Stranger Things Season 2: Hopefully, we all know how compasses work by now

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Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Do we know how many episodes it is? My entire weekend is pretty packed, but if it's only like 8 hours I may be bale to binge it at some point.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2017 14:53

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 10:53

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

I can manage that. Seems like a good way to kill my hangover Saturday morning.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2017 15:00

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

It's funny, I almost didn't watch the first season because the original trailer I saw made it look like some stupid coming of age story. And now I find myself a little excited that I get to blast through the thing in a couple of days.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2017 20:20

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Wanna PM me all the big plot points? I told one of my buddies if he beat me in fantasy football last week that I would ruin the show for him by skipping work Thursday, binge watching it, and text him the ending. I was only joking, but if you can make this a reality I will love you forever.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2017 04:41

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

LesterGroans posted:

Don't have PM's, sorry.

I'm honestly thinking about buying you Plat just to be an rear end in a top hat to my friend.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2017 00:33

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Rick and Morty on Rick and Morty.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2017 01:57

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

"Of course she likes Ghostbusters, that's not the point."

# ¿ Oct 28, 2017 00:08

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

That was a log.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2017 01:24

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Just wait till next season when they have her rearranging furniture to replicate Chicago landmarks so they can find 8.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2017 06:10

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Fragmented posted:

I'm going to watch episode 7 TWICE today just to spite you fuckers.

NOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!
*dives in front of TV to contain the episode 7 toxins

# ¿ Oct 29, 2017 16:40

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Boywhiz88 posted:

Also, with this season being treated as a “sequel,” I like that it cribbed from Aliens (which obviously wasn’t out but is one of the standout sequels of all time, let alone the 80s) and ESB. And I’m embarrassed to admit how long it took me to catch the Alien references w Dart’s development.

Again, Ep 7 is El (Luke) traveling to Chicago (Dagobah) to develop herself and her powers, demonstrated in the train sequence/X-Wing sequence, confront the morality of her powers (Light Side/Dark Side), and then getting a vision of her friends in trouble in Hawkins (Cloud City) and having to return.

In terms of the conclusion, I think it creates a logical setup for next season. They didn’t destroy the Mind Flayer. They cut off its access to our world, and it’s PISSED. It wants revenge. What might be interesting to see as a possible resolution, if they determine the powers that 11 and 8 and the others have are actually derived from some kind of connection w the Upside Down and the Mind Flayer itself, so if they destroy the Mind Flayer, they lose their powers. It would give an opportunity for conflict between other # kids who just want a normal life, and those who want to keep their powers. Maybe get the classic trope of a character who makes a pact w the villain/allows the villain to possess them and gets waaaaay more than they bargained for.

Boy I hope not. If season 3 is more like episode 7 then I'm gonna be pretty disappointed.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2017 23:08

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Boywhiz88 posted:

I get why people don�t like it too, but the people freaking out about it are missing the point. It�s just a big homage, and falls into the whole �we looked to our favorite sequels for inspiration� that the Duffers talked about. I�m not saying it was excellently executed but it was them doing their best imitation.

No one is "missing the point." You'd have to be brain dead not to see the Luke/El training similarities. That doesn't make the episode fit into this season any better. If next season they all of a sudden have Mike travel to California to join a Nintendo competition, it will be just as stupid even though The Wizard did it.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2017 23:25

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

It's just an episode I can skip on rewatches without having to worry about missing any good parts. It's actually pretty handy that they put all of the things I didn't enjoy enough to watch again into one episode.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2017 23:44

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Only in so far as it was weird how no one was dropping f bombs too.

Billy's dad dropped one of them. That's how you know he's a bad guy.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2017 00:56

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Kinda hard to be more protective than locking a girl in a remote cabin with no contact to the outside world.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2017 00:59

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

It was a good season overall, but episode 7 just makes me nervous for the next season. Because you know they're planning on making the BK Kids Club a bigger part of it.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2017 13:45

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

I just noticed that during the scene where Dart escapes the music changes to almost sound like the Gremlins theme.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 01:28

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Bob was a good character, and I'm sure we're gonna have like 5 episodes of Winona pining about him next season. Also Steve is going to fall in love with Bubblegum Punk girl.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 02:29

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Verisimilidude posted:

Watching the first episode. the scene with (not a spoiler) the KFC front and center in the shot was really distracting and obvious. Did they even say �KFC� in the 80s? �Finger-lickin good� made me cringe

They went heavier with the 80's stuff this time for sure. Next season the NES will be released though! Bet that's gonna be a big thing!

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 03:46

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Did the Byer's dog die? I don't remember it in this season at all.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 04:06

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

She also rambles them off herself when talking about times Hopper told her it would be soon that she could see Mike again. They were both counting the days. Both Mike and El are weirdos.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 13:32

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Baronjutter posted:

Yeah from the moment Bob was introduced we agreed there were only 2 options
A: He's a government plant there to manipulate and observe the family and thus will be revealed and killed at the end
B: He's actually just a sweet chubby human-sized hobbit trying to share the load with the family, which means he has to be killed in a dramatic and sad moment.
Either way there was no way he was surviving the show.

When he was escaping the lab we sort of knew that was his end, for a moment we thought he might get away until that loving cliche "Ah! I've 99% escaped but am going to stop and pause to look at the person I love". We both shouted "gently caress!" as the whole scene was just screaming what was about to happen, then it happened, and the emotional impact was ruined by our eyes rolling out of our heads.

I don't know if it was a budget reason but I really wish the base wasn't overrun so easily and the dogs didn't seem to have god mode turned on. It wasn't that they were shown to have rapid healing or super thick hides, it was as if all weapons fired at them were blanks. Show the bullets ripping their flesh apart but quickly re-healing or something, just show some sort of impact. But then later when hopper is shooting them physics is re-established and bullets actually make contact with flesh and work, the only excuse is that the soldiers's guns were loaded with blanks. Show the base being overrun because there's like 100 of the things and they're super nimble and the base was flooded with toxic fog. Show that the military killed a bunch of them but they were still overwhelmed. Show the dogs getting hosed up from assault rifle fire and falling back only to have another monster take its place while the injured one regenerates. Basically establish some rules and consistency for the world and monsters.

Also, Will must have been just puking dozens of those little slug octopus things out for the first few months because there were so many of those dogs. Or did they establish another way they came into the regular world that I just forgot about?

# ¿ Oct 31, 2017 18:36

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Syzygy Stardust posted:

Can we please stop misspelling d�Art.

HE WASN'T EVEN ONE OF THE THREE MUSKETEERS!!! :mad:

# ¿ Nov 1, 2017 02:08

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Poor Jonathan. He just can't compete with guys with big hair.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2017 02:26

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Maybe he was talking about kids with out hot moms. Might be why he doesn't have a problem with her hanging out with Mike.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 05:10

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

The only reason Eleven's story wouldn't make sense if you dropped episode 7 is that she'd show up looking a little different.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2017 07:05

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

business hammocks posted:

2 Stranger 2 Things

Strang2r Things

It's gonna be Strang3r Things.....isn't it?

# ¿ Nov 4, 2017 03:33

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

I think it would have been fine as episode 6. Still a crummy episode, but at least not interrupting the flow of the climax. Episode 7 was like having your girlfriend's kid knock on the bedroom door in the middle of sex saying he had a bad dream.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2017 15:58

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Benny was cool. #JusticeforBenny

# ¿ Nov 5, 2017 02:15

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Nah. He's just gay and she's just Troi from Star Trek who states plot beats so people can keep up.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2017 02:19

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Steve should hook up with that Siouxsie Sioux chick at the party. She seemed bad rear end.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2017 16:08

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Groovelord Neato posted:

it was that they already wanted to bone to the point a guy who just met them picked up on it.

That part of the subplot felt like something a high schooler would imagine to himself in detention about what could happen so he could gently caress his best friend.

"If only someone that didn't know us told her we were in love then it would happen!"

# ¿ Nov 5, 2017 18:57

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Wizgot posted:

I think the series is perfectly fine as a one season show. Just my opinion.

Agreed, but then we got a season 2 that doesn't stand well on it's own because everything feels like it's setting the table for seasons to come.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2017 18:04

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Nancy is a skeleton, and skeletons are bad guys. She also broke up with Steve.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2017 21:00

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

The real tragedy is that the nail bat was actually Justin's. So Justin took Nancy, but Steve took the nail bat. I think Steve made out like a bandit in that trade.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2017 14:20

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Thrifting Day! posted:

https://twitter.com/hopperdancingto/status/924735090005078017?s=17

Trying to force start a "Pennywise Dances" thing huh?

# ¿ Nov 8, 2017 02:14

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Eau de MacGowan posted:

is will ever going to catch a break

I'm sure he'll break an arm or a leg or something next season so he can continue to not do things.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2017 13:36

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

4000 Dollar Suit posted:

Just watched the first 2 episodes of season 1 and counted 5 licensed music tracks, not sure why everyone is complaining about licensed music in the new season.

I wish they would have used more of the synthy OST stuff. I don't think there was way more licensed stuff this season. I could be wrong though.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2017 14:10

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

kiimo posted:

Yeah I was looking forward to the Mayor Daley-era Chicago.

I mean, at least mention how Da Bears are turning it around. Not even a Sweetness jersey to be found.

No matter the decade, it's always a Daley-era Chicago.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2017 00:47

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 10:53

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

TheGamerGuy23 posted:

Same, it's not like the cold has ever been shown to heal the Demodogs or anything, they just hate heat. And a loving month passed to get to that school dance, if that thing was gonna come back to life, it would've done so already. The corpse is probably rotting six feet under the Byers' backyard by now.

Buried it next to their other dog everyone forgot about.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2017 00:13

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