Stranger Things season two
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lunabee34 Episode 1
Barb's parents are breaking my heart. I cannot imagine just not knowing what has happened to a loved one. I know that's a reality for a lot of people, and I can't imagine being able to cope with that kind of ambiguous, unending loss. In this episode, I thought that they aren't telling Barb's parents she's dead because they wouldn't be believed (which is probably true), but episode 2 makes clear that they've been ordered not to tell anyone about what's happened.
Mike is breaking my heart. He's spent every night since El disappeared on that walky talky trying to contact her. Almost 350 days of hoping to find her. :( And he's acting out and having other behavior changes; he's traumatized. I think he and the others need therapy just as much as Will.
It makes absolute sense to me that the government wants to monitor Will. He spent the longest of anyone in the Upside Down; I don't think any of the soldiers they initially send into the breach come back, so he's maybe the only person they have at first who's been in and survived. They want to monitor him for any changes, etc., and that's actually probably a pretty good idea from a security standpoint. I'm wondering if he's incubating anything or starting to change in some way myself. But we can't ascribe positive to neutral motives to them; Paul Reiser does play the best bad guys after all.
Will's hallucinatory episodes are really interesting. On the one hand, they can absolutely be explained by PTSD (and I appreciate that PTSD is being taken seriously even though it's the 80s and the understanding of what it is and what it does is limited), but we know that he's really tapping into the Upside Down in some way. It's not clear to me if in those moments he's actually seeing the Upside Down in real time or if he's seeing something that's to come. The scientist guys in episode 2 have some sort of station in there, and I think they're recording, and they don't seem to have seen what Will is talking about (the storm, etc), so that makes me think he's seeing a portent of evil to come.
I love Mad Max. I love Dustin and Lucas being ga-ga over her. "She won't be able to resist these pearls." *dies*
Jonathon is so freaking sweet. He loves Will so much. I want Jonathon to be happy. Lord is he such a woobie. LOL
Hopper still has my heart--being there for Joyce, being a dad to El. <3
El's hair is curly!!!!
Episode 2
Everything that happens to El is unbearably tragic. That girl just cannot get a break. I'm so glad that whatever she does to kill the Demogorgon just transports her into the Upside Down instead of killing her, and I'm so glad that she gets out of there immediately. But then everything else just goes to shit for her. A little girl in the woods with the wrong clothes on in winter scrounging for food raises every single mama bear hackles I have; I don't care if she can kill me with her brain and is too badass to need my help. I just want to give her a sweater and a hug and a bowl of hot soup.
Mike sees her briefly through the window, and he tells Will later that he thinks he keeps seeing her everywhere, so I wonder if she's watched him from afar after that. :(
Ghostbusters! I love how into it all their parents are.
It's not really clear to me what sort of device the government has placed into the Upside Down. I think it's camera/surveillance equipment of some kind, but IDK.
The Upside Down is encroaching into the real world. That is deeply, deeply scary.
Max's brother is awful--abusive and scary. The monster may eat him now.
Sean Astin is so dorkily cute, such a lovable doofus. I'm glad for Joyce to have someone in her life who clearly utterly adores her (even if I ship her and Hopper pretty hard). I'm worried that Will actually breaks his camera or else just leaves it on the ground and that he'll be mad about it.
Poor Mike. His reaction to Max stems from his grief over losing El. I just want to hug him.
The more depressed Nancy gets, the more I like her. LOL Love her short haircut, too. That scene with Steve when she's drunk and she admits that she thinks she killed Barb is so well done. Pretending to be drunk is really hard, and she nails that scene. I'm ordering therapy for everyone! Jonathon taking her home is so sweet but also so sad because his feelings are very unrequited.
I wonder how often El has been going into the void to watch Mike. :( OMG, this show is just killing me!
What's in the trash can? It's making the same weird noise Will hears before Cthulhu shows up in his hallucination. If Dustin gets eaten, I'm going to be so mad.
I'm glad that Will tells Mike the whole truth; I think they can help each other. "We'll go crazy together."
I kinda think Will might die in some sacrificial way at the end of this season. I don't know why I think that. Just a hunch.
Barb's parents are breaking my heart. I cannot imagine just not knowing what has happened to a loved one. I know that's a reality for a lot of people, and I can't imagine being able to cope with that kind of ambiguous, unending loss. In this episode, I thought that they aren't telling Barb's parents she's dead because they wouldn't be believed (which is probably true), but episode 2 makes clear that they've been ordered not to tell anyone about what's happened.
Mike is breaking my heart. He's spent every night since El disappeared on that walky talky trying to contact her. Almost 350 days of hoping to find her. :( And he's acting out and having other behavior changes; he's traumatized. I think he and the others need therapy just as much as Will.
It makes absolute sense to me that the government wants to monitor Will. He spent the longest of anyone in the Upside Down; I don't think any of the soldiers they initially send into the breach come back, so he's maybe the only person they have at first who's been in and survived. They want to monitor him for any changes, etc., and that's actually probably a pretty good idea from a security standpoint. I'm wondering if he's incubating anything or starting to change in some way myself. But we can't ascribe positive to neutral motives to them; Paul Reiser does play the best bad guys after all.
Will's hallucinatory episodes are really interesting. On the one hand, they can absolutely be explained by PTSD (and I appreciate that PTSD is being taken seriously even though it's the 80s and the understanding of what it is and what it does is limited), but we know that he's really tapping into the Upside Down in some way. It's not clear to me if in those moments he's actually seeing the Upside Down in real time or if he's seeing something that's to come. The scientist guys in episode 2 have some sort of station in there, and I think they're recording, and they don't seem to have seen what Will is talking about (the storm, etc), so that makes me think he's seeing a portent of evil to come.
I love Mad Max. I love Dustin and Lucas being ga-ga over her. "She won't be able to resist these pearls." *dies*
Jonathon is so freaking sweet. He loves Will so much. I want Jonathon to be happy. Lord is he such a woobie. LOL
Hopper still has my heart--being there for Joyce, being a dad to El. <3
El's hair is curly!!!!
Episode 2
Everything that happens to El is unbearably tragic. That girl just cannot get a break. I'm so glad that whatever she does to kill the Demogorgon just transports her into the Upside Down instead of killing her, and I'm so glad that she gets out of there immediately. But then everything else just goes to shit for her. A little girl in the woods with the wrong clothes on in winter scrounging for food raises every single mama bear hackles I have; I don't care if she can kill me with her brain and is too badass to need my help. I just want to give her a sweater and a hug and a bowl of hot soup.
Mike sees her briefly through the window, and he tells Will later that he thinks he keeps seeing her everywhere, so I wonder if she's watched him from afar after that. :(
Ghostbusters! I love how into it all their parents are.
It's not really clear to me what sort of device the government has placed into the Upside Down. I think it's camera/surveillance equipment of some kind, but IDK.
The Upside Down is encroaching into the real world. That is deeply, deeply scary.
Max's brother is awful--abusive and scary. The monster may eat him now.
Sean Astin is so dorkily cute, such a lovable doofus. I'm glad for Joyce to have someone in her life who clearly utterly adores her (even if I ship her and Hopper pretty hard). I'm worried that Will actually breaks his camera or else just leaves it on the ground and that he'll be mad about it.
Poor Mike. His reaction to Max stems from his grief over losing El. I just want to hug him.
The more depressed Nancy gets, the more I like her. LOL Love her short haircut, too. That scene with Steve when she's drunk and she admits that she thinks she killed Barb is so well done. Pretending to be drunk is really hard, and she nails that scene. I'm ordering therapy for everyone! Jonathon taking her home is so sweet but also so sad because his feelings are very unrequited.
I wonder how often El has been going into the void to watch Mike. :( OMG, this show is just killing me!
What's in the trash can? It's making the same weird noise Will hears before Cthulhu shows up in his hallucination. If Dustin gets eaten, I'm going to be so mad.
I'm glad that Will tells Mike the whole truth; I think they can help each other. "We'll go crazy together."
I kinda think Will might die in some sacrificial way at the end of this season. I don't know why I think that. Just a hunch.
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Date: 2019-06-28 03:41 pm (UTC)And yeah, I loathed Max's brother so much; I could've cheerfully done without him being in it...
Sean Astin's character is great, though!
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Date: 2019-06-28 07:30 pm (UTC)Can't wait for the kiddos to be reunited.
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Date: 2019-06-28 04:54 pm (UTC)Everyone on this show needs therapy!
El surviving alone in the woods is so tragic, but I love her with Hopper. Everything about that is just so sweet (and sad). He's trying so hard! When we watched this, we referred to him putting out the waffles in the woods as "baiting a little girl trap". And it worked!
Sean Astin is absolutely darling.
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Date: 2019-06-28 07:33 pm (UTC)Baiting a little girl trap. I love it!!!!
I hope Sean Astin being a sweetheart doesn't mean he's headed for death. Eeeeep. *chews fingernails*