Stranger Things

[Jar-Jar Fanboy]

Oh, and another thing! I was pretty offended by all the racism in this season. Those kids kept talking about a Black Thing, and, like, holy shit, guys, his name is Lucas, you gotta stop calling him that

 

[Rudy Coleman]

so was it ever explained how in season 1 the Demogorgon is seriously wounded by a 38 revolver and a spiked baseball bat, however in season 5 they can withstand sustained automatic fire from a platoon of m-16's without being effected at all?
besides the tonal shift going from horror to action.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

The explanation is that no one cares and the writers are retards. Same as everything else.

 

[S@credC]

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/stranger-things-climactic-battle-went-too-far/

Killing Vecna is celebrating violence, or something.

I had to check. Yup.



Luckily, the comments aren't havin' it.

This is Game of Thrones "Dany forgot about the Iron Fleet" tier. How embarrassing.

I can't wait until the "At least it's not as bad a GoT" copies runs out, because from everything I've heard, yes, it *IS* just as bad.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

but the Mind Flayer, being some cosmic horror, shouldn't have been killable

it isn't dead, its just Black Mist,the giant spider is just some body for it to control made by Vecna out of Demo's.
without Vecna, it lacks a coherent "brain" to do anything, it'll just be Black Mist in its Yellow Planet till it can send a shard of itself to another world and try again, its outlandish the cast did as much as they did considering the stakes at hand, but nothing cosmic was resolved, just Henry getting axed.

I still feel weird about the character, they present him just like all the kids he also fucked with, except because he was fucked with even HARDER than them by the Flayer, he's the hatesink, but all the cast who dealt with this shit should probably guess that he's just another thrall and is more like a rabid dog being put down than the evil mastermind, the show even spells it out for Will, but it goes nowhere, like alot of this story, like the black-ops military, they just fuckin vanish.

Stranger Things sort of went outside its own scope, Season 5 made the plot a fucking world ending threat where if the fuckin highschoolers fail, an Alien world will violently merge with ours and an evil Mist will brainfuck everyone on the planet, it doesn't jive.. its such scope creep that it really is baffling, and finally the Eleven "death" is retarded, they waste so much time preempting it and then well, she likely survives for naught to fuck off, and hopefully just like the series, it also fucks off, there's some gall having dangling plot threads to a 10 year running show that only belched out 5 seasons and only one and a half of them were good

 

[The greater a'tuin]

it isn't dead, its just Black Mist,the giant spider is just some body for it to control made by Vecna out of Demo's.
without Vecna, it lacks a coherent "brain" to do anything, it'll just be Black Mist in its Yellow Planet till it can send a shard of itself to another world and try again, its outlandish the cast did as much as they did considering the stakes at hand, but nothing cosmic was resolved, just Henry getting axed.

It would better fit the narrative flow if it's defeated for good instead of awkwardly languishing in its realm. At best it might be like Sauron, reduced to a physically impotent spirit forever.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

It would better fit the narrative flow if it's defeated for good instead of awkwardly languishing in its realm. At best it might be like Sauron, reduced to a physically impotent spirit forever.
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well you see we had to spend 40 fucking minutes on weepy bullshit so we had to wrap up the climax ASAP.
but really, there's nothing they had that could kill such an eldritch thing, that at least tracks, though if you are going to introduce a villain/entity so powerful it could be a Final Fantasy final boss, might want to have a better setting/characters to deal with it, like I said, Scope Creep, there's no particular reason they should have ever won, they had gasoline water baloons and guns and one psychic who should be slightly weaker than One/Henry, vs a 300 foot tall demonic Spider, the only reason I suppose that Flayer lost is because of Will and Holly, since Holly exposed Henry to his traumatic memories and he likely was off kilter for the final battle.

getting got because a 9 year old made you cry about your sad thoughts is pretty bad way to go.

 

[LonelyEggRoll]

I wish they’d brought on Louis McCartney from the First Shadow Westend play to do some of the flashbacks because if you watch any of the play he is as good as the guy who plays Henry Creel.
Super creepy and even makes young Henry a sympathetic and likeable figure.
He also must be fucking exhausted after every show the amount of throwing himself around he does on stage every performance.



And yes, he plays the lead in a play-within-the-play that Joyce, THAT Joyce is putting on at Hawkins High School, which means it makes no sense that it is never addressed in season five, because she knows Vecna is Henry Creel at that point.

(Henry, Joyce, Patty, who is Henry’s once true love- never seen again btw, a Duffer Brothers special)




So does Hopper, who is also a character in the First Shadow play, and goes to school with him, and investigates deaths of pets attributed to young Henry.
So dumb.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

well they seemed to initially want to make Henry a sympathetic character, and vestiges of that remain with the reveal of the Flayer Stone that slowly mindfucked Henry, but I guess they didn't want to make audiences like him too much since they had already probably cemented his axe swinging death.

its a really bizarre story when you realize that it bongs you over the head how Eleven gets the "sweet lost adopted child" treatment and all the sappy fucking crybaby one on one little speeches about love, but Henry who went through worse, and became a worse person because of it, is just the Freddy Krueger-tier villain with zero chance at redemption (which was 100% not possible but still) or even just some sort of admittance of his brainfuckery to the rest of the cast, this is a kid who was slowly mindfucked so well that he really believed he was "one" with the Black Gas demonic hivemind and was then cajooled into ENDING THE WORLD, but nope lol, we will just sort of mention this factoid and go nowhere, from the moment he's Axed, never mentioned again.

 

[Shartavius]

I think it would have been hilarious if in the end, it was a actual DnD game with Mike, Dustin, Max, Will, Lucas and one other player we never seen before.

That player would have played the characters that died every season. Barb, Bob, Grigori and Eddie. Have a joke how his bad character decisions and bad luck on the die rolls made him get his character killed.

I like that. However, any attempts to un-shit whatever product is in a box labeled "turd" are done in vain. Netflix exists to ruin ideas too good to be handed over to Netflix; whose business model is a slop trough somehow full of pigs complaining that the trough should be serving up something else.

 

[trent]

Just got to the scene in episode 6 where Millie Bobby Brown is paraded around in a skin-tight swimsuit for no reason and i think i'm done with this b-movie level shitpile. I know she's a grown woman now but this just feels like some pervy shit for the showrunners enjoyment. Feels incredibly creepy and unnecessary.

It's straight up a bad boring show anyway with terrible acting, a dogshit plot and a budget of millions spend on SFX that wouldn't look out of place in an Ed Wood movie. I presume the excess budget was spent on keeping the skeleton horde of supporting actresses on Ozempic.

Also, did anyone else notice the fact that it shifted from a show very obviously set in the 1980s to a show that could be set pretty much whenever because Netflix obviously wanted to widen it's scope?

The entire thing went from a cool concept that worked for a couple of seasons to a Hollywood gangbang of all the worst shit about movies and TV from the past decade.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

https://x.com/themagahulk/status/2007544224150122877

 

[Justwandering02]

So recently started to watch stranger thing and finished all the 5 season.
I understand why this show is popular. Season 1 is a true banger. Contrary to the latter seasons it felt more real and sincere. WIth the following season the character get more flanderised and less serious,
I feel the serie jumped the shark with season 3; Suddenly a random secret russian base under a mall full of people and nobody discovered it beside few teenagers.. seriously?
Also this serie have more plot hole than a swiss cheese. The russian have lives demongorgon, but they need a mother portal to live. how far away this system can work? And if they are in russia how they can't create portal*? What happened to the body of the flesh mind flayer? Do nobody care about the mass disappearance of people pot season 3? And Henry/Vecna why do it attack now? It implied it was teleported in the abyss pre season 1.. why do he look like a tentacles monster now? How did he create the worm hole? and so one...
BTW found a compilation of them

 

[Hijo de D. Woodchucks Jr.]

Somebody do an American Graffiti ending with titles cards detailing the characters' fates.
"Will died in 1992 of AIDS. He is survived by his pet gerbil."

• Dustin got a job at Blockbuster. He was the only concurrent employee until it closed.

• Lucas got steady with Max. When she gave him the news she was pregnant, Lucas went out for milk. He was never seen again.

• Mike, still mentally disturbed by Eleven's death, became a conspiracy theorist living off his van. He was last seen in New Mexico, high on peyote.

• Will passed away of AIDS in 1991.

• Steve married his second girlfriend and obtained a high paying job at Enron.

 

[Mourning_Cloak]

Netflix producers stepped in and raped the show analy while pouring sugar in the gas-tank for the last half

A creator/writer has a good initial concept and somehow finds success. But, most of them lack true talent, so when they're forced to expand and finish on that initial good idea, they flop hard.

It's probably some of Column A and a little bit of Column B.

This reeks both of executive focus group interference and a show becoming "too big for its own good." You can be the most talented writer in the world and still churn out some dogshit because of producer overrule.

This is also yet another example of quality plummeting when the budget skyrockets. What is the point in having Jamie Campbell Bower spend hours getting into makeup if you're just gonna cover him in CGI anyway? It's all so Marvel.

 

[khaine]

Re-watching Season 2 (I have no idea why I am suffering my self with this), but when Max (a girl!) joins the class all of the main characters including will turn around to see where she sits. He wouldn't have done this unless he was interested in girls.

People claim that there have been things sprinkled since season 1 that he has been gay. They are full of shit.

 

[S@credC]

Re-watching Season 2 (I have no idea why I am suffering my self with this), but when Max (a girl!) joins the class all of the main characters including will turn around to see where she sits. He wouldn't have done this unless he was interested in girls.

People claim that there have been things sprinkled since season 1 that he has been gay. They are full of shit.

I swear, the only things 'sprinkled' in Season 1 was Joyce telling Hopper that Will's deadbeat dad called him a fag because he was more into art and fantasy than sports.

 

[trent]

Re-watching Season 2 (I have no idea why I am suffering my self with this), but when Max (a girl!) joins the class all of the main characters including will turn around to see where she sits. He wouldn't have done this unless he was interested in girls.

People claim that there have been things sprinkled since season 1 that he has been gay. They are full of shit.

Hollywood turns characters gay out of nowhere when they realize the rest of their show/movie sucks but they want to protect it from criticism.

"The reason you don't like this is because you're homophobic!". No, it's just shit and you are the one treating the gay character like a literal unicorn rather than just writing them as actual people who happen to be gay.

The "gay reveal" is a cheap plot point and is honestly insulting and belittling as fuck to an entire section of the population. It is comparable to a random white guy in a show scrubbing his makeup off in an episode of season 4 to reveal he was actually Michael B Jordan all along.

 

[trent]

Just got to the scene in episode 6 where Millie Bobby Brown is paraded around in a skin-tight swimsuit for no reason and i think i'm done with this b-movie level shitpile.

I sat through the rest of this episode and i'm just not going to bother with final 2(?). I don't care about any of these characters or what happens to them.

I genuinely don't know who the fuck could enjoy this utter shite. A bunch of truly dogshit actors bumbling around sets that wouldn't look out of place in a sci-fi movie from the 50s whilst absolutely chewing the scenery.

Skeletor and Bowl-Cut escaped the Cumroom! Little Red Riding Hood and the Ginger Dyke dug their way out of the styrofoam rock cave! The shambling corpse of Maya Hawke finally went public with the random homely 1950s candy-stiper she was making out with!

I don't even know where to begin with how much of a disaster this show was beyond the first season or two. All i'll say is, congrats to the Netflix marketing department.

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

At the end of the day, these kids who acted in this show don't ever have to work another day in their lives... unless they spent their money like a redneck on payday.