Stranger Things (Season 5)

A nice Thursday Thanksgiving filled with Turkey and the traditional fixings was followed by a binge-fest of the new Stranger Things season by my family...something my daughter had been eagerly anticipating since the last season of Wednesday wrapped up. We (the fam) stayed up till roughly 2am this morning watching the season in its entirety...although my wife begged out about 1ish. 

As usual it was pretty good.

I have only the following few things to say:

#1 The music contained no glaring anachronisms that I noticed. Tiffany's album did, indeed, come out in 1987 (I remember being in Mrs. Kearnan's class at the time and remember it was about this time I was completely done with pop music...I was heavily into Def Leppard's Hysteria at the time). So that goes in the "good" column.

#2 No glaring D&D mistakes until the last damn episode where they work an incredibly obnoxious 3rd edition reference into the conversation. Just so awful. And while most folks probably won't notice, for me it completely breaks my suspension of disbelief and makes me want to throw things at the screen...do your damn research, morons. However, I kept this to myself so as not to spoil the show for everyone, stewing in silence.

#3 Millie Bobby Brown is still great. 

#4 Actually everyone is pretty good; the cast is quite likable, the performances believable (mostly) and...I don't know..."heartfelt?" But the energy seems to be a tic down...I think the writing is starting to wear thin. It feels like everyone is ready to move on from this story...on to bigger and better things (film) or, at least, different things from Stranger Things. Maybe touring the comic con circuit is getting old? I don't know. Maybe it's just the writing.

#5 I'd really like to see a film of Elric of Melnibone with Finn Wolfhard in the titular role. He needs a couple more years under his belt, but he has the "wolfish" look I've always associated with the character...spent a little time messing around with AI modifying photos of the kid and I am more convinced than ever that he's perfect for the show. Of course, I hadn't realized till just now that someone had already acquired the rights to the literature with an idea to turning it into a television series. Of course, considering this was "news" six year ago, one can only speculate what's happened....

#6 The AI in episode #1 isn't great. But this is the way things are going to be.

All right, that's it. Later.