We were playing kiss and catch by third grade in my parochial primary school.

Leaving most your comment alone.
Hell.
Each person has their own hell. Hell is a personal, intimate and eternal torment. The Angels intrude on his hell, but notice arseface isn't there. I imagine his hell involves shooting that girl over and over again.

That's a pretty good theory. So they wiped out that world and now have the opportunity to do so in our dimension. Maybe they don't dimension hop, maybe something alien landed or whatever, and El has given them this opportunity with the portal. That would explain a couple details in later episodes.

ack, you're right. I forgot about that!

I think it's a clue for us that initially, everything is all black. There is no mirror of our world until the portal. It's El and her target in blackness. So, it's some sort of psychic projection dimension. Since we don't see anyone other than El and her target, I figure she pulls his projected self in once she…

I'm SUPER glad we can talk about the monster finally. I have theory. My theories are always wrong but here goes:
El inadvertently created this creature, which neither she nor the creature realize. I think the dimension can, for people like El, manifest things. I got to thinking this because of how it's this…

Just so long as you also don't bore us with your whining when he loses.

Exactly. I think the rev has been hoodwinked.
This reviewer gets so in the weeds, there is never discussion of things like the fact that at least one person knows the rev isn't crazy: the skateboarder. But is he possessed or just resentful, and if the latter will he overcome that to tell anyone, presumably his mom…

Not sure why people are missing this: the teens are John Hughes style bullies. The kid bullies are Stephen King style bullies.

I took it as the sort of terrible disguise kids, especially boys, would come up with for a girl. They basically dressed her as a doll. Bad disguises is also an 80s movie trope.

Just explain to them how in the 80s cigarette smoking was still a pretty commonplace habit.

As others have noted in comments when this has come up, it definitely was in use and is even in some 80s movies. I also was there in 83 and remember it being used BUT to your point, it wasn't as popular or a super common goto. Now, if they'd used "douch canoe" or "asshat" or "garbage human" or something like that,…

I definitely disagree with you on the show but I will say that Lucas is one of the two kids for whom we have no parental reference. We get to see Lucas' home and his bedroom but only as a setting for the abortive reconciliation scene.
You … really … don't like this show and to that end, you definitely have a harsher…

I mean, let's accept that on its face. So … how closely to that reality were you expecting this show to hew?

It gets addressed. I don't consider this even a mild spoiler —- the lab doesn't hire anyone locally, the staff is all security clearance level personnel who reside in barracks on the compound.

Like today, the time between theatrical run and after-market just depends on performance and the deals in place. The Thing wasn't a blockbuster, so it being on VHS a year and half later seems accurate.

You can easily hand wave that as just typical mistakes made in campaigns, especially at that age. My inner 11-yr old is super-jealous of the figures.

My ear definitely caught a few but luckily few and far between.

I feel confident they'll get a sequel.

Lol @ the alley fight, especially the background music! The sound work is the secret sauce. I love how they absolutely lean into the tropes.