[worry]

I have a few theories regarding Stranger Things season 2:

Spoiler

El is Eleven. So there were 10 experiments before her. I have a notion that the monster was actually one of them, created by the govt as a weapon. A mutated person. Maybe the Upsidedown is too -- not quite settled on that -- but what I would guess is that nothing is native to it, which just furthers my idea about the monster.

I also don't think Matthew Modine is dead. Too unceremonious a final shot. The monster, somehow, knows him. Perhaps as "Papa"? Perhaps even as literal Papa?? Maybe that one's a stretch, but sci fi is full of mad scientists who sacrifice their own family for "the greater good" of their ambitions/obsessions. The monster doesn't have to be one of the experiments though obviously, but it'll be interesting to learn more about the first 10 whatever happened to them.

Will is obviously an Alien-style incubator. Was it successful or was he purged? I don't know. But Barb probably went through it (she's wasn't eaten, as far as I could tell). So is there a baby monster out there already?

[paran falcon]

Kanyemander West, on 29 July 2016 - 01:58 AM, said:

I have a few theories regarding Stranger Things season 2:

Spoiler

El is Eleven. So there were 10 experiments before her. I have a notion that the monster was actually one of them, created by the govt as a weapon. A mutated person. Maybe the Upsidedown is too -- not quite settled on that -- but what I would guess is that nothing is native to it, which just furthers my idea about the monster.

I also don't think Matthew Modine is dead. Too unceremonious a final shot. The monster, somehow, knows him. Perhaps as "Papa"? Perhaps even as literal Papa?? Maybe that one's a stretch, but sci fi is full of mad scientists who sacrifice their own family for "the greater good" of their ambitions/obsessions. The monster doesn't have to be one of the experiments though obviously, but it'll be interesting to learn more about the first 10 whatever happened to them.

Will is obviously an Alien-style incubator. Was it successful or was he purged? I don't know. But Barb probably went through it (she's wasn't eaten, as far as I could tell). So is there a baby monster out there already?

Hmm...interesting points.

Spoiler

Great point about El's predecessors. I could buy that one of them is/was the monster. Or another one.

Not sure about Matthew Modine but that could be as well as not.

Another excellent point about Barb. Didn't Hopper pause at an opened "egg" right out of Alien when he and Joyce are in the under side??

[Tiste Simeon]

Man, the guy who plays Wilson Fisk absolutely OWNS every scene he is in! So pleased he is back in Daredevil!

[Malankazooie]

Uh, did any of you guys watch the guy jump from an airplane with no parachute and land in a net on the ground? When I saw this when flipping through my T.V. listings, I thought it was going to be another joke, like the guy being swallowed alive by a gigantic python, so I set it in my DVR so I could come back to it and fast forward through all the nonsense. But DAMN! if that guy didn't pull if off. Holy shit, it was impressive!

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Tiste Simeon, on 30 July 2016 - 07:00 PM, said:

Man, the guy who plays Wilson Fisk absolutely OWNS every scene he is in! So pleased he is back in Daredevil!

Vincent d'nofrio. That's spelled wrong for sure. I didn't love him in daredevil most of the time. Terribly over acted with a silly growly bat voice. When he wasn't talking though, his physical and emotional acting was great. He's been a serial over actor since his law and order days though. Great in The Cell, which now that I think of it is all emotional face acting with no lines for him.

[QuickTidal]

Ugh.

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY (the new Bryan Fuller Star Trek show for CBS) is once again a goddamned prequel. It apparently takes place between Enterprise and TOS...

Can we stop going to the past already? Remember when Star Trek pushed into the future? This should have been set after Voyager and showcased a totally different enterprise crew 100 years from TNG or something...instead Fuller has gone to the finite past....because that's such fertile ground.

Ugh.

[Aptorian]

I hadn't heard anything about a new Star Trek show. I'll ecco QTs frustration with the use of prequels as a setting, however if that prequel is in an alternative timeline I think it would be okay. Enough time has past that retelling old, old stories, in a new cultural context, could work.

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 02 August 2016 - 05:33 PM, said:

Yes but Abrams shitty Alt Uni movies prob affected this decision. Maybe idk. Don't really care about Trek anymore since he ruined it

Nah, this is probably more to do with Fuller himself enjoying this era. Beyond which Brannon Braga was always like "TNG is as far as we can go, anything further would be boring" (paraphrased)...which is a fucking copout of a lazy ass writer. But there it is...apparently anything past Voyager is considered overkill.

And I like the JJ movies, and the fact that they are alternate universe events, leaves the Prime Universe alone and intact. Which was cool of him. He didn't rewrite canon...and he totally could have if he'd felt like it.

[QuickTidal]

Apt, on 02 August 2016 - 05:48 PM, said:

I hadn't heard anything about a new Star Trek show. I'll ecco QTs frustration with the use of prequels as a setting, however if that prequel is in an alternative timeline I think it would be okay. Enough time has past that retelling old, old stories, in a new cultural context, could work.

The line from Fuller is that this is the Prime universe, but prior to Kirk and Spock et al begin their journey.

[Aptorian]

Well, that's just lame. We'll miss all the cool TNG and Voyager super tech they had. Unless of course they go the way of Star Wars Ep. 1-3 and just throw in all kinds of advanced tech that never appeared in the what was supposed to be a later age.

[QuickTidal]

Apt, on 02 August 2016 - 06:00 PM, said:

Well, that's just lame. We'll miss all the cool TNG and Voyager super tech they had. Unless of course they go the way of Star Wars Ep. 1-3 and just throw in all kinds of advanced tech that never appeared in the what was supposed to be a later age.

See, and I think it worked in the prequels because it's meant to be the fall of a Golden age, and the cold empire/rebellion era simply lost most of it to disuse and lack of money and drive for expansion that was not Imperial-focused.

Here if they did it I'd have to call foul simply by dint of Star Trek always having moved forward with tech advancements and was always growing.

[EmperorMagus]

I just watched the first episode of Utopia.
Can someone explain to me why British TV series are so incredibly awesome?
Luther, Sherlock Holmes, The Night Manager, and now Utopia.


Mind = Blown

[Aptorian]

It's because the British people live in an authoritarian class-based industrial society that slowly eats people's hopes and dreams. The only that keeps them going is television.

[EmperorMagus]

Apt, on 03 August 2016 - 10:43 AM, said:

It's because the British people live in an authoritarian class-based industrial society that slowly eats people's hopes and dreams. The only that keeps them going is television.

I'm fine with that if it provides good tv to the rest of us.

[Tiste Simeon]

Apt, on 03 August 2016 - 10:43 AM, said:

It's because the British people live in an authoritarian class-based industrial society that slowly eats people's hopes and dreams. The only that keeps them going is television.

Excuse me?? Tea also keeps us going, thank you very much.

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 04 August 2016 - 07:34 AM, said:

Apt, on 03 August 2016 - 10:43 AM, said:

It's because the British people live in an authoritarian class-based industrial society that slowly eats people's hopes and dreams. The only that keeps them going is television.

Excuse me?? Tea also keeps us going, thank you very much.

That's what they want you to think. 'Relegate' is an anagram for 'earl grey tea'.

Think about that... if you still can.

[Tiste Simeon]

Sorry, I stopped reading in order to go and make myself another cup of Warm Grey, what were you saying?

[Tattersail_]

Best thing i've watched in years.

Stranger Things.

I am only on episode 5. Quality. Goosebumps galore.

[EmperorMagus]

Tattersail_, on 10 August 2016 - 08:42 AM, said:

Best thing i've watched in years.

Stranger Things.

I am only on episode 5. Quality. Goosebumps galore.

Yep.
It's pretty fucking awesome.

[Abyss]

STRANGER THINGS was awesome. More in the ded thread.




Meanwhile, my DVR just self-lobotomized, purging entire seasons of tv I had not yet gotten to. Goodbye PERSON OF INTEREST S4 and 5, ORPHAN BLACK S3 and 4, most of DC LEGENDS, recent GRIMM, THE LAST SHIP S2 and 3, all of PREACHER, last season's AGENTS OF SHEILD...

I am annoyed because I will likely pay for PoI and PREACHER which I really do want to watch. AGENTS too. Damn technology.

Some I was holding onto against the possibility I may get around to watching it eventually ...I was really struggling with LEGENDS S1 and ORPHAN, GRIMM and SHIP were basically just occupying space on the drive. No big loss there, i'll catch them if they ever show up in reruns or on a streaming service I use.