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"The Hawkins kids were the next generation, so why didn't they talk about The Next Generation?"
I have not (yet) seen the final season of Stranger Things, though I've seen the first four. If and when I ever do get around to watching the final season of Stranger Things, which will probably be soon-ish, I'd almost assuredly go back and rewatch the whole rest of it first, because that's just how I usually roll with things like that.
Anyway, that out of the way, I was hesitant to go into this article, due to the spoiler warning, but the only "spoilers" in the article are that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is apparently mentioned in the final episode. It's also apparently a spoiler that they didn't have a specific Star Trek: The Next Generation Cheerios box in a breakfast scene or that nobody ever mentioned Stand By Me or Reading Rainbow. And I guess it's a spoiler from season 4 that Robin apparently wore a knock-off of a knock-off Star Trek-themed shirt that *gasp* didn't directly reference Scotty, explicitly.
Here's the thing, at least as far as I'm concerned... while I agree that that's the tiniest bit weird, I probably never once would have thought about the fact that they didn't mention Star Trek: The Next Generation during Stranger Things, had it not be directly pointed out to me, nor would it have bothered me. It only ever so slightly bothers me, now, because, yeah, you'd think that would be something they would have at least indirectly referenced at least once, but it's not some kind of dealbreaker that will prevent me from watching it.
Maybe there was some kind of licensing issue between Netflix and Paramount that prevented Stranger Things from being able to directly reference TNG the way they did Ghostbusters and whatever else? Who knows? *shrug*
I have not (yet) seen the final season of Stranger Things, though I've seen the first four. If and when I ever do get around to watching the final season of Stranger Things, which will probably be soon-ish, I'd almost assuredly go back and rewatch the whole rest of it first, because that's just how I usually roll with things like that.
Anyway, that out of the way, I was hesitant to go into this article, due to the spoiler warning, but the only "spoilers" in the article are that Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is apparently mentioned in the final episode. It's also apparently a spoiler that they didn't have a specific Star Trek: The Next Generation Cheerios box in a breakfast scene or that nobody ever mentioned Stand By Me or Reading Rainbow. And I guess it's a spoiler from season 4 that Robin apparently wore a knock-off of a knock-off Star Trek-themed shirt that *gasp* didn't directly reference Scotty, explicitly.
Here's the thing, at least as far as I'm concerned... while I agree that that's the tiniest bit weird, I probably never once would have thought about the fact that they didn't mention Star Trek: The Next Generation during Stranger Things, had it not be directly pointed out to me, nor would it have bothered me. It only ever so slightly bothers me, now, because, yeah, you'd think that would be something they would have at least indirectly referenced at least once, but it's not some kind of dealbreaker that will prevent me from watching it.
Maybe there was some kind of licensing issue between Netflix and Paramount that prevented Stranger Things from being able to directly reference TNG the way they did Ghostbusters and whatever else? Who knows? *shrug*
