NP - Stranger Things 2

[Jemmy Bloocher]

I'm enjoying it. But I do wonder how much of that is just 80s kid nostalgia
coupled with a love for the game Half Life - which was a pillar of my
childhood.

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Rob Miller <robcmiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> My thought though is that the show knows it's cliche & is playing to
> nostalgia for certain 80's sci-if movies & the cliches are supposed to be
> part of the fun.So in that sense, I think it's a bit silly to criticize for
> being cliche. You can't say it's as bad as something like Law & Order where
> the endless cliches have no artistic merit.
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 3:19 AM L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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