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Stranger Things S4 | OT | Every ending has a beginning (Open spoilers)
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Max's whole episode was probably the highlight of the whole series for me so far, very powerful. This season is just as good if not better then 3.
Max in general very quickly became one of my favorite characters in the show, same with Eddie. Honestly, as someone who just marathoned the entire show (I had just seen season 1 before), I like a lot of the characters added to the cast later on more than I do the OG cast (outside of Steve and Nancy, who are my favorite overall).
The writers' ability to integrate new characters into the show year to year is one of their biggest strengths. It's so common for later additions to stick out like a sore thumb, but it's easy to forget that people like Max and Robin weren't here the whole time.
This half season really had a lot of fluff, but it did manage to keep my interest and I'll be there for part 2.
Season four so far is easily my favorite…hoping that they land the ending. Count me in the group who despite loving the new characters, wasn't a fan of season three (the Russian subplot and odd humor choices felt off).
Thanks for posting this! I was wondering how they did that scene. The demogorgon CGI was really well done considering how many actors they had in there being tossed around with practical effects too. They did a good job making those kills look real.
Yeah, they wouldn't be dumb enough to have main characters escape death for four straight seasons only to kill Lucas first. Not gonna happen.
Finally finished Volume 1 so I can hop into this thread.
Loved it. I think they're getting stronger by the season. Max was already a favorite, but S4 just skyrocketed her status for me. Robin's increased screentime also did her good, and I surprisingly really like Eddie. Steve is still great, but I wish they'd tone down his exasperation a bit since at times it almost felt like he really didn't want to be part of the gang, in a mean way.
I wonder how they're gonna resolve Eddie's plotline without killing him off. Convincing the townspeople of his innocence is gonna be hard. Jason's probably gonna bite it, though.
Loved it. I think they're getting stronger by the season. Max was already a favorite, but S4 just skyrocketed her status for me. Robin's increased screentime also did her good, and I surprisingly really like Eddie. Steve is still great, but I wish they'd tone down his exasperation a bit since at times it almost felt like he really didn't want to be part of the gang, in a mean way.
I wonder how they're gonna resolve Eddie's plotline without killing him off. Convincing the townspeople of his innocence is gonna be hard. Jason's probably gonna bite it, though.
Maybe with 60 pages we can lay to rest the notion that binge watching doesn't allow for discussions.
Season 4's greatest accomplishment is reminding me why I liked Season 1 so much all those years ago. It's a testament to the quality of Season 4 at its highest moments, it's just a shame that the season also has what might be the lowest moments of the show in the California subplot that is obviously developing, but feels like it serves to just throw 3 characters the show doesn't know what to do with anymore out on some side quest. I also just don't buy Jonathan's massive character change and it feels like a shame to suddenly be pushing the love triangle with Steve again.
And for one of the most popular streaming shows. Obi Wan has twice the posts.
Star Wars is definitely a lot more popular here than a Netflix show.
Obi-Wan is also a thread that is like 60% arguing and complaining. We're mostly just talking about ST in here, but the Obi-Wan show has a more divisive reception so the discussion is more...spirited.
I never got the "no discussion" argument. Just look at the ST Reddit, where every episode has its own thread with 2-4k comments, and there's 12k people online right now talking about the show. And that's just one forum. There's plenty of discussion.
Also, something I saw on YT a few days ago:
The "weekly releases are better" thing just seems like another Era bubble.
Also, something I saw on YT a few days ago:
The "weekly releases are better" thing just seems like another Era bubble.
Less on popularity and discussion on episodic releases vs dump discussion.
Plus Flash fans are masochists.
Episode 5 ending with Max was easily one of the best moments in this show. What an incredible scene imo with earned build up.
The 'gangs doing their own separate things' didn't really work for me this season. I absolutely love Dustin/Robin/Steve/Max together and Eddie is pretty great too, so I enjoyed their adventures a lot. Robin especially makes a great fun partner for anyone she's paired with, and I genuinely love her relationship with Steve. I'm not particularly interested with the stuff concerning Hopper, Joyce and Murray - I was disinterested in the Russian plotline last season and it's still not interesting for me this season either. Elle's stuff in the lab is pretty good (the payoff in episode 7 was actually great and worthwhile), but it really feels like they had nothing to do for Will, Mike and Jonathan this season. I think the only scene I liked with them was when they re-affirmed their friendship, because up until that point they didn't really feel much like friends.
I also feel like the episodes drag a little too much. My wife and I watched one episode per night but at ~75 minutes for some of them it's almost like watching a film per night, and I fell asleep on more than one occasion. Anyway, regardless of all this it's definitely the strongest season since the first and I am looking forward to the final two episodes.
I would literally pull out my phone and check twitter/resetera when they hopped to that sub-plot.
It misses the mark so much compared to the rest of what is happening, it almost feels like it was made by a different team or something.
It's slow moving and not interesting in any meaningful way/
Eleven being almost entirely hidden away in a flashback subplot for 7 episodes that does nothing but build up a obvious twist at the end is a real bummer to me.
It really seems like I'm watching 4 shows at the same time, with only one being a Stranger Things episode and all the other ones feeling like weird webisode distractions. I absolutely couldn't believe it when they seriously recaptured Hopper just to throw him in another prison. There is so, so much wheel spinning devoid of character or plot development.
I did enjoy it a lot more than S2 and S3 because I really do enjoy the darker atmosphere and actual core group hunting after the mystery. But gosh. This could have been a 6 episode season easily if you cut away all the stuff I didn't really care for and allowed the characters to actually work together instead of all just having their own separate adventures and shows.
It really seems like I'm watching 4 shows at the same time, with only one being a Stranger Things episode and all the other ones feeling like weird webisode distractions. I absolutely couldn't believe it when they seriously recaptured Hopper just to throw him in another prison. There is so, so much wheel spinning devoid of character or plot development.
I did enjoy it a lot more than S2 and S3 because I really do enjoy the darker atmosphere and actual core group hunting after the mystery. But gosh. This could have been a 6 episode season easily if you cut away all the stuff I didn't really care for and allowed the characters to actually work together instead of all just having their own separate adventures and shows.
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Stranger Things 4 has now become Netflix's most-watched English language series ever.
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“Stranger Things 4” Has Now Become Netflix’s Most-Watched English Language Series Ever
The wait was long for “Stranger Things 4,” which finally came to Netflix over Memorial Day Weekend. The first volume of Season 4 episodes is shattering records for the streaming service, with Netflix announcing that it’s their most-watched English language series in history. “Stranger Things 4...
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Older teens may be at risk, but they'd be dumb to kill any from "kid" age group. It's just not supposed to be that kind of show.
I mean the kids COULD still die, theoretically. I think we're past the point where they have infinite plot armor while Steve/Nancy/Robin are constantly in danger of dying.
My point is more that if they kill off any of the main characters, they're not going to pull "the black kid dies first" horror cliche.
I gotta tell you, those flashback scenes of Hopper and his daughter hit a lot harder on my rewatch now that I have a daughter of my own.
Their plot is obviously building up to be important for the final episodes, same as the california subplot.
Nope, they did that process 20 times. They did manage to bring the time down from 7 hours to 6.5 hours by the end.
Poor guy had to show up at 1AM. I don't know how Jamie didn't lose his mind.
Yeah. Imagine having that much shit on your body, FOR HOURS, sweating into it the whole time. No ability to scratch itches and minimal ability to go to the bathroom.
I don't know if I'd ever be able to play a prosthetics-heavy part. My SPD and claustrophobia would probably either COMPLETELY break my brain, or I would be forced to overcome both by sheer force of total immersion.
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Absolutely. The first season also ended up with the kids playing another D&D campaign, where they killed a Demogorgon, and Mike as the DM said that was the end of the campaign, and the rest kept asking "that cant be the end right? what happened to x and y and z" which were clear allusions to characters with unfinished plotlines in the series, as a subtle way to leave a cliffhanger besides Will vomiting demo-slugs (they had no idea if they would get renewed at that point I guess). The parallels to D&D are very central to the whole narrative.
Killing characters is one of the many wrongly learned lessons of the shitshow that was GoT, this season the show proved you can up the stakes without having to kill anyone with the Max plot and her anti-chekhov letters lol