Official Stranger Things Season 4 Thread

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None of that means anything. It's '80s-inspired/influenced but people who grew up in the '80s is NOT Stranger Things target audience.

18-29 year olds is the target demo for Stranger Things. So that is early Gen Z & late Millennials.

Also, people can be aware of things relating to '80s pop culture even if they weren't around back then.

Again, what is this based on?

The Duffer Brothers never said this shyt was for Gen Z. They said it was nostalgia porn for Gen X.

Give me some kinda concrete facts here. "Nah breh, it's for Gen Z" is not a fact.

Fred.

 

[King Static X]

Again, what is this based on?

The Duffer Brothers never said this shyt was for Gen Z. They said it was nostalgia porn for Gen X.

Give me some kinda concrete facts here. "Nah breh, it's for Gen Z" is not a fact.

Fred.

Stranger Things has been rated TV-14 since the beginning. ST started in 2016. A 14 year old in 2016 was born in 2002.


Also, there has NEVER been a major TV/streaming show in history that has kids & young adults be the main cast but have freaking 30-50 year olds be the target audience. Are you serious?

 

[hex]

Stranger Things has been rated TV-14 since the beginning. ST started in 2016. A 14 year old in 2016 was born in 2002.


Also, there has NEVER been a major TV/streaming show in history that has kids & young adults be the main cast but have freaking 30-50 year olds be the target audience. Are you serious?

"Stranger Things" season 4 was TV-MA.
There was an"IT" miniseries in 1990 with a whole cast of kids.

The remake was rated R....and the whole cast was kids.

You cats really be on here saying whatever.

Hell, the entire cast of the movie "Kids"....is teens and kids. Who in their right fukking mind would argue it's for that age group, though?

Your whole argument is "well, the cast is young so it's for young people" which is and has never been true in the history of fiction.

Nielsen ratings lump 18-49 into one group, which is the single largest demographic that watches the show. Anything beyond that, as far as "nah it's for young people" is opinion.

Fred.

 

[King Static X]

"Stranger Things" season 4 was TV-MA.
There was an"IT" miniseries in 1990 with a whole cast of kids.

The remake was rated R....and the whole cast was kids.

You cats really be on here saying whatever.

Hell, the entire cast of the movie "Kids"....is teens and kids. Who in their right fukking mind would argue it's for that age group, though?

Your whole argument is "well, the cast is young so it's for young people" which is and has never been true in the history of fiction.

Nielsen ratings lump 18-49 into one group, which is the single largest demographic that watches the show. Anything beyond that, as far as "nah it's for young people" is opinion.

Fred.

If you think that 39-50 year olds (people who grew up in the '80s) are the target audience of Stranger Things, then you're living in fantasyland breh lol.

The target audience is young people (people under 30). That's who watches the show the most and that's who drives the social media talk about the show.

 

[Ozymandeas]

You cats keep saying this but never explain why.

When the Duffer Brothers pitched the series to Netflix, they said they wanted to tap into the same feelings people got from watching "Jaws", "E.T.", 'Poltergeist" and "Stand By Me".

That's what they said, word for word.
How is this series for Gen Z if the foundation is nostalgia for movies they never seen in the first place?

The Harry Potter mention is another because that series isn't Gen Z. The first book came out 25+ years ago. Unless you specifically mean the movies....but even then, the whole "kids mature as the story continues" thing is in the movies because of the books....and Harry Potter didn't even originate that.

Which brings me to my next point....

This series literally exists because of "IT", a book that came out in 1986. Most people don't realize the Duffer Brothers wanted to make an "IT" movie but no studio wanted to green light it.

After that they said "fukk it, we'll make our own version" which is why they started writing "Stranger Things".

Hell, even the title "Stranger Things" is a nod to the 1991 Stephen King novel "Needful Things".

Literally every homage, reference, or inspiration for this show is pop culture from 25-35 years ago....but for some bizarre reason you cats think they had Gen Z in mind when they made it. It's mind boggling. Gen Z loves the show but this was never meant for them.

Fred.

Breh you’re being obtuse. I’m not saying Harry Potter was made for Gen Z. I’m saying Harry Potter was made for kids (middle schoolers and teens) and as the series progressed, it got darker and more mature. Stranger Things was the same way. It was made for middle schoolers and teens, and then it got darker as they got older. Go back and watch the first season. Aint no way that’s for adults. No adult watching a show with four 12 year olds. We may have stumbled on it after the reviews came in that it was good but, it was for them at first.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

If you think that 39-50 year olds (people who grew up in the '80s) are the target audience of Stranger Things, then you're living in fantasyland breh lol.

The target audience is young people (people under 30). That's who watches the show the most and that's who drives the social media talk about the show.

Right because my teenagers come ask me how accurate it was as far as cars, clothes, music etc

 

[pete clemenza]

None of that means anything. It's '80s-inspired/influenced but people who grew up in the '80s is NOT Stranger Things target audience.

18-29 year olds is the target demo for Stranger Things. So that is early Gen Z & late Millennials.

Also, people can be aware of things relating to '80s pop culture even if they weren't around back then.

Imo this show isn't really made for kids even though a younger audience latching on to his is a huge plus for them. This show is actually for all the 80's heads that grew up on E.T., Goonies, Star Wars, Terminator, IT, Stand By Me, Close Encounter of the Third Kind, etc.

 

[King Static X]

Imo this show isn't really made for kids even though a younger audience latching on to his is a huge plus for them. This show is actually for all the 80's heads that grew up on E.T., Goonies, Star Wars, Terminator, IT, Stand By Me, Close Encounter of the Third Kind, etc.

I said the target audience is 18-29 years olds. 18-29 year olds are kids?

The target audience is teens (especially late teens) and young adults.

 

[pete clemenza]

I said the target audience is 18-29 years olds. 18-29 year olds are kids?

The target audience is teens (especially late teens) and young adults.

Breh all the 80's music, clothing, references, product placement is all purposely done for the older heads to bring up nostalgia and how things were while growing up. If this show is done for a younger audience then none of the 80's theme is needed and it would strictly be a modern day written and produced show. Half the references, jokes, and products more than likely go over younger audiences heads as they won't be able to catch some of the finer minute details that are shown in ST. All that stuff is strictly for the older heads and purposely done by the Duffer Bros.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

I just finished this and came to the thread to discuss and the most recent posts are folks arguing

 

[King Static X]

Breh all the 80's music, clothing, references, product placement is all purposely done for the older heads to bring up nostalgia and how things were while growing up. If this show is done for a younger audience then none of the 80's theme is needed and it would strictly be a modern day written and produced show. Half the references, jokes, and products more than likely go over younger audiences heads as they won't be able to catch some of the finer minute details that are shown in ST. All that stuff is strictly for the older heads and purposely done by the Duffer Bros.

I've already said this. ST is '80s-inspired/influenced and people who grew up in the '80s will love the nostalgic references in the show. However, the TARGET AUDIENCE is young people.

The '80s is one of the most famous decades for pop culture. Some young people are aware of many of the '80s pop culture references.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Felt like they were building up Steve to either die in the finale or take Nancy. Neither happened which seems like a waste of his character development this season.

The same thing with Max - they did a great job building up her character but if you’re not going to kill her off at the end at least spare us 1 or 2 of those last-second escapes from Vecna’s death grip. She escaped from his death grip 4 or 5 times this season alone, that is excessive.

They all boring as hell at this point

Should have kept Eddie

 

[pete clemenza]

I've already said this. ST is '80s-inspired/influenced and people who grew up in the '80s will love the nostalgic references in the show. However, the TARGET AUDIENCE is young people.

The '80s is one of the most famous decades for pop culture. Some young people are aware of many of the '80s pop culture references.

That's fine but this sounds like a personal opinion. When the first season dropped and it became an instant hit all I heard was that this show was for all the folks that grew up on 80's action and adventure movies. The modern youth and folks in their 20's hopping on board along with the older heads was just a huge bonus for them and forced them to have to create more seasons.. We'll just have to agree to disagree

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Spoiler

This nikka Vecna was unstoppable all season and this bald head bytch who just got her powers back gonna throw him to the bushes like that

Was this shyt planned out or was they going with the flow because I felt like they should’ve kept the mind flayer as the big homie

Now you know this shyt wasn’t planned out. No way they thought it was going this long. But props to them for figuring out ways to write it so it seems plausible that it was the plan from the beginning

 

[King Static X]

That's fine but this sounds like a personal opinion. When the first season dropped and it became an instant hit all I heard was that this show was for all the folks that grew up on 80's action and adventure movies. The modern youth and folks in their 20's hopping on board along with the older heads was just a huge bonus for them and forced them to have to create more seasons.. We'll just have to agree to disagree

You think that it's '80s kids all by themselves who made Stranger Things a hit show?