NP - Stranger Things 2

[L E Bryan]

Based on some comments here a few weeks ago, I watched most of the first season. Skipping ahead mostly just to see what the cute kids did. I have a really hard time watching characters do things that are incredibly unlikely just to get from scent x to scene x+1. I have no problem with horror or fantasy as long as whatever happens is consistent to the fictional world with character actions that are reasonable. The world is portrayed as 1980’s with 1980’s type people except for the horror part which the folks in town are unaware of. So in one scene we have a boy and a girl of high school age out in the woods after dark hollering for a missing friend. Not sure why after dark, but, okay. They get separated (of course) and she sees a light coming from a hole in a tree. So she bends down and peeks in and decides that maybe her missing friend must be in the tree some place. So she crawls in through slimy shreds of goo as though it was an everyday sort of thing to do. 

One would think that any decent writer could figure out a reasonable scene to advance to the next part.

And can’t they come up with new things to scare the viewers? One cliche after another.

But the damned kids were cute, So I watched episode 1 of the 2nd season and after I send this I’ll take a look at episode 2

Now one may ask why the similar discontinuities in P’s books like V or GR or Vineland or… didn’t bother me.  Well, go ahead and ask.

Lawrence

> On Oct 27, 2017, at 8:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2nd episode starts out in a very Lynchian creepy maze.
> Later it becomes a War of the Worlds thing.
> Lots of nostalgia in writing and production.
> I like it.

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