Bleeding Edge and Stranger Things

[David Morris]

My biggest objection about Stranger Things is that the government bad guys
at the beginning become the good guys at the end.  And the Monster story
line is so tangential that it barely exists.  This show feels as if it were
written by an improv group, with no plan.

David Morris

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:31 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

>
> "The Montauk Project is every horrible suspicion you've ever had since
> World War II, all the paranoid production values, a vast underground
> facility, exotic weapons, space aliens, time travel, other dimensions,
> shall I go on?" (Bleeding Edge, p. 117)
>
> In *Bleeding Edge*, the Montauk Project is a significant element whose
> ontological status remains unclear; considering the novel's architecture,
> there seems to be a mutual reflecting of 9/11 and Montauk Project.
>
>
> In *Stranger Things*, the Montauk Project is explicitly linked to MK
> Ultra, which as such was real. The serial's way of telling the story, with
> its many Spielbergian references to the 1980s, makes the narration more
> fantasy-like and less political than Pynchon's novel, though.
>
> Eleven kills the Monster:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4dzQ4_MI3s
>
>
>
> http://www.businessinsider.de/what-inspired-stranger-things-montauk-project-2016-9?r=US&IR=T
>
> > ... We've had fun naming all the movies that "Stranger Things" is paying
> homage to, but it's equally fascinating to see how it's playing with
> decades-old government conspiracy theories ... <
>
> Do the Duffer brothers read Pynchon?
>
>
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