Stranger Things S5 trailer teases Vol. 2
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We still have episode 4 to watch--my son wanted to "pace" things out so he can go straight into episode 5, and on our parenting schedule, that won't be until the week after Christmas. Given I was ragging on spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man, I'll be coy and say when I stumbled on what was hidden in the military vault in this article, it confirmed what I expected it to be:
I will say the ending of episode 3 caught me by surprise and made me far happier than a mid-season episode cliffhanger has since s02e08.
someone with the same power Henry and El had, and we've only met one other of those so far that Henry didn't kill.
I will say the ending of episode 3 caught me by surprise and made me far happier than a mid-season episode cliffhanger has since s02e08.
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Less than three seconds of David Harbour. Wonder if they made this when the tiff between him and MBB kicked off.
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Fun series but it’s getting a bit bogged down in drama. But…
I really liked that Discover card ad.
I really liked that Discover card ad.
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Much as I loved the show, sadly it's been so long since series 4 that I'm not sure I even care any more. I'm going to wait until it's all out and see what the reviews are like.
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday I had family who had never seen the series--and I had only seen the first 1/2 of season 1.
So...binge time through season 5.1.
And damn if it wasn't quite good*! Looking forward to this.
*that thing in season 3 with the mall and the....foreign element....was definitely a direction to take....
So...binge time through season 5.1.
And damn if it wasn't quite good*! Looking forward to this.
*that thing in season 3 with the mall and the....foreign element....was definitely a direction to take....
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I thought much the same, esp when the previous later seasons failed to appeal to me as much. But I ended up watching out of boredom and ended up enjoying it.
Worth giving a chance I reckon.
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Is anyone else disappointed by S5 so far?
Each episode seemed mostly action, constantly switching, with the characters almost caricatures of themselves, flat... there was none of the depth exploring characterisation that we’ve had in previous seasons. The dialog was shallow and I was cringing during the ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’ sequence; watching the way it was acted I can’t help feeling the cast were struggling with it too.
was great, but the way it was foreshadowed (the conversation in the tunnels) was also poor writing. It was foreshadowed during
but at the time it felt just like more Will feeling the effects like he did every season; I wish they’d put more into it.
Each episode seemed mostly action, constantly switching, with the characters almost caricatures of themselves, flat... there was none of the depth exploring characterisation that we’ve had in previous seasons. The dialog was shallow and I was cringing during the ‘Tom, Dick and Harry’ sequence; watching the way it was acted I can’t help feeling the cast were struggling with it too.
Will finding his powers at the end of the final episode
the barn battle with the demogorgon
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“Everything we’ve ever assumed about the Upside Down has been dead wrong.”
You mean it isn't Australia?
You mean it isn't Australia?
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This is going to be a fine 1st of January. We will wait until the last episode has been released and then binge the whole 2nd part on a relaxed new year's day, which happens to be my birthday as well. As the birthday party is always in the night before, as it comes in handy that way, we are always happy to have something relaxing for that day.
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I've reaaonably enjoyed season 5 so far. It's not up to the strength of the earlier series, but I think that's partly the age of the main cast - pretending it's only been 3 years since the series started really stretches the disbelief. I kinda wish they'd had a much bigger time jump between series 4 and 5, and they could easily have done it given the ending of 4 (as a return to Hawkins), rather than keep the town and the people in-situ as if nothing much changed! Still, I'm looking forward to the final wrap up, and hope they stick the landing. They've done a decent job of setting it up, the pieces are there to come to a satisfactory conclusion (unlike say, Lost), so I'm moderately hopeful.
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It’s “Demo*gorgons” and not “Dema*gorgons”. Sorry but i couldn’t control myself!
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I co-sign all the criticism about taking too long to come out. That said now that it’s out I have really enjoyed S5 so far. I’d encourage you to give it a try.
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I loved this show when it first came out nearly a decade ago. Then it took so long for the next seasons I completely forgot wtf happened.
Maybe I’ll get around to binging the entire show now that it’s almost all released.
Maybe I’ll get around to binging the entire show now that it’s almost all released.
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Yes, it's a mess all around. Feels like it should've ended last season. There isn't a new threat, just the same from last season. We had little trouble calling what was going to happen in the beginning of each episode. ALL THE KIDS look like they just signed paperwork for their first mortgage and have a kid on the way, not that they're in high school.
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As somebody with younger friends that have kids that age now, yes, that is exactly how it feels in real life. So, I will agree they have done a wonderful job in casting.
As for the upside down, ya, all circled around Hawkins with giant wall. That's why the Russians had to build their base under the mall, because there is no upside down in Russia. It and the bad lands are all probably just created places by the people in them with the demogorgons and mind flayer as the natural inhabitants. There is apparently a prequel stage play in London that is about Henry and possibly adds some details to what is going on. Still, I'm not sure they ever knew enough about it to really get upset that they might be wrong.
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I just don't have the excitement to watch it right now, and it's not just for this show. I am old I guess and just miss that 5 "seasons" or "series" would take 5 years to release. Not nearly 10 years.
Maybe sometime next year I'll turn Netflix on for a month and watch this and some other shows that came out in the last 8 months (I think it's been that long since I turned off Netflix.)
I hope it's entertaining, and I hope "Vecna" loses an eye and a hand.
Maybe sometime next year I'll turn Netflix on for a month and watch this and some other shows that came out in the last 8 months (I think it's been that long since I turned off Netflix.)
I hope it's entertaining, and I hope "Vecna" loses an eye and a hand.
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“Meeeemberrrr! Member How It Was When You Were a Kiiiiiiid??! Member How You Felt Watching Season Oneeeee?? It’s So Nice To Member”
- the entire concept since roughly halfway through Season 2.
- the entire concept since roughly halfway through Season 2.
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Same threat as a previous season would have been fine, if it was a better threat.
Season 1: Demogorgon is awesome! We want another Demogorgon next season!
Season 2: Demo-dogs? Ehh, sort of a low-rent Demogorgon if you ask us, but okay. At least there's the Mind Flayer. We want more Mind Flayer next season!
Season 3: A meat flayer? Okay, that is definitely a low-rent Mind Flayer, but okay. Just give us the real Mind Flayer next season, and it's all good!
Season 4: A Freddy Krueger knock off, whose main skills seem to be trudging slowly at people and monologuing? Um, no. Just no. Give us the real Mind Flayer next season, and make Vecna go away!
Season 5: Seriously? There's one season where we don't want the old villain returning and this is the one you choose to keep?
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As a narrative device, I'm not a fan of new characters in the last act. If we see anything that hasn't been foreshadowed, I'll be surprised in the not good way. On the contrary: I expect them to have been fairly diligent in ticking and tying all of the loose threads. No deus to machinate, please.
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It makes absolutely no sense to me that the Upside Down is supposed to be a very deadly place, yet builders went in daily for a couple of weeks or months to build a huge base in it. And all those Demogorgons just let them? Suddenly they weren't hungry?
Yet the one time this season we see a group of soldiers go in, they are immediately all killed by one Demogorgon.
Wtf?
Yet the one time this season we see a group of soldiers go in, they are immediately all killed by one Demogorgon.
Wtf?
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Totally agree, a weird unknowable hive mind thing is totally alien and terrifyingly. Then in S4 we get "the bad guy was human after all", totally de-escalated the sense of horror.
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I liked the first few seasons but when they went to Russia I feel it jumped the shark. Then last seasons big finale was ridiculous IMO. Having a hard time getting back into it now.
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Same here. If the story doesnt have a satisfying conclusion, I'm out, full stop. It started so long ago, 2 or 3 things have replaced it in the zeitgeist
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Oh, come on. Just because we've got swooping magpies, gympie gympie trees, cassowaries, box jellyfish, saltwater crocodiles, cone snails, blue ringed octopus, funnelweb spiders, paralysis ticks, black snakes, brown snakes, taipans, copperhead snakes, redback spiders, trapdoor spiders, tiger snakes, and other fun creatures, you think we're comparable to a nightmarish eldritch landscape?
Please. The Upside Down has nothing on us.
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Observations on what we have NOT seen yet, which I think may tell us something given the Duffers have plucked on almost all the stray plot threads hitherto dangling:
1) The thugs who beat up Dustin will likely re-appear at some point to cock things up
2) Having Dr Owens left handcuffed to a pipe does not seem like that's the last we see of him
3) Hmm. Is there a deeper meaning to Wil's flashback memories that
being exactly the stories they told him when they had him tied up in the shed in Season 2? And by "told him" I mean "also told Vecna"?
1) The thugs who beat up Dustin will likely re-appear at some point to cock things up
2) Having Dr Owens left handcuffed to a pipe does not seem like that's the last we see of him
3) Hmm. Is there a deeper meaning to Wil's flashback memories that
enabled him to channel Vecna's powers
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I figured Hollywood had gone soft on the screen version as to not scare the viewers. Hell, you even have drop crocs now.
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You missed that there had been no activity? They had been dormant up until that attack after the last finale, not to mention those crews would either have been military or been heavily guarded even if there was an imminent danger.
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