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Post by simon darkshade on Jul 8, 2022 17:25:21 GMT
I finished Season 1 and loved it.
I didn’t see HawkinsGate exploding as a big scandal beyond the local, so it isn’t going to change national level politics or events.
Colonising a place with a toxic atmosphere…that’s a no.
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Post by lordroel on Jul 8, 2022 18:11:57 GMT
Colonising a place with a toxic atmosphere…that’s a no. Know one TL where it happen, but that was Hell, this is UpSide Down. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jul 9, 2022 2:30:06 GMT
And that particular story was so hugely weighted in favour of the human side as to be ridiculous.
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Post by simon darkshade on Jul 12, 2022 18:52:12 GMT
I’m onto S2 E6 and it continues to be a high standard and addictive show. It shifts a little from the first series on account of splitting the party, as it were, but keeps up tension and character development. Will does very well with more screen time and the whole notion of a subterranean corrupt evil plant is very…Hammer. It reminds me of the Hammer Horror ‘feel’ and also of several superb Fighting Fantasy gamebooks on the same theme. For me, that is very high praise.
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Post by simon darkshade on Jul 18, 2022 11:43:48 GMT
I’m now almost done S3 and the only issue is that there’s not enough of it. One area where it falls back on what it could potentially be is they the other children or even the older characters could develop their own capabilities. Only having Eleven as the constant weapon and shield misses a bit.
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Post by lordroel on Jul 19, 2022 3:42:25 GMT
I’m now almost done S3 and the only issue is that there’s not enough of it. One area where it falls back on what it could potentially be is they the other children or even the older characters could develop their own capabilities. Only having Eleven as the constant weapon and shield misses a bit. Well we speak when you have watched season 4. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jul 29, 2022 12:57:09 GMT
I’ve finished Season 4. An interesting and high stakes season, if a bit convoluted through the large number of characters. Eddie was the stand out new character. The ongoing insistence on love triangles and teen melodrama falls a bit flat.
I stand by my earlier analysis that things are too heavily weighted towards Eleven as deus ex machina. Getting other characters with powers would be interesting.
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Post by lordroel on Jul 29, 2022 15:18:36 GMT
I’ve finished Season 4. An interesting and high stakes season, if a bit convoluted through the large number of characters. Eddie was the stand out new character. The ongoing insistence on love triangles and teen melodrama falls a bit flat. I stand by my earlier analysis that things are too heavily weighted towards Eleven as deus ex machina. Getting other characters with powers would be interesting. Well if we go by the last episode of Season 4, the US government cannot hid what is happening now. And the friends have a lot of work cut out for them in Season 5. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jul 29, 2022 19:17:43 GMT
The effects in the sky would be concerning, but it is possible to limit access to the town due to the ‘earthquake’. Vecna is also not stupid or overly arrogant and going all out would be overreach in the immediate term.
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Post by shadow007 on Dec 12, 2022 1:38:35 GMT
I’ve finished Season 4. An interesting and high stakes season, if a bit convoluted through the large number of characters. Eddie was the stand out new character. The ongoing insistence on love triangles and teen melodrama falls a bit flat. I stand by my earlier analysis that things are too heavily weighted towards Eleven as deus ex machina. Getting other characters with powers would be interesting. Well if we go by the last episode of Season 4, the US government cannot hid what is happening now. And the friends have a lot of work cut out for them in Season 5. Kinda hard to hide hordes of eldritch monsters attacking civilians and the US military all over Indiana! I believe NATO would recruit Eight and other Psychics to fight in Indiana. The Cold War should be over as Humanity now has a new existential enemy to fight against The Upside-Down Dimension would be used to send the unwanted poor and minorities to live in. Basically Australia and the Thirteen Colonies on Crack EDIT: Conservatives like Reagan would use Upside Down to 'solve' the Homeless Problem and the Incarceration Problem |
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Post by lordroel on Dec 12, 2022 4:19:02 GMT
Well if we go by the last episode of Season 4, the US government cannot hid what is happening now. And the friends have a lot of work cut out for them in Season 5. Kinda hard to hide hordes of eldritch monsters attacking civilians and the US military all over Indiana! I believe NATO would recruit Eight and other Psychics to fight in Indiana. The Cold War should be over as Humanity now has a new existential enemy to fight against The Upside-Down Dimension would be used to send the unwanted poor and minorities to live in. Basically Australia and the Thirteen Colonies on Crack EDIT: Conservatives like Reagan would use Upside Down to 'solve' the Homeless Problem and the Incarceration Problem
Going to ban you as i do not see a reason for you to be a member of this forum. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Dec 14, 2022 14:47:35 GMT
Shifting back to the show, I’ve just done Season 2 on my rewatch. The first season edges it due to the ‘mythos’, powers and world view of the characters and setting still being done through the eyes of children and the ordinary. Season 2 raises the stakes at the cost of some of this childlike mystery; it is for bigger risks/stakes, but now we know that Eleven has great powers. As in many things, once we start peeling back the curtains, the unknown is driven back.
S2 was very strong, but perhaps was the beginning of the trouble that affected the show in S3 and S4 - too many characters and wrenching the core kids away from the limits of ‘kid life’. As new characters with a reasonable amount of air time, we got Murray (great role, but really less necessary in S2 and more of just a means to get Jonathan and Nancy to copulate), Billy (absolutely necessary), Paul Reiser (ditto), Bob (excellent performance, but thrown in a bit too willy nilly) and Lucas’s little sister. These combined to take scenes from The Party, which chopped things down in a 9 episode series. Oh, and the sidestory of ‘Eleven’s Adventures in Chicago’, which although well done, again dragged the action through a scenic detour. In S3, we get more new characters and split the cast/party much more, as well as having a tonal shift. S1 and S2 also work because the kid characters/actors can carry off being less than a year older.
Edit: Looking back on my predictions in S1 E3, I was on the money:
- Mike and Eleven becoming an item is an understatement
- Will did turn out to be in love with Mike
- Jonathan and Nancy was another easy one
- Lucas did get turned into a new character when he was older: stereotypical black basketball player
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