I guess I’m the only person who just didn’t ever care for Stranger Things… because I was already familiar with the whole wild-ass Montauk Project conspiracy/schizophrenia ‘story’ its based on / adapted from / inspired by.
I went down a rabbit hole dive into this, years before the show came out, and ended up basically just disgusted with the actual human beings who concocted this whole story.
tldr: at least some of the people who collaborated to craft this whole story seem to me to be creepy sexual assaulters and groomers, who worked a lot of that into their strange, fan fiction / conspiracy theory version of history, which they then peddle as fact, making them grifters as well.
I’m talking about the wackos who actually came up with the Montauk Project stories / personas, over the 80s and 90s, at various conspiracy / ufo conventions, and then eventually formalized it into a book.
Al Bielek, Preston Nichols, Peter Moon / Vincent Barbarick, Stewart Swerdlow.
I’ve never even seen the vast majority of the show, beyond an episode or two… three? … from the first season, and I quickly realized it was heavily based off of the Montauk story.
I’m not talking about specifically being disgusted by the Duffer bros.
I was so disgusted from diving into the story the show was based around, and the people behind that original story…
… again, before the show ever existed…
… that I just never wanted anything to do with anything related to that story, including basically a tv adaptation of it.
I guess I’m the only person who just didn’t ever care for Stranger Things… because I was already familiar with the whole wild-ass Montauk Project conspiracy/schizophrenia ‘story’ its based on / adapted from / inspired by.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project
I went down a rabbit hole dive into this, years before the show came out, and ended up basically just disgusted with the actual human beings who concocted this whole story.
tldr: at least some of the people who collaborated to craft this whole story seem to me to be creepy sexual assaulters and groomers, who worked a lot of that into their strange, fan fiction / conspiracy theory version of history, which they then peddle as fact, making them grifters as well.
I’m having a hard time following this. The Duffer Bros are sex pests, or something specific to Montauk Project?
Preston Nichols, an author involved in the Montauk Project, was a gross pervert who wrote fanfics about young boys into his quackery literature.
I’m talking about the wackos who actually came up with the Montauk Project stories / personas, over the 80s and 90s, at various conspiracy / ufo conventions, and then eventually formalized it into a book.
Al Bielek, Preston Nichols, Peter Moon / Vincent Barbarick, Stewart Swerdlow.
I’ve never even seen the vast majority of the show, beyond an episode or two… three? … from the first season, and I quickly realized it was heavily based off of the Montauk story.
I’m not talking about specifically being disgusted by the Duffer bros.
I was so disgusted from diving into the story the show was based around, and the people behind that original story…
… again, before the show ever existed…
… that I just never wanted anything to do with anything related to that story, including basically a tv adaptation of it.
That makes sense, thanks!