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Stranger Things final episode
so_very_tired
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I just finished the final episode of Stranger Things a few moments ago and I don't know how to feel about, probably because I am dead tired and I hadn't had enough time to think about it. It's also around three as of me writing this. Has anyone else seen it?
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The first thing, that I noticed on my viewing, was the final battle being really easy and was won fairly quickly. I kind of thought when I saw The Mind Flayer and see it in it's massive spiderlike form, I thought this was going to be a near impossible fight to win with some of the fan fav characters sacrificing themselves in order to give the characters a fighting chance. But El just goes inside The Mind Flayer and pretty easily kills Vecna with only a few hiccups. Something I realised only after watching the finale, is Dimension X and The Upside Down in this season is barren. When the characters where on their way to kill Vecna there's no demogorgans or demodogs or even those demobats we saw in the last season, it's literally more empty than that place Squidward went to go to be all alone. It is also quite stupid on Vecna's part as he probably should of been prepared for some kind of attack even if he wouldn't be expecting one. I hear some people saying, for The Upside Down anyway, that the military cleared the place up after they set up base, but I feel like there should be at the bare minimum some demobats as they're airborne and harder probably harder to kill. On the subject of the military, where the hell did they go? Did they just leave after the upside down was destroyed and El died and why were none of the characters punished or faced any kind of consequence after gunned down some of the soldiers? Also, why is the only time we see monsters, it's in our world instead of The Upside Down? The Upside Down are these creatures home so you would think you'll see more of them there instead of here. I also just felt like some of the characters just had nothing to do for the season and they were just there because they were main characters, some of them from the first season. I cannot tell you what Joyce did in this season or Mike, they just seemed to be there just because they are main characters and no other reason.
Time for positives. I love the phenomenal performance from Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna/Henry, he just sells any scene he is in and I was surprised to see on his IMDB that this was his only big role. The only other thing that I think he's known for is some of the Harry Potter films, where he played young Grindelwald, and the Twilight films, but I have no idea who he was playing in that or what his performance is like because I haven't seen a Twilight films. I hope he has a great career after this and moves onto something bigger and better. I also love the epilogue even if I feel like it went on for a little long, I was just waiting for the group to play DND when Hopper proposed, but that is a very tiny nit-pick. I also loved the last scene with the group playing DND for the last time, I kind of had a theory that the last scene in the show would be the group playing DND as I thought it would be a nice ending and I nice little call back to the ending of the first season. I also quite like how El's death is left ambiguous as it allows for fans to come up with their own theories of what actually happened and if she did end up surviving.
Overall, was it still worth it? I have no idea. I didn't watch the previous four seasons before hand so maybe if I did watch them before watching the fifth season I might have a different opinion. I think they're doing spin-offs, but to be honest I don't see myself watching them unless they are actually good because I can't be asked to watch more Stranger Things. There is more stuff I wanted to bring up but this is already quite long and I just want to post something.