Final trailer dropped. Part one of Season 4 comes out on Friday, the 27th. Rumor is that the final episode of the season will be 2.5 hours long.
Well, the final episode of this part of the season is that long.
So the second part of this season is just two episodes. I thought each release was 7-8 episodes making the season a lot longer. Huh.
Episode 1 – 1 hour, 16 minutes
Episode 2 – 1 hour, 15 minutes
Episode 3 – 1 hour, 3 minutes
Episode 4 – 1 hour, 17 minutes
Episode 5 – 1 hour, 14 minutes
Episode 6 – 1 hour, 13 minutes
Episode 7 – 1 hour 38 minutes
Episode 8 – 1 hour, 25 minutes
Episode 9 – 2 hours, 30 minutes
So averaged out, basically 7 feature-length movies.
(From here.)
Ah, you are right and I was wrong. Thanks.
Anyone watching? I’m on episode 4 and very pleased so far. Better than season 3, I think.
Yup. This season, IMO, relies less on the 80’s Nostalgia of previous seasons, and more directly tackles the over-arching story, while also focusing more on the aftermath/consequences of previous seasons.
I’ve seen two episodes and while I like it, it’s only OK for me right now.
Eleven is having a tough time fitting in? OK, I get it and I’ll wait…for that to develop into something. It’s just kind of a strange storyline to follow right now.
This whole Vecna thing is interesting, though.
I finished Episode 2 earlier, might watch 3 later. I’m enjoying it a lot so far. But suspension of disbelief for Nancy & Jonathan as HS seniors is impossible at this point. But that is fairly minor. Honestly the kids don’t look like freshman either, but that is easier to forget.
Funny thing is Steve is older yet, and I can still buy him as a 19 year old. Robin is believable as Senior. But Maya Hawke is the youngest of the older kids.
I’ve watched six of the seven so far. Been pleasantly surprised at how good the season has been. The episode lengths have been far greater but the episodes are actually doing a great job at advancing the various plot lines; there hasn’t really been a point where any of the episodes have dragged or felt bloated.
I have definitely picked up on the suggestions that Will is going to be revealed as being gay. This was speculated on during previous seasons; dialogue and plot devices (Will’s hero project being about Alan Turing) seem to be pointing in that direction.
Also, who else loved the guest appearance from Robert Englund?
I honestly thought the first three or so were a drag: not just overlong, but full of formerly likable characters who now seemed strangely grating, and the plot thread of El being bullied literally every second of the day was crazily overwrought. By episode four, the pieces clicked into place and it became a fun, smartly paced adventure again—what Stranger Things is supposed to be.
They held the final two episodes for over a month, I think? Anyone know why? Does the opening 7 series of episodes setup a big finale this year?
Basically they’re trying to improve subscriber growth and retention, and so are “launching” the new season over two consecutive financial quarters.
Just finished the last one. It isn’t terrible, but far from as good as the first couple of seasons.
I’m starting to see this show has dealt with the same problem since season two – how to keep El either incapacitated or off the board long enough for the crisis to escalate, before she comes in at the final hour and saves everything with her powers. Season four tries to make a virtue of it by exploring her backstory, and that material is interesting, but it’s ultimately still the same dynamic, unless we have a big subversion coming our way in the last two episodes.
I think waiting a month for two episode in a blatant attempt to hit some numbers is pretty much a slap in the face.
The show itself is fine, but every season is exactly the same with the gang bumbling around and then Eleven comes in and screams at the bad guy to save the day.
Now, maybe they switch it up this time, but I’m skeptical. Also think the three story lines are too separate. You need to connect them before the second to last episode, IMO.
Just watched the first episode. Was not expecting the beginning, and I was not expecting the ending. Hope to get in a couple more episodes tonight.
It’s really five: The Hawkins gang; Mike/Will/Jonathan/Stoner; El; Joyce/Murray; and Hopper. I think the Duffers do as good a job as could be expected keeping all these balls in the air, but at one point I did think, “The Lord of the Rings wasn’t even this complicated.”
I watched the first 4 eps of this season, and I have to say, I really hate it. The acting is melodramatic and hammy, and Finn Whitrock looks like a skeleton wearing a wig. Moreover, he’s gotten much whinier, and won’t protect El from public humiliation because she (gasp) lied to him in her letters talking about how nice her life is. How are there any set props left over from the actors chewing up the scenery?
I did like the Eddie Munson character, but they turned him into a red herring for the jocks to chase around, because he’s a weirdo and different, therefore he must have broken all the head cheerleader’s bones and grotesquely angled them and left her mangled corpse for his uncle to find.
D&D sessions on TV are rarely authentic, but can be tailored to suit the setting. Community certainly managed to make it work. In this case however, they based the outcome of a D&D campaign on a player rolling a natural 20 to defeat the boss. Any campaign that depends on players being lucky enough to defy 5% odds is not worth playing, and gosh, I wonder if they’re going to do that in the final ep’s battle scene with Vecna?
I thought Locke and Key, Netflix’s other supernatural series for kids, was much better. Maybe I’ll watch the rest of the season when my GAS (give a shit) factor is low, but I’m not staying up nights.
Also, school D&D clubs, like all clubs, tend to be run by a faculty supervisor, so Eddie could not have made it his own little cult. And more to the point, didn’t Mike and the others pretty much get sick of D&D in season three? I figured Mike would get into computers or heavy metal or something by now.