So, finished the first half, and it is real good. I do not know if there should be a season 5. They are tying everything together and explaining everything. So far I have been impressed and they do good. This is leading up to a conclusion. Just one thing really fucking bugs me. One thing that is not a spoiler. Did they have roller suitcases back in the 80's? I do not remember seeing roller suitcases back then, and yet they have them here. As for the hacking scene, I am not really familiar with the internet at that point. I do remember around that time dial up was BBS oriented. Suzie would not have been familiar with IP if she was doing dial up. Also, she was doing it from a Mac. That certainly was not windows, and wasn't Mac trying to impose their proprietary apple talk at the time? It is not that it would be impossible, but you certainly would not have been browsing around with the Mac GUI at the time, unless you were communicating with other Macs. Government computers would have been VAX or Unix based at the time. There wasn't an internet like that, though I guess dialing into a secret government lab they might have had internet connection through the US government. However, that makes absolutely no sense because the government does not seem to know where the base is, but they would have had to have DNS and an IP to do what she did. Those would have had to been issued and easily traced by hardwire ISDN connection at least. There was no hacking that info involved in the early 90s, so I doubt it was any more secure in the 80s. Also, it is great she could dial in, but dial in connections did have password authentication. You might have been able to get some general commands at the prompt, but you sure as fuck were not going to be doing DNS look ups without first authenticating so you could get a SLIP or PPP connection to do those things. Are the Duffer brothers old enough to have been on the internet pre-AOL and GUI? Everything was command based in the early 90s. I know it was nothing like that in the 80s. Even Wargames had the sense to have text directory listings and ascii graphics.
Vol 1 was fantastic. Seven densely scripted episodes with all the same magic, you can tell they spent the time they had off for the pandemic on the script. Vol II is a totally different format. Two eps - but really, two movies. The first is 1 hour 30 mins, the second 2 hours 30 mins! Supposedly that is it for the show. Look forward to what the Duffer Bros have in store next!
TBH I'm not feeling it. Too slow getting to the point, the whole Russia storyline seems pointless so far, and the most interesting part - Eleven - is trapped in this season long cycle of "how miserable can we make this child" Not a fun watch
The problem with god characters is you have to take them out of the action while the rest of the cast goes on an adventure. 11 could end most of the conflict in part 1 and you would have trouble avoiding the final conflict with her present. The satanic panic plot would also be eliminated because she easily humiliate the jocks. It does give some "sciency" reason to go through flashback exposition to explain what is going on. Where else have I seen the overpowered hero training up and healing in a giant water tank while all of his friends have to fight for the world against freeza.....I mean the uber powerful bad guy that could kill them all with a thought, but instead wastes time playing with the b-cast.
I have to agree with @Nova . Between the Russia subplot ant the Eleven torture, this season was a bit of a bummer. The stuff with Vecna and the upside down was pretty good though. And I hope there is a season 5. The way it ended seemed like a cliff hanger.
No one's mentioned this yet, but season 4 isn't over; part 2 two is coming in July. Also, the mayor of Portland was gassed.
Heh. I don't watch this, but apparently a former colleague grew up in the house on the show this season.
Not the same experience. But my work takes me all over Atlanta, and the surrounding areas. So I recognize a lot of the places that are used for settings on May of the Netflix productions. And I've also been in some of the homes that interior locations are shot in. And Atlanta along with Georgia has also become a popular area for make studios to shoot movies in. Where I live is about an hour to locations outside of Atlanta. Ozark for, I know where almost every location and business was shot at or around. Cobra In ai, Stranger Things, Teenage Bounty Hunters, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Star Girl, Boss Level, are all productions that film in locations I recognize as well. When the trailers for Stranger Things Season Four started appearing, I knew exactly where the Victorian house used for it is, it's actually a bed and breakfast. And pretty much every day I'll drive by at least one location that something is being shot at. Those yellow signs are all over Atlanta and the surrounding areas now.
That was way too long, and yet they still refused to wrap it up. It's time to put this one out of its misery.
Well they couldn't really wrap things up since there's at least one more season coming. I thought it was great.
It was a great season, but I do worry about what is next. This was a great place to end it. It is bad when you can see the cracks in the writing for the extension. They have done a great job so far so I am not opposed to another season, but this would have been one hell of a season to go out on. Everything was at a wrap up point here, and now they are going to have to unravel things they brought to a natural conclusion. But I guess Netflix has to considering this is one of their best vehicles ATM.