Wait... There's Finally A Movie Adaptation Of This Novel!?? I Read It A Long Time Ago. I Wonder If It's

Wait... There's finally a movie adaptation of this novel!?? I read it a long time ago. I wonder if it's going to be half as good as the actual book. Slam's film adaptation was a bit of a letdown.

“[In storytelling] niceness tends to kill characters - if there is nothing wrong with them, nothing to offend us, then there’s almost certainly nothing to attract our attention either.”

— John Yorke (in ‘Into the Woods: How stories work and why we tell them’)

Colonel Sanders on General Hospital

This is an unusually balm story arc.

I really don't think Stranger Things is going to have this happy fairy tale ending where all the kids survive and end up growing up together and marrying each other because Stranger Things is still in the Horror genre.

In Horror, most of the characters end up dying in the end. There are sacrifices to be made for the protagonist. I think that Joyce, Nancy, Max and/or Eleven/Jane will be the last character(s) standing because typically the female character ends up defeating the threat if they can. I think Stranger Things is ultimately a woman's journey and that the women in the story will outlast all of the male characters.

Why am I posting a Dan Bell video in the Stranger Things tag? This is what I think the true fate of the town of Hawkins will be. In the last season the town will be considered toxic and the government will urge the residents of Hawkins to flee the town completely. The Upside Down leaked too much. It's hard to defeat completely. The spores probably make people in town sick. The best solution is evacuation.

John Cusack as Vince Larkin in Con Air (1997)