re: My issues with stranger things season 2 (spoiler thread)

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When eleven is talking to her "sister" telling her to let her anger fuel her power might as well have been taken word for word from the Star Wars script...I mean come on...emperor palpatine much?

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How else are psychic powers supposed to work? Should they have done a call back to the 60's instead and told her to twitch her nose or blink?

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the second season was just blatantly derivative and contrived.

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I will say there seems to be enough "inspiration" from past movies that I'm waiting for a Milli Vanilli lip sync level scandal where we find out the Duffer Brothers let a computer algorithm build an outline by mashing up popular scenes on YouTube. But even if that were the case, they're just giving us what we know we like. Maybe it feels off in the after the fact over analysis, but while watching it I know I enjoyed it.

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Am I alone here? Am I just an a-hole? If not, what pissed you guys off about the new season?

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I don't think you're alone or an a-hole but you do have some other problems if you watched ST2 and felt the need to vent. It was still a fun ride, save the over analyzing for after you've watched it, not while you watch it.