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 absolutely loved it. The Duffer Brothers stuck the landing. They tied off all the characters perfectly.
I absolutely loved how the show ended with a shot of the Wheeler’s house and sprinkler that fades to Dustin, Will, Mike, Lucas and now Max playing a D&D campaign.
That was the first time the audience met the kids in E1 of S1 ten years ago!
The final scene with Mike’s sister now taking over the basement and there is a new generation of Wheeler kids in the basement cave. That brought a tear to my eye.
The animated credits at the end were spectacular. I noticed immediately that the open crawl of the final episode didn’t identify any star’s names. It was so cool how they worked key moments of the show into the credits.
I really loved the scene where Joyce was hacking off Vecna’s head while each characters relived an evil and or a hurt that Vecna had done to them, damn that was spectacular. That was a really cathartic moment for the characters.
The Duffers had a lot of characters to resolve and while not perfect they did a really good job of tiring them off, while leaving enough what if?
There was a moment a few scenes before where I noticed just how big Joyce’s axe was. It was a Chekhov’s Axe moment for me where I was left wondering just how she was going to use it. I completely agree that Joyce walking up to Vecna and hacking away at his head was just perfect. He’d caused Joyce so much pain I’m glad she got a moment to shine.
Yeah until she started chopping off his head I was confused as to why she had an axe, then remembered she used one to chop a hole through the wall in Season 1 in a fruitless attempt to get to Will.