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Posted on 1/8/26 at 11:27 am to SouthEasternKaiju
Well in that case, it's pretty funny 
Posted on 1/8/26 at 11:31 am to blueboy
God that was an annoying trend. I hated clicking links because half were Rick Astley.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 11:45 am to Napoleon
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God that was an annoying trend. I hated clicking links because half were Rick Astley.
this
to be fair 99% of trends on social media are annoying.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 12:40 pm to Lanelsu83
quote:
I didn't even know Steve Harrington was in a band.
Djo
Posted on 1/8/26 at 12:45 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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you aren't busy with anything.
Excuse you! He is plenty busy watching youtube reviews about shows he doesn't watch but has many opinions on. Please respect him!
Posted on 1/8/26 at 1:16 pm to VoxDawg
He reminds me of Zach Braff story before scrubs. They were working as a waiter in a restaurant. Steve was only supposed to be on a couple episodes of stranger things season 1 then back to his shitty waiter job. Same with braff and scrubs. Now they are multimillionaires.
This post was edited on 1/8/26 at 1:17 pm
Posted on 1/8/26 at 5:03 pm to Lanelsu83
Screenshot from episode 9!
Not looking very promising for Will.
Not looking very promising for Will.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 6:19 pm to Lsut81
Just finished the final season last night, and honestly it was a pretty enjoyable conclusion.
With all of the gay talk going on I was worried that it was going to taint (:wink:) this season, but honestly the complaints felt overblown…compared to today’s agenda driven content. It felt like a gay storyline that would’ve been included in a series 20+ years ago.
The only real negative I have to say is that all of the core group of kids are pretty shitty actors. the older kids like Steve are mostly fine.
But yeah, I enjoyed the final season, the ending and the show as a whole.
With all of the gay talk going on I was worried that it was going to taint (:wink:) this season, but honestly the complaints felt overblown…compared to today’s agenda driven content. It felt like a gay storyline that would’ve been included in a series 20+ years ago.
The only real negative I have to say is that all of the core group of kids are pretty shitty actors.
the older kids like Steve are mostly fine. But yeah, I enjoyed the final season, the ending and the show as a whole.
This post was edited on 1/8/26 at 6:20 pm
Posted on 1/9/26 at 8:44 am to Lsut81
The real scene, as it was originally meant to be shown.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 8:58 am to VoxDawg
quote:Flash Mountain was their closer at Coachella and is a way better song IMO
I didn't even know Steve Harrington was in a band.
Djo
Posted on 1/9/26 at 9:35 am to Harry Caray
I just figured I'd go with the one that most folks have likely heard due to social media plugging it into the background of viral clips.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 9:40 am to Clyde Tipton
i imagine Will's story turns out like something on The Deuce on HBO.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 10:57 am to iwyLSUiwy
NM
This post was edited on 1/9/26 at 11:32 am
Posted on 1/9/26 at 10:57 am to iwyLSUiwy
Thought the ending was decent for what it was. Glad this series is over too. Probably went two seasons too long, but nothing was ever so horrible I couldn’t watch.
It did seem like the entire last season was every character blaming themselves for not doing enough only to get reassured by their friends or family that they did everything they could. Seemed to happen multiple times in every episode.
It did seem like the entire last season was every character blaming themselves for not doing enough only to get reassured by their friends or family that they did everything they could. Seemed to happen multiple times in every episode.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 12:02 pm to PhilipMarlowe
quote:
With all of the gay talk going on I was worried that it was going to taint (:wink:) this season, but honestly the complaints felt overblown…compared to today’s agenda driven content. It felt like a gay storyline that would’ve been included in a series 20+ years ago.
My biggest problem with it, besides how just awful the scene actually was, is that it was as long as the entire Vecna fight I believe. Like come on
. Been waiting so long for this fight and it was barely anything. I enjoyed the season though for the most part. As plenty have said, some of the acting was holy shite bad and some truly cringeworthy scenes. Millie Bobby Brown going full botox as they were filming was an interesting choice. Generally liked how it ended too and really liked Mike's final campaign.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 12:55 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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But yeah, I enjoyed the final season, the ending and the show as a whole.
glad you liked it. You would have thought you hated it if you read all these miserable people's posts on this board.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:53 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
LINK
Even the best DL in college football is ready to watch this amazing final season of Stranger Things
Even the best DL in college football is ready to watch this amazing final season of Stranger Things
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:50 am to Lanelsu83
Just finished it. I know this thread is tired and moving on, but I wanted to throw my thoughts into the universe. This is going to be long. You don't have to read it.
I was satisfied--albeit, poorly---with the final season and the conclusion of the story. Yes, there were a number of plot holes, but most of them I could overlook. The biggest issue was the writing. The fifth season was dominated by scenes of two characters telling each other the answers about what was going on. That was always a flaw in the show, but I felt it was way overhanded in its exposition through two-character dialogue. It reminded me of when The Walking Dead lost my interest: how many times can you have two characters walking down a road asking each other sumthin' before the audience loses immersion in the stakes?
Another issue was the pacing and decisions for big moments to occur. Will Byers suffered the most here. We get to the end of episode 7 with the hype of the final plan to kill Vecna. Everyone's loading up, gathering supplies, and moving to their positions. And Will's like: "Hey wait---I'm gay." Then the entire crew has a big hug fest and cries and there's zero commentary, character development, or tension with it. What were the stakes for Will to come out? None. Everyone accepted it so easily that it felt like it was shoehorned in for a plot device. I didn't mind this part of the plot and it certainly made sense. Vecna preys on people's weak minds and Will's weakness was in the mounting guilt he carried for being gay. That's a GREAT move in the story! But you have to make it count. It has be be a natural and smooth development. A random last minute "hey I'm gay" scene ruined it.
My final gripe is that the last battle was weak and could have easily been much more intense while still keeping the feel of 1980s horror and action movies. The unbelievability, ease, and plot holes of the final battle have already been stated, but I want to offer a quick reimagined ending that took five minutes of daydreaming to put together:
The physical battle was too easy and too quick. It also failed to engage in the true horror of Vecna, the Mind Flayer, and Eleven's torment: the mind. There's zero chance a bunch of kids with one gun can take on the Mind Flayer's physical form (which was badass by the way). They needed help. There needed to be a full scale plan involving much more powerful allies. Who else but the military could have served that role?
Back up a few episodes and kill Dr. Kay. Keep the black major dude healthy so he can take command. Realizing what Eleven is actually trying to do, he could mobilize the military to launch an offensive in The Abyss. That way, you can have an Aliens action scene with dozens of demobats, demodogs, and demogorgons taking on the full firepower of the US military. Obviously you'll need some bullshite to get to this point: Kali could rip and hold open one of the gates to The Abyss. Then you fly helicopters full of men and artillery, hell throw some tanks up there, and have a full on battle with the monsters.
Why? To protect Eleven as she penetrates and attacks Vecna in his mind. Vecna revealed that he and the Mind Flayer preyed upon weakness and those weaknesses came in the deepest, darkest secrets of his victims. Children were naturally vulnerable, so he could use them. But it's the adults that were weakened by their lived experiences that made them susceptible to their control.
Your final battle is a physical onslaught against the monsters and a mental chase into Vecna's mind, forcing him to confront and experience the darkest terrors of his memories. That's where his weakness is. That's how you kill him. You kill him the same way he killed others. Because the Mind Flayer was entangled with Vecna, it would also feel the anguish of these memories. No, I don't have a real idea of where you finally deal the death blow, but I could see Will having a role. Will realizes it's not Eleven that needs to self-sacrifice--it's himself. He's connected there. He can physically through a mind-connection end both Vecna and the Mind Flayer but only when they are weakened to their most frail point.
So you have the military fight outside, protecting Eleven as she chases Henry through memories until she kills him.
Look, I'm not saying this is perfect, but it sounds way cooler to me than "bunch of kids scale mountains and take on an interdimensional monster for 3 minutes."
Anyways, I'm glad it's over. I did like it some. I think Eleven is dead and Mike was coping poorly with her death, which is very reflective of kids from the 1980s. Don't address your trauma; bury it down. I can live with what I saw, but I'll always feel it could have been better.
I was satisfied--albeit, poorly---with the final season and the conclusion of the story. Yes, there were a number of plot holes, but most of them I could overlook. The biggest issue was the writing. The fifth season was dominated by scenes of two characters telling each other the answers about what was going on. That was always a flaw in the show, but I felt it was way overhanded in its exposition through two-character dialogue. It reminded me of when The Walking Dead lost my interest: how many times can you have two characters walking down a road asking each other sumthin' before the audience loses immersion in the stakes?
Another issue was the pacing and decisions for big moments to occur. Will Byers suffered the most here. We get to the end of episode 7 with the hype of the final plan to kill Vecna. Everyone's loading up, gathering supplies, and moving to their positions. And Will's like: "Hey wait---I'm gay." Then the entire crew has a big hug fest and cries and there's zero commentary, character development, or tension with it. What were the stakes for Will to come out? None. Everyone accepted it so easily that it felt like it was shoehorned in for a plot device. I didn't mind this part of the plot and it certainly made sense. Vecna preys on people's weak minds and Will's weakness was in the mounting guilt he carried for being gay. That's a GREAT move in the story! But you have to make it count. It has be be a natural and smooth development. A random last minute "hey I'm gay" scene ruined it.
My final gripe is that the last battle was weak and could have easily been much more intense while still keeping the feel of 1980s horror and action movies. The unbelievability, ease, and plot holes of the final battle have already been stated, but I want to offer a quick reimagined ending that took five minutes of daydreaming to put together:
The physical battle was too easy and too quick. It also failed to engage in the true horror of Vecna, the Mind Flayer, and Eleven's torment: the mind. There's zero chance a bunch of kids with one gun can take on the Mind Flayer's physical form (which was badass by the way). They needed help. There needed to be a full scale plan involving much more powerful allies. Who else but the military could have served that role?
Back up a few episodes and kill Dr. Kay. Keep the black major dude healthy so he can take command. Realizing what Eleven is actually trying to do, he could mobilize the military to launch an offensive in The Abyss. That way, you can have an Aliens action scene with dozens of demobats, demodogs, and demogorgons taking on the full firepower of the US military. Obviously you'll need some bullshite to get to this point: Kali could rip and hold open one of the gates to The Abyss. Then you fly helicopters full of men and artillery, hell throw some tanks up there, and have a full on battle with the monsters.
Why? To protect Eleven as she penetrates and attacks Vecna in his mind. Vecna revealed that he and the Mind Flayer preyed upon weakness and those weaknesses came in the deepest, darkest secrets of his victims. Children were naturally vulnerable, so he could use them. But it's the adults that were weakened by their lived experiences that made them susceptible to their control.
Your final battle is a physical onslaught against the monsters and a mental chase into Vecna's mind, forcing him to confront and experience the darkest terrors of his memories. That's where his weakness is. That's how you kill him. You kill him the same way he killed others. Because the Mind Flayer was entangled with Vecna, it would also feel the anguish of these memories. No, I don't have a real idea of where you finally deal the death blow, but I could see Will having a role. Will realizes it's not Eleven that needs to self-sacrifice--it's himself. He's connected there. He can physically through a mind-connection end both Vecna and the Mind Flayer but only when they are weakened to their most frail point.
So you have the military fight outside, protecting Eleven as she chases Henry through memories until she kills him.
Look, I'm not saying this is perfect, but it sounds way cooler to me than "bunch of kids scale mountains and take on an interdimensional monster for 3 minutes."
Anyways, I'm glad it's over. I did like it some. I think Eleven is dead and Mike was coping poorly with her death, which is very reflective of kids from the 1980s. Don't address your trauma; bury it down. I can live with what I saw, but I'll always feel it could have been better.
Posted on 1/11/26 at 9:45 am to StringedInstruments
Speaking as a Boomer, show’s premise had potential. Presentation? Meh. Never a clear path to anywhere. Lotsa hype with limited reward.
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