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Watching Stranger Things. It strikes me that the 80s were weirdly rich in movies/shows featuring kids. Lots for Gen X to identify with. ET, Goonies, Karate Kid, Ferris Bueller, Boy Meets World, Wonder Years, Blossom. I don’t think millennials got that kind of star treatment.
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Wife and I realized we’re halfway through season 2 of Stranger Things and neither of us knows the names of most of the characters besides El. It’s such a moods-and-archetypes show you can follow without names.
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All caught up on Season 3. This really is very effectively evoked 80s nostalgia. Every trope covered.
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I noticed a related phenomenon re: the depiction of kids and family lofe in movies and TV recently as well.
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Watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind the other night. Haven't seen it since I was a teen, and Roy's kids were like a bolt of lightning. I can't remember any recent movies that show kids being kids like that, though I also haven't seen a lot of newer movies.
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It's because the movies were actually made for kids, not just marketed to kids. Your world as a child in the 80's was much smaller, yet we were raised with a curiosity of other kids. Probably, because there weren't that many of us. It was memorizing to see how others played.