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A friend of mine (who was a gay kid in the '80s) has a two takes on it that makes some sense to me. 1) If you make every character...

This is my understanding. The snapshot is taken the night Will goes missing when Eleven makes contact with the Demogorgon. I forget the...

After their sorcerer misstep -- the Duffer Brothers say they grew up with MTG, not D&D -- the final D&D term they use in the show is ...

Just watched episodes 5 and 6! Whooo boy! Gotta wait till after dinner to watch the last one. Then it’s another week till the finale!

She may not be wrong in her assessment of continual governmental attempts to reconstruct the program, but her solution comes from her...

Wrapping up a big series like this is very hard, as Lost famously showed. With one episode to go, I think the Duffer Brothers have done...

Yeah, his overbearing personality was important at the beginning of the series, when he was required to motivate everyone to find Will...

He apparently lived with the script for a month and then just improv-ed it on the day of shooting, using his embarrassment at not coming...

So the whole thing is a meditation on the concept that each individual "contains multitudes", both in the sense that people are more...

Started on Clash of the Titans (the original) and Jason and the Argonauts. Then I got a copy of this guy at the Getty Museum (now Getty...

I mean, we're clearly concluding he's a Wizard because he's got a Gandalf hat and beard. It seems strange to further extrapolate that...

There was anachronistic armor, sure, but Homer's interpretation of the bronze age, and classical interpretation of the past in general...

Beast master works great in fiction as the protagonist, but in multi player RPG is everyone a Beastmaster? A small zoo running around...

I found that to be true in prior editions, but in 5e bonuses from stats don't mean nearly as much. I've not found it an issue to...