#4 episodes left in volume 9 😭

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Season 1 finale time baby!!!!!

1.) six people have been taken in one week by the demogorgon

2.) Joyce knows Brenner is full of shit and her telling him to go to hell is so good

3.) hopper way too calm from being tased

4.) i forgot that the kids got left at the middle school

5.) hell yeah nail bat my beloved. Jonathan made you but you’re Steve’s

6.) I did forgot that Hopper initially gave up El to the agents

7.) Brenner super thought Will was doomed and it’s not the first or last time he’s been a moron

8.) I forgot how cute Sarah was 😭 but also Hop was so sweet and gentle with her

9.) Dustin has priorities and those priorities are chocolate pudding

10.) the inherent intimacy of bandaging each other’s wounds

11.) Steve!! Steve is so sorry and so worried and then a gun’s pulled on him

12.) Steve got thrown into the deep end of knowledge

13.) I forgot the demogorgon fucked off for a bit

14.) I truly think the duffer brothers forgot how soft and sweet they had Hop be with Sarah

15.) Steve ran until he saw the blinking lights and then he truly became Steve Harrington goddamnit

16.) teamwork makes the dream work but they should have let it burn a bit longer

17.) I know they had a partner deal and they wanted her to love eggos and know nothing but what did the feed el in the goddamn facility???

18.) I forgot Mike kisses el this episode

19.) El murder spree time and then collapse time

20.) I really hate Brenner. I’m really sad he doesn’t die this episode

21.) I forgot Dustin carried El away

22.) hopper spots Barb’s body but it’s also where Will is being held so I am pretty sure it’s not Steve’s pool. Still no indication of characters knowing where Barb died

23.) the wrist rocket is definitely an It reference

24.) this self-sacrifice moment would have been more impactful had the lights not been strobing to all hell

25.) I do appreciate that since they just show the CPR motions and not try to bullshit the chest moving. Hopper definitely saved Will’s life

26.) Winona Ryder is a national treasure

27.) I do have a new love of Karen Wheeler

28.) the audio balancing of this show is terrible.

29.) I forgot Steve waits with everyone in the waiting room for Will

30.) one month laterrrrr and it’s Christmas and Mike is dming again

31.) ok this dnd session is definitely criticizing season 1 right????

32.) ok Nancy gave Jonathan the camera and Steve asks if she gave it to him but it’s not actually clear if it’s from him???

33.) it’s ok little baby Byers, I feel like I’ve been sucked into hell when I have to hack something up too

Season 1 thoughts:

I still think this season is fun and has some really good performances. That being said, the CGI aged like milk, the pacing is kind of breakneck, the audio balancing is garbage (I would turn down the volume because of a monster scene only to have dialogue be barely audible in the next) and we already see a referential problem with the Duffer Brothers here.

And what I mean by that is that they know references to much better media both by copying the visuals or by having props or by having a character mention it, but frequently they don’t really seem to understand it. And even if they did, they happen so often that they’re rendered mostly meaningless anyway. It comes across less as directors who have something new to say about famous products and more of a cheap Ready Player One, ‘hey fellow nerds, do you remember the Millennium Falcon exists and you wanted to make that toy fly?’