i mean, the show was never good and was never going to be good, i dont realy give a shit if they popped out more doodoo straight from an ass with help from chatgpt this time. every fan of stranger things is stupid and should be ashamed of it for way worse reasons.
Season 1 and 2 were alright but nothing spectacular, it was largely carried by the 80s nostalgia vibe and references to nerdy DnD shit tho, if they set it in modern day it would likely flop.
So it’s got super egregious anti russian and anticommunist tropes but is that what makes it such a bad show?
horrendous writing, mostly bad acting, a “plot” that has the main character, and only super powered character be entirely disposed for the entire arc while the rest try to hold off the badguys, only for them to swoop in at the last second and make a mean face till the badguys explode for LITERALLY EVERY SEASON THIS IS THE ARC, filled with zionist crew members, vague slop disguised as nostalgia, with nothing to say and nothing it cares about, bad cgi and an overall forgettable premise.
Don’t forgot the nazi prison they depicted as a communist prison and later attempted to rent out as a Stranger Things-themed airbnb. That whole production team deserves
lmao i was not aware of this. i figured the prison was just “gulags bad ebil red commies” and not straight up nazi shit
In defense of having the exact same arc every season: trailer park boys
Otherwise, i didn’t watch it
yeah, but in the case of the trailer park boys, that’s part of the joke, not an excuse for bad writing.
TPB is a mockumentary sitcom, so having the same characters every season have the same arcs is fine. Really can’t do that for a television drama.
I mean, yes, but to me the portrayal of the soviets read more like 80’s nostalgia than genuine propaganda (except the one defector dude who was completely mesmerized by american treats, absurd propaganda). The US gov’t is pretty consistently an antagonist throughout the show as well. idk to me the charm of the show is the 80’s vibe, some parts were better than others, but the show wasn’t bad by any means
The US gov’t is pretty consistently an antagonist throughout the show as well.
It is but the show doesn’t really ever fully acknowledge this, here they are torturing kids and poking around eldritch dimensions but none of the main characters ever actually question this, it’s just kind of treated like a fact of life, like “it occasionally rains and snows and also the US government sometimes tortures kids in their secret lairs”, there’s just zero self reflection. At the end of season 5 everyone just kinda moves on with their lives and that’s it.
but the evil commies made a base under a mall and uhhhh hmmm made prisoners work?
which was hilarious. the us government is capturing and experimenting on pregnant women, creating a horror dimension that could end the world in the process, but we’re supposed to believe the soviets were bad/wore for having prison camps? also the actions of the us gov’t are excused on the arms-race grounds that the soviets would have done it so we had to beat them to it? just bad
the show was at its best doing 80’s horror and coming-of-age goonies stuff
literally - then the US did it AGAIN in the final season and it was actively killing them like dawg
hahah, that’s fair. the military just up and disappearing at the end of s5 with no followup on their operations in the upside down or capturing/interrogating any of the living children is objectively terrible writing. I much preferred the earlier seasons where things were very mkultra-coded and the us gov’t/brenner were very clearly the bad guys.
for me it was just better-than-usual slop, which has its place. enjoyed the 90’s vibe before it became over-the-top and the DnD stuff, but that’s about it
but the show wasn’t bad by any means
i love you, comrade, but the show really couldn’t be much worse. not even fit for background noise.
I’ve never watched it and every day I feel more vindicated in that choice.
i’m broken inside, i like to hate watch things. i raged at my tv for 16 seasons straight with the walking dead.
I remember watching the first season when it came out and was really confused what was supposed to be good about it
Eh, I thought season 1 was pretty good. Should have been a miniseries though; horror doesn’t work when you dissect every possible detail of the alien supernatural threat.
Later seasons sucked as horror, and eventually turned into propaganda and it certainly doesn’t help that several cast members are genocidal.
poop from a butt
I watched the 1st 30 seconds of it when it came out and people were hyping it up, and then decided I didn’t want to because it seemed scary and I was a chicken. What makes it terrible?
literally everything, but i made a small rant comment about it above. you did not make a mistake, but also it isn’t scary like at all. every 3 or 4 episodes they kind of remember “oh right, we sometimes do horror”
Thanks, went and read your comment. Glad I skipped the show
thank you for saying this
and thank you to everyone who’s upvoted
eagle-eyed sleuths swear they spotted the Reddit logo on one of the tabs.
“Reddit”I heard that one of the main writers divorced his wife just before the last season. I also heard that his wife was basically his ghostwriter.
lol
When is the secret 9th episode coming out
I know the Duffer brothers don’t really give that much of a fuck about any of this anymore but it must hurt at least a little bit that a big chunk of your fanbase sent themselves into mass psychosis because the ending of your show was so bad.
game of thrones moment
You couldn’t pay me to care about that reddit-tier show.
I feel like the first season was okay, but it definitely got weaker and weaker as it went on; I tried to watch season 5 and I just can’t; I tried to force myself to watch it but nope, it’s just terrible.
The show Sadie Sank in quality after Season 1
The “Singularity” fans are going to use this as their proof that AI has surpassed or equalled Hollywood.
When the first season came out we binged it because it was something new to watch and it seemed okay. The second season lost us in the first couple episodes and that was the end of that.
Hottest of hot takes: Family Guy is a better 80’s nostalgia show than Stranger Things
Yeah, I stand by this
I don’t think it proves it was written by AI, at this point, I would expect the treat hogs to prefer an AI written show because it would just pander and repeat catchphrases and have no deeper meaning or subtlety. Most likely had a tab open to search for things instead of google, I know a depressingly large number of people who think that asking AI a question gives a “more accurate” response than actually looking for it yourself.
