I'm torn between loving this idea and losing the cast.

Even setting the injury aside, without Jonathan and Nancy, the monster would have gone after Hopper and Joyce, and likely killed them.

The Upside Down felt explicitly Silent Hill to me. But Twilight works a bit as well.

I don't have a 3 or 4 in front of my name, but this soundtrack is one of my favorite things to listen to. It's great for when I'm doing schematic design works. Let's the mind chase evocative and tangential things.

To be fair, if I saw a large group of bros looking that and walking down that stretch of Chinatown at night, I would 100% assume they're drunk assholes.

Will Smith was smart on that one at least.

Yeah. It's a subplot in those SW's prequel reviews everyone loves.

A lot DeLillo's dialogue in Underworld sounded like poetry to me, which I guess is a way of saying that I loved reading it but it hardly ever sounded real.

It is. My girlfriend saw it and said the ending was so emotionally manipulative because of it.

Well hell. I never saw this, and I'm sorry about that. I don't think I have any links offhand, but I can double check some old Google docs and let you know.

Was waiting for Stardew Valley, as well, as it's the game that's basically taken over my free time.

Yeah, the first time we see the Upside Down, Silent Hill was what I immediately thought of.

"Whoa, they even gave him a hot date!" my brother proclaimed during it. Was watching it with a group, and we all decided that Mr. Clarke deserved it.

Barb also had the bad luck of crossing over in a pool, which made scrambling to get out that much harder.

Barb is also gasping for breath when she "comes to" in the Upside Down. My theory is that physically interacting with it makes you cross, rather than you needing to be pulled into the world. So Barb gets hit by it and crosses over in the pool, which she doesn't have time to run out of.

For most of the show, I felt as if it was Langolier esque.

I think 1) is partially answerable by the fact that they just want a child. They probably did experiment's on El's mom and got responses, but the idea of starting with the blank slate of a child (whose will they could shape and control) was more enticing.

Transpec began selling escape hatches to the school bus market sometime in the 1980s, other manufacturers following suit after. So they'd be there, but I don't know just how rusted out one could get.

Agreed. Her becoming, even for a moment, something of a foster mom for El is great. I loved the scene where she tells El how brave she is.

I kinda hope they don't go the Nam route because his daughter dying was all the justification I really needed for his "self medicating."