Stranger Things (Page 3 of 3)

Except, it's not a show about the 80s in general, but specifically the 80s in small towns, from the perspective of children. They already did manage to cram in the cold war, and it just barely worked. Something that is very personal to individual people is a lot easier to do here, and there's very little reason not to do it, other than deliberately wanting to ignore it. An absence would be just as noticable as a presence here.

And that's basically it. To completely ignore it would be dismissive of those people whose memories of that time are strongly colored by it, and it makes for an interesting enough plot point that meshes well with the kind of threat the main villain poses. There is simply no reason not to do it. So, your answer is, unfortunately, "Why not?".

Something for the other thread: Why does it bother you so much, or at all? Leaving rationalizations aside (which is difficult), can you actually remember when you started having a strong opinion about it?

Oh, yeaaaah...the briefcase. Forgot about that.

There are 500+ named phobias, all very personal (and also way less boring). Here a list of common ones children have: Nyctophobia, Cynophobia, Astraphobia, Masklophobia, Trypanophobia, Dentophobia, Achluophobia, Separation Anxiety,  Social Anxiety, Acrophobia, Emetophobia, Arachnophobia, Claustrophobia, Glossophobia, Thanatophobia, Nosophobia, School Phobia, Atychiphobia.

Disregarding the number of people these affect, as well as the fact that you seem to be equating homosexuality to a psychological disorder, which everyone actually studying the matter stopped doing decades ago: I can only repeat myself here. None of those were particularly relevant to the setting, because whether you have claustrophobia right now or while growing up in a small american town in the 80s does not make a lot of difference. For being gay, it does, and for many people, it did. That's why it's there.

They could have gone more into detail, yeah, but the basics were implied:

It's possible that some executive at some studio will try to make a prequel out of it, but I doubt that:

• the show was mostly about the actual story and characters, it didn't create much of a world to play with here, even borrowing most of the names for things from D&D

• it was created during the 80s nostalgia wave 10 years ago; that has mostly ended and moved on to the 90s

• such a prequel would have to be quite different thematically from the actual show, which is from the perspective of kids, making it difficult to predict as an investment

• Netflix has a decent track record with leaving even successful things one-and-done, and the few spinoffs they do make tend to be standalone movies or stuff like that; we'd probably get one of those at most.

They'll probably just buy whatever the Duffer brothers want to do next and see how that goes.

Yeah seems I was wrong there. "Whatever the Duffer brothers want to do next" appears to be spinoffs. So... maybe. Probably.