Just like last time I know it all finished airing over Christmas and New Years, but since those are inconvenient times for some, let’s discuss the series finale of Stranger Things.
Just like last time I know it all finished airing over Christmas and New Years, but since those are inconvenient times for some, let’s discuss the series finale of Stranger Things.
I liked many things, but man did they fumble the ball in so many ways this season.
For example, explaining important backstory in a Broadway stage play accessible to only like .1% of your viewing audience. Not only this, but then making that backstory inconsistent with established lore. Hawkins was, according to Hopper, a boring town where nothing happened. But now there were those supernatural murders years ago. I guess he just forgot.
I have many more criticisms for the season, but I’ll limit this to the finale here on out. The main thing is, just be consistent.
One gripe is where were the other creatures in the Abyss? The Mind Flayer is supposed to be a hive mind, but there were no demogorgons, demodogs, bats, or other alien creatures. It just seemed like the MF was hanging out on this planet by itself.
Another is, why isn’t everyone under surveillance after they lost El? Are we supposed to believe the military just let everyone go and isn’t looking for any sign that she could be alive? They e done that in previous seasons, hell that was the point of using the radio station to deliver coded messages. Now they gave up? Ok.
A minor one: I’d have thought that with facing death Mrs Wheeler would finally either work on or leave her failing marriage, but there didn’t seem to be any character growth after all.
That said, I liked that they killed El and that her sacrifice had meaning. It felt earned. I really hope they don’t undo that. The talk with Mike and Hopper was great.
Why are you trying to find consistency in the worldbuilding for this, it’s nonsense. Like, by all means enjoy it for whatever reasons, but logical and consistent lore and narrative is not one of those reasons.
Mythical worlds can still be logical. That’s why it’s called Sci-Fi.
Of course they can. But Stranger Things most definitely is not.
I mean they might be. But it’s also 18 months later and they maybe have just have one dude on it. Or standard NSA listening to all their conversations or something.
But honestly the original Hawkins experiment ultimately lead to a huge scandal (end of season 2 I think). Papa dies twice and is replaced at some point, but returns and dies. And of course this season is a whole quarantine and ultimately fails again. So this project has been funded at least three times and ultimately has nothing to show for it? At a certain point you just give up.
I have seen the play and the only part of the supernatural that anyone saw all died in the Creel house or were explained away as the ravings of a lunatic and finally covered up by the staff at Hawkins.
The only thing Hopper, Joyce and Bob Newbie saw were mutilated animals and unexplained radio noise, that all the adults explained away as a coyote.
Part of the Broadway play is a high school play that Joyce directed, while as a new kid Henry was in the play most of his interactions were with Bob Newbies Sister who ran away from home at the end of the play. Newbie’s Sister and Henry kept their romance a secret from everyone because her father did not want her dating.
To all the adults that you know from the TV show Hawkins was just a boring little town and pretty much everything that happened in the broadway play happened to characters who died or where part of the lab.
The play is an incredible experience and really does a great job of threading the needle of the show’s story. The play talked about what went on in that cave as for the reason the Creel family moved to Hawkins, but it really had Dr. Brenner moving things to make that happen.
As far as the life in the Abyss, the planet sure looked dead to me and I thought it was pretty clear that the kids were being used to reanimated the mindflayer. Something killed everything there.