all the gratuitous and graphic torture, gore, or SA.
Can you list some examples besides reek? I’m planning a rewatch and trying to decide which fanedit.
I have a lot of thoughts and ideas about approaching Season 5, but excising Lucas and Max is definitely not one of them.
Actually the problem isn’t Lucas and Max individually, it’s those scenes with Lucas and Max together. Their relationship is at best, fluff and, at worst, cringe. Zero chemistry from a forced subplot that only distracts and thus detracts from the main story. The Nancy/Steve/Jonathan love triangle too, even Mike and Eleven, it’s all dragged out Netflix filler (for the teenage audience?) and it doesn’t fit the ethos.
Stranger Things draws heavily from 1980s films like E.T., The Goonies, Stand By Me, Poltergeist, A Nightmare on Elm Street, etc. None of them have teenage romantic subplots. The emphasis is on friendships and childhood bonds. Cringy corny crushes are entirely absent, and this allows the themes of friendship, camaraderie and loyalty to shine. Even in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Nancy and Glen’s relationship is a basic horror trope to raise stakes, not a dragged-out romantic subplot. These films deliberately prioritize innocent, collective friendships over teenage romance, reflecting 1980s genre trends that idealized wonder and group resilience. Stranger Things does the opposite, wedging in excessive romantic entanglements where they just don’t belong. They don’t enhance the story, so it’s questionable why Netflix even added them. Maybe they just needed filler, to fill x number of episodes, which is exactly what fanedits can fix. Or maybe think it’s what today’s teenagers want, which is debatable, and since this is a fanedit, irrelevant. Is it what you want? It’s not what I want.
Contrast this to the ADULT romantic subplot with Joyce and Jim. The Duffer Brothers have said the kid’s narrative draws from Spielberg’s family-friendly, wonder-filled adventures featuring platonic friendships, but the adult’s narrative draw from Spielberg’s more mature films like Jaws and Close Encounters. So while the teen romances are a modern addition that deviates from the genre, the Joyce/Hopper arc aligns more closely with the show’s inspirational roots; two lonely, traumatized adults slowly rediscovering connection amid chaos. Their relationship enhances the ‘skeptical adults encountering the supernatural’ theme, a fitting homage to Spielberg. By contrast, the teen romance forces soap-opera drama onto the kids platonic adventure, betraying the '80s inspirations. Excising the romantic subplots while preserving the friendships would recapture the original spirit of both the 1980s inspirations and what made Season 1 of Stranger Things itself so universally loved. Season 1 stands out as the show’s emotional high-water mark for most fans and critics precisely because its heart is almost entirely platonic. That’s why, to me, eliminating the teen romance elements seems like the most faithful approach to an edit.
Also are subtitles included? thx
Season 2 did exactly what I was hoping for – giving us a battle that we could end the first film with.
Hi can you expand on this for me.
If you’re doing one movie per season, meaning eventually 3 movies for 3 seasons, how can the second season end be the ending of your first movie?
VERsingthegamez said:
I just got done watching this and I have to say, out of all the GOT ending edits I’ve seen, this feels the best it could be.
Have you seen these two?
Game of Thrones: Restored, Restructured, Rewatchable: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/game-of-thrones-restored-restructured-rewatchable-released/id/82444/page/1
Unfair Cut / Best Edit: https://bestedit.net/edit-list/129-game-of-thrones/
I’m going to watch the unedited series until S7 starts, and then I’m going to watch a fanedit but I’m not sure which…
V2 sounds great, can I get a link?
Rain–King said:
It is quite likely the best fan edit of the last two seasons of Game of Thrones one can find.
That’s a bold statement, King.
There are other edits that tackle the entire series, which doesn’t interest me…except for how they handled the final two seasons.
Unfair / Best edit, cuts them down into 5 episodes: https://bestedit.net/edit-list/129-game-of-thrones/
The Films, 1 or 2 long episodes: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/GAME-OF-THRONES-FILMS-I-X-HOTD-Community-Thread/id/72813/page/1
I haven’t seen them, hopefully someone who has can compare…
Any way dull Lucas and insufferable Max gets excised from S5? Please?
“Causalogically LOST” is what “Chronologically LOST” should have been, the absolute best experience not only for a first time viewer, but also for re-watching as well…with one caveat.
You need to start watching “Causalogically LOST” at the exact same moment the series started; September 22, as Oceanic 815 takes off, specifically when the flight attendant gives Jack a drink.(“Causalogically LOST” obviously doesn’t start here, you have to skip all the flashbacks and start at episode 15 “September 22” at around the 40 minute mark.)
The key to this experience is following the Oceanic 815 stories exclusively; they don’t know anything about anyone else, and so the viewer doesn’t know about anyone else. By removing the backstories, you focus entirely on the actual story as it happens. Now, the first time the survivors meet anyone else on the island, is the first time we meet them. We only experience what they experience, as they experience it.
After that story concludes, and thanks to Wigjuice it is the ultimate retelling of arguably the ultimate serialized TV show, THEN you can go back to episode one of “Causalogically LOST” to view all the flashbacks as fascinating sort of prequel or prologue.