Stranger Things (Netflix Original) - Page 6

*Andrew NDB* · 05-28-2022, 03:13 AM

So it's back. Saw the first episode. Kind of a snooze until the last maybe 4th of the episode. My guess is we see how the Upside Down got created and by who, who is probably the same puppeteer of the Mind Flayer.

And yeah. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm guessing it's T-minus something until they make Will gay.

joe-eyeball · 05-28-2022, 08:00 AM

Watched the first two episodes and they were both a bit of a bore. Damn near every episode of the first three seasons had a fun factor that went with them and so far this has almost none. I understand that they are trying to evolve these characters because they are all in high school and older. So perhaps they are displaying the teen angst and a bit more seriousness because that’s how they wanted this season but I just miss the goofiness of previous seasons.

*Andrew NDB* · 05-29-2022, 01:29 AM

Just finished episode 4. It does get a lot better, more interesting.

Spoiler:

joe-eyeball · 05-29-2022, 07:17 AM

Yeah it finally picks up the pace in the 4th episode and has some interesting scenes for sure.

*Andrew NDB* · 05-30-2022, 12:41 AM

Saw the end of it.

Spoiler:

*Coola Yagami* · 05-30-2022, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Saw the end of it.

Spoiler:

How many dicks did Will suck?

*Warhorse* · 05-31-2022, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

How many dicks did Will suck?

None, but it seems like he has a crush on his buddy, Mike. And it's the real reason why he is so hostile towards Eleven. He's jealous. This whole part really sucks though because in real life, the actors of Will and El have become really good friends just like Steve and Robin in the show, and it's a shame they don't take advantage of that.

With that aside, I have to agree with most on the internet, Max/Sadie was the stand out. That Running Up the Hill scene is just perfect.

I wonder how many are going to recognize the Russian guard? He's Jaquen H'Gar from Game of Thrones. Interesting, the man of many faces set to fight the creature with no face.

The shootout scene was pretty tight. I hope they have more scenes like that. I'd love to see something like this with Hopper and Nancy taking out them military rogues, that is, if they survive this season.

*Andrew NDB* · 05-31-2022, 09:33 AM

Ah! I knew I recognized that Russian guard from somewhere. That was bugging me.

*Warhorse* · 05-31-2022, 10:43 PM

Oh, the second he came on, I was like "where did I see him before?" I didn't want to stop watching and risk the show being spoiled for me, so I just stuck it out till the end, then went on Reddit and the second I seen people making comments like "a man has no face", and all that, it's when it clicked. I felt so stupid for not recognizing him sooner because Jaquen was one of my favorite characters in GOT.

*Andrew NDB* · 05-31-2022, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Warhorse

With that aside, I have to agree with most on the internet, Max/Sadie was the stand out. That Running Up the Hill scene is just perfect.

Yeah, that was great. That scene and its buildup and payoff simultaneously made me both care about Max (which I never did up until that point), understand her, and become afraid for her immediate fate. Beforehand I was like, "Good!" when it was revealed she was marked for death by Vecna, but as this scene ramped up I quickly became, "Aw, I don't want to see this kid get killed like that."

And the buildup was so perfect. They'd established the song with her from earlier episodes. By that point we knew well how Vecna disposes of his victims because we'd seen it a few times already, as in... once they start to float, that's just seconds away from being it! I was 50/50 on it being a triumphant breakaway or it being her doom. I couldn't call it. They were playing it like it was a big goodbye with the little montage that it almost seemed like the end for her. Even the running away part, it seemed like any one of those big fragments could be it.

*Warhorse* · 06-01-2022, 01:44 PM

Curious about Nancy. Seen in the trailers that Eddie plays his guitar and is this going to be what brings her back?

I also wonder how in the beginning, Chrissy wanted to try some drugs and we got Jonathan being a full blown pothead and if this might come into play?

*IndigoErth* · 06-02-2022, 05:17 PM

Finished up this first main batch of eps last night. Not bad, wasn't sure at first, but got pretty good and glad they have started tying the upside down and previous monsters (that I was really kind of missing well into it) in with Vecna...

Spoiler:

...and gave his humanoid appearance a reason for what it is. I was almost questioning if it was/connected to the father, knowing he had to be too old though, but liked that twist with the son. Interesting he started out with powers all on his own.

The whole thing with Eleven in the later half of it seemed rather long winded and has her out of the actions for too long, imo, but liked that it was used to go into some of the backstory, others who went through those experiments and how the first gate was opened. Though we kind of need an answer how 001 ended up working for them. Wonder if that chip was not just a tracker but also somehow controlled him.

Really liked the evolution of the relationship between Hopper and the guard. Kind of hoping the guard escapes with them to the U.S. and sticks around for a bit.

Maybe Will is jealous with a crush on his friend and I was wondering...though on the other hand there's also potential jealousy that he and Mike were best friends long before this girl came along and got in the way and when Mike comes to visit, all this attention is on Eleven instead, setting Will up to experience normal friendship growing pains of getting older.

An article also mentioned that the day Mike arrives is Will's birthday, reveled in a previous season, so maybe, as suggested by the article, he's also upset that no one remembers.

While on the topic of a character's orientation, there is also Robin. Unlike a lot of media that keeps preferring the angle of unclarified and unspoken potential sexual tension that makes you wonder for an uncomfortably long period of time and then suddenly have that annoying "surprise" reveal that two characters are indeed into each other... I appreciate that we just know this fact about Robin, like it's no big deal, and she just seems like a normal teen who is anxious and unsure if someone she is into could feel the same, with the added risk of trying to find out. And even if I could do without watching women make out with each other, at this point the show still has me rooting for her.

Nancy...I'm a little confused why she ended up pulled back in and wound up in the pool when trying to leave. I get that she's probably got some guilt from her friend's death, making her a potential target of Vecna like the others, but not sure about her getting pulled back in rather than just falling onto the mattress and having the trance-like episode. Unless one of the "vines" or something snatched her away and I missed it.

Steve... I can't help but wonder if he's "infected" with something after those bites. It would give his character a reason to become a little more interesting aside from mostly being the tag-along ditzy guy.

After The Mind Flayer being the scary sky monster (and probably some of my favorite scenes), was a bit disappointed with Vecna being the big foe this time around, but hopefully that is going somewhere deeper.

*Andrew NDB* · 06-02-2022, 05:55 PM

Yeah, Steve got burrowed into pretty badly. Something definitely is going on with those wounds. Crap, Steve might really be in danger. The subplot with Nancy and him falling back in love could just be a parting gift before he's killed off.

Maybe at some point he explodes and a bunch of bat babies come out of him?

*IndigoErth* · 06-02-2022, 07:49 PM

True... pushing the audience in the direction of thinking they may get back together might be setting up for their heartbreak if he dies or dramatic tension if he comes close to death. edit: Or he lives but he's just the vessel that brings the newest crop of creatures into the normal dimension. Much like Will throwing up the Demodog "leech."

Hell I thought those bats were just going to kill him off right then and there.

*Andrew NDB* · 06-02-2022, 08:15 PM

They spent a LOT of time with him and those bats. Has to be more to come on them and what they did to him.

*Andrew NDB* · 06-03-2022, 11:24 PM

*IndigoErth* · 06-14-2022, 11:56 PM

Sadly they don't have my size (why no medium?), but thought I'd toss the link in here. Walmart has a preorder for a Funko Pop! Hellfire Club tee.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Funko-Pop...ctedSellerId=0

(Way is XL the cheaper one? Weird.)

*CyberCubed* · 06-17-2022, 06:55 AM

So I watched this entire show for the first time. Some thoughts:

Mike and Will have ridiculous hair styles, they look like the Beetles from the 60's rather than the 80's

I'm surprised Nancy had a sex scene in Season 1. I know the actress is older in real life but since she looks really young it was surprising to see.

I'm kinda tired of the constant bullying scenes. Every kid on this show is bullied and it gets enough. Eleven being bullied in Season 4 was especially pointless, especially since the kid who threw soda on her was even worse than Angela and she did nothing to him.

The whole Russian subplot bores me and feels like it's just to give something for Winona Ryder's character to do. After Will was saved she would have just been as irrelevant as the other parents. Hopper should have just died at the end of Season 3. These scenes drag in the prison.

For a show set in the 80's there's a lot of gay and lesbian characters. What teen in 1985 would he openly lesbian and their friends accept it? I was in High School in 2000-2003 and even then nobody was openly gay or lesbian. And here we are 15 years before that?

*CyberCubed* · 07-01-2022, 10:33 AM

Why is Will so damn gay? Everytime he's on screen he's on the verge of bursting into tears. He always had this weird look on his face like he's about to cry too. He's such a pansy I can't stand him anymore. Is this what homosexuals were like in the 80's? No wonder they were bullied back then.

*Andrew NDB* · 07-01-2022, 10:51 AM

Ironically the only one who definitely would be getting bullied (Will), doesn't. He should be getting stuffed into lockers and Tombstoned into toilets.

05-28-2022, 03:13 AM	#101
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,594	So it's back. Saw the first episode. Kind of a snooze until the last maybe 4th of the episode. My guess is we see how the Upside Down got created and by who, who is probably the same puppeteer of the Mind Flayer. And yeah. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm guessing it's T-minus something until they make Will gay. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

05-29-2022, 01:29 AM	#103
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,594	Just finished episode 4. It does get a lot better, more interesting. Spoiler: I knew the Hopper transport was never going to go according to plan, but I wasn't thinking it would go that far off the rails. And when the other military guys show up and start shooting up that house... wtf. A lot of really great moments so far. Also, are we supposed to forget about seeing the Russians feeding people to Demigorgons in Russia at the end of the last season? Is that not a thing to be followed up on? __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ] Last edited by Andrew NDB; 05-29-2022 at 01:46 AM.

05-30-2022, 12:41 AM	#105
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,594	Saw the end of it. Spoiler: I thought it was awesome! It got a little overblown when the bad guy was explaining his origin story but I was on board with almost everything else. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

05-31-2022, 09:33 AM	#108
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,594	Ah! I knew I recognized that Russian guard from somewhere. That was bugging me. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

06-02-2022, 05:55 PM	#113
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,594	Yeah, Steve got burrowed into pretty badly. Something definitely is going on with those wounds. Crap, Steve might really be in danger. The subplot with Nancy and him falling back in love could just be a parting gift before he's killed off. Maybe at some point he explodes and a bunch of bat babies come out of him? __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ] Last edited by Andrew NDB; 06-02-2022 at 06:14 PM.

05-28-2022, 08:00 AM	#102
joe-eyeball Stone Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Cleveland Posts: 708	Watched the first two episodes and they were both a bit of a bore. Damn near every episode of the first three seasons had a fun factor that went with them and so far this has almost none. I understand that they are trying to evolve these characters because they are all in high school and older. So perhaps they are displaying the teen angst and a bit more seriousness because that’s how they wanted this season but I just miss the goofiness of previous seasons.

05-29-2022, 07:17 AM	#104
joe-eyeball Stone Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Cleveland Posts: 708	Yeah it finally picks up the pace in the 4th episode and has some interesting scenes for sure.

05-31-2022, 10:43 PM	#109
Warhorse Emperor Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 5,544	Oh, the second he came on, I was like "where did I see him before?" I didn't want to stop watching and risk the show being spoiled for me, so I just stuck it out till the end, then went on Reddit and the second I seen people making comments like "a man has no face", and all that, it's when it clicked. I felt so stupid for not recognizing him sooner because Jaquen was one of my favorite characters in GOT.

06-01-2022, 01:44 PM	#111
Warhorse Emperor Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 5,544	Curious about Nancy. Seen in the trailers that Eddie plays his guitar and is this going to be what brings her back? I also wonder how in the beginning, Chrissy wanted to try some drugs and we got Jonathan being a full blown pothead and if this might come into play?

06-02-2022, 05:17 PM	#112
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,297	Finished up this first main batch of eps last night. Not bad, wasn't sure at first, but got pretty good and glad they have started tying the upside down and previous monsters (that I was really kind of missing well into it) in with Vecna... Spoiler: ...and gave his humanoid appearance a reason for what it is. I was almost questioning if it was/connected to the father, knowing he had to be too old though, but liked that twist with the son. Interesting he started out with powers all on his own. The whole thing with Eleven in the later half of it seemed rather long winded and has her out of the actions for too long, imo, but liked that it was used to go into some of the backstory, others who went through those experiments and how the first gate was opened. Though we kind of need an answer how 001 ended up working for them. Wonder if that chip was not just a tracker but also somehow controlled him. Really liked the evolution of the relationship between Hopper and the guard. Kind of hoping the guard escapes with them to the U.S. and sticks around for a bit. Maybe Will is jealous with a crush on his friend and I was wondering...though on the other hand there's also potential jealousy that he and Mike were best friends long before this girl came along and got in the way and when Mike comes to visit, all this attention is on Eleven instead, setting Will up to experience normal friendship growing pains of getting older. An article also mentioned that the day Mike arrives is Will's birthday, reveled in a previous season, so maybe, as suggested by the article, he's also upset that no one remembers. While on the topic of a character's orientation, there is also Robin. Unlike a lot of media that keeps preferring the angle of unclarified and unspoken potential sexual tension that makes you wonder for an uncomfortably long period of time and then suddenly have that annoying "surprise" reveal that two characters are indeed into each other... I appreciate that we just know this fact about Robin, like it's no big deal, and she just seems like a normal teen who is anxious and unsure if someone she is into could feel the same, with the added risk of trying to find out. And even if I could do without watching women make out with each other, at this point the show still has me rooting for her. Nancy...I'm a little confused why she ended up pulled back in and wound up in the pool when trying to leave. I get that she's probably got some guilt from her friend's death, making her a potential target of Vecna like the others, but not sure about her getting pulled back in rather than just falling onto the mattress and having the trance-like episode. Unless one of the "vines" or something snatched her away and I missed it. Steve... I can't help but wonder if he's "infected" with something after those bites. It would give his character a reason to become a little more interesting aside from mostly being the tag-along ditzy guy. After The Mind Flayer being the scary sky monster (and probably some of my favorite scenes), was a bit disappointed with Vecna being the big foe this time around, but hopefully that is going somewhere deeper.

06-02-2022, 07:49 PM	#114
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,297	True... pushing the audience in the direction of thinking they may get back together might be setting up for their heartbreak if he dies or dramatic tension if he comes close to death. edit: Or he lives but he's just the vessel that brings the newest crop of creatures into the normal dimension. Much like Will throwing up the Demodog "leech." Hell I thought those bats were just going to kill him off right then and there.

06-02-2022, 08:15 PM	#115
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,594	They spent a LOT of time with him and those bats. Has to be more to come on them and what they did to him. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

06-03-2022, 11:24 PM	#116
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,594	__________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

06-14-2022, 11:56 PM	#117
IndigoErth Team Blue Boy Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: U.S., East Coast Posts: 16,297	Sadly they don't have my size (why no medium?), but thought I'd toss the link in here. Walmart has a preorder for a Funko Pop! Hellfire Club tee. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Funko-Pop...ctedSellerId=0 (Way is XL the cheaper one? Weird.)

06-17-2022, 06:55 AM	#118
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,899	So I watched this entire show for the first time. Some thoughts: Mike and Will have ridiculous hair styles, they look like the Beetles from the 60's rather than the 80's I'm surprised Nancy had a sex scene in Season 1. I know the actress is older in real life but since she looks really young it was surprising to see. I'm kinda tired of the constant bullying scenes. Every kid on this show is bullied and it gets enough. Eleven being bullied in Season 4 was especially pointless, especially since the kid who threw soda on her was even worse than Angela and she did nothing to him. The whole Russian subplot bores me and feels like it's just to give something for Winona Ryder's character to do. After Will was saved she would have just been as irrelevant as the other parents. Hopper should have just died at the end of Season 3. These scenes drag in the prison. For a show set in the 80's there's a lot of gay and lesbian characters. What teen in 1985 would he openly lesbian and their friends accept it? I was in High School in 2000-2003 and even then nobody was openly gay or lesbian. And here we are 15 years before that?

07-01-2022, 10:33 AM	#119
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,899	Why is Will so damn gay? Everytime he's on screen he's on the verge of bursting into tears. He always had this weird look on his face like he's about to cry too. He's such a pansy I can't stand him anymore. Is this what homosexuals were like in the 80's? No wonder they were bullied back then.

07-01-2022, 10:51 AM	#120
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,594	Ironically the only one who definitely would be getting bullied (Will), doesn't. He should be getting stuffed into lockers and Tombstoned into toilets. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]