Stranger Things: Series 3 — Episode 8— Chapter 8: The Battle of Starcourt — A Review

26th July, 2019.

Right …

I’ve officially got pressed the Techno playlist in iTunes: and happily got Kraftwerk playing through the Apple TV at the moment.

Right at the moment … ?



I’ve got Mousse T on the go: followed by the Grid’s Swamp Thing.

Which is possibly NOT want you want to hear at this time of night.

But, hey … I’m enjoying it.

~≈†≈~

At any rate … ?



Yes: the video’s right.

Potentially right, at any rate.

It looks like the barometer in Britain hit the UK’s highest recorded temperature, yesterday.

Peaking at a record 38.7ºC in Cambridge.

Frankly?

I’m just grateful I had a shower, today … 



Oh … and that it rained a bit.

Not that I was worried about the latter.

By the time it started … ?

I was safely indoors watching TV.

Yes, you’re right.

I’ve watched the last episode of Stranger Things series 3 … 

~≈†≈~

Episode 8 — Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt — sees Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) getting rid of the fangs that had buried itself in her let: as Hopper, Joyce and Murray (David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Brett Gelman) turn up at the mall.

Hopper’s team?

Head for the underground base, whilst Eleven and her friends try to escape from the Mall: only to be stopped by Billy (Dacre Montgomery.)

Eleven has to fight for her life: grateful that she manages to recruit Billy himself.

Meanwhile?



Joyce and Hopper are in the Russian base: desperately trying To close down the machine holding the portal to the upside down open.

And Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo)?

Has problems of his own … 





~≈†≈~

Now …



Was this a good conclusion to a great series?



Oh, yes.

It had the lot: danger, tension, raw emotion, singing, blood, guts, gruesome bits, a villain that looked like a Terminator*, a look and feel that reminded me, certainly, of Aliens … 

And leaving me thinking it had been a superb piece of TV.

Will there be more Stranger Things?

Can there be more Stranger Things?



I don’t know.

The ending of this series seems to say no.

But … ?



We’ll have to see.

*        One of these, rather than one of these.