Whole Dojo 1: STRANGER THINGS
Whole Dojo 1: STRANGER THINGS
This will be the thread for my students of Stranger Things, the Netfix series. Please post you reflections connected to here.
Here is a brief recap of our dojo on the Netflix series Stranger Things. To help you with your response I am going to lay it out the recap using the same steps in problem solving that we approached the series:
After we literally filled our senses with the last episode of the series, the thing that caught our attention was the use of emotion in the development of setting and character. Several of us admitted to crying at the end when they were reviving Will. The general filming style triggered many warm memories of the 80’s. Particularly the Goonies, ET, Poltergeist, etc. It was also pointed out that the posters often foreshadowed events. Many analogies were made to Rick and Morty and the inter dimentionality of the plot.The Analysis of the story lead to several theories about possible connections between 11 and the monster. Mine was that the Government’s attempt at developing psychic assassination created the monster. Other Metaphors considered were the roll of electricity and light...Darkness and black holes… The fact that the town was called Hawkings. Our final judgment was that Will had brought whatever it was into his dimension. This will create the same disaster that destroyed the upside down and created the monster, or maybe monsters, who laid their eggs in Will and ate Brenda. I look forward to hearing about what Makes Sense to you..
My favorite theory for Stranger Things is there being multiple monsters. I feel this is very possible because if you look at multiple screen shots of the monster they look fairly different. If you look at the monster when it is chasing Will right at the beginning the monster look tall and wider than when Eleven kills it at the end.
Loving the show! I think that the greatest success of the netflix shows I've enjoyed (particularly Stranger Things, The Killing, and Bloodline) is the acting. They found such amazing actors for these shows! Many of whom I had never seen before. However some shows, like Daredevil and Narcos were casted pretty terribly... just my opinion but shouldn't Pablo Escobar be played by a Colombian actor?