Television Stranger Things 4 (New Trailer)

They're in 11th grade now so I think the main crew doesn't look too old. 11's actress is only 21 and can still pass for being 16 or 17.
 
Brampton_Boy said:
Apart from Steve and Robin, the rest of the cast looks like it aged out. You are absolutely right about Nancy - she looks haggard (although I suppose an impending Apocalypse can do that to a person).
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Nancy has needed a sandwich in her life since season 1. Bitch lookin like a concentration camp survivor for a minute now.
 
MDoza said:
Nancy is supposed to be the hot girl the boys are fighting over and she looks 40. 🤣

Millie Bobby Brown looks older than Winona Ryder 🤣
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It’s the curly haired one? Yea, looked like she’s thirty + and completely missplaced.

I first thought she’s their teacher or aunt.

Everyone’s so big now, I forgot whole plot that the Government invaded that place, that that old dude was in Russia, I lost interest.
 
Wife and kids watch this. I can’t get into it. Seems it’s multiple season with the same exact plot working around these kids hitting puberty.
 
The plot feels crowded and rushed. Robin has really come to the fore in terms of energy and dynamics, which I wasn't expecting. 11 feels heavy and compressed in contrast to the other main protagonists. Mainly i'm finding the transitions between 'down time' and 'up time', when they're on a side-quest or socialising or we're receiving exposition, and when they're in action pursuing the main objective, a little unconvincing. They feel forced and inorganic, like switching a light on or off as opposed to a fire growing naturally and then subsiding. Still enjoying the series so far.
 
How the fuck do demagorgens brush off a battalion of elite soldiers firing machine guns at it, but a middle-aged alcoholic soccer mom with a wine bottle fucks its shit up?

Also, how did the soldiers not shoot each other, since they were standing in a circle and firing at each other?

I get the suspension of disbelief and all that, but come on.
 
The actors playing the kids and the teens aging beyond their characters' age due to real-world circumstances actually ended up adding a dose of unintentional realism to the show.

Look up yearbooks from the 80s and you would swear all the highschoolers in them had three kids and a mortgage.

These are high school seniors:


I also googled "yearbooks from the 80s" and got this: https://kearnylibrary.org/yearbooks-1980s/. Look around inside some of those and then tell me that 2 out of 3 of those poor bastards doesn't look loke they're graduating college instead of high school!
 
Osculater said:
I thought the last season was pretty good and this season is alright, so far
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Yeah. I thought Season 4 (previous one) was really good. Probably one of my favorite seasons of the series. But, like most of the seasons of the series, I thought there was a pretty marked discrepancy between the best story arcs and the most middling.

In that case, I thought the stuff with Dustin, Lucas, Max, Steve, Nancy, and Robin learning about Vecna and trying to exonerate Joe Quinn's character to be, by far, the best, most compelling stuff in the season. Then, El trying to regain her powers- still very good. Then Harbour and Ryder in Russia- not bad but meandering at times. Then, Mike, Jonathan, Will, and the Jonathan's buddy trying to get from California back to Indiana, which really didn't amount to much in my view. That story arc didn't really land for me until they finally met up with the main protagonist.

I'm a bit surprised by the more lukewarm critical reception to the first wave of this final season but I can see some of the drawbacks you guys in this thread have pointed out. I still think it's quite entertaining and it at least seems to me as though the Duffer brothers are building to the resolution that they want rather than something like Game of Thrones' finale where it just seemed like a mad dash to a finish line that didn't feel cogent with all the buildup that had come before.

I've watched the four episodes so far and I think that there are again bright spots and some lagging elements. Millie Brown and Sadie Sink both tend to be terrific. David Harbour is great. Winona is fun to watch.

Mike was never a character I found to be that interesting in the early going but I have to hand it to Finn Wolfhard in that I think he delivered some of his best work last season (and so far this season) despite having that largely thankless storyline in season 4. He did a really good job in the scene after Eleven attacked the bully and in his big season-ending motivational speech.

At the very least, I think the performances of the young actors like the aforementioned and , Noah, and McLaughlin, and the way that they sell the authenticity of their friendships is always effective.
 
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These actors are in their mid 20s and they look like they are in their mid 20s
 
My Spot said:
Apparently there's a stage play that's canon.
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Theres also a live action Stranger Things Experience where youre actually inside the lab and the shopping mall and the Upside Down, getting attacked by the devil dog things and trying to figure out how to escape, I went to it in San Francisco, it was dope
 
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ufcfan4 said:
Yeah. I thought Season 4 (previous one) was really good. Probably one of my favorite seasons of the series. But, like most of the seasons of the series, I thought there was a pretty marked discrepancy between the best story arcs and the most middling.

In that case, I thought the stuff with Dustin, Lucas, Max, Steve, Nancy, and Robin learning about Vecna and trying to exonerate Joe Quinn's character to be, by far, the best, most compelling stuff in the season. Then, El trying to regain her powers- still very good. Then Harbour and Ryder in Russia- not bad but meandering at times. Then, Mike, Jonathan, Will, and the Jonathan's buddy trying to get from California back to Indiana, which really didn't amount to much in my view. That story arc didn't really land for me until they finally met up with the main protagonist.

I'm a bit surprised by the more lukewarm critical reception to the first wave of this final season but I can see some of the drawbacks you guys in this thread have pointed out. I still think it's quite entertaining and it at least seems to me as though the Duffer brothers are building to the resolution that they want rather than something like Game of Thrones' finale where it just seemed like a mad dash to a finish line that didn't feel cogent with all the buildup that had come before.

I've watched the four episodes so far and I think that there are again bright spots and some lagging elements. Millie Brown and Sadie Sink both tend to be terrific. David Harbour is great. Winona is fun to watch.

Mike was never a character I found to be that interesting in the early going but I have to hand it to Finn Wolfhard in that I think he delivered some of his best work last season (and so far this season) despite having that largely thankless storyline in season 4. He did a really good job in the scene after Eleven attacked the bully and in his big season-ending motivational speech.

At the very least, I think the performances of the young actors like the aforementioned and Matarazzo and McLaughlin, and the way that they sell the authenticity of their friendships is always effective.
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Well thanks to this post I realized I never got around to seeing season 4, will probably check it out and maybe first episode of 5 to see what's up, or I could wait a couple years again...
 
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