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Eh, they aren't that bad I'd just rather.... not
NetflixGeeked confirmed that Eddie Munson is based on Damien Echols who was sentence to death row based on community hysteria and only released nearly two decades later. Amy J Berg (who is not the Leverage write I follow on twitter but a *different* Amy Berg) did a film based on the incident called West of Memphis.
I think that's a film I've wanted to watch, but just am bad at keeping track of what I want to watch in the modern streaming age. It's like, if available on my current services I watch... if not I lose track.
I am actually beginning to be happy I got a Letterboxd account and can now keep track.
For the record, my prediction remains that he lives but there is some heavy price. Also, I don't think they'll end the season with him in jail because I think that would be a crappy set up for S5.
There is possibly something to be said about a value in being reminded of the Satanic Panic and previous mass hysterias, but I am not going to get into that. From a purely pop culture stand point, so many current creators came of out of a 'grew up with the Satanic Panic' context that I think it's useful for understanding modern pop culture. Even in the 90s, D&D was completely underground in the midwest. If people were known to play the game, it could cost their jobs.
Also, hot take: I think part of why people are so batshit over Stranger Things is that almost no other genre show or movie has the realistic emotional reactions or just makes the medium fit the story instead of the other way around. best pacing would make the episode run 2x as long. They are just like 'okay, 2x long episode'. In certain ways SThings really just is a masterpiece (which makes the ways the story is weak way more frustrating that it would be in a show like SPN.)
I mean, you've got Max mourning the loss of a possible relationship with her brother. Not the one she had, but the one she could have had. That is a think people do. It's something I've dealt with in terms of losing family members. Losing someone shitty in your family hits in a surprising way. It's a very human response and it makes sense that the show isn't pausing to explain grief to the kidlets who don't get what's going on.
NetflixGeeked confirmed that Eddie Munson is based on Damien Echols who was sentence to death row based on community hysteria and only released nearly two decades later. Amy J Berg (who is not the Leverage write I follow on twitter but a *different* Amy Berg) did a film based on the incident called West of Memphis.
I think that's a film I've wanted to watch, but just am bad at keeping track of what I want to watch in the modern streaming age. It's like, if available on my current services I watch... if not I lose track.
I am actually beginning to be happy I got a Letterboxd account and can now keep track.
For the record, my prediction remains that he lives but there is some heavy price. Also, I don't think they'll end the season with him in jail because I think that would be a crappy set up for S5.
There is possibly something to be said about a value in being reminded of the Satanic Panic and previous mass hysterias, but I am not going to get into that. From a purely pop culture stand point, so many current creators came of out of a 'grew up with the Satanic Panic' context that I think it's useful for understanding modern pop culture. Even in the 90s, D&D was completely underground in the midwest. If people were known to play the game, it could cost their jobs.
Also, hot take: I think part of why people are so batshit over Stranger Things is that almost no other genre show or movie has the realistic emotional reactions or just makes the medium fit the story instead of the other way around. best pacing would make the episode run 2x as long. They are just like 'okay, 2x long episode'. In certain ways SThings really just is a masterpiece (which makes the ways the story is weak way more frustrating that it would be in a show like SPN.)
I mean, you've got Max mourning the loss of a possible relationship with her brother. Not the one she had, but the one she could have had. That is a think people do. It's something I've dealt with in terms of losing family members. Losing someone shitty in your family hits in a surprising way. It's a very human response and it makes sense that the show isn't pausing to explain grief to the kidlets who don't get what's going on.
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Date: 2022-06-17 03:19 am (UTC)From: