Stranger Things (Netflix)

This season has been awful, the cast are too old, and the forced "message" scenes were way too much and long. They should have cut all the filler crap out and just made a solid 2 hour finale. Netflix have definitely made them drag it out and tick boxes for viewing figures but as usual it's just ruined a good show.
 
Enjoyed it. Not as good as the first batch of season 5, but mainly just cos the story is a bit slower and all the relationship stuff. Now it's all out of the way and setup for a nice 2 hour finale on New Years day.

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Rewatched from season 1 in anticipation of the second lot of episodes dropping, have to say im pretty disappointed with episode 7. Hope its not a sign of things to come because this has been a solid 8.5/10 series from start to finish.
 
iron_monkey said:
This season has been awful, the cast are too old, and the forced "message" scenes were way too much and long. They should have cut all the filler crap out and just made a solid 2 hour finale. Netflix have definitely made them drag it out and tick boxes for viewing figures but as usual it's just ruined a good show.
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I agree, the filler is wild. Very little happening and then a cliff hanger ending every episode.

Seems wasted potential for a really good last season.
 
Feels a little like the all too common last-season-curse that so many great shows have where every season is tops and then they drop in the final season as they cant quite nail the landing. Seems like its hard to get the ending of shows right, comparatively few seem to get their finales to hit the mark, many decades ago my English teacher used to say that many people can have a story idea and write characters and plots but that it takes a real writer to construct an ending to a beginning and a middle.
 
It won't reach GOT levels of turd as there's still some interesting stuff to watch, but the filler in cringe, poorly written slop.

I could watch a buddy sci-fi show with Dustin and Steve though, providing they don't go all emo.
 
Just in the 2nd lot of S5 and finding it quite difficult to stay locked in. As previous posters have said the cast feel too old and something just doesnt click for me.
 
Incredible television. Them Duffers knew exactly what they were doing with that ending of E6-and did we end up watching E7?

Damn right we did.

All that’s left now is to bring it home. Roll on the 1st Jan.
 
Apparently there’s a play that explains a ton of backstory. Why this wasn’t in the show I don’t know as I’ll not read it until the show is finished. The post tells of Henry’s origins and how he obtained powers.

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Yeah, it would have been 8 or 9/10 this season, but holy crap, The Message™ hilariously employed, that and the insanely long monologue in the most time critical moment of the series was just terrible story telling.. 5/10

Its hilarious to see story telling devolved to the most cliched of cliches and people celebrate this with "I love to see anti-woke people crying about it'.. sure, if you like crayon munching story telling 101 that feels as authentic as a Co-op Chicken Madras and correlates as poorly as ferrari's aerodynamics to the real world, then sure.. lets celebrate moronic story telling, it's doing wonders for audience scores, oh wait, it's tanking? who'd have thought it..
 
Demon said:
Yeah, it would have been 8 or 9/10 this season, but holy crap, The Message™ hilariously employed, that and the insanely long monologue in the most time critical moment of the series was just terrible story telling.. 5/10

Its hilarious to see story telling devolved to the most cliched of cliches and people celebrate this with "I love to see anti-woke people crying about it'.. sure, if you like crayon munching story telling 101 that feels as authentic as a Co-op Chicken Madras and correlates as poorly as ferrari's aerodynamics to the real world, then sure.. lets celebrate moronic story telling, it's doing wonders for audience scores, oh wait, it's tanking? who'd have thought it..
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If a cringe scene of a kid coming out the closet ruins the series full of cringe moments and bad acting then I think the problem might be you
 
Demon said:
Yeah, it would have been 8 or 9/10 this season, but holy crap, The Message™ hilariously employed, that and the insanely long monologue in the most time critical moment of the series was just terrible story telling.. 5/10
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Very much this!

However I also couldn't stand his acting in this season! cry cry, hyperventilate cry again.

He wouldn't last 2 seconds in welcome to derry :cry:
 
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I'm finding this season to be on the weaker side, the breaks aren't really helping either.

The entire coming out/sexuality thing is becoming grating, far too much time dedicated to it and it's painfully ham-fisted to boot. Have the kid be gay, whatever that's fine, but the way they've went about it feels completely off tone given the situation they're in. I wouldn't go as far as saying it's ruined the entire series for me, it's just awkwardly out of place and oddly whimsical at a critical juncture of the overall story. Maybe it would have worked better if they were all young-mid teens, but they're all clearly in their early-mid 20's, which I'm admittedly finding a bit jarring in general.
 
Kind of annoyed no one's been bumped off, was hoping a few people would have gone by now, instead of waiting for the final episode. Actually wouldn't have minded if Nancy and Jonathan in their moment on the table sank to their demise.
 
Simmz said:
Kind of annoyed no one's been bumped off, was hoping a few people would have gone by now, instead of waiting for the final episode. Actually wouldn't have minded if Nancy and Jonathan in their moment on the table sank to their demise.
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Yeah know what you mean, but I think they will kill off 11 and her sister, which tbh at this point isn't really going to bother me as just feels like they lost touch with their character - however if Dustin & Harrington die off ill be gutted, those 2 are awesome
 
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