They had one story to tell, and tried retelling it 4 more times.
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It was originally supposed to be an anthology, with different characters and stories each season, but the Netflix suits changed that.
I feel like they're may be an overarching plot that was put in place early on, but the details never seemed to come together for me. Just the same thing over and over and over, trying (and for me failing) to up the stakes each time.
I was really excited for the anthology angle. The first season ended and I thought, like with love death and robots, if they could pull off that quality with a series of mostly unrelated supernatural stories they'd be filling a massive need I feel completely unsatisfied in.
Then season 2 came and honestly it never resonated with me the same way. I think television and movie folk struggle immensely with world building right now and that tends to reveal itself the longer an IP goes on. You meet the father, or the unique monster was actually one of many and now there's a more powerful version but it's red or something, or actually this new character was behind the whole thing, or what have you.
I wish they'd spend at least a 10th of what they spend on actors on writers. Like you know doomsday's writers are getting paid 1/100th of what RDJ is getting paid. Star wars can't even afford a writer it seems. Money and success should scale with all departments but it seems to me some of the most meaningful departments get shafted in lieu of fat returns for the owners.
But you see, we can us AI to rehash old plots, use the money we saved on writers to make either bigger booms, or fatter stocks. Hopefully both. Like Bo Burham said years ago,"art is dead".
damn, that could have been so good. a series of unusual mysteries and sci-fi stories, all subtly linked to the central macguffin laboratory, or whatever government conspiracy is "behind the whole thing".
they already have a whole alternate dimension to play with, so it doesn't need to be contained to a single midwest town. they could set seasons in any part of the world, and make it a huge web, with a hyper local focus with new casts.
the more I think about it, the worse it gets; they had a perfect setup and didn't go for it.
and millie brown became a meme, because her lack of facial expression from all that botox. basically it became AOT series.
It's insane that child has ANY work done. Fucking insane.
(I know she's not literally a child anymore, but she does not have adult cosmetic surgery needs...)
yea she went o botox hard, its only going to backfire since botox will atrophy the muscles from lack of use, and she would have to continually get more.
Imo it already backfired. It already looks bad. I don't mean to be mean, it just looks so unnatural.
/boggle
And yet every season is awesome. Has more viewers each season, have rave reviews etch season.. how exactly is it a casualty?
Donald Trump won the vote, twice.
Huh…
Unironically, children. Stranger Things has been in production for ten years, the kids that were too young to watch when season 1 came out grew up hearing about it and then finally being able to watch it. If you see any of the ST communities online, it's a huge mix of age groups, and I think the writers have had to dumb some stuff down for a younger, more casual, less 80s pop-culture attuned and nerdy audience.
Also, I wouldn't say every season is awesome. S5 especially is very much suffering from 2nd screen writing issues that most Netflix shows have, but isn't apparent in S1 and S2.
Well I do say every season is awesome.
That's fine, I just disagree.
That's why opinions are like assholes, we all have one lol
And all of them stink.
With that said, why are you watching the show?
It is in its fifth season it is what it is.
Something doesn't have to peak media for me to like it, I am able to to critique things I enjoy.
I agree... and the fact they are actually ending it here is a success when considering Murican IPs only die when they are hated by everyone (looking at you 11 seasons of The Walking Dead, with only 2 worth of content)
Yes, ideally it would have been 5 seasons in 5 years and call it a day, but I have found a lot of entertainment in the show story and style
I get it. Season 1 was a cool nostalgic 80s hit. The following seasons had some fun, and good characters. But as I started watching Season 5 I really struggled to care - its the same story again, except the novelty is wearing off and the kids aren't as cute anymore. The fact that the whole opening scene was AI-generated Will Byers really turned me off. I havent finished it, maybe I will, but I don't feel very motivated.
Season 1 wasnt just a cool nostalgic 80s hit. It was genuinely well written, shot and paced.
they got too old, apparently they were suppose to be episodic type of series, much like heros was suppose to be.
going on 10 years and 2 years intercession isnt helping and only 10 episodes each. plus the actors got really old for the show. 10 years 40 episodes only? shows suffered from such a low episode count per season, and multiple years.
orville is a another, 6 years and only 36 episodes very improper for a scifi series. although mcfarlanes case could be studio issues.
This makes the “content factory” accusation super confusing. What content? Like or hate the result, they’re taking their time developing the show, and aren’t branching off into a dozen spinoffs like I’d expect a “casualty of the franchise machine” to do.
Pretty sure its not even 10 episodes. Theyre like 7-8 a season.
I guess I'm the only person who just didn't ever care for Stranger Things... because I was already familiar with the whole wild-ass Montauk Project conspiracy/schizophrenia 'story' its based on / adapted from / inspired by.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project
I went down a rabbit hole dive into this, years before the show came out, and ended up basically just disgusted with the actual human beings who concocted this whole story.
tldr: at least some of the people who collaborated to craft this whole story seem to me to be creepy sexual assaulters and groomers, who worked a lot of that into their strange, fan fiction / conspiracy theory version of history, which they then peddle as fact, making them grifters as well.
I'm having a hard time following this. The Duffer Bros are sex pests, or something specific to Montauk Project?
Preston Nichols, an author involved in the Montauk Project, was a gross pervert who wrote fanfics about young boys into his quackery literature.
I'm talking about the wackos who actually came up with the Montauk Project stories / personas, over the 80s and 90s, at various conspiracy / ufo conventions, and then eventually formalized it into a book.
Al Bielek, Preston Nichols, Peter Moon / Vincent Barbarick, Stewart Swerdlow.
I've never even seen the vast majority of the show, beyond an episode or two... three? ... from the first season, and I quickly realized it was heavily based off of the Montauk story.
I'm not talking about specifically being disgusted by the Duffer bros.
I was so disgusted from diving into the story the show was based around, and the people behind that original story...
... again, before the show ever existed...
... that I just never wanted anything to do with anything related to that story, including basically a tv adaptation of it.
That makes sense, thanks!
