Why does stranger things have so many references to nerd culture

>>93837963
Because it stars nerdy kids?

Also wrong board.

>>93838002
Comics and cartoons is the wrong board to discuss comics being mentioned a lot in stranger things?

>>93837963
Because it's set in the 1980s when those things were starting to get popular.

>>93837963
Reddit pandering

>>93838044
This. Transformers, X-Men, He-Man, AD&D (which was a board game, cartoon, and toy line in the '80s), etc are all common things. There should be Atari and maybe a Nintendo, GI Joe/military stuff, and Spider-Man (Spider-Man and Friends was huge at the time) stuff too. Ringling Bros merch, Stars on Ice or one of the kid versions based around a cartoon property. That's flashlights with the little lighthouse spinner on the top you always got from the circus. A Mickey Mouse hat. A civil war rifle from Disneyland with either a union or confederate hat

>>93837963
It's more of an 80's references thing.

Remember like pre-2005 when just liking comics or games was enough to get your ass kicked?

>>93839301
One of the kids gets a Nintendo in the last episode.

Why does the show have such a shit ending would be the larger question.

It's pandering to some degree but it does star Kids and kid's watched tv shows, read comics and played Dungeons and Dragon's.

Imagine, years from now they will do a tv series set in 2017 where the kids will watch Steven Universe and be terrible

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>>93842071
Honestly, Stranger Things does acknowledge one shitty thing even if it doesn't out right state it.

Horror Films don't work in a modern setting, and likely will never work the right way. If Stranger Things took place in 2017, then Will would've taken a photo of the demagorrdon and called the cops.

>>93842220
Yeah absolutely fair point

>>93842220
cell phones break so many of them.

>>93838029
Yes. Now fuck off >>>/tv/