It doesn’t look as bad as the aging of the kids on Resident Alien.
True dat. Now there’s a fine show that lost its footing. And also featured guest star Linda Hamilton.
Mike is wrong, Will is not a sorcerer with innate ability. Will is a warlock that derives his magic from an extra planar power.
I don’t know if it is the lighting but I’ve noticed in lots of scenes the older “kids” skin looks dry and thin. They are playing 20, actually 30, and look 50.
I was just saying exactly the same to my wife.
That’s great, cause it was actually my wife that said it to me.
(And one of these maybe I’ll be allowed to bring my halfling warlock back on an adventure.)
Meanwhile, Winona Ryder doesn’t look much older than most of the kids.
Loved the season up to this point, just having finished all but the finale(to be released!).
I think the idea of 11 dying or staying behind is a misdirect. She will survive fully and be back in the regular world, losing her powers(I guess?).
I don’t really see any of the kid cast dying, to be honest. I mean, maybe 11’s sister? I mean of the core cast, I think they all make it.
Uh, spoiler-blur, maybe? I’m only up to ep.5.
My reaction was “they could at least have used a D&D class that existed in the ‘80s, like the psionicist”.
I was waiting for someone to argue with me, so I could retort that neither sorcerer or warlock existed until at least the 90s (in D&D).
I think that the Will, Mike, Max, etc. group is the exact same age as me—set to graduate high school in 1989. At the time the full series is set I was playing AD&D, Middle Earth (Iron Crown, Rolemaster based), GURPS, Traveller, Star Trek (maybe a Rolemaster based system?), and James Bond RPGs. I’d bet the kids would have at least dabbled in some alternatives to D&D, but I don’t know of one that breaks magic users into all those classes.
I can accept the D&D inaccuracies, because the biggest anachronism of the show is still the flashlight batteries that last longer than 20 minutes. You know Mike’s dad would have been whining the whole time about the kids going through stacks of batteries for their lights and radios. No way Max’s mom could afford all the AAs need to run that Walkman all day (Lucas’s family seems pretty well off; he was probably her main supplier).
Another anachronism that I don’t see anyone talk about is that magic is real and there’s an entire evil fantasy world underneath ours.
That is not an anachronism.
That’s a premise of the show. “Batteries last longer” is not a premise of the show.
Remind me, what is the actual time when magic is real and there’s an entire evil fantasy world underneath ours?
Dragon times.
My point was that it’s all madey-uppy stuff, so anachronisms can be waved away.
That’s not how madey-uppy stuff works.
All fiction is made up.
I am reading reddit, bastion of intelligent conversation. Ha.
They seem to really think Millie Bobbie Brown:
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acted terrible in this season of the show
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looked super botoxy or plastic surgeried up
Uh, I noticed nothing like any of this. She seemed:
- about the same as always playing Eleven
- As normal looking as ever
Anyone else not even give her a second thought?
She’s fine. The character of Eleven has always been stiff and stilted, due to her treatment in the facility keeping her stunted. And she’s not botoxed up, she’s just grown up faster than her character and looks her real age of 20-ish.