Spoilers Stranger Things - Season 3

It's coming apparently but it's not available at this time despite the others being conveniently available on July 4th in conjunction with the series.. It looks to be a premium (i.e. not free) product this time around, they want $20 on the other platforms which maybe is normal but I think $10 would make for an easier sell, to me at least. I'm still thinking about it but it gives me pause.

 

Wow, that's an insane price tag for a mobile game. The only apps I would spend double digits on are resource apps (AP Stylebook, Sibley's Bird Guide) and not a game, no matter how awesome it might be.

Where did you find that information?

 

I don't know if that will be the mobile pricing, that's the pricing of the other versions.
https://toucharcade.com/2019/07/05/...e-launching-a-bit-later-than-other-platforms/

 

Awesome, thanks! Hopefully it'll be reasonably priced.

 

Wow, I watched episodes 3 and 4, and things are definitely picking up now.
I do have to agree with you guys about the stuff with Nancy at the newspaper, it's definitely over the top. I understand what they were going for, but they did go over the top making the guys there such massive assholes.

 

I am not going to read through the rest of this thread until I have finished the season but I loved the first three episodes. I like how they trust the characters enough and there is a bit of a slow burn. It is nice to spend some time with the characters. I remember this period so well and the story about girls and other teen things pushing D&D out of your life was especially poignant for me.

 

I think the showrunners were trying to turn the "kid sibling" trope on its ear by having Erica be more aware than the cutesy kids one would see in Spielberg films (or ripoffs of his films). I found her continued use of "Child endangerment" funny, because she's not only calling out the others on the mission, but speaking for the audience who should naturally think, "She's a child! Are you really going to send her into a secretive place with armed guards?"

[Spoilers]So, obviously, the "American" in the Russian/Siberian holding cell is Hopper, right?"[/spoilers]

Agreed. With Busey and Elwes, its a stronger form of stunt casting and did more to interrupt the flow of the episodes than really help shape or progress the story.

 

I finished the season earlier today. Good stuff.

No spoilers here, people. Tough luck.

 

Eh, for me it was too much. I mean there's already a lot we have to accept for this story to work and the entire genre it's playing in. We don't need a character peaking over the fourth wall saying things like this, I mean in this genre we have to accept that bunch of kids can just penetrate a Russian base and pretty much not get caught until things really go wrong. We don't need this character playing a precocious role and doing the smug tropes of "I have something you want, but you need to give me something first so I'm going to continue to turn down a progressing series of offers until I smugly demand you give me everything. It was just too much and it never reached a point where it was "endearing" or even entertaining.

I think Mike is an asshole little kid who was clearly not smacked by his parents enough and he lives in the 19-fucking--80s. Somehow Nancy turned out "normal" but, he's a little asshole. Constantly yelling at his parents when they do things like call him up for a meal or something, and the disrespectful way he behaved towards Hopper, whispering things at Eleven when Hopper sat them down for the "heart to heart."

Yeah, yeah, he's a young teenager and all of that, I get it. But the kid is an asshole.

But, he's a... "fun" asshole. He's played well and fits into everything and his group of friends.

(I speak of the character, not the actor Finn Wolfhard who does a good job, and in other stuff he's done.)

Erica was just annoying, she was already too much to take with her abusing the free-sample policy at the ice cream shop then she gets chucked into the main story. I mean, why have Dusty meet-up with the others and have these characters be together in this story when we can chuck in this new annoying character?

Anyway, after thinking it over, I think I might rate this season higher than S2, there were some aspects of it that worked better and just some more interesting elements.

Just not Erica or the scene with Dusty and the girl in Utah singing over the radio during a tense moment. That was also a bit... Dumb in the context of the scene, what was going on, and how it contributed to Hopper's apparent death.

 

Seriously? This renders the rest of your post worthless. What the fuck?

 

I speak as a child of that era, not as someone who feels any level of child abuse is acceptable. If I had spoken to my parents or acted towards my parents the way he does, I'd have had some hell to pay. And I learned quick that when my mom calls me up for dinner not to yell back at her, anger-ly and with condescension.

 

Hopper a little too proud of himself for

Spoiler

intimidating a 12 year old.

I love how Will is just begging everyone to play D&D.

Thirty years later the girls would be playing with them.

 

^Guys like Hopper has been doing that for millennia

 

If something was demagnetizing everything in town wouldn’t it erase all computer data? (All 1 meg of it?)

 

Yeah but acting like it’s a major achievement?

 

Yes....for millennia...ever since we lived in caves

 

More with Busey than with Elwes imho. In fact, Busey's whole character has no point except to be a dick to Nancy. At least the head newspaper guy was also the lifeguard girl's dad, & since the mayor had to be a treasonous shill anyhow, Elwes was about as useful at that as anyone else would've been

I just really liked having Winona Ryder & Sean Astin in last season. Tossing in Paul Reiser, just gave it a lot of 80s vibe/homage, like the show runners seemingly want to play up, without it taking things too out of itself. I'd like someone of similar noteworthiness to make their way into the featured cast next season, especially if they have some room to fill, with a couple people maybe now being absent

I think Matthew Broderick, or maybe Jerry O'Connell, could maybe come in and be someone likeable, or C. Thomas Howell could be a heavy, for example. The important thing is for them to be an actual character like Bob Newby was, not just some gag like Jake Busey ended up being. I honestly thought they were going somewhere with him, & was a little disappointed it was mostly a nothing plot point

 

I’m three episodes in, interesting how every character is into supernatural investigation except the original mains.

 

I'm giving the season another, slower, re-watch and noticed some "issues" in the first episode when it comes to time.

The season takes place in the last week of June/first week of July, right? (The Fourth of July celebration is a center-point of the season.) So, in this time of year the days are long, it's after the solstice so they're getting shorter, but the day is still at one of it's longer stretches of the year.

Right now as I type this, living in the Midwest, it's 8:30 and still very much daylight outside by any measurable sense. It'll still be fairly daylight out until 9:00 when sunset occurs and probably won't actually be "dark" until almost 9:30-9:45.

In the first episode Mrs. Wheeler apparently agrees to a "tryst" with Billy at a nearby ho/motel at 8:00.

The kids apparently spend a good part of the evening climbing to the top of the hill where Dusty plans to erect Cerebro. When they get to the top it's dusk out. So probably past 8:30 (meaning they spent the better part of 4 hours hauling this stuff up the hill since it's around 4:00 when Mike and Eleven depart) and Dusty apparently spends the better part of the next hour constantly trying to contact his girlfriend in Utah as it's dark when Max, Lucas and Will leave.

It's also dark when Billy is in his Camaro driving to meet with his tryst with Ms. Wheeler (he's an asshole, but it's hard to believe he putted around for almost 2 hours before meeting for a sexual romp with a woman he's pursued for over a year now.) It's dark when Hopper also decides to have his "heart to heart" with Mike and Eleven and ends up deciding to drive Mike home.

Really, it's almost if not past 10:00, I think it's reasonable for the parent of a teenage girl to be pissed at a boy staying over this late and doing pretty much nothing but making out with her on her bed.

It's also this late when Joyce sits down for dinner at her coffee table to watch Cheers, and since it's Summer this means it's a rerun. Cheers started in 1982, it's 1985, so the show hasn't been on long enough to have enough episodes to be in a second-run syndication after the news or something. (It's "possible" she recorded the rerun as she missed the first airing of it for some reason (and couldn't record the first airing) but last season she struggled to use a VCR by trying to stick a VHS-C tape into a top-loading VCR. So I doubt she'd be able to program one, my mom struggled to do it at the time and to this day struggles to program the DVR, to record this missed episode of Cheers.)

 

You're completely missing the point because Mike should not be hit regardless of his attitude. I'm also a child of the 80s and a victim of child of abuse. I find your blasé attitude towards this issue disgusting.