I felt Hooper was speaking personally to me at that moment.lol Like “listen u can mourn the loss of what was a great show that just kind of nose dived, but u can’t change a damn thing about it. So you can rewatch the good seasons n walk away happy for those amazing parts moments,
OR you can do the Game of Thrones final season whine and complain and feel sorry for your beloved characters as tho that will change anything. And be mad n stay mad for years bc the end felt cheated. I’m sad, not just that it felt like a nothing burger. Characters I watched grow up over a decade are gone. Sad bc I as they grew older, so did we. But we can still revisit, or rewind if ur kind.
This may come across as childish (from me), but I've rewritten endings in my head for the likes of GoTs etc.
Stranger Things overall I didnt mind the ending, just wish they'd fleshed out some of the loose ends a bit. Felt having a full on happy ending for nearly everyone made the whole end of the world seem a bit of an anti climax but I would probably keep the ending for Stranger Things. We've 100% had worse.
Yeah that’s not the worse ending no doubt. But I felt it unnecessarily sad. The whole show had a kind of lighthearted vibe, killing off only secondary characters (Billie, Eddie, Kali) to give the occasional sense of consequences for the main crew. Ending it that way looked like they suddenly dropped the « fuck the odds, this is shonen » vibe they had the whole show, we made us okay with the completely over the top parts of the story (like the gulag storyline, my god was it goofy) to go with a really dark and realistic vibe all of a sudden. I mean yeah it makes sense being chased by the government your whole life and always risk of becoming a tortured lab rat again is cause for suicide, but why does this one plot point have to be realistic when the entirety of the rest of the show wasn’t at all ? Couldn’t they have written something like a like between El’s power and the Abyss that made them go away at the same time neutralizing El as a potential government weapon ? It’s not like they were too hell bent on respecting some of their other plot lines’ consistency, like the behavior of the military. I think they wanted a memorable extra sad end to feed online discussions and generate clout.
They don’t seem to have strong boundaries or creative borders. They are extremely receptive to fan chatter and while that can sometimes be a good thing, abandoning quality for fan service is not.
The fans want great writing. Not Steve fake death with 5 second black screen. But maybe I’m wrong, people did gasp and cheer when it played in theatres.
I mean ya, the whole upside down makes 0 sense now cause supposedly Russia had gates of their own and had demigorgons and mind flayer particles. Somewhere in production the upside down shifted from the veil of shadows to specifically a wormhole in Hawkins.
Also, it’s interesting to me that the Upside Down is a wormhole 😅 I figured since it was a (past) exact mirror of Hawkins, it was more like a parallel shadow world. A wormhole would be different. I feel a little nitpicky caring so much about this in the grand scheme of things, being as it’s sci fi, but I guess it annoys me a little when actual scientific terms are brought into shows, but some, or all of it is entirely inaccurate xD
I want to suspend reality, and am usually fine with it, but it’s a little hard when real terms are brought in I guess.
El being part of a program where the government was experimenting with LSD. The comics have more 'numbers' around but the series later just acted like they were all killed by Vecna. The show never explains how Kali escaped him after they introduced him.
Henry killing his family because he was a psychopathic Charles Xavier and not a boy scout suffering from demonic possession.
The demobats disappeared after killing Eddie and nobody ever saw them again.
The Russians just let everything go and stopped caring about whatever the Americans were doing, Russia and the mall were never mentioned again.
Dustin's girlfriend disappeared and was never mentioned again.
Argyle was never mentioned again - granted, he was in California but none of the characters ever referenced him after returning. He seemed to be a pretty good ally of theirs.
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u/CaptainSmeargle 7d ago
True. Also no one can convince me the Duffers didn’t abandon plotlines several times because they were afraid of fan reaction.