What do you mean by Karaoke version? What cover are you talking about?
Spoilers Stranger Things - Season 5
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What do you mean by Karaoke version? What cover are you talking about?
Stranger things season 5 is GOT season 8 all over again. For a show about outcasts and non-conformity, it sure ended as conservatively as possible.
Tbh. They took so long to finish it. I stopped caring about it. The kids from season 1 in the show that's suppose tb like a year and a half later look so old ad badly shaved that it looks weird. Lol they just took to long. Sadly.
Turtletrekker was talking about the version in The War Between the Land and the Sea as originally referenced by CaptainWacky.
I do wonder if one of the reasons they avoided showing the kids in school and living a regular life somewhat was because how old the kids now look. Like the were trying to write around their looks. Instead of doing normal things just have them always doing missions.
I think what might happen with Stranger Things is that the first season will be remembered with the later seasons being forgotten. I have seen this before where the first story is continued to be remembered, while the rest is barely mentioned at all.
I just read briefly where the Duffer brothers were asked about the Robin and Vickie relationship. They didn't want to commit to saying where the relationship went, with it being left to the imagination of the viewer. This is timidity. This season is tainted with this. There was no courage, no bravery, in the writing.
The more I learned about this last season, the less I am surprised at how badly it went. I saw this stupidity in the video game industry, where, like for instance, Mass Effect, the player, to fully understand things in the third game, had to have read or watch ancillary material. It hurts the main product. I have seen it repeated elsewhere. For ST, to get to understand certain elements of the aired episodes, a person had to either seen the play or have read the synopsis. This is terrible storytelling.
I hated the epilogue. I felt when I watched this that it was overindulgent and maudlin.
I just read briefly where the Duffer brothers were asked about the Robin and Vickie relationship. They didn't want to commit to saying where the relationship went, with it being left to the imagination of the viewer. This is timidity. This season is tainted with this. There was no courage, no bravery, in the writing.
The more I learned about this last season, the less I am surprised at how badly it went. I saw this stupidity in the video game industry, where, like for instance, Mass Effect, the player, to fully understand things in the third game, had to have read or watch ancillary material. It hurts the main product. I have seen it repeated elsewhere. For ST, to get to understand certain elements of the aired episodes, a person had to either seen the play or have read the synopsis. This is terrible storytelling.
I hated the epilogue. I felt when I watched this that it was overindulgent and maudlin.
My wife and I watched the last episode yesterday. We thought it was ok. The cast was way to big, there was never a feeling of danger. Even when we thought Eleven had died didn't do us anything.
Comparing to the ending of Supernatural which we saw last month, that was way more emotional.
Comparing to the ending of Supernatural which we saw last month, that was way more emotional.
I'm already there. I originally was underwhelmed by season two and disliked season three, so I just stopped watching. I rewatched the first two seasons a little while ago and I still like season one...and that's the whole story for me. Will rewatch season one again some day and end it there.
I don't see how it's at all 'timid'. Vickie and Robin are together and happy as of this season. Why would we automatically expect to know more than that for a relationship that barely featured in the show and only at the very end?
I understood the episode fine without being at all informed about the play. Would it have changed my understanding had I known that info? Maybe, but that doesn't make it necessary information to include in the episode when it already makes sense as is.
So, if after a decade of like a 43 hour story, the whole thing boils down to a kid finding a top secret space rock, which gives him supernatural powers, and thru experimentation several other kids as well, one of whom overpowers him into a pocket dimension, where he communes telepathically with a giant spidery being from another world, wherein they together arrange the kidnapping of a little boy, & subsequently 12 other kids, for the purpose of syphoning them for mind power, and using said power to converge our worlds, does anybody got any idea how to explain why Barb was taken next & seemingly not syphoned at all, but just ended up dead? We were all pretty caught up about that when it happened, & now it seems like that crap didn't matter at all lol 
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Yes, it's called The First Shadow and it's about Henry's early life when he first acquires his powers. The play opened on the West End to critical acclaim and it's currently in the middle of a successful Broadway run.There was a play!?!?
Alex Breaux, who played Lt. Akers this season, played Brenner in the West End production.
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Which IMO is a shame. That is because even though season 1 is by far the shows best season I think season 2,3 and 4 are pretty good also. Funny thing is season 4 does have lots of things in common with season 5, which the bigger focus on spectacle so in a way you can say season 4 was a good Marvel like season and season 5 was a bad one. I do think also Vecna should have been defeated at the end of season 4. The show did not need a big final boss character.But the idea of doing their version of Freddy Krueger for a season was decent and also relevant to the shows connection to 80's movies nostalgia.
On a more positive side, Netflix will release One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 on January 12.
“I’m endlessly grateful to the Duffer Brothers for trusting me with a front-row seat to this incredible journey,” said One Last Adventure‘s director, Martina Radwan, in a Netflix press release. “Spending a full year on set with them was a true privilege—and an absolute thrill. Being able to get close and watching them bring this beloved show to life in real time, was pure joy.”
Radwan also praised the open access she got from Stranger Things‘ cast and other crew: “From the cast to their long-time collaborators, everyone welcomed me with remarkable generosity, openly sharing their personal and collective experiences from a decade of creative filmmaking, always pushing the boundaries.”
The Duffers added, “Growing up in Durham, North Carolina, we dreamed of becoming filmmakers—but Hollywood felt impossibly far away. Everything changed when we watched the behind-the-scenes documentaries for The Lord of the Rings—on-the-ground films that showed the real nuts and bolts of how a massive production actually gets made. We saw how stressed Peter Jackson was and thought: yep, that’s the dream. With the decline of physical media, that kind of behind-the-scenes storytelling has largely disappeared. We wanted to bring it back. One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things Season 5—beautifully captured and directed by Martina Radwan—is our attempt to do just that. If you love Stranger Things, or if you’re simply curious how a major Hollywood production comes to life, this one’s for you.”
As one of those people who loved the behind-the-scenes documentaries for The Lord of the Rings, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Apocalypse Now: Redux, and so many other films, I'm excited about this documentary. I hope everyone who enjoyed season 5 are just as excited as I am.
She saw too much? Wrong time, wrong place?So, if after a decade of like a 43 hour story, the whole thing boils down to a kid finding a top secret space rock, which gives him supernatural powers, and thru experimentation several other kids as well, one of whom overpowers him into a pocket a dimension, where he communes telepathically with a giant spidery being from another world, wherein they together arrange the kidnapping of a little boy, & subsequently 12 other kids, for the purpose of syphoning them for mind power, and using said power to converge our worlds, does anybody got any idea how to explain why Barb was taken next & seemingly not syphoned at all, but just ended up dead? We were all pretty caught up about that when it happened, & now it seems like that crap didn't matter at all lol
Vecna wasn't too concerned about collateral.
This documentary was leaked a few months ago, along with other projects rumored to be coming this year.
One thing I have to say in the Duffer Brothers favor is they apparently have a very collaborative approach with the actors, which is rare from showrunners. Hell, an earlier interview intimated that most of the rooftop scene in the epilogue was ad-libbed. This is sort of keeping with how in Season 3 they decided to pivot and make Robin a lesbian because Maya thought it would be better than her being the love interest of Steve.
I mean... ok, I guess, possibly maybe, but Barb wasn't really collateral or peripheral. (Eddie & Bob were) She was intentionally taken into the upside-down, just like Will, while she was putzing about a swimming pool, because of a main character, where she inexplicably ended up dead, & the audience (plus that main character) were really consumed with that. It was a considerable plot point of the 1st & arguably best season. It really amped the stakes, & viewers were hash tagging "Remember Barb" or " Justice For Barb" or some such thing for like a year or 2 after, & because it was SO long ago, everyone did in fact stop remembering her
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It also usurped TATV from Enterprise as the worst tv series finale.
Congratulations to the Duffer Brothers!
