And some of them are simultaneously getting surgery to look older. It's a real pickle.
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Just checked out the last few episodes’ rating.
Well I knew the show was going off the rails at season 3 but what the hell?
Seems they had a strong second half to season 4 and a strong first half to season 5, and then just went off the rails again.
Anyone who finished it want to chime in?
Edit: after reading everyone’s comments, I’m glad I stopped watching. All the lore replies felt like it just created more questions. Thanks y’all.
In episode 7 Will came out to his mom and friends. Aside from just him coming out, it was important because doing so was necessary for him to believe in himself so he could do his part or something. Apparently it's getting review bombed for that, it's currently at 5.something which is bullshit. I think the episode's quality was in line with the rest of the season, which so far is coming in around 8, maybe a little over. I agree with that. Pretty good, but not spectacular.
Edit: it's got a long as fuck epilogue if you're into that sort of thing.
it suffers from the same problem as every ending in the last ~20 years, that you have to tie up every loose end in a fairytale ending or else audiences get mad.
However, it's the antithesis of drama, so you end up with the entire narrative trying to turn everyone on to a happy ending - so every episode is full of long passages of exposition in order to accommodate that.
I think it likely is getting review bombed for the gay stuff, but honestly there wasn't even that much of it.
I thought it got too complicated for its own good and accumulated way too many characters, but that was true of the entire last half of the series.
The ending was pretty anticlimactic but it wasn't like how i met your mother levels of bad. The last episode felt at times like a clip show. They should've wrapped the whole thing up sooner, but it was not the weirdest or worst ending to a show in recent memory, just kinda drawn out and a bit saccharine.
I haven't watched the final episode yet, but overall I've enjoyed this season, with only a few minor nitpicks.
People didn’t understand the cannibal story
Wasn’t that bad. But yeah you know how it’s going to end. And like too much blablab
I cried at the end.
It doesn't make any sense and has a lot of loose ends. They don't explain how the guy with the briefcase came to aquire a piece of the mind flayer and how he knew that it would consume Henry insinuating that he knew what it was before any of the testing they had done on psychic kids because that moment is what made Henry what he was. Dustin determines that scientists created the upside down, but also the abyss is a "planet" in the upside down and also that's where the mind flayer resides. In a place that was created by humans??? Wtf is with this fucking plot? They insinuate many times that everyone who has psychic powers is just tapping into the mind flayer's hivemind powers yet after they kill it they still have powers. How does that make any fucking sense? Overall it was fine, it was just really fucking stupid.
Buddy I think you missed a large portion of the plot if you think the Abyss is "in" the Upside Down.
Spoiler
Yes the Upside Down was created by scientists, but as a wormhole connecting two separate locations: a planet called the Abyss, and Hawkins. Abyss is no more "in" the Upside Down than Hawkins is. Also, they don't insinuate many times that El or her sister's power comes from tapping into the hivemind, only Will's. El's comes from having Henry's blood in her, and now we know that that blood comes with a portion of the mutation that Henry recieved after touching the stone in the briefcase. After the mindflayer dies, Will never uses his power again.
The guy with the briefcase and the mineshaft is surprisingly from a canon stage play called The First Shadow that covers Henry's childhood, but considering this is the first time he's shown in the TV show, it does feel like a random convenient plot device. I think they should have had the stage play become an episode in season 5 so we knew Henry's backstory a bit better.
Wait, a random stage play that does not play anywhere close enough for me to attend is canon?
Unfortunately yes. I never watched it, but I read the synopsis and it introduces the mineshaft and the guy with the briefcase. Pretty stupid move on their part, because I don't actually know many people who even knew the stage play existed, even among pretty big fans of the show
I must have misunderstood the situation with the upside down being a wormhole, thank you for that. I still think that their powers should have disappeared after the mindflayer died. The way I understood it as it was presented in the show, the mindflayer became a part of Henry. If they used his blood to create more psychics they would have only spread the mindflayer's influence. If it's explained better in the play then great. Still though, there's a lot I didn't like about the last season. Like I said though, it wasn't a bad ending things just didn't add up for me.
I saw no problem. To be fair I think this season was a lot darker and that was realistic. Like of course a teen that has been through so much would start killing assholes, I would too and I'm not a teen.
Also thought it was nice and entertaining, but there are also people with no life that try to live their dreams through tv
Well, in November I’ll be 30
Enjoy 29 while you can, tik-tok, still much to do.
Yeah they're supposed to be 16 this season right?
Like every high school has that one 16 year old that suddenly looks 25 after one summer. It does happen, but it's ridiculous when it's every character
millie browns characther having botox too.
you mean the actress ? she did botox ? but she's like 19
I had a friend in the 8th grade who had two kids. Granted, it was his fifth year in 8th grade -- he kept flunking and it had not yet occurred to schools in that era to pass kids to get rid of them.
I am a bit sick of people generating hate and trying to make Stranger Things the next GoT. I saw way too many rage bait videos and posts lately.
Its far from the best season, but people are hyper fixated on the characters appearance and nitpicking on small details just to generate engagement.
S5 has its issues, the whole season was waay too long with lots of repetition and filler dialogue, but I think it was a quite good ending.
Its not against OP, on Lemmy there is not much to do with upvotes, just hating the whole trend.