Allota folks are goofy expecting realism(main characters dying) in some show about a lil girl with powers and upside down world
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It's pretty obvious that the show is aimed at youths. It's not just main cast being young but also how their relationships are portrayed and used to drive the show.
How can you watch Max and Eleven's tale of importance of female friendship, budding angsty teen lesbian romance, Dustin and Suzie, Lucas change of friend groups storyline and claim it's for the people who grew up in the 80s
Sure they take on 80s influence, benefit from nostalgia porn and bank on feeling of familiarity but that's the Hollywood way.
How can you watch Max and Eleven's tale of importance of female friendship, budding angsty teen lesbian romance, Dustin and Suzie, Lucas change of friend groups storyline and claim it's for the people who grew up in the 80s
Sure they take on 80s influence, benefit from nostalgia porn and bank on feeling of familiarity but that's the Hollywood way.
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I'm not gonna act like Stranger Things is the best written TV show of all time (it isn't)
but there is a reason why it's so popular...it's easy to follow, nostalgic, good enough acting, and violent
no ones gonna have video essays or Harvard classes on this, so just enjoy this for what it is but also don't let it get passes for really poor writing & executions if they occur...which I think most did with the past couple of seasons before this one
but there is a reason why it's so popular...it's easy to follow, nostalgic, good enough acting, and violent
no ones gonna have video essays or Harvard classes on this, so just enjoy this for what it is but also don't let it get passes for really poor writing & executions if they occur...which I think most did with the past couple of seasons before this one
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It's pretty obvious that the show is aimed at youths. It's not just main cast being young but also how their relationships are portrayed and used to drive the show.
How can you watch Max and Eleven's tale of importance of female friendship, budding angsty teen lesbian romance, Dustin and Suzie, Lucas change of friend groups storyline and claim it's for the people who grew up in the 80s
Sure they take on 80s influence, benefit from nostalgia porn and bank on feeling of familiarity but that's the Hollywood way.
I feel like you cats are trolling at this point.
The Duffer Brothers wanted to make an "IT" movie, but couldn't.
They literally said this is their version of "IT". Which is why half the cast is kids.
"IT" is not for kids, teens. or gen Z. The book came out in 1986 for Christ sake.
As far as the bolded, you just described "IT", "Stand By Me", and about a dozen other 80's movies. Which is what the Duffer Brothers modeled this after.
They said they wanted 80's heads to feel like the first time they watched all those classic 80's movies like "E.T.", "Goonies", etc.
At no point did they make this for anyone other than 80's heads. It blew up beyond that because the face of the series is the young actors but Winona Ryder is actually #1 on the call sheet, is the 1st name in the credits, and was the highest paid actor on the show until Millie Bobby Brown got a raise in season 4.
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No it's notBreh it's targeted towards kids/teens first. All that 80s nostalgia is a backdrop to a bunch of kids running around fighting monsters. The youth are enamored with this show like many of us were enamored with Game of Thrones. Never saw GOT at the Nickelodeon Awards.
The Duffer brothers said specifically that the goal was to make an adult show starring kids. That premise is what got them turned down by 15 networks who didn't believe it would work before Netflix picked them up
They expected a teen audience but not to this magnitude. The same thing happened with Cobra Kai, which was clearly aimed at 40-50 year olds but gained a huge young audience
And again the show is STUFFED with 30-40 year old references. Those references are the lifeblood of the show
The fact that y'all are so adamant about this when the creators themselves said the show was made specifically for adults is insane
The young audience was a pleasant surprise. No one expected the show to become this enormous
It already is. And that's in spite of it's issues
At this point they would have to perform a miracle to fukk this up
OKThe fact that y'all are so adamant about this when the creators themselves said the show was made specifically for adults is insane
The young audience was a pleasant surprise. No one expected the show to become this enormous
That's true but it's not the argument
Both shows were created with Gen X, millennials in mind. Everything else came after
Most kids born after 85 grew up in the 90s but grew up on all the classic 80s shyt. There wasn't as much availability in entertainment then as there is now with the internet and the flood of kids programming
I was born in 86 and had seen ET, Ghostbusters, Child's Play, Nightmare on Elm, Poltergeist, etc by the time I was 6-7. So did all my friends. It wasn't till I was older that I was
at how much of that shyt came out in the 80sThats why it was turned down 15 times. The Duffers said specifically that they wanted an "Kids led show for adults", like It and networks thought they were crazyAlso, 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?
eleven is the villain 
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