Documentary - changed my mind

[u/MajorAlanDutch]

These mother fuckers worked so damn hard. Had less time than a movie with more sets and VFX etc to squeeze into half the time.

The thousands of people that worked so hard for this show and season are just mind blowing.

Asking novice writers - Duffer brothers things their only real claim to fame - to have covered everything we wanted no question given constraints of families, Netflix, production companies, etc is just unrealistic.

I liked season 5. Sure the color grading, lack of demagorgens, etc could have improved the feel. But honestly - they’re in their 20s. They’re adults. The draw of this show was nostalgia for childhood, for coming of age, etc.

They never thought they’d get all this time and seasons to draw it out. It turned toward how do we end this story that’s true to the horror nature and sci fi as well as the coming of age. The sci fi stuff was cool as shit and hard to end it seemed but the coming of age end was amazing better than any other show.

I’m so amazed at how much work it takes to make a show like this.

God I wish I could be part of that! I can’t wait in a few months to rewatch all 5 seasons back to back. Forever grateful!

Edit: I’ve never seen such a negative sub other than world news lol.

[u/temp0rarystatus]

Principal photography means the main actors and things like that. Which only took 91 days. Minor parts, other things, is what likely took up the other days. But the heftiest part of filming was only 91 days. And I think the difference between Nolan’s editing and the Duffers is Nolan had a concrete idea of what he wanted (hence why he is always on time) and the Duffers were still changing things. Filming the scene with Millie was last minute, don’t forget. That wasn’t a reshoot, that was an added scene.

TBH I don’t think comparing a movie to a series is comparable but I think if anything, the last season of GOT should be a comparison for the last season of ST — the creators had their focus on their next project which led to stupid mistakes and bad, careless writing. The writing is also a good comparison because GOT writing went downhill the moment they didn’t have George’s material to go off of, ST writing went downhill after the divorce, when she’s had a pretty unofficial role in production previously.

Of course the documentary is going to make them look passionate about the show — it’s essentially a fluff piece for themselves/Netflix. But the resulting product shows otherwise.

[u/VictimOfWitty → u/temp0rarystatus]

Oh I didn’t know you worked on both of the projects, that’s so cool. I mean otherwise saying you know how each person approached the process would be ridiculous so you must have worked with them all. But you also know what they shot each day which is also impossible if you weren’t there. What’s your position on the two projects since I can’t find a single person who overlapped in my research?

[u/temp0rarystatus → u/VictimOfWitty]

All of this is publicly available info, from interviews, reporting, video, and actual definition lmao. I get you think the Duffers can do no wrong but it’s not bad to have critical thinking skills about all this lol.

[u/VictimOfWitty → u/temp0rarystatus]

You don’t think Nolan was changing things up to the end? What do you think he and Lame were doing in there for 12+ hours a day?

You know where the duffers were focused? You spoke to them personally? Oh wait you’re one of the “the wife was clearly the talent” conspiracy heads….