Stranger Things (Netflix) TV Show • Page 51

The Adventure Zone has me in the early stages of planning out a party with my friends. Just finished listening to the Crystal Kingdom arc. So good.

 

Episodes ;)

 

i don't like to remember the second bad one

 

Dang, fair enough, I love season 5 and Buzz Hickey

 

Him hiding tiny Dart from the group after learning it came from Will is way too irrational of an action given how aware they all are of the seriousness of the situation and the need to not tell anyone, imo.

 

It's even worse towards the end when Dustin still wants to be affectionate towards Dart well after the demodogs have killed a crazy amount of people including Bob.

 

I've yet to play D&D but between The Adventure Zone and Harmon Quest, I've come close.

 

My buddies don't play D&D in a "serious" way, but they recently started playing just goofing around while getting drunk/high and I'm probably going to join them soon, sounds like it could be a funny time

 

Painfully accurate. The ending part about hoverboards made me cringe.

 

The way people eat this up even if it's just a collage of old movies that rides entirely on nostalgia says a lot about our society.

I don't know what it says but it says a lot.

 

If you think it is ONLY nostalgia, you are missing out on a lot.

That said, there is a lot of nostalgia. Can’t deny that. But it is a lot more than that.

 

I might be. I really only skimmed over the first season and the first few episodes of the second one.

I found no depth in any of the story or characters, most of it really just feels like cheap tricks or just ingredients for the perfect "binge-worthy, millennial-targeted, viral" show just thrown at you.

It's fine though. I love the aesthetics of it and theme song but I don't feel like I'm missing out by not finishing the second season.

 

Will never understand why people think nostalgia is a four letter word. I like nostalgia. I like period pieces. From Calvin and Hobbes to Mad Men, touching someone's memory in that way is great. And hard to do right.

 

I mean ...

 

I'll admit I didn't give this show enough attention, but I gave it enough to know the nostalgia element in Mad Men is not comparable to that in Stranger Things.

 

The nice thing about nostalgia is that it can be something different to different people and hit them in different ways because of their own life experiences. So, I think you're wrong, and I actually watched the show.

 

I think nostalgia is so much part of it's charm though. the references, the music, the clothing and cars. I would like this show 100x less if it was set modern day.

 

I think one show incorporated nostalgic elements into a story and the other incorporated a story into nostalgic elements.

 

I think I have better things to do than argue with someone about a show they didn't watch.

 

If you didn’t pay attention to the first season, and you didn’t watch s2... why do you think your opinion is worth anything?

 

I watched the first season. I struggled to fully focus on it because I wasn't compelled by the story.

It happens all the time. Have you not tried to make it through an album and found you weren't really drawn into it?

Same thing can happen with a TV show. Or a movie. You can still appreciate aspects of it and have an opinion, I'm disclosing I didn't finish the second season so that everyone knows what I'm basing my judgement on.

 

Did you skim the first season or watch it? You have said both. But they are very different in terms of taking in media like this.