Chewing on and Spitting out Some Ideas about the Stranger Things Monsters
This is my last post for the RIG Monsters class during this spring term. Thank you to everyone who took the time to read my posts and to comment on them. I hope each one of you goes forward and earns smashing success with your stories and continued academic pursuits! About three or four years ago, I watched the first season of Stranger Things on Netflix. My daughter had recommended it. She had seen it when it aired originally. The purpose of this post is to critique the monsters. To do that, I could not rely on my memory. So I watched a few clips of the show on YouTube, read some info on the show, including the Wikipedia article, but most importantly consulted my daughter. I drove to her house, which isn’t far from my own, and she showed me some of the key episodes with monster appearances. We didn’t watch an entire episode except for the last episode of Season 3, “The Battle of Starcourt.” One of the things that became apparent from both watching the show and