[ SECRET POST #4010 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4010 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I think that Stranger Things - on the whole - actually is still a lot more niche than something like GOT. So, like, everyone is basically familiar with GOT and has an opinion on it. People who find Stranger Things unappealing probably just don't pay attention to it at all. Even if it doesn't seem that way from within fandom.

Anyway, horses for courses, you know?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP.

What does "horses for courses" mean? I've never heard of this phrase before.

[(Anonymous)]

different things are suited to different people.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP thanks you!

[(Anonymous)]

I loved that genre as a kid and I enjoy Stranger Things but it's not the Most Amazing Thing Ever. I also think it's fine if others don't care for it.

[(Anonymous)]

You could have just focused on Chief Hopper's ass in his uniform, you know.

[froodle]

I legit just nodded and made agreeing noises out loud reading this

[ninety6tears]

I'm definitely a fan but I'll be the first to admit that the Duffers are not that brilliant and without the cast they got it might have totally sucked.

[(Anonymous)]

IAWTC.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I think they're brilliant at capturing the feel of that time period and playing with its familiar tropes, but they're not actually that great at writing or plotting.

[nightscale]

I love the show but I'm not gonna be aghast at others not liking it, we've all got different tastes and all that man, it's cool.

[(Anonymous)]

I think some of it has to do with age. A lot of the people I know who grew up in the late 70s and early 80s love Stranger Things. Everyone else is pretty ambivalent about it. But Game of Thrones is one of those shows that has a very wide audience and has been running for a lot more years, so I run into a wider spectrum of viewers, including people who got into it late or wandered off never to return to it. ST is also a show designed for binging and while that's easy up to a point with GoT, it can be difficult to get hold of more event episodes and the series as a whole takes a lot longer to binge.

[soldatsasha]

Have you watched any of the show, OP? You don't say in the secret....

I never liked any of the 80s kids' adventure stuff either. I dislike most of the tropes and the awful child acting. But I watched Super 8 and loved it, and it's very much a classic 80s Child Actors on Adventures movie. To me, it was just so refreshing because it's not a genre that really exists anymore. I realized there's very few movies nowadays that focus on and star older kids/teens. Most 'family' movies either animated movies or else general audiences action blockbusters.

I think that lack of media in the genre has really helped fuel peoples' nostalgia. Stranger Things is special because there's nothing like it anymore. It's not so much that people loved the Goonies so much, it's that nothing ever came along to usurp the Goonies.

idk I haven't seen the show. It looks cool but I understand getting sick of the nostalgia bombing.

[rosehiptea]

I like Stranger Things but I don't push it on people. If you liked Super 8 (I did too) you might want to give it a try. But I'm not into either one of them out of '80s nostalgia.

I thought the Goonies was incredibly overrated. It was something I might have liked on a TV show on Saturday morning when I was 8.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I think Stranger Things and Super 8 strike the right balance between nostalgia and criticism.

[(Anonymous)]

I have nostalgia for them, but I also think that other than Stand By Me, almost none of those movies had child actors worth watching, and a lot of people really don't respond well to stuff where the performances don't work. One of the reasons Stranger Things is doing so well is because the child cast is actually great, the kids really make you give a fuck and embody kids that you feel like people you knew growing up. But if you go back and actually watch stuff like the Goonies now, current child actors (including, funnily enough, the Stark kids in the first few GoT seasons) make those kids look like crap.