Me and Aimee sat down last night after the kids were asleep and we watched was meant to be one episode of Stranger Things, but after the first episode it quickly turned into two and after that, as much as we wanted to watch another we had to switch it off for the night and go to sleep.
Nearly 3 Years
Because of the hiatus between seasons, I felt a little bit lost when jumping into this season, but luckily Aimee was able to answer any of my questions about the show to fill me back in and jog my memory.
This season very much feels like we're coming to the end of an exciting game of DnD. It's kind of sad when you've watched something for a number of years, and you've grown attached to so many well written characters, knowing that the end is near.
It has been a pretty wild ride, and honestly, it's no wonder that the show as a whole has found so much success and love from its audience.
I was only thinking last night that the idea of the shows story is so original and well thought out. To me, it feels like nothing else out there in terms of its story, the well written characters, and also in the way it's presented to the audience.
Going into it, I had heard and looked up MK Ultra, and read about the idea of people with psychic abilities. It's interesting to have all of that presented in a show as it has been in this, while also going one stage further and creating something like the upside down, to showcase the idea of parallel dimensions and how they could be manipulated or even tapped into.
The best thing about sci-fi, that I find, is just allowing yourself to drift into ideas like that and consider limitless possibilities.
The 80s
I couldn't really talk about the show without speaking about the setting. The 80s is possibly considered to be one of the coolest and revolutionary decades we've ever experienced as a society.
The films, music, style, games, and many other things that were released over the span of 10 years. It's amazing really.
Think of it this way, and lets just talk about the films released in that time. Many of them are considered to be cinema's greats, and many of those franchises are still being successfully milked to this day.
There are so many who say they wish they could have grown up then, or that they wish they were a kid during that time. Not me though, I'm actually happy to have been born when I did, because think about it, we live in an age now where we get to enjoy, on demand, any form of media from any time as far back in time as we like, which in and of itself is cool.
I do understand peoples feelings of anemoia though, and sometimes gets pangs of that feeling too.
There was an interesting theory I heard though, that said that people aren't so much longing for the 80s or decades before them, so to speak, but collectively we're all longing for a time before the internet, and the 80s is essentially the last decade before the internet - as we know it today - was a thing.
Interesting thoughts, and without shows such as Stranger Things, that present that era and style so perfectly we may not have theory's such as that one.
