/stg/ - Stranger Things General - Thing Edition

Will any Netflix show ever capture our imagination as well as Stranger Things?

Probably not.

Stranger Things General.

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>it's a Netflix ruins the show with a ton of stunt casting season

I feel like I'm the only person who thought this was derivative wank that's just the flavour of the month, just like Harambe.

Everything beyond the pilot was flat. The CGI monster was a letdown. The CGI was awful. The black kid couldn't act. Winona can't act.

The music was the only saving grace.

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You're just not a happy person, user. This was enjoyable despite being derivative.

Nah, I like fun. I wanted to enjoy it, but it was a solid 5/10 for me.

I understand that poo can't always be good

But poo poo swears it is good and deceives the little poos

It's a 6/10 at best, everyone is acting as if it's the best show of 2016 and one of the best of all time. The plot is semi interesting, dialogues is cliched, and hopper is the only character with depth. It's just all 80s sci fi cliches mixed in a blender, really not that special

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>I feel like I'm the only person who thought this was derivative wank that's just the flavour of the month, just like Harambe.

You're not. I'm huge on 80s nostalgia and even I think this show is getting a lot of undeserved praise.
>Everything beyond the pilot was flat. The CGI monster was a letdown. The CGI was awful.
Some good episodes. Mostly decent. Nothing I would consider great.
The black kid couldn't act. Winona can't act.
I didn't really have a problem with the acting or characters.
>The music was the only saving grace.
Music, atmosphere, cinematography, and just capturing the 80s feel. Nailed it.

The plot? Nothing special.

>The plot? Nothing special.
Was it 2deep4u?

It was fun show, not sure if season 2 will be any good

Is he really this desperate for publicity?

Honestly, it's not like they shot it on 35mm at 1.78:1. It looked like Master of None and any other 'dark' digital show. I'm going to see if it was shot on a Red, because these shows are all looking the same these days.

Spielberg and Zemeckis, Darabondt etc had these warm colours and atmosphere. This was just cold.

which 80ies flicks will the rip off in season 2?

>Nothing I would consider great.

I don't think anybody considers Stranger Things to be "great"

Most Stranger Things fans just say its "fun" or "good"

Have you seen how GOT fans say that GOT is the greatest TV show ever made? Now THAT should make your blood boil.

The Duffer Brothers already mentioned that James Cameron will be an big influence for Season 2

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the entire show is a 3/10. the kids all need to be shot. the adult cast is stuck in something only the 80s would deem ok and every one survives as long as you dont work for the evil science company

in a post walking dead / game of thrones world this shit isnt acceptable. they all need to die slow painful deaths. that whole fucking town just needs to get swallowed up by the void and as the credits role all you hear are screams

>liking TWD

Its biggest crime was using Moby's 'When it's Cold Outside' after Sopranos used it.

>I don't think anybody considers Stranger Things to be "great"
I do. It's comfy, the characters are likable, the acting is great (Winona is much more tolerable on repeat viewing), the score is great, and it does a generally good job of paying homage to 80s film making while forming a coherent plot.

>it does a generally good job of paying homage to 80s film making while forming a coherent plot.

This is the best summary of why the show is popular.

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Are you implying it's incoherent?

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Why is this allowed?

The shoe is very entertaining

Why does she look like she hates having this photo taken?

I can't imagine many people enjoying a photo taken with a humorless hack

Honestly, i think she's a little cunt.

>everyone is acting as if it's the best show of 2016
to be fair, there hasn't been that much great stuff in 2016 so far. From every show I've seen this year only American Crime Story was better than Stranger Things.
feel free to recommend me good shows that you've seen, I'm bored

youre right though mate. I think the plebs just needed something to praise after game of shits finished and are wanking this into submission

>people can't enjoy things unless they're plebs
Seems like summer has been extended this year

yeah, when you going to fuck off back to school and tell everyone about this "great" show?
wanker.

only thing wrong with the show is the monster.
looks kinda shitty to be shown so much in the open.

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The CGI wasn't great, but it's TV after all. If you're referring to the design choices then it does make sense in relation to certain theories, but it is fairly basic.

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>If you're referring to the design choices then it does make sense in relation to certain theories, but it is fairly basic.
pls explain or give me a link?
The monster design ist related to what theories?

2016 has been average. So far I've seen got s6, night of, the Americans, penny dreadful, bojack, and Silicon Valley.
Any of those catch your interest

It was a decent 80's horror pastiche, but the massive attention it has gotten really says more about the overall quality of the competition.

I mean, 80's 'feels' aside, we had a very limping storyline, awful acting by Winona (somewhat offset by great to decent acting by the rest of the cast), bad cgi monster.

Still, the best new show this season, which again shows the sad state of TV right now.

The theory that Eleven created the Demogorgon. It's kind of a long-winded theory, I've got my own copypasta for it if you'd like it dumped.

go on, sounds kinda interesting.
Although wasn't it already there when Eleven got in the other world.

Part 1

Just FYI, this is copypasta since it would be a pain in the ass to remember and type out every time. I basically took notes while watching the show again to see how much evidence backed certain theories, and this one came out on top.

Obvious spoilers ahead.

The Demogorgon is a fragment of Eleven's psyche, manifested by fear and her own imagination, and she was telepathically linked to it from the start. As Lucas suggests, “Did you ever stop to think that maybe she's the monster?”

Brenner assumed the growling during Eleven's first isolation experience was an alien, but it was coming from her own mind. She was panicking from being trapped inside her own head, and her imagination was taking over (which could be prevented, as shown by Joyce comforting her). It's comparable to the real effects of sleep paralysis (which I've been unfortunate enough to experience): your mind wakes up before your body does, leaving you trapped in a half-awake state, while your imagination throws horrific hallucinations at you, usually shaped as generic monsters. When she came out of the tank, Brenner tried comforting her with flowers, then sent her straight back in. The Demogorgon was now forced into taking shape because Eleven was actively searching for it, and it assumed the form of a tall humanoid figure (Brenner) with the face of a flower. Eleven saw it eating an egg (confirmed by the show's concept artist), because that was how her subconscious saw her relationship with Brenner: a parent who was "eating away" at their own child (she was visibly worried by the nosebleed after crushing the Coke can, but Brenner just looked on with amusement). The Russian wasn't surrounded by any objects because he was a real projection, but the Demogorgon appeared with the egg because they inhabited her imagination.

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Part 2

After making her presence known to the Demogorgon and panicking at the prospect of being stuck in her own head with it, she forces it and the egg out of her mind and directly into the Upside Down, while the "massive amount of energy" she's exerting (as Mr. Clarke suggested) creates a permanent tear between the dimensions.

This theory explains the following aspects of the Demogorgon: how it used telekinesis to open the latch on Will's front door while chasing him, because it came from Eleven's mind and shared some or all of her powers (I'm guessing this was a very early and intentional hint, because I'm pretty sure it was the only time we saw it use telekinesis); how it could seemingly teleport, create portals to “walk around the rope,” and be impervious to physical harm or even rapidly heal itself, because it had no place in our reality and didn't have to follow its rules (the flea analogy); why it was drawn to the scent of blood, because the smell of nosebleeds was what made Eleven start to fear Brenner; and why it was blind, because it represented Eleven's crippling fear of being trapped in darkness. It may also explain: why it didn't kill Brenner (the news clipping about Will's return mentioned Brenner refusing to comment, confirming his survival), because it recognized Brenner through the eyes of Eleven, and she wouldn't use her power to harm him; and why it preferred the Upside Down to live and feed in, because Eleven inhabited the real world and may have ironically feared her capacity to kill it.

Part 3

It also explains: how Eleven recognized Will in Mike's photo, and how she knew about the Upside Down (which Lucas specifically questioned), because she saw and knew everything the Demogorgon was doing; and why she never told the boys the complete truth (she did admit to "being the monster" but I'm guessing the boys interpreted this figuratively), because knowing she was indirectly responsible for Will may have permanently alienated her from them, and the last thing she would've wanted was to be alone. By the end, Eleven realized the Demogorgon couldn't be stopped by physical force, and the only way to kill it was by tearing both of them apart to reincorporate it into her psyche. It seems this process ejected her into the Upside Down, the same way the Demogorgon was dumped there when she created it, but we'll have to wait and see.


The actual Demogorgon in Dungeons & Dragons is worth a mention because its characteristics are what made people suspect this theory, but there aren't really many similarities. Its two heads are constantly trying to kill each other, but neither can succeed because they're one in the same: this doesn't explain why the Demogorgon wasn't hunting Eleven, unless it already knew that killing her would kill itself, or that Eleven was capable of killing it. It does explain why Eleven destroyed herself at the same time, because they were ultimately two sides of the same coin and had to depart together.

And that's about it.

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thanks for the post

So how weird will it be to see based Dustin with front teeth in the upcoming season 2 ?

Based Steve getting the liberals triggered.

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he wont

I like how you mentioned everything aside from the plot.

Did you stop reading before the last few words?

Literally the only moment where Steve is based. He spends the rest of the series being a total wanker.

Stop making a fool of yourself.

How does he do it?

His name is Dustin? Am I just retarded or did they only ever say his name twice?

His real name's Justin but he can't pronounce it properly when people ask, so he just stuck with a Dustin.

I'm making this up btw

LMAOOOOO

Millie a cute. CUTE! But I wish she would've handled the kissing scene a little more professionally. But she is 12 so idk

go away, pedo

I'm more sad his voice is cracking too much so he can't sing as well anymore

Yeah. I just started watching the show yesterday. I'm not going to pass judgment on the show itself until I finish, but one thing that that struck me so far is how overrated Barb's character is. Before seeing the show, I saw and heard nothing but rave reviews about Barb. How she was such a unique, revolutionary character, and was criminally underused. And then I watched the show. What a fucking Nothing Burger Barb is. Typical 80s nerd girl, nothing we haven't seen a thousand times and she dies in three eps. And frankly I think they made the right decision with that. There really isn't much they could have done with her, since the "nerdy outcast" thing is already being done by most of the cast already.

I'm guessing the freak out about Barb just comes from like you said, the show standing out due to being decent show in a field of shit.

RIP

I pretty much have given up on hearing any reasonable opinions on this board. People here are impossible to please and they hate everything, no matter how good it is.

This show is great, easily one of the best in Netflix (as far as that goes). If you can't enjoy it then I genuinely feel sorry for you.

The one criticism I have about the show is the cgi is a little poor at parts (Mike's flying scene comes to mind).

>this triggers the frogposter

this

I keep reading here that people thought Winona acted poorly in this show. Is this a meme or are you guys for real? It seems pretty clear to me that she is one of the best in the show. Her role is one of the most challenging among the entire cast, and she has a lot of passion in her delivery. She's second only to the guy that plays Hopper IMO.

Same, she did a job depicting a mother who just lost their kid, people here are just trying to force memes

Just finished watching it today and felt pretty meh about it.

First of all, everything with Jonathan or whatever that Grinch-looking fucker is named and Nancy was a waste of time. They did NOTHING to solve the plot. In the end Mr. Xeriff found the boy and Eleven killed the monster.

Second, Steve has a total change of heart from peronally thinking Nancy is a slut to being madly in love with her, after the dude he saw in her bedroom beat him up, having NO PROOF he didn't bang her. Alright then.

Third, the monster doesn't even flinch at bullets but Steve manages to give him a beating with a baseball bat.

Fourth, all bad guys are conveniently killed off in one scene in the final episode.

Fifth, what exactly was the "upside down"? Is it actually another world or just a bunch of walls with gooey shit on them?

Sixth, Nancy the fucking hungry skeleton acting like a badass all season.

Disappointing.

I enjoyed it a lot but I can't say it captured the imagination. They show you most things straight up and the more you think about anything relating to the upsidedown the more it falls apart and doesn't make sense.

Post Nancy things, I'll start

I thought it was pretty damn obvious it was an alternate dimension senpai

As if
>getting a tattoo
wasn't bad enough.
>getting a tattoo of something you didn't create or accomplish

I agree that the show was meh, but

>First of all, everything with Jonathan or whatever that Grinch-looking fucker is named and Nancy was a waste of time. They did NOTHING to solve the plot. In the end Mr. Xeriff found the boy and Eleven killed the monster.
He found out the thing was attracted by blood, and even if they didn't find anything, this should not be a point.

>Fifth, what exactly was the "upside down"? Is it actually another world or just a bunch of walls with gooey shit on them?
this was explained (other dimension/other world). there's also the theory posted earlier in this thread.

>it was attracted by blood

Except that didn't come into the story at all for the monster to be actually beaten. In the end it would have showed up anyway because Eleven kills those guys, they had no influence on it.

Also it's so hungry that it goes after hand cuts? God forbid a woman ever menstruates in that town.

all right, but otherwise it wouldn't make any sense that the monster would show up, it would just be random.

It was good, some bits were very good but mostly it was good.

I feel it could have been two or three episodes shorter.

yeahit dragged on near the middle. The first episodes were better than the later ones, except maybe the last.
We basically knew the gist of things pretty quick, which made the mistery go away. When that's a driving point in a show, it kind of falls flat.

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>Mfw a negro with my surname

I hope one of my Irish ancestors who went to America enriched Caleb great great Grandma in the plantation.

>God forbid a woman ever menstrates in that town

Or you know, a kid has a nosebleed in the same basement over and over again

How big of a let down will S2 be?

He called us autistic, he is mean and fucks a lot

Is it confirmed same cast season 2? Seems like a waste, should be a new cast like an anthology show. These kids have run their course

Did you ever consider that's it's not bad but maybe just not for you? I don't like orange is the new black, i don't think it's s terrible show it's just not to my tastes(which is weird because I was a huge weeds fan).

Stranger Things didn't reinvent the wheel but it nailed what it set out to do. I'm just happy to see scifi/horror being so well received, hopefully we'll see some more of it.

But user Irish are worse then niggers

Why the Pepe pose?

Definitely not. We are niggerly, but not as bad as Blacks.

She's building a network despite having 10 lines to say in the whole series. Finn played the main character, the one with the most complete acting range, and you clearly see how he's a smart kid, but he can't even compete.

>acting is only about speaking lines

Get a load of this guy

Sounds like you're just a pleb.
The show is enjoyable but it's average at best.

There's a large black/Irish crossover due to the Caribbean slave trade. It's not a coincidence that Gaelic Tir Eoghain, IE 'Tyrone', is now the most stereotypical black name in existence

All I could see of the black kid is his teeth and eyes kek

I liked it

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