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Would a monster of the week format be better?

posted 5 years ago by mitzibishi (1843)
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Think X-files meets Buffy meets Scooby Doo.

Every week new monster or mystery the gang are thrown into.

The government science building nearby could be the catalyst for many of the stories, or Dustin messing around with science projects, accidentally makes a time machine, doesn't know how he did it, time travel episode.

a Vampire family move into town, a small zombie outbreak, ghosts, aliens, werewolves, invasion of the body snatchers, killer robots etc etc

[–] modica (4169) 5 years ago

They should get rid of the upside down world after this season, but to have it be episodic is not the way to go.

[–] mamouth007 (39) 5 years ago

They should get rid of this show after season 2.

Too late i guess.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14411) 5 years ago

The thing is, the Monster of the Week format doesn't really suit this series. It seems more like "Monster of the Season."

[–] chrisjdel (2714) 5 years ago

No, I can't see that working with this show.

There are only two more seasons to go. If I were writing it I'd put the Mind Flayer on the back burner for the next set of episodes and have a story involving Brenner, the MKUltra people, the Russians and their secret project ... with Hopper's fate and Eleven's mojo problem of course being important elements. Trying to tame life forms from the Upside Down. What could possibly go wrong?

The Mind Flayer is a lot like the genocidal alien hordes you often see in military sci-fi. It's driven to expand its territory, and it hates and wants to destroy anything different from itself. If the Upside Down world is just the latest in a long series of conquests the odds are definitely not in our favor. And it won't give up, ever. I would end the series with the Mind Flayer breaking through an open gate and gaining a solid foothold in our world. Once it fortifies the gate area so no one can just come in and close it, the final season becomes a race against the clock to find a way of killing it once and for all - before we're overrun.

[–] Guitar King (4893) 5 years ago

Hell no! X Files is garbage and Buffy like all Whedon shows is cancer.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77425) 5 years ago

I'd say No...it's not an awful idea but the ongoing timeline provides for a lot of background for the characters, amusing teen romantic subplots and a lot of the charm...I think they are nailing it,S3 was very impressive imo

[–] mitzibishi (1843) 5 years ago

with a weekly monster show you can still have character arcs throughout the season. it just jigs the format up a little.

[–] ODB82 (2055) 5 years ago

Nah, finish the story and end it.
It would definitely cheapen the whole thing if there were just constantly random new monsters to deal with.

[–] chrisjdel (2714) 5 years ago

Second that. Everything comes back to Hawkins Lab and the legacy of what they did there. All those plot threads can be wrapped up in two seasons, keep the story tight and finish strong.