The Stranger Things: Tales From ’84 trailer dropped… and it’s just not hitting for us.
We wanted it to hit. We really did. But something about it just isn’t doing the business — at least not yet.
Maybe it’s because animation is meant for a certain type of storytelling. When you think about it, some of the greatest animated stories eventually became live-action movies or television shows. But when it goes the other way around — when something that started with real people becomes animated — it rarely lands the same way.
I think back to the A-Team cartoon and other 80s properties that began in the real world and then got swallowed up in the animated universe. They existed… but they never quite captured the same magic.
Now, I’m not saying Tales From ’84 looks terrible. It doesn’t. The concept is interesting. The voice actors may be solid. Even the new character, while a little questionable, could surprise us.
Maybe we’ll give it a try. Maybe we won’t.
At this point, once Stranger Things ended, it really ended for us. We haven’t even watched the documentary. Like everyone else, we hoped for that secret ninth episode but deep down we knew it wasn’t coming.
So in a way, we moved on.
Maybe the cartoon will pull us back in?
But the trailer didn’t.
