by pinback » Sat Jul 20, 2019 7:21 pm
I still don't know what to make of Season 3. I watched the first episode of season 1 when it first came out however many years ago, decided it wasn't for me, and didn't watch another episode until about two weeks ago, and since then, I watched all of them. They are entertaining. They are very watchable (obviously, since I watched all of them pretty quickly). I like it. I don't think it's fantastic or amazing, but it's good, it's fun. Three stars!
But Season 3 represents such a wild shift in tone from the previous two that it feels like a completely different show. This is reflected, too, in the environments in which the story takes place. Where the first two seasons were set in dark, dank scenes of O'Keeffe-inspired nightmarish openings to a horrific alternate dimension, and oozing, alien underground caves, Season 3 gives us carnivals and bright, colorful, neon-lit shopping malls. It shows in the characters as well, and while it's nice to see Millie Bobby Brown finally given something to do other than frown and/or scream, it's bizarre that Hopper and Joyce have all of a sudden turned from brooding, emotionally scarred, mature adults into wacky, wise-crackin' sitcom parents.
Where Dustin was originally the comic relief of the show, suddenly every character has become the comic relief. It's fun to be able to have fun with these characters after two seasons of watching them suffer, but it's just weird. It's goofy. It's bizarre.
The bad guy of Season 1 slips Nancy a note in the first episode, and it reads "Meet me - bathroom - Steve". Since that moment, we've called that character Bathroom Steve. Bathroom Steve stopped being the bad guy by Season 2, but now he's the laugh riot of the show. Who doesn't love Bathroom Steve? I'd say it was an odd choice to have him become such a comedic character, but so did everyone else.
I dunno. Oh well, it was fun. I'll watch Season 4. I don't know how you go back to doing a serious show after they turned Season 3 into a teen rom-com, but stranger things have haaaoOOOHHhh, that's why they call it that!
(Flack, did you wait until after the end credits of the last episode? It should come as no surprise that they're making season 4, it might has well have said "Next Time, on... Stranger Things!")
I still don't know what to make of Season 3. I watched the first episode of season 1 when it first came out however many years ago, decided it wasn't for me, and didn't watch another episode until about two weeks ago, and since then, I watched all of them. They are entertaining. They are very watchable (obviously, since I watched all of them pretty quickly). I like it. I don't think it's fantastic or amazing, but it's good, it's fun. Three stars!
But Season 3 represents such a [i]wild[/i] shift in tone from the previous two that it feels like a completely different show. This is reflected, too, in the environments in which the story takes place. Where the first two seasons were set in dark, dank scenes of O'Keeffe-inspired nightmarish openings to a horrific alternate dimension, and oozing, alien underground caves, Season 3 gives us carnivals and bright, colorful, neon-lit shopping malls. It shows in the characters as well, and while it's nice to see Millie Bobby Brown finally given something to do other than frown and/or scream, it's bizarre that Hopper and Joyce have all of a sudden turned from brooding, emotionally scarred, mature adults into wacky, wise-crackin' sitcom parents.
Where Dustin was originally the comic relief of the show, suddenly [i]every[/i] character has become the comic relief. It's fun to be able to have fun with these characters after two seasons of watching them suffer, but it's just weird. It's goofy. It's bizarre.
The bad guy of Season 1 slips Nancy a note in the first episode, and it reads "Meet me - bathroom - Steve". Since that moment, we've called that character Bathroom Steve. Bathroom Steve stopped being the bad guy by Season 2, but now he's the laugh riot of the show. Who doesn't love Bathroom Steve? I'd say it was an odd choice to have him become such a comedic character, but so did everyone else.
I dunno. Oh well, it was fun. I'll watch Season 4. I don't know how you go back to doing a serious show after they turned Season 3 into a teen rom-com, but stranger things have haaaoOOOHHhh, that's why they call it that!
(Flack, did you wait until after the end credits of the last episode? It should come as no surprise that they're making season 4, it might has well have said "Next Time, on... Stranger Things!")