Re: Stranger Things
My closing thoughts after finishing Season 2 (at least for now):
My closing thoughts after finishing Season 2 (at least for now):
Spoiler
The show is a lot of fun but definitely has issues in terms of believability/continuity in spots. I'm a 90's baby myself, but I've always loved the culture of the 70's and 80's so seeing a show with so many callbacks to the 80's is so satisfying for me.
The Good:
The Bad:
The Good:
- Steve. It seemed to me that Steve was casted to be the bad guy for the show, and roughly halfway through Season 1, they realized he had potential as a good guy instead, and ever since, it's been really redeeming watching his character develop.
Turning into the babysitter/single mother as he calls it was awesome. His 1 on 1 scenes with Dustin were awesome. I just loved watching him this season. He and Dustin together was probably my favorite part. - Will. That kid is a seriously talented actor. And after basically being Doug from The Hangover in Season 1, he really came into his own in Season 2.
- Elle & Hop. The dynamic between these two was great. It was especially cool because I know Dave (actor that plays Hop) said after Season 1 that he grew really attached to Millie (actress that plays Elle) and kinda looked after her like she was his daughter.
- Some other quick stuff that I liked...I thought the Snow Ball was a good way to end the season, and the callback to Joyce/Hop smoking outside the school was cool. I loved the way they'd rotate the camera upside down as they were transitioning into the Upside Down. The Mike/Elle stuff was very well-acted by the two of them IMO. Like Mike's face when he saw Elle walk in was perfect.
The Bad:
- Max/Billy (for now anyways). I kinda like Max, but she hasn't had a chance to really be fleshed out yet. They seem to be doing with Billy what they wanted to do with Steve at first. He's come into the school and they literally stated how Billy was basically replacing Steve as the big man on campus and he's the complete ******* that they seemingly wanted Steve to be. His role felt sort of pointless this season, but I think there's potential for both he and Max. Him flirting with Mike's mom was pretty hilarious.
- The very ending. Just seemed kinda lame to me that it basically ended the way it started with the Mind Flayer being there again. I don't know; I really liked how they had Will cough up the slug at the end of Season 1 to hint at Season 2, but this season's ending fell flat for me (outside of the Snow Ball part which I enjoyed).
- Episode 7. Just super out of place. They seemingly used this episode to possibly plant a seed for Season 3 while also having Elle go through her Luke/Yoda training kinda thing where she learned how to really tap into her power, but that part felt so rushed.
- Nancy's drunk acting. My god was that bad lol.
- Some of the logic:
1. Dustin hiding Dart from the rest of the friends group. Also more importantly, they just finished the world almost ending due to a demidog and then he mysteriously finds a new species of animal that looks kinda like a demidog and he isn't suspicious? Seriously what the hell is that?
2. The Dustin/Dart reunion at the end with Dart letting him and his friends pass by was so easy to see coming and also just lame.
3. Most of the first two seasons, it seems like shooting demidogs doesn't really do anything. Then the finale happens and Hop fights them all off with his guns while Elle does her thing.
4. The new Hawkins Lab guy gets viciously attacked by demidogs but then they apparently decide to just leave him be instead of killing him like they've done to literally every single other human that they've attacked?
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