Stranger Things - Netflix series that will bring back your best childhood memories

[Rhyis.]

This show is like re-meeting your childhood friend 25 years later and finding out you have even more in common now as adults.

[Alistaire]

Spoiler: show

[Hirronimus]

The young Mrs. Doubtfire.

[Byrd]

Just finished it last night, really enjoyed the whole show. Felt like a combination of The X-Files, ET, and Stephen King's It.

All this talk about a season 2, though, and I can't help but wonder if the show would be better served without one. Or at least without a direct sequel season, similar to American Horror Story or Fargo. I feel like these characters have told their story, and more of these same characters might be too much of good thing. Sure, there are loose ends - the rift is presumably still open, Eleven's fate is uncertain, Will's throat slugs are...concerning.

Not saying I wouldn't watch a direct continuation season 2, but I feel like it might be a tall order to try to continue on with the same characters.

[Rhyis.]

Considering Will's throat slugs, they really don't have much of a choice but use nearly all of the same characters in a sequel.

[Byrd]

Considering Will's throat slugs, they really don't have much of a choice but use nearly all of the same characters in a sequel.

Why? You don't need to fully answer every question so everyone has a happily ever after. If there is no Season 2, nobody would complain about the throat slugs. If Season 2 takes place somewhere else entirely, it effectively amounts to the same thing.

[Tyrath]

Why? You don't need to fully answer every question so everyone has a happily ever after. If there is no Season 2, nobody would complain about the throat slugs. If Season 2 takes place somewhere else entirely, it effectively amounts to the same thing.

Eh, you're probably in the minority in this one.

There's tons of unanswered questions and I'd like to see the same cast tackle more. Especially because they threw in the slugs.

[Rhyis.]

Why? You don't need to fully answer every question so everyone has a happily ever after. If there is no Season 2, nobody would complain about the throat slugs. If Season 2 takes place somewhere else entirely, it effectively amounts to the same thing.

Unless they change to a completely different town Will is going to become the gateway to the upside down next season, or he's going to become the next monster. Either way his friends, mom, and brother are going to be involved. It's gonna happen.

[Hushigoshi]

Yeah; I feel the same way. This story needs to continue.

[Hirronimus]

All this slug talk got me thinking about King's Dreamcatcher. It parallel's not only the team aspect, but also the alien involvement.

[Alistaire]

Why? You don't need to fully answer every question so everyone has a happily ever after. If there is no Season 2, nobody would complain about the throat slugs. If Season 2 takes place somewhere else entirely, it effectively amounts to the same thing.

And if they make a 2nd season and it sucks we can just ignore it *coughHeroescough*

[Byrd]

And if they make a 2nd season and it sucks we can just ignore it *coughHeroescough*

That's part of my concern here. A huge part of the story was the discovery of the supernatural and characters' reactions to unbelievable events. It's going to be hard to perpetuate that sense of wonder if the characters (and viewers) have seen it all before. Some series do it fairly well (it became an ongoing joke in Buffy, for instance), while others (Heroes most notably) fall flat. Painting oneself into narrative corners or shoehorning ill-fitting characters into plots because the actors have a contract can also cause problems. Hopefully, Stranger Things can avoid those pitfalls. Of course, not all anthologies work either - True Detective comes to mind, so neither method is a guarantee of success or failure. I realize I'm in the minority, so I don't know there's any point beating a dead horse further. Either way, I'll be looking forward to Season 2 and hoping it's as wonderful as Season 1.

All this slug talk got me thinking about King's Dreamcatcher. It parallel's not only the team aspect, but also the alien involvement.

I don't think I've read/seen Dreamcatcher, but the Stephen King story I was most reminded of was It. Period piece, small town Americana, disappearing townsfolk, group of misfit kids (with exactly one girl) saving the day, other-dimensional bad guy found lurking in the shadows. Of course, if you look long enough, there's probably lots of parallels to a number of his stories.

[Xno Kappa]

Eleven and the whole slug mouth issue can technically be resolved through brand new characters in a completely different town.

[theshun]

Freaks and Geeks meets Elfen Lied. Will's was not the only slug (just in our world). We know nothing about them so the show could place us in the present and it grows to what we have already seen, could mutate to something new (since it's in our world), or keep us in 1980s.

[Jaybar]

Were they intending to use the upside down world to eavesdrop on other people? It looked that way in one of the experiments before the rift opening. There could be a political intrigue plot about assassinations using the upside down world to break into restricted or heavily guarded areas. Maybe the Dept. of Energy isn't the first to figure out that the upside down world exists and they use Will as a catalyst to stop some kind of human-based threat (or do it themselves). Then the SLUGS out of fucking NO WHERE. Then Season 3.

[Uzor]

I don't think so. I think it might be a case of the creature being a creation of her fears. She's the only one that could stop it, she opened a portal to his world, and he's the only thing living there. She feels lonely, is scared of her own powers and are forced to use them against her will.

[Fhloston]

Can't share it bc Facebook, but they just posted the season 2 episode names on the Netflix page!!!

Madmax
The boy who came back to life
The pumpkin patch
The palace
The storm
The pollywog
The secret cabin
The brain
The lost brother

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[fliprock]

Can't share it bc Facebook, but they just posted the season 2 episode names on the Netflix page!!!

Madmax
The boy who came back to life
The pumpkin patch
The palace
The storm
The pollywog
The secret cabin
The brain
The lost brother

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[Cichy]

Apparently they also reveled that season 2 will be heavily influenced by James Cameron (Aliens, T2)

[Rhyis.]

Well season 1 was too so I'm not sure how that's any different. Maybe they mean it'll have less Spielbergy moments.