speculation

As of tonight it has been 120 hours since the series finale of Stranger Things dropped on Netflix.  And in that time the Internets have been going full-blown wacky with theories and speculations.  It’s the kind of debate and discussion that I can’t remember seeing in a very long time, at least not since the Lost finale almost sixteen years ago.

I have now watched “The Upside Down” twice all the way through and numerous bits and pieces of it since it went live on streaming.  And I thought it was the most beautiful thing that I’ve seen on the television medium in quite awhile.  But if you’ve seen it also, you’re well aware that it left a few things dangling.  Not “critical” information, but we are certainly teased a bit about what becomes of these characters who we’ve followed for almost a full decade.  The Duffer Brothers, the creators ...

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It’s almost a half-century later… and we still don’t have that personal one-man sub! Or domed cities on Mars. Or cars with interchangeable bodies. Or robots to decorate our Christmas trees.

WellMedicated has put together a collection of 45 magazine covers depicting the space age “world of tomorrow” that for some reason or another didn’t arrive. I’m sure that many if not most of these images evoked a “golly, would you look THAT!!” reaction back in the day, but in retrospect the majority of them are now just downright ridiculous (I mean: water polo with mechanized polo horses? Seriously?).

Mucho thanks to friend and fellow blogger Shane Thacker for a great find!...

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