zeke
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So about Stranger Things S1 @zeke - I finished it last night.
I thought some of the logic started to give way in the end, not unexpected for a fantasy/sci fi type show. But mainly, some issues that maybe you have answers to where I didn't:
Missing Will - he probably gets nabbed by the monster and dragged into upside down world when he goes missing initially, but then over the course of a week, he doesn't get immediately devoured like that poor deer did, and he's successfully hidden himself away from the monster and avoided murder like the girl who got abducted after him?
The monster seemed to just show up at the lab and Will's house and the forest where the gate (one of them) was. They suddenly established that thing about blood drawing him out. But in the last episode, he suddenly opens a portal out of nowhere at the school where the kids are hiding out, just as they needed an assist with the military guys? They said something like, oh, because of the blood, but the monster suddenly has the ability to show up in rightside up world wherever he wants?
Will gets that gross worm thing attached to his mouth and insides, and they just pull that out and give him CPR and this frail little kid survives in his weakened state with no food after a week? And then they didn't do any MRIs or anything while he's at the hospital to see that he has leftover worm in his system??
I didn't really like that the monster was just some monster. Would've been cooler if it was some guy who got stuck in upside down world in previous experiments or iterations of that government project. But there's just this one solitary monster hanging out on his own over there, that Eleven somehow frees up to enter the real world? Also, I feel like we've seen that exact monster head, opening up in four pieces, in some other tv show. Driving me crazy that I can't remember where.
Overall, still enjoyable and looking forward to S2, but I had high hopes from the first 7 episodes that these particular writers weren't going to leave these types of loose ends and inconsistencies in the end when the dust settled. Maybe I missed some detail and there were explanations for some of the above, or maybe they revisit to answer some of it in later seasons (clearly the Will worm storyline will be a focus of S2 - assuming the monster manifests through him or something).
Man that's like 6 years ago but I'll try....
....iirc Will's one skill was being good at hiding i think (literally and metaphorically)? I don't think the demogorgon got Barb right away it had to find her first.
...yeah the demogorgon was able to open up temporary gates itself. not sure exactly how that jives with the other seasons but i'll try and remember.
....i guess they didn't examine close enough? are you sure he didn't stay at the hospital for a bit? not sure it would have mattered much if they found it tho.
... the upside down is a big place that's part of all four seasons. but yeah A Quiet Place and some other movies pretty much just copied the Demogorgon.
....iirc Will's one skill was being good at hiding i think (literally and metaphorically)? I don't think the demogorgon got Barb right away it had to find her first.
...yeah the demogorgon was able to open up temporary gates itself. not sure exactly how that jives with the other seasons but i'll try and remember.
....i guess they didn't examine close enough? are you sure he didn't stay at the hospital for a bit? not sure it would have mattered much if they found it tho.
... the upside down is a big place that's part of all four seasons. but yeah A Quiet Place and some other movies pretty much just copied the Demogorgon.