Stranger Things (Netflix) TV Show • Page 48

That’s one episode.

 

Yeah. And I mean that opening scene. It just felt lame and I didn't enjoy it.

The season also didn't feel as tightly paced this time around, I didn't have the same sense of intensity despite the stuff with Will being cool and ramped up. For as much as I thought was wrong it was still pretty good, maybe my original post was a lil harsh. But for me the faults shined brighter than the first one. I am very curious to see what the inevitable third season will bring though!

 

Indeed it should. I answer abysmal grammar with abysmal puns. It's the closest thing to a superpower I have.

 

Loved the season, enjoyed episode 7, last few episodes were so much fun, S2 > S1 imo, that's all I gotta say, peace out!

 

I was just describing to a friend that my favorite thing about Stranger Things (esp. S2) is how colorful it is on an emotional level. There are very few TV shows (or movies for that matter) that have been able to capture the same mixture of fear, laughter, sorrow, and joy that this show has for me. Closest I can think of right now is Lost.

 

Jim Rash is in it?! Dang, gotta watch now

 

he hosts it, it's great

 

about to watch the last episode of the season and I can't believe they made me wait this long to see El and Mike reunite goddamnit

 

I really don't get why everyone hates episode 7

I loved this season, I think I enjoyed it even more than the first.

 

From what I've seen I think it the fact it came right after the cliffhangery ending of ep 6 didn't help cos it interrupted that story for a random adventure that was strung out over a full ep. Plus the rag tag crew was a little too 80s cliché even for this show. I didn't hate it at all really outside of the shitty acting from the new characters. If it was interspersed with the other stories like a normal ep I don't think people would have minded as much.

 

My issue with episode 7 is that it felt less like an organic way of developing the character of El, and more like a backdoor pilot for a spinoff starring Eight and her punk stereotype friends.

I was in love with the new season otherwise. Even when the plot stumbled, the characters and the actors playing them kept me hooked until the end. I love every one of them.

 

I feel like it's 100% understandable to see why people don't like Episode 7

 

Agreed. I liked it overall, but it is a completely “stand alone” episode in a series that had never done that to this point. It was unexpected, and honestly unnecessary to be done in that way. Even though I thought it was effective, I totally get why people are flipping out.

 

It’s also odd because, due to its stand alone nature, you could move it up to play before episode six and it would play out almost exactly the same. Now you would just know that, based on what Eleven sees at the end of the episode, her friends are going to be in some kind of serious trouble in the next one. Then you’d watch the next one and probably realize very quickly that Will is lying because he’s the spy. I still have the finale to watch tonight, but I didn’t mind episode seven so much because I’d read so much about it beforehand. It did feel a little disruptive and it was certainly weird to be outside Hawkins in the city with a dude with a mohawk, but I do like the concept of Eight forming a group that seeks out and punishes those who are looking for them. I could perhaps see them bringing that gang into Hawkins in the future, pairing them up with the teens and kids. This show is really good at the improbable connections trope where they pair up an unlikely group and I actively root for them.

 

I thought episode 7 was okay as a concept, but the execution was flawed. It was fine for what it was - certainly not a disaster - but I feel like it could have been a lot better.

 

I wonder if they will ever reveal to the other characters that Hopper sold out 11 at the end of season one so he could go in to try to save Will.

 

Wills RYYYYYY was affecting

 

As fun as this was, I feel like it added nothing new. The final ten minutes could've been the end of season 1. There should have been more expansion of the universe, the inclusion of Eight was poorly handled. So the story was just a different creature this time, group bands together to fight it, more of the same. I hope they get more ambitious with season 3.

 

I'm on ep 7 rn

 

someone watched Under the Skin with this Eleven's black goop on the ground dimension btw

 

It’s no coincidence that I watched Under the Skin almost immediately after finishing season two

 

I think this show has always been more about aesthetics than depth and plot.

 

I definitely feel like they expanded the mythology of the show. Now we know the Upside Down is a living entity, and we know there is a “mind flayer” creature that wishes to conquer the real world, and we know of different species that exist, etc... I won’t say that we couldn’t come up with that info ourselves last season, but this season was less discreet about it. You can tell the space between the human world and netherworld are drawing closer. I think I’d like next season to explore why the darkness chose Will as a medium. I understand he’d gotten lost in the Void (the realm between the Upside Down and real world) last season—and his time there had infected him with evil essence, but it seems like they’ve chosen him twice now as their human offering. Overall, I’d like more coverage on the mythology of the show, explore the history of darkness/government research/how it relates to Hawkins, and understand the greater philosophical questions this interdimensional struggle poses for everyone in the series.

 

There was nothing about the Mindflayer season 1, I still want to know how it relates to the original demagorgon. Was it freed when 11 did her end of season 1 thing? Allowing it to reproduce and control other creatures and spread? Was it always controlling the demagorgon but now it has an army and gained power? Also why did the slugs start to grow rapidly a year later, that's a weird system.