Military fucked around and pennywise using not even 1% of its power turned the town into a living hell 
I love how they don't sugarcoat the fuckery
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stranger things is diet SK, imo. purposely so, as even the font for their "distinct titling" is lifted from 80s SK books.
i haven't gotten around to the last two seasons, but ill get there eventually.
i dug Welcome to Derry too, though i didn't really key in until the second episode. i think it introduced some cool lore and the whole bit about pennywise experiencing time differently was nicely done and a clever means to segway into whatever is coming next (or before ๐ป๐ป๐ป).
also, similar lol at how fucking deranged the cold warrior was. i think he got off light. what an asshole.
When dick said how bad could a hotel be I immediately saw a silhouette of jack nicholson form in the background
That time warp got me. This dude had therapy time w Marge giving her spoilers
Honestly lore wise I kinda get why they did some changes because even an aspect of pennywise just chilling in the sewers being a cosmic hermit had me wondering wouldn't such a voracious creature want more
i got a kick out of Dick's headgames with Pennywise. the push that "no, you're not some extra dimensional ageless predator from beyond the stars, you're just some unremarkable guy who hit his head and has grand delusions" is pretty funny. lioe pennywise never bought it, but was obviously confused for a minute.
referring to earlier episodes, i like how nick explained to the major why he wasn't the type of guy he would ever mess with: his inability to feel fear when they tested him. thats the type of shit that hooked me into the season.
Dick's mind games were bloody good. I like it because he flipped the script on pennywise who's whole game is mven if for just a second that was impressive and pennywise is not used to having this turned on him.
What hooked me is.... Wtf was the military gonna do with a creature of that magnitude. Then it went how I expected. I don't think people grasp how powerful penny wise really is. That shit we see is just an avatar and the true form is probably Stephen King's version of parallax
Now that I think of it I forgot how much of Stephen Kings stuff has happy endingsm maybe its because I read revival recently.
Tbh I hope the later seasons don't over explain things. Lore is ait but horror.... You gotta leave some things to the imagination