REACTING TO: Stranger Things S1E4!!

Oh that's right!! I forgot they made the off-brand Will at the Build-A-Kid workshop!

Signed up for Nat’s Patreon just for this show! I do have one question and it might end up getting answered later on in the season or series, but how come Will and Barb manage to exist in the other world but the Energy dudes have to wear a special suit to go in??

I was thinking that too. His dad would've been far more reachable than her. It's hard to believe that cell phones have only been around 15 years or so. I know they had been around before, but as far as being truly mobile, usable, and affordable it's been a relatively short period of time.

Marty McGee

I had a little 13" b&w in my bedroom as a teenager. Had the rabbit ears for vhf and the circle antenna for uhf. Mostly used it for my atari. I was maybe 14 when we got a vcr and a remote controlled tv for the main room. It was maybe 26". My parents only did that because our old tv got fried by lightning and the homeowner's insurance paid up.

Marty McGee

It's hilarious how many times I'll watch a movie or show set in the 80s or 90s and I forget for a second, they don't have cell phones lol. And I'm not even a Millennial. I think Nat did that when she thought it was funny Mike's mom told Mike to call his dad at work if he needed something, instead of her, back in the 80s once you left the house you could give the number of a place you MIGHT be, but otherwise you were incommunicado, apart from people running into you saying, "hey, such-n-such called my house, said they're looking for you." Ah, ye good ole days.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

You may be surprised at how inexpensive it can be to start from home. You can even make your first camera out of an old tin can and expose directly onto the paper, skipping the negative stage

Martin

the main tv we used in our bedroom well into the 90s was an old black and whie zenith. i almost lost my shit when i first saw a 26" color tv...just impossible to comprehend.

Steve

My family had a black and white television in one room up until about 1993.

Myles Away

Congrats on the new camera! Though I didn't even realize the earlier watchalongs were in 720p, because I have to shrink the viewing window to put it alongside the Netflix* window (* - Or Disney+, or Hulu, or whatever else) and my monitor's only 1080p total. (I've been meaning to upgrade.) Speaking of screens, I noticed you questioning the black-n-white TV at the police station; this was in 1983, and color TV's were still relatively expensive, smaller color TV's even moreso (for their size). So a lot of people needing smaller TV's made do with B&W ones. When I was growing up, my sister and I used to watch TV in the basement in black-n-white during the summer, and upstairs my parents would watch the big wooden color one. (Sidenote, I just did some Googling, and apparently they made black-and-white TV's into the early 90's, though almost exclusively small/portable ones. And one article in 1992 said that nearly half of U.S. households still owned a black-n-white TV [alongside their color one].)

Troy B.

ive always pined for the tactile chemistry of classic photography. It is like the visual equivalent of vinyl records. digital is just too........perfect.

Cripkie

Damn I really forgot how much work Hopper puts into this. I havent rewatched it since it first premiered years and years ago. But I havent been respecting Hopper as much as I should have been lol

John

thanks for buying this new camera for us to live in. I noticed the light bands in the background wall scrolling up, there must be some sync issues with the anti-banding config.

Thomas Richter

This may be a mild spoiler, but not really since you've seen this season. There are a few more jump scares coming up. One in particular got me good. But, once the monster gets some real screen time, the jump scares aren't quite so bad.

Marty McGee

The new camera is really nice! Loving the upgraded quality.

Inflightmuzik

It might just be me, but Nat's audio was really quiet this time around; I could barely make out what she was saying with everything cranked up.

Skizane