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As we review Netflix's Stranger Things 3!
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 09/24/2019 at 10:44pm
Oh man, I disagree with this episode.
While I do love each season, I feel each season is slightly inferior to the last.
Season 1 captured magic in a bottle. It was the start of something special and you didn't know where they were going.
Season 2 had some great character development and moments, but some pacing problems.
Season 3 lost the majority of that character development and became more popcorny. It was enjoyable but I felt that it didn't move the characters from point A to B very much. That being said, the way the ended the season gave me a lot of hope for the next season.
Also season 3 had once of the worst scenes I have ever seen that ground the show to a halt. While it was good on its own, it really screwed up the pacing and should have been edited down.
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 09/25/2019 at 03:22am
Which scene was that? I assume you didn’t mention it for spoiler purposes but I’m curious, if you can word it in a non-spoilery way.
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 09/25/2019 at 04:11am
It involved singing. Still makes me cringe.
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 09/25/2019 at 04:07pm
Ah. I thought it was hilarious. Cringey yeah but also hilarious.
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 09/25/2019 at 04:23pm
On it’s own it was great, but it ground that episode to a halt.
I'm gonna watch the whole show again at some point to get more context for this, or an updated point of view.
That said, if memory serves I thought season one suffered from the issue where I felt like many early Netflix shows suffered from in that they were two episodes too long.
Might not be totally how I think now but it was then so when I do a rewatch i'll note that again. I thought Season 2 and 3 nailed the pacing but I like popcorn
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In this episode, we've all returned from the snap and wondering what the heck has happened over the past five years, as we review Spider-Man: Far From Home!
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 09/13/2019 at 11:04pm
Good episode chaps! Seems like it was recorded before Sony & Marvel braking up and D23 and there was a lot of material left out around D+ and Spider-Man.
As for MCU Fatigue, it started for me around Civil War. I still enjoyed the movies but they were becoming a little too formulaic. After Spider-Man: Homecoming (which has to be one of my favorite MCU movies) the fatigue went away. I have been really looking forward to the movies since.
I am even excited for Black Widow. The prequel aspect has me a little worried, but Marvel has handled their properties well (even the bad movies are still watchable) that I am not too worried.
Yeah we didn’t know Spider-Man was out then and the future looked bright.... But now... I’m honestly curious how they will handle Spider-Man post MCU. All the Villians seem like they still be valid and Spider-Man might be on his own now which the end of the movie set up fairly well.
I wonder if he’ll refer to Tony in the new films or just someone he lost? Also curious how they’ll talk about the blip?
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 09/14/2019 at 06:14pm
Will they make him give the glasses back?
A bigger question is that since Spider-Man is out of the MCU does it make the new movies must see anymore?
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 09/15/2019 at 03:27am
I think the next one is still must-see. Tom Holland is my favorite live action Spidey so far, and I want to see him do more. Even if the plot doesn’t intersect with the MCU.
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 09/15/2019 at 06:03pm
I am a hold out until the trailer hits. Maybe they will patch things up by the time the movie gets made.
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 09/15/2019 at 07:22pm
Also it's interesting you mentioned Civil War as the first sign of fatigue for you, and I think that was my first as well. It's also where I started getting tired of rewatching it earlier this year. But they definitely brought me back in. Homecoming was at that time my favorite Spider-Man movie ever but it still hit me with some fatigue from the baggage that came along with it from Civil War. But then Thor: Ragnarok brought me back in full swing.
I'm really glad they're taking almost a full year off from the films at least.
Wow, this is hard. I am trying not to get overhyped but the more we see of the FFVII remake, the harder that gets.
In this trailer, we get a glimpse of a few of the mini games, and more battle footage. But mostly, it’s just showing off how pretty everything is. And boy is it ever.
Graphics aren’t everything, you have to have gameplay to keep it interesting. We haven’t seen a lot of that. But even if the gameplay isn’t fun, this might like one of those movies that’s just pure schlock but worth buying because of the visuals.
This has been a day-one buy for me ever since the rumors started circulating like the year the PS3 came out. Before I bought a PS3, I said I would buy a PS3 for this game. I drooled over that tech demo Square did for a Sony presentation and hoped every year that we’d get more info.
It took a while, but shockingly we are only six months away. The hype is real, no matter how hard I try to suppress it.
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 09/11/2019 at 04:47pm
That looks awesome! I don't think I'm going to buy a PS4 though, so I hope it comes to PC. I look forward to reading your review of it.
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 09/11/2019 at 05:55pm
I would buy a PS4 for this probably but honestly I would have done the same for a lot of PS4 exclusives. It’s an amazing console with so many bucket list titles.
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 09/11/2019 at 07:05pm
I'm not familiar with very many titles I'm interested, although I'm about to contradict that a bit. I think I'd like to try this one, although I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. There's also the new Kingdom Hearts game and remasters of all the others. I know it seems Spider-Man is good, too. Red Dead Redemption 2 is something I might enjoy as well. I don't know, for some reason I've been focusing so much on PC gaming that I've pretty much almost totally ignored console gaming. Plus, I've already started seeing news of the PS5, so it kind of feels like you have to buy a new console every few years. Although, that could probably be said about a GPU when it comes to PC gaming and they can be as expensive or more depending on what you want.
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 09/11/2019 at 07:07pm
Oh and I must admit I really love Aerith here, she is absolutely gorgeous! I've always loved her and Tifa.
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 02/15/2020 at 09:12am
I played the demo (I'm sure ya'll did too), and man, its Good ... I don't love the new combat system, but the "Classic" mode is perfect.
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 04/07/2020 at 07:25pm
I don't have a PS4, so I'm hoping it comes to PC.
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 04/07/2020 at 07:48pm
I actually skipped the demo on this entirely. I am aware that it's not the safe play to make, but I gambled on it possibly sucking really badly so that I can go in fully fresh when it arrives.
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 04/22/2020 at 04:50am
You want some swag? Who doesn't want swag? We've just launched the Cheerful Ghost Zazzle shop, where you can get shirts and mugs for Tale of the White Wyvern.
We have two Tale mugs to choose from-- one black text on a white mug, and the other with the full purple/teal/fuchsia color scheme you know and love from the game. We call this the "Janky AF Version" because, the way the Zazzle printing works... it looks a little janky. But we love it and hope you do too.
As for Tale shirts, you can choose the classic black shirt with white text, a black shirt with white/teal/fuchsia text, or the super special purple shirt with white/teal/fuchsia text!
We gave you some options here because these shirts are a bit pricey and we wanted to provide some options. The only shirt Zazzle had available with the right color to match our Tale Purple (we're trying to get Crayola to make that an official color) was the American Apparel shirt, which makes the price jump significantly.
We know these on-demand clothing shops are all a little pricey, so we are taking the lowest possible percentage. We'll make around $1.50 per shirt, so if 8 or 10 of our active users want to buy around.... oh, twenty thousand of these shirts, we can quit our jobs and do this full time!
Seriously though, this is a no-risk way to gauge interest in official swag, so let us know what you think about the items we have up, and what else you might want to see. Zazzle has an intimidating number of products available, so if you want Cheerful Ghost napkins or Tale of the White Wyvern coasters, let us know.
You can find our shop by hitting the shopping cart icon in our nav above, following the link from the membership page, or following this link.
What Travis failed to mention is that he means buy 20k shirts and things per month! That would be super.
Seriously, happy we finally have this so I can rep the game I made. I know it's a bit self aggrandizing but I never thought it be able to buy a shirt for a game I made. Maybe you might like it too? It's possible, that said, I'll always have one and I'm really happy about that.
ALSO Zazzle has, seemingly, endless 15% off and other codes so if you want to save now, you can. I imagine they will have more and if they do we'll let you know if the stuff dips to a price you'd rather pull the trigger on.
We've built a new episode of Cheerful Ghost Radio and we can't wait for you to play it. In this episode we review Super Mario Maker 2 on the Nintendo Switch!
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/30/2019 at 02:16am
I'm checking in kinda late, but Mario Maker 2 seems INSANE. Occasionally I'll check out YouTube videos of levels, and I've seen a working calculator, a 3D maze and a Duck Hunt game. It's so impressive what people have been able to build with this!
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Welcome to another installment of The State of the Wyvern! The State of the Wyvern is a monthly post we'll be making here to share round up the new additions and changes to the game, as well as give you a tease of what's to come.
Current Player Leaderboards
The current player power ranking leaderboard top 5 players are led by Rather Dashing, Marixu Cas, Nelun, Tiberius and M’hael! The top 5 PvP leaderboard rankings are Tiberus with 27 kills, Maverick with 26, MyDude with 19, Button Smasher and Caz with 16!
Over the past few days, many players defeated the Wyvern for the first time. Congratulations to Tiberius, Maverick, MyDude, Bina Marie, Golok, Duncan Idaho, Zehronioud, Ktara, Declan, GregoPeck, Button Smasher, Caz, Conan, Friday, and Marixu Cas for all killing the Wyvern. The Wyvern is a feisty foe and seems to love dying to let’s keep sending it back to the other side!
Recent Updates
Every month we wrap up all the large updates in a State of the Wyvern post here on Cheerful Ghost, but if you want to know what’s changing a bit sooner, check the Wyvern Changelog. Each time we update the game we update the changelog so you can stay on top of the latest updates that might effect how you play.
Beyond a slew of bug fixes we’ve also changed and added the following things:
Primrose Park & Hero Shrine: Primrose Park is a new location in Other Places. It currently only has the Hero's Shrine that will honor the first 5 players to defeat the Wyvern in this game.
Forest Fights: We have removed the "troll" monsters or lower level monsters in high level fights that wouldn't give you very much gold or experience. All monsters at high levels are now appropriately scaled.
Forest Fight XP & Gold Drops: Experience and gold drops for level 10, 11 and 12 monsters in the forest have been increased by 30%.
Random Forest Events:
If you are fully healed the healing event no longer shows up.
A new random encounter in the forest has been added, so you can now find 1 or 2 gems, whereas before there was only an event for finding a single gem.
The random gold find event now gives you gold based on your level.
You can now be pick-pocketed by a thief in the forest. Make sure to deposit that gold!
NPC Interactions: Originally if you interacted with the NPCs Scarlet, Crugg and Jon Boyd they all awarded you the same amount of experience depending on the amount of charm you had. Now NPCs grant you benefits differently:
Interacting with Scarlet grants you experience.
Interacting with Jon Boyd grants you gold.
Interacting with Crugg grants you forest fights.
As always you can only interact with one NPC per day, but now you now can make a strategic choice based on what you want to gain for the day.
Jon Boyd still remains different in that you can have him sing a song every day on top of all this. As you gain more charm, the experience, gold and forest fight benefits from the NPC interactions grow.
The Outhouse: The Outhouse is a new location in Other places. We don’t want to spoil the fun, so we aren’t telling you anything else about it, go check it out!
What’s Coming Next?
For a bit more depth on what's coming next, check out the State of the Wyvern Cheerful Ghost Radio episode (embedded above), but from a high level we are going to offer more accessible Cheerful Ghost memberships and set the stage for a bunch of really cool new game updates.
Thank you for playing and let us know any feedback or thoughts you have on the game in the comments.
If you haven't played Tale of the White Wyvern yet, head over to https://thewhitewyvern.com/ now to play for free!
Just a thought about how to let people know about updates. I like the thought of putting a link in the new day screen. But a couple thoughts about that:
It has to be obviously different text. I never read the new day screen, but I glance at it to see my bank interest lol. If there's a message you want me to see, it has to jump out at me.
Also, leave the announcement up for a few days, in case someone doesn't log into the game as much as some of us do lol
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 08/20/2019 at 06:09pm
1) There's a typo in my name here, it's missing the second g. No big deal, really.
2) "If you are fully healed the healing event no longer shows up." Thank you! I pretty much always heal when I lose HP, so this encounter pretty much never did me any good, just wasted one of my forest fights.
3) Thanks for the NPC stuff, too. I like how each gives you a different bonus.
Thanks for the feedback Adam, I'm not sure I have the best solution in mind but the simplest thing we can do is put a link there at the bottom and people can click it if they want.
We can do it if there is new stuff but, and it's not hard but an elegant approach on how to do that hasn't come to me yet.
As I said in the episode, I think some people want to know of new stuff and some people don't care so I'm not sure doing much more than making the link easier to find is a big deal if people want to just click through to play the game.
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No Man’s Sky: Beyond is rolling out now, and this is the biggest update yet. It seems as though every system in the game has been improved upon, on top of the new additions it adds.
I won’t go into all of them here, because there are so many. But here are the highlights.
Expanded multiplayer, allowing up to 8 players per session on console, and 32 players on PC.
VR support, for various PC VR systems and PSVR. And you can use standard controls or motion controls.
Heavy optimization, including switching to Vulkan rendering on PC. This one is huge for older PCs and AMD cards, and Vulkan has many other benefits for optimization across the board.
New story elements have been added to stitch together the multiple stories that have been added since launch.
Crafting, tech learning, and language learning have gotten a significant overhaul to make them more accessible and give players more choice. For example, the tech you learn is now in a tree, where you can pick and choose which path to take for what is important to you at the time.
The space anomaly is now a player hub, and Nada and Polo now have a bunch of new friends with them that can give you new story and missions.
NPC animations have been improved, they’ll now walk around and interact with the environment.
You can now ride some of the creatures you find on your travels.
Base building has been overhauled, and they’ve added powered objects and logic to the mix to make some more advanced bases.
One of the most requested features (though probably as a joke) has been implemented: you can now sit in chairs.
But really, this isn’t nearly all. If you’ve seen it in the game, it has probably been tweaked in some way. Check out the full patch notes here:
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 08/14/2019 at 06:15pm
I was thinking about writing about this when I saw it a while ago. I thought about asking if you were going to do that. Again, I think you do a better job. Your bullet points make the post look good. Maybe I should take some inspiration, or maybe I shouldn't be a copy cat.
Are you going to play this again? I'm not sure, myself. I don't actually have it installed on my SSD yet, so I'd pretty much have to redownload it (I don't want to run my games off of the HDD).
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/14/2019 at 07:25pm
FYI you can keep games downloaded and move them between your HDD and SSD. But I don’t think you’d run into much of a hitch running this one from the HDD. It’s the same few textures just arranged in interesting ways programmatically so there’s less taxing on the hard drive and more on the CPU to build the world.
I have tried it on both and it only improves loading by a couple seconds so I let it live on the HDD.
But yeah I’m going to try some of the new things out. Not sure if I’ll make a new game or not. Depending on how good the VR is (and how sick it makes me) I may finally properly play my PS4 copy.
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/14/2019 at 07:27pm
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 08/14/2019 at 09:40pm
I kept many of my installed games where they were on the HDD. I copied some over, that I wanted installed on the SSD. Unfortunately, Steam still re-downloaded the games that I moved over. It's ok though. Yeah, I know how to run games from a second folder.
You have VR? I'd be interested in how that works, looks, or plays. I have VR ready hardware, except for the headset. I'm not sure when I might get into VR, but it's not really a priority for me right. I'm still waiting for reality to bring us the Holodeck from Star Trek. I think that could be the end of society as we know it though. LOL
Do you think you'll write more about this update after playing it some? I pretty much always start a new game, I've never made it to the center. I'm not sure whether or not I want to jump back in the game right now. I did watch a video of Sean Murray talk about this update and how it basically includes three main features. He was smiling the whole time he talked about it, which I thought was cool. Here's a link to that: https://youtu.be/zAo7b4HjtjQ
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/14/2019 at 09:51pm
That's weird, it should just move it right over. Oh well. I guess you could do the manual...
1. Rename the folder 2. Tell steam to uninstall it 3. Tell Steam to install it 4. Stop the install 5. Move that folder to the new location 6. Start the install
It should just reverify if you do that, I did that a few times before they implemented the ability to change it.
And yeah PSVR is pretty neat. Very cheap way to get into VR. It's not as good as the Vive I wouldn't imagine but it's great for what it is.
I may or may not write more, kinda depends on how neat it is.
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 08/14/2019 at 11:14pm
When I installed the SSD, I put Windows on it and made it my primary drive. I want the SSD to contain my regularly used files (like games and apps), and the HDD to be my back up or storage space (for other files like docs and stuff). I created a fresh install of Windows on the SSD and so I had to install everything else fresh as well. So, Steam did not see that any games were installed (because they weren't). I tried copying game directories from the HDD to the SSD. It seemed like Steam was verifying the files, but still downloaded them anyway. I'm really not even sure that I'm noticing a difference in game load times with the SSD. The SSD definitely makes Windows boot incredibly faster. Maybe I did something wrong with how I tried to install games to the SSD and maybe I'll pay more attention to that in the future. The SSD is a bit limited, so I don't really want to install a bunch of stuff on it. I'd still like to install games on it just to see if there's any performance/loading differences. Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. :)
Back to NMS, I'm just not sure I feel like jumping in it again. I feel like I've been through the beginning quite a few times and don't necessarily want to repeat it, although I always want to start out fresh with a new update. Perhaps with this new update I'll enjoy it more. The last time I played, I got stuck on a mission and pretty much gave up.
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/15/2019 at 03:14am
Oh! That makes more sense now. Yeah some games will have a big difference, some not so much. Fallout 76 seemed to load about 10 seconds faster on SSD.
And yeah, that’s kinda why I haven’t started over with each update, I’ve already put so much into it.
I wish my computer could handle the game! I bought it launch day and dealt with *all* the issues/bugs/crashes, and still thought it was pretty incredible. But it was missing so much that I expected it to have. Watching all these updates the past few years has made me super jealous!
...this is one of those games that the potential sucks me in so much, I might be willing to buy a PS4 and PSVR. (Although it likely would turn into yet another system that just sits there like both my Classics and Wii U lol)
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/15/2019 at 03:17pm
Yeah Adam, I think they’ve gone well past what most expected it to have.
Going to be putting my PSVR to use tomorrow night on this. I'll be sure to report back on how it goes. :)
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 08/21/2019 at 06:29am
After 355 hours and almost a year after having played it, today I learned something about NMS. You can claim abandoned ships and keep your current ship! I saw this done by one of my favorite YouTubers, Paul Soares Jr.. I did a little Googling and it seems that there's a bug with this in that you have to put the inventory from your old ship into the new one and then you can claim the new one, for free, actually, I think. I don't know if that "bug" still exists, but it wasn't too long ago that people wrote about it. Do any of you have any experience with this?
Ok, so I tried it out, things are different. Why did it have to spawn me at a toxic and then a boiling planet? Uh. Yeah I started a new game three times. I don't intend to make note of all the changes I noticed here. I did get my star ship repaired, but I haven't taken off yet. One thing I do want to point out though is the GeForce Experience settings. They were telling me the game was already using optimal settings. I looked at the graphic/video options in game and the preset was on "Enhanced." I switched it to "Ultra" to see if I'd notice any difference, which I didn't. Travis did tell me once that you can't always trust the settings in GE. I think this may perhaps be due to a change in the game's settings and maybe GE didn't get updated. At least, that's what I think. I think the settings are different, but I could be wrong. What preset are you running with? Do you notice anything different between presets? If, so, what?
Travis Admin Post Author
wrote on 08/22/2019 at 02:23pm
I never run with any preset, I fine tune it all, but I’ve got basically everything maxed with motion blur, chromatic aberration, and scanlines turned off so I don’t get motion sickness.
And yeah you can claim those found ships for free, since you’re finding them randomly there’s nobody to pay (though I think they added NPCs to some of these)
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 10/07/2019 at 09:52am
After reinstalling Windows again, I found out how to successfully move your games from the old Steam directory to the new directory without having to reinstall or redownload them. Since I wasn't doing a fully clean install, Windows created a Windows.old folder, which contained Steam in Program Files (x86). This is easy! Install Steam and then exit it. This creates a new Steam folder. Then copy (or move) all of the contents of the old Steam folder into the new one, open Steam, and everything's there! :) So, I just copied from C:\Windows.old\Program Files (x86)\Steam\ to C:\Windows\Program Files (x86)\Steam\. I tried to copy them over with Steam and Steam wasn't having it. Before, I had copied the individual game folders over and Steam still had to redownload and install them. This "new-to-me" method I discovered mostly on my own worked perfectly! I just thought I'd necro this a bit and add it here just FYI, in case some one here needs to use it.
I've been installing my games to an attached (on Windows) USB drive. This means game boots are slower but once i'm in things are fast. One upside is I don't have to reinstall everything when I reinstall or do something to Windows or move my games to a new PC.
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If you've been putting off buying DuckTales: Remastered, it's time to make a decision. Unfortunately, it will be leaving digital storefronts in a few days. Steam and Xbox will lose the game August 8th at 8PM EST, and the Wii U shop and Playstation 3 will lose it on the 9th at 8PM EST.
Bonus, it's getting a 75% off sale most places as a farewell sale. For under 4 bucks, this is a steal.
It saddens me that this game is leaving. There's no reason stated, but it's likely licensing issues with Disney. That's a common thing with licensed games. If you want to read more about my thoughts on this game, I covered those here... six years ago. Wow, it's been that long! https://cheerfulghost.com/Travis/posts/1543/life-is-like-a-hurricane-here-in-duckburg
Sad this kind of thing happens due to licensing. I bought it physically on Wii U and might check out the Steam sale, but more than likely I'll stick to the physical version. Too bad there wasn't a Switch port.
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/08/2019 at 01:21am
I ordered the Wii U physical version yesterday.
Will_Ball Game Mod Super Member
wrote on 08/09/2019 at 12:05am
I got my copy right in time. New copies seems to have doubled in price since when I bought mine.
Jon and I want to thank everyone for checking out Tale of the White Wyvern, it was an incredible amount of fun! Now, after giving you all a taste of the game, we are going to be sharing the game with the larger world, and if you help us you can earn some free in-game DLC! Starting today, if you retweet or share the game on Facebook or Reddit, we will send you an Original Hype DLC code for 500 gold, 2 gems and the Original Hype player title!
If you shared the game on Facebook or Reddit let us know in the comments and we will message you the DLC code privately here on Cheerful Ghost. If you re-tweeted and we didn’t see it and DM you the code, comment here and we’ll square you up.
Once you redeem the code on your Tale account you can head in game to activate it on your player in-game. One cool thing about Tale of the White Wyvern DLC is that it will work on each Tale game you play. Some parts of the DLC will only redeem once per game like the gold and gems, but you can get the player title on each Tale of the White Wyvern game you play.
Make sure to grab your DLC because the Original Hype pack will only be available to players until October!
If you haven't played Tale of the White Wyvern yet, head over to https://thewhitewyvern.com/ now to play for free!
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 07/29/2019 at 05:20pm
GregoPeck Super Member
wrote on 07/30/2019 at 06:06am
Wait a second...Travis said "for 1,500 gold," (see line four of this post) but the screen shows 500. I think you have a typo in this post, Travis, or you owe me 1,000 gold haha.
Oh man, I disagree with this episode.
While I do love each season, I feel each season is slightly inferior to the last.
Season 1 captured magic in a bottle. It was the start of something special and you didn't know where they were going.
Season 2 had some great character development and moments, but some pacing problems.
Season 3 lost the majority of that character development and became more popcorny. It was enjoyable but I felt that it didn't move the characters from point A to B very much. That being said, the way the ended the season gave me a lot of hope for the next season.
Also season 3 had once of the worst scenes I have ever seen that ground the show to a halt. While it was good on its own, it really screwed up the pacing and should have been edited down.
Which scene was that? I assume you didn’t mention it for spoiler purposes but I’m curious, if you can word it in a non-spoilery way.
It involved singing. Still makes me cringe.
Ah. I thought it was hilarious. Cringey yeah but also hilarious.
On it’s own it was great, but it ground that episode to a halt.
I'm gonna watch the whole show again at some point to get more context for this, or an updated point of view.
That said, if memory serves I thought season one suffered from the issue where I felt like many early Netflix shows suffered from in that they were two episodes too long.
Might not be totally how I think now but it was then so when I do a rewatch i'll note that again. I thought Season 2 and 3 nailed the pacing but I like popcorn
Yo: https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1178701041333886976
Hyped! More upside down please! I would get into what I want to see, but I am avoiding spoilers.