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TigerKarlGeld
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lestye
United States4178 Posts
Science Museum of MN opened sales of the Brontosaurus / Thunder Lizard hoodie today. By the 4 PM CT they sold 10k hoodies and made $400k. | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16071 Posts
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ffswowsucks
Greece2297 Posts
Things heat up by episode 4 or 5. Its called the sauna i think | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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Erasme
Bahamas15899 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17341 Posts
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ZerOCoolSC2
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Vindicare605
United States16071 Posts
On July 05 2019 10:45 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: Finished the entire season. I'd give it 8/10. Seems fair to me. It stays fairly true to the formula throughout which makes it a little predictable BUT, it has enough twists and turns to make it worthwhile for even a dedicated fan. The nostalgia points, setting and of course the acting still holds up to the hype, and the overall plot and story is entertaining throughout. I could nitpick here and there, but my overall impression was very positive. I'd put this season on par with Season 1 if not slightly above it, and definitely a notch above Season 2. | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
8998 Posts
On July 05 2019 11:38 Vindicare605 wrote: Seems fair to me. It stays fairly true to the formula throughout which makes it a little predictable BUT, it has enough twists and turns to make it worthwhile for even a dedicated fan. The nostalgia points, setting and of course the acting still holds up to the hype, and the overall plot and story is entertaining throughout. I could nitpick here and there, but my overall impression was very positive. I'd put this season on par with Season 1 if not slightly above it, and definitely a notch above Season 2. Basically my opinion on the matter as well. The last episode kind of just threw me for a ride. | ||
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Uldridge
Belgium4839 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + The scene where Hopper asks for advice and the following one where he tries to enact the parenting is just so overdone at this point it really made my eyeballs roll | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17341 Posts
On July 05 2019 10:45 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: Finished the entire season. I'd give it 8/10. That's pretty generous. Most of the characters in this show are pretty bland and generic, I guess it's primarily due to most of them being kids, so by definition they didn't live long enough to develop any meaningful personality or experience life as we know it. All the school love drama is pretty much just filler material. It also doesn't help that the characters make pretty much the worst possible decisions for the situation they're in most of the time. First season had the mystery going for it. Second season was interesting because some bigger parts of the mystery were revealed. This season is running pretty much on nostalgia and music alone since story is nothing to write home about and characters are run of the mill tropes. Couple that with copious amounts of product placement, decisions that warrant at least a facepalm and you'll arrive at a score of 3-4/10. In my opinion this series is going downhill pretty fast and I'm not sure I will gather the stamina to go through the next season. | ||
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
On July 05 2019 23:48 Uldridge wrote: I was actually annoyed by the first episode. I don't necessarily want a throwback to '80s style of sitcom/movie tropes though, so yeah. Perhaps it really was so corny in those days.. + Show Spoiler + The scene where Hopper asks for advice and the following one where he tries to enact the parenting is just so overdone at this point it really made my eyeballs roll I thought the same (spoilers for the end) + Show Spoiler + until the end of the season when El was reading it. It was emotional manipulation straight out of Interstellar, but it still got me good. Worst part of the season was shilling Coke, complete with a 1 minute break from the action to do so in the 2nd to last episode. Otherwise it was fine enough, even if Nancy and Jonathan are kind of pointless as always. | ||
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Titusmaster6
United States5937 Posts
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Erasme
Bahamas15899 Posts
On July 07 2019 04:23 TheTenthDoc wrote: I thought the same (spoilers for the end) + Show Spoiler + until the end of the season when El was reading it. It was emotional manipulation straight out of Interstellar, but it still got me good. Worst part of the season was shilling Coke, complete with a 1 minute break from the action to do so in the 2nd to last episode. Otherwise it was fine enough, even if Nancy and Jonathan are kind of pointless as always. that scene reminded me of that "new is always better" from himym | ||
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N.geNuity
United States5112 Posts
I imagine they will get renewed for another season, but I don't really see a good way for the series to continue on. It reached a solid enough conclusion for me. Season 2 felt like it tried to leave threads for a larger world building which didn't seem all that good to me, season 3 returned to a little more tight knit story (immediately getting to the main elements in episode 1) and executed that story. If it goes on further, they'd have to lean back into more of the larger world building which I could see turning into a very messy situation. | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16071 Posts
On July 08 2019 12:37 N.geNuity wrote: I liked season 3 more than season 2. I think season 3 is strong. I imagine they will get renewed for another season, but I don't really see a good way for the series to continue on. It reached a solid enough conclusion for me. Agreed. + Show Spoiler + With 4 of the main characters leaving Hawkins and another one dead(ish), the only logical place for the series to go is to move settings and I just don't know how well that would work. This really does feel like a conclusive end to the primary plot. If it continues from here it would either be weird, or feel like a spin off. | ||
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darthfoley
United States8003 Posts
I acknowledge the bad guys being kind of random etc. in this season but I honestly couldn’t give less of a fuck. For me this show has been first and foremost about watching these awesome kids learn how to grow up, and I felt like this season delivered on that. I’ve always thought the best scenes in the show were the intimate friend/awkward romance moments that hit very close to home, especially as + Show Spoiler + someone who grew up moving around a lot and having to leave behind friends. Similar to what Will’s family + El end up doing For me, the last 15 minutes of the finale were perfect and had me bawling like a baby. I felt like I was part of the party and going through what they were going through. Hopper’s speech tapped into everything I have felt growing older, and it was well done. I legitimately enjoyed every major character group. I’ve never had a show that could so effortlessly switch between comedy and horror. Might be offputting to some but I think it works very well. I’m glad this season didn’t + Show Spoiler + fuck Will up for the entire season again. He was able to grow as a character. That Will The Wise scene near the end of the season was particularly bittersweet. I’m interested to see how they treat S4, because there probably needs to be some new dynamic or plot lines... as long as I continue to see the kids having meaningful coming of age experiences, I’m not sure I really care. Idk how they do that with + Show Spoiler + El and Will skipping town I’d probably say S1 > S3 > S2 if I had to. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10761 Posts
I have absolutely no issues with creepy Monster from another dimension, I have issues with children/teens infiltrating a russian base, built under a shopping mall that they find by cracking a code in 1 day because one girl can casually learn russian, after all she allready speaks Spanish and French. Let alone them outsmarting all the "Evil russians" (actual Quote). +done to death "grumpy dad that won't let his daughter have a boyfriend". +Product placement. +All new characters are super smart and don't take shit from anyone (the Little girl and the icecream girl). +Monster seems to follow totally random "rules". +THAT FUCKING COKE SCENE. Ugh… 5/10 at most. | ||
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ahw
Canada1099 Posts
Other than that, i thought it was pretty good. I was a bit disappointed they didn’t try to do any worldbuldng whatsoever — there was very little “new” information about the world, which is kind of sad, and maybe an overreaction to criticism of season 2. I like how they embraced the ridiculousness of the plot — makes a pretty good homage to the 80s fluff it is based on. The product placement is part of that, too — “new coke” was ridiculous, and product placement in the 80s was ridiculous, ET, Back to the future, its just a riff on that stuff... I can understand if younger folks don’t follow | ||
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