditor but I kinda liked the fat tard and how he almost single handedly overpowered everyone in his path. Bro had stamina when trying to escape from the kidnap barn and he held a door against 3 fully grown men for a good 30 seconds.

Clearly he was meant as a comic relief but it watching him flail around in the action scenes was almost unintentionally funny.
Not as funny as watching Eleven do any action scene though, she somehow looks both like an emancipated toddler and a middle aged wine aunt at the same time.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

A lot of Netflix shows are written precisely as "secondary entertainment" where you could be doing literally anything else and look up at the show every ten minutes and still know exactly what's going on. That's why there's so many unfitting monologues, everything is tell-don't-show and characters seem to explain what's going on the second after something happens. Seriously once you notice, you can't not notice it.

Netflix has a specific name for this; second screen shows. And they have a writing policy for shows with this designation where writers are instructed to show and tell, then tell again. The presumption is that viewers are paying more attention to their phone/laptop and the Netflix show is on their second screen. I don't think this writing style was going on too much in the earlier series of ST but it was blatant in series five. Exposition was repeated over and over and there were flashbacks to events that happened earlier in the same episode.

It's very annoying to watch when you actually want to just watch the episode because it completely negates any possibility of immersion.

 

[LonelyEggRoll]

second screen shows.

I can guarantee this is what got 1899 cancelled. It was the second project from the creators of Dark, the hugely successful, but complicated German language sci-fi show on Netflix.

1899 was given a bigger budget for the first season, and they chose to write the script to feature actors delivering dialogue in multiple languages.
I guess some people watch with complete English dub maybe? I always watched Dark, and then 1899 with the original track and subtitles, but both were the type of show that even if you watched with an English language dub and you looked down at your phone for thirty seconds, you could miss something really important.

Anyway, it got cancelled, even though at the end of that year Netflix’s streaming figures got leaked for the first time ever. It showed 1899 has huge first week and month viewing rates around the world, enough to renew any show on any network.
However for some reason, it had already been cancelled at that point.

It was just too expensive to make, and Netflix already knew audiences attention spans are on second screens.

Even shows like Severence are somewhat dumbed down compared to shows like Dark, although tell that to a Severance fan and they’ll lose their mind, they think it’s some sort of genius test to understand that show.

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

Netflix has a specific name for this; second screen shows. And they have a writing policy for shows with this designation where writers are instructed to show and tell, then tell again. The presumption is that viewers are paying more attention to their phone/laptop and the Netflix show is on their second screen.

If they didn't write such shit shows people wouldn't look at their second screen. I was a captivated viewer for seasons 1, 3, and 4.

The only good thing I've seen so far in this season (finally made it to episode 5) is the guy who plays Vecna/Henry. He's genuinely a good actor.

 

[the printer is outo fink]

If they didn't write such shit shows people wouldn't look at their second screen. I was a captivated viewer for seasons 1, 3, and 4.

It's a self fulfilling prophesy. Writing shows that cater to people not paying attention makes them boring for people who are paying attention and they become more likely to pick up their phones. I'm surprised Stranger Things is written as a second screen show though. It has been a huge draw for Netflix and it has (or had) mystery elements that required a viewer to pay attention. It's the kind of story that should make an audience put down whatever else they are doing and pay attention.

There have always been people who watched tv while doing the ironing, knitting/sewing, doing small diy jobs, etc and there have always been shows that you could watch without giving it all your focus, soaps, chat shows, lifestyle shows, Hallmark type movies, etc. But it seems really odd for Netflix to turn their biggest hit into something even worse than that.

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

loling at the op

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

It's a self fulfilling prophesy. Writing shows that cater to people not paying attention makes them boring for people who are paying attention and they become more likely to pick up their phones. I'm surprised Stranger Things is written as a second screen show though. It has been a huge draw for Netflix and it has (or had) mystery elements that required a viewer to pay attention. It's the kind of story that should make an audience put down whatever else they are doing and pay attention.

There have always been people who watched tv while doing the ironing, knitting/sewing, doing small diy jobs, etc and there have always been shows that you could watch without giving it all your focus, soaps, chat shows, lifestyle shows, Hallmark type movies, etc. But it seems really odd for Netflix to turn their biggest hit into something even worse than that.

It's Netflix that's fucking everything up. They did the same thing with Squid Games. 1st season was kino. First half of the 2nd season was pretty good, and then Netflix producers stepped in and raped the show analy while pouring sugar in the gas-tank for the last half