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Spoilers Stranger Things - Season 3

3 was kinda in between 1 and 2 for me as well. Much better than 2, still not as good as 1.
I like Hopper more and more, and the grand references to BTTF are amazing for me as a fan (BTTF got me started on Sci-Fi before I became a Trekkie)!
But the big scary multi-legged corpse-sludge monster was too much of a repetition, though it was well made. I liked the concept itself and how it absorbed The Things like a zombie T-1000, but it's like the big bad ships in 3 Trek movies in a row. There was nothing really new about it, so after it had absorbed The Things, it was absolutely boring, and just another monster of the season. I found the suspenseful chase scenes at the fair with Hopper and the T-750 much more compelling. They should actually cast that guy in a future Terminator, he did a great job!

I was a bit unclear on if those people taken over, or duplicates of people who were then kept in storage by the midflayer. Duplicates made from its own body that it had constructed out of rats.
 
I liked the bit with Hopper and "Smirnoff" leaving. It sort of plays out like Hopper is being irrational and will ultimately be wrong as the guy starts up the car and begins to drive away and we'll get a bit where they have to hunt the guy down again. It was nice to see Hopper's summation of things to play out exactly as he said it would.
 
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.

To be fair, that's how it's been since Season 1. The school bullies were One-Dimensional or utter Psychopaths (Steve's friends, Troy) and the Government guys under Brenner were flat bastards as well. Season 2 Billy was such a blatant nut it's bizarre no one called the cops on him.
 
Finn Wolfhard and Noah Schnapp, who play Will and Mike have addressed the "you're not interested in girls" scene, and both say that they don't think it's that he's gay, just that he's not interested yet, and just wants to hang out with his friends and play D&D.

Well, that settles it, and its as I suspected. Adolescence does not move at the same pace for everyone; Will is still content with "business as usual" but his friends are not. Very common in reality.

This is how I saw it. I’m surprised this became an issue. Will lost a lot of his childhood being missing and then being taken over. He just wants to salvage what childhood he has left and spend time with his friends.

Yes, but even if he had not suffered from possession, its quite normal for a boy in early teen years to still hold on to his childhood, which was all he knew from day one in social interactions with his friends.

The ending with Hopper’s note to Eleven was so very sad.

...and its possible the series could leave that as part of Eleven's painful development, but the final Russia scene was the tease of the season, one the showrunners would catch fan-Hell for if it did not confirm their suspicions.
 
That's not really what he says at all. Mostly what it actually boils down to is that he doesn't know for sure one way or the other, and that it's open to interpretation. Which is about what I'd assumed.

Despite his use of "interpret" this is key from Schnapp:

Will was in the Upside Down and he was alone there, not interacting with or connected to his friends or the rest of the world. And when he got back, he expected everything to just go back to how it was before, how it was when he was normal and when he was a kid and he wanted to go back to the basement and play D&D

I kind of just interpret it like he’s not ready to grow up and he doesn’t really want to move on to dating and relationships yet. He still wants to be a kid and play in the basement like he did in old times.

That's a loss of childhood / slow to move into adolescence issue, not one of whether or not he's gay. He repeats the fact Will had an interrupted childhood and where he stands, he's more in the child world of playing D&D/hanging around with his friends (where he left off before being possessed). Mike, Lucas and Dustin were free to continue growing up, so that leaves Will behind a bit, and he--typical of late bloomers into teenage mentality--is not ready for their High School Confidential life just yet.
 
One of the least realistic elements of the show is honestly that out of a group of four 14-year old nerds, three of them would have gotten girlfriends.

I mean, i was a nerd in high school, and about half of my social clique didn't even successfully land a date until college.
 
One of the least realistic elements of the show is honestly that out of a group of four 14-year old nerds, three of them would have gotten girlfriends.

I mean, i was a nerd in high school, and about half of my social clique didn't even successfully land a date until college.
Except El and Mike is a very special situation, Max got caught up in the Upside Down shenanigans and ended up realistically bonding with Lucas, and Dustin and Suzie met at a science camp. The circumstances for each them make sense within the realm of the story.
 
Except El and Mike is a very special situation, Max got caught up in the Upside Down shenanigans and ended up realistically bonding with Lucas, and Dustin and Suzie met at a science camp. The circumstances for each them make sense within the realm of the story.

I'm so glad they brought in Suzie in the final episode. I would have been disappointed if they hadn't, and that scene when Suzie and Dustin are singing The Never Ending Story theme was kinda magical.
 
Except El and Mike is a very special situation, Max got caught up in the Upside Down shenanigans and ended up realistically bonding with Lucas, and Dustin and Suzie met at a science camp. The circumstances for each them make sense within the realm of the story.

All true. The relationships did not all form at will like an episode of...Saved By the Bell. As you point out, each made sense, and all happened apart from what could have been some steady timeline of "today, we start dating!" if this series was developed in the wrong hands.
 
That's not really what he says at all. Mostly what it actually boils down to is that he doesn't know for sure one way or the other, and that it's open to interpretation. Which is about what I'd assumed.
He didn't say it definitely was the intention of the scene, but he did say it was how he saw it, and that was all I meant.
 
I just wonder how they make Suzie a regular. My theory the go Gremlins and have town attacked by upside down monsters at Christmas. Suzie might be in town with family because they are on vacation. Jason
 
I just wonder how they make Suzie a regular. My theory the go Gremlins and have town attacked by upside down monsters at Christmas. Suzie might be in town with family because they are on vacation.

The Suzie issue brings up a question: will there be another time jump going into season 4? If so, after Dustin partially explained why he needed her help in this season's finale, will he go on to tell her the full story? Is that safe? How much does she know about his friends, and will the showrunners have her instantly bond, or will it be a retread of the distance/cold shoulder Eleven had toward Max in season 2? Much to address down the line.
 
At least some of the time gap issue will probably depend on how long it takes them to start filming. With the age the kids are at you can't exactly wait a year+ to start filming, and believable set it a day later.
 
I watched Fletch back when I was watching a whole bunch of '80s comedies, and while I haven't seen it yet, Return to Oz is one I plan to watch in the near future.
 
Cocoon is decent. But has anyone in 30 years ever watched Fletch, The Stuff, RtO or DARYL?
Fletch (and its sequel) have been making the rounds on cable lately and I have a co-worker that loves the movies. Return to Oz gets around as well and is infamous for how dark and creepy it is. The Stuff by cult movie auteur Larry Cohen is hard to come by, I have been curious about seeing it again. I do have Q on the DVR in the meantime but yeah that one's pretty obscure.
 
I watched Fletch back when I was watching a whole bunch of '80s comedies, and while I haven't seen it yet, Return to Oz is one I plan to watch in the near future.
The Wheelers are creepy even to this day for me! And I'm pushing 40! :eek:
 
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