Re:The Typography of ‘Stranger Things’
by arielweisberg on Thursday July 28, 2016 @12:27PM
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Certainly it blends multiple genres, but to me it's the "X-files" genre.
My complaint is not that it doesn't get better it's that it shouldn't have to get better. That's a pacing issue and when a show has enough solid material in it I theorize most pacing issues can be solved with editing and usually by removing extraneous material.
I think the impact that editing can have on how you perceive a story is profound.
I'm trying to avoid spoiling things for those who haven't seen it, but almost every character became more multi-dimensional and the story progressed in unexpected ways. It took the worn-out tropes and flipped them over. Even your singular use of the word "genre" confuses me. Was there only one genre? It started out as a horror movie and then evolved into some sci-fi secret experiment narrative.