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Why Stranger Things 2 was so disappointing
Nov. 4th, 2017 07:00 pmEdit Nov 11: reddit thread
Oct 31st:
I'll try to be chill about this. After giving ST2 the benefit of the doubt for as long as I could, I stormed out of the living room a few minutes into episode 6 last night, and ranted a bit too angrily about it on Gab. I'm sure I'll go back and finish watching it after all, if only just to finish this entry.
Everyone's IQ has dropped twenty points, slowing progression drastically. They have lost sight of their common enemy to get into petty squabbles with each other. The plot is moving far too slowly and repetitively. There is far too much character-focused content with no plot backbone to provide tension and drive. Questions left open at the end of season one (how to harness eggo fuel, how to talk through lights, the role of energy) were forgotten rather than answered. The characters have lost their heart and heroism, the dialogue has lost its honest brevity, the story has lost its tension and mystery, and the pacing has lost its concision. The men are largely passive. The women are largely cold. Drama is constantly either nullified or blown out of porportion rather than resolved or developed. Ideals of justice, truth and honor, once central, are absent. In a story that was once about good people vs bad, the good people are going bad and the bad people are so incompetent they may as well be illusory.
( Thoughts on episodes 1-6 )
( Thoughts after finishing the whole season. )
Edit Nov 6: It sure doesn't take much to get a block from Stranger Things writer/editor -- and lover of all things #RAW -- Jesse Nickson-Lopez.
Oct 31st:
I'll try to be chill about this. After giving ST2 the benefit of the doubt for as long as I could, I stormed out of the living room a few minutes into episode 6 last night, and ranted a bit too angrily about it on Gab. I'm sure I'll go back and finish watching it after all, if only just to finish this entry.
Everyone's IQ has dropped twenty points, slowing progression drastically. They have lost sight of their common enemy to get into petty squabbles with each other. The plot is moving far too slowly and repetitively. There is far too much character-focused content with no plot backbone to provide tension and drive. Questions left open at the end of season one (how to harness eggo fuel, how to talk through lights, the role of energy) were forgotten rather than answered. The characters have lost their heart and heroism, the dialogue has lost its honest brevity, the story has lost its tension and mystery, and the pacing has lost its concision. The men are largely passive. The women are largely cold. Drama is constantly either nullified or blown out of porportion rather than resolved or developed. Ideals of justice, truth and honor, once central, are absent. In a story that was once about good people vs bad, the good people are going bad and the bad people are so incompetent they may as well be illusory.
( Thoughts on episodes 1-6 )
( Thoughts after finishing the whole season. )
Edit Nov 6: It sure doesn't take much to get a block from Stranger Things writer/editor -- and lover of all things #RAW -- Jesse Nickson-Lopez.
