About to finish the finale , and if i have to describe in few words i would say, rushed and underwhelming

Missed alot of thing, did not explain so many things and stuff

What do you guys think ?

It wasn't perfect, nothing is. But I refuse to give anything below a 10/10 to an episode that made me feel the things I felt, with the intensity I felt them. I'm not much of a crier, but in this episode alone I cried 4 times, and by the last one I could barely breathe:

1 When Hopper tried to convince Eleven... “life has been unfair to you”

2 When Eleven explained her decision to Hopper.

3 At Vecna's death, with the flashbacks of all the characters.

4 In the final moments.

The flashbacks were especially touching. They went straight for the softest spot in most fans' hearts: nostalgia. Funny enough, my favorite season is the third one precisely because it hits that spot the hardest.

If you disagree, I'm sorry you didn't get the same experience I did, because mine watching this was incredible. It was awesome, and a amazingly fitting end to the show. Until next time, Stranger Things.

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I realize this may be a hot take since this subreddit hates Mike and loves Will but Mike has always cared about his friends and been selfless while Will was always selfish and self-indulgent

In Season 1, Mike spent the whole season searching for Will and getting into danger

In Season 2, Mike supported Will and tried to make him feel better despite being heartbroken from El. Again, he was a good friend

In Season 3, nobody was right and nobody was wrong during their conflict. Mike was NOT wrong for focusing on girls/romance along with Lucas. That is called being a normal teenage boy. Will NEVER supported Mike during his obvious distress about his romantic situation. It was always me me me.

"I want to play D&D. Who cares about your problems?"

I should mention Mike apologized to Will for what he said. Will never apologized to Mike here. This show's Mike maturity and Will's vanity

In Season 4, Will was again whining about Mike spending time with Eleven who he called a "dumb girl". He was being very selfish, jealous and petty again and I found his pouting off-putting.

The only time Will actually tried to support/compliment Mike was during the van/painting scene but that scene was poisoned by deceit from the get-go when Will claimed it was from Eleven. So I'm not sure this scene really amounts to anything as it's tainted by lies.

Mike has always been supporting, hyping and apologizing to Will but never vice-versa. In Season 5, Will tried to actively flirt with Mike despite him being in a commited, loving relationship with Eleven. This is absolutely disgusting behavior that doesn't get condemned enough. At best it was a selfish mistake. At worst, Will is a snake

So yes, Mike > Will and is a superior friend and character

It fixes the feud between Jonathan and Steve, and it gave us great scenes such as Vecna tricking Hopper. While the final battle could have been longer, you have to admit that it got good during the "Were not afraid anymore" part. Furthermore, the entire epilogue was great, especially that final D&D game that mirrored the one from The Upside Down (S1, EP 8) people say that there are "plot holes" in the show though in my opinion, who care if the military lets Hop and Nancy get away? Their main objective was capturing eleven. Who cares if there were no demogorgons in the dimension X? My point is that the show gets more fun when you actually watch it while looking for joy instead of looking for problems. This one irritates me when I read these though apparently, Jonathan and Nancy's break up was confusing and it was unclear that they broke up? Jonathan literally threw the ring at the end of the conversation. Another annoying take is "Mike did nothing this season!" Mike, who created Holly The Heroic which encouraged Holly, faced off against a burning demogorgon (episode three. Most people forget) led kids away from chaos in the MAC-Z (People argue that the demogorgon still got the kids, though the kids would have died if Mike didn't lead them away from the military's firing and flamethrowers) created the bomb that destroyed the upside down, and wrote books about their childhoods did nothing this season? Aside from season 1, this was his busiest season in my opinion. I have more reasons to defend this season but I'll probably die from old age typing them all out so this is why I think Season 5 and the finale were great. Let the war begin!​

So first of all like no one died which is a lil annoying cause despite the fact I love everyone that was corny. The duffers are allergic to killing anyone on the main cast. Than there’s the fact that eleven died in possibly the dumbest way possible. Let’s say that Kali did save her which she didn’t cause she bleed out and than if she did survive she got saved off screen. But let’s say she escaped how did she off screen get to the gate? Also why did she kill herself? She herself said “the cycle has to end with me Mike you may not understand.” That’s lazy writing bro 😂. Overall I liked the ending but nothing from how we got there. Also Vecna was killed so easily for so much hype there was absolutely no twist and he just died without killing literally anyone lol. The only one that got a kill was some soldier bum 😭 but yeah it was bad bro I wish it ended better but I’m okay with it

Everyone was uncomfortable with this small "storyline" in s3, and thankfully Karen decided not to go through with it.

But sometimes I think about the fact that there is a universe out there where the Duffer Brothers actually went through with Karen and Billy as a "thing." And that thought alone fills me with so much dread and sympathy for the people in that universe.

Imagine how different the conversation between Karen and Nancy would have been if she ended it with, "oh, btw, I got with Billy. He's your stepdad now."

I think both Mike and Nancy would tell everyone that they left the country.

I saw many speculating that we are getting a Hopper and Joyce wedding. In my opinion instead they should make for the last episode an epilogue, with a timeskip. And they show us everyone gathering at the Mike x El wedding. I think they deserve happiness. It’d be very sweet to see that after all they went through they stayed together. It’s not that rare for couples that got together in school to end up married. Maybe that’s silly or too much of a fanservice. I just think it makes the most sense! Don’t judge me.

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People review bombed the last few eps.

Not the best season but man the last 4 eps ratings is insane. No way ep7 is the worst and the finale is pretty good. Just imo.

I apologize for being so late to the finale -- I finally just started rewatching Stranger Things a few weeks ago after giving up after S3. I just finished the finale and I am sick right now. I've been sobbing for well over an hour. How in the hell are y'all okay with this ending?

Let's address both theories. First of all, are you kidding me. Mike has been in love with El for literally over ten years and she just dies in front of him??? He's the only one who doesn't get his happy ending??? I'm sick.

I truthfully don't believe that El did live -- it doesn't make sense for 008 to have somehow stayed alive for hours despite suffering a fatal gunshot wound and us literally seeing her bleeding out. And if she supposed to have survived being blown up, and have her powers reach El from so incredibly far away, AND magically know the PERFECT time to turn El invisible despite not being anywhere near her? Literally not buying it, and not even going to address all of these plot holes.

But, let's say that El is, hypothetically, alive and in another town. She's just living alone in some town and didn't reach out to her boyfriend or any of her friends or her DAD to even say she's okay or have them move to be with her? What do you mean Mike and Eleven don't end up together? I'm so upset right now -- she's the only girl he's ever loved and if she is alive, she didn't even bother to reach out to him to tell her he's okay. She didn't even tell him where she is so he can visit her. I'm sick

Stranger Things had an amazing finale that wrapped up all the loose ends and I hate that it's thought of so badly.

I’ll probably get downvoted for this but Reddit is about expressing opinions and should never be about some virtual score. It should have been Steve instead of Eddie. Everyone would have been watching anticipating Eddie to go, being They have a fetish with killing off new characters they introduce as opposed to killing off a main, then in a twist for the first time, Steve goes being the hero he is. They had a perfect opportunity to do that finally for the first time and they chose to go their usual route of killing off a new character, what a surprise. It should have been Steve and not Eddy. Steve’s arc would have been complete and Eddy would have been a fine new addition to the main squad. I’m assuming they’re not ready to close the book on the Jancy/Steve love triangle(I have absolutely no idea why, tbh they should all go their separate ways from that but that’s an entirely different convo). It would have been a noble way to go out and true to Steve’s character to wrap up his arc. Try to view this from a critical thinking/logical lens not rooted in emotional bias. Also please refrain from telling me about how the creators said they’ll never kill a main and whatever else, I already know, it’s just my opinion. Would love to hear what you all think

Will ending up with a random guy from a gay bar is BULLSHIT representation-slop.

This isn’t even about Byler. They fucked over Will, and to a greater extent, Noah.

Yeah sure just throw in a random guy for one of your main characters’ happy ending. This main character who had just SO much potential to influence media and change the views of homophobes, just make it a lazy example of “oh you’ll find someone someday!” for queer people. Oh but sure, let’s give EVERYONE else a happy ending with the people they’ve shown to love. Max & Lucas and Hopper & Joyce get their happy ending together. Robin, Nancy, Johnathan, and Steve get their happy ending as a friend group with each other, and Dustin & Steve remain lifelong best friends.

But just, throw in a random guy for Will. At a gay bar, nonetheless. Could you get more stereotypical? One of the most beloved characters of the entire show, just gets a random guy at the end as his partner, where everyone else has fleshed out relationships. Even Robin & Vickie was better than this. You could say that the same thing happened to Dustin since him and Suzie presumably broke up, but this is different. There was so much potential for Will to BREAK this trope for queer people in media, to set an example for what can be, coming from arguably one of the biggest shows of the decade. But they squandered it, because to do this was easy. To act like self-acceptance is the one and only thing that people need is easy.

However, the most injustice was done to Noah. Noah went through so much while giving his best for the mess that the coming out scene was. Having to compare Mike, a best friend, to Tammy, a hallway crush, was so disrespectful to queer people. But apparently that wasn’t enough, since they essentially made him tell queer viewers “ermmm you’ll find the one someday!”. Utterly disgusting what they did to him.

Fans JOKED about this happening. Everyone thought it would be ridiculous for this to actually happen, for a show like ST to continue the trope. But good job Duffers, you made absolutely zero positive impact when this could’ve been so much.

I finally watched it and thought it was great. I loved the extended epilogue too. I’m really surprised people didn’t like it.

Im going to be honest the last season wasnt my favorite but it definitely wasnt bad or terrible. A LOT of people are overreacting because they just didnt feel the ending.

i just had youtube playing in the background random stranger things interviews and this one popped on…

they’re talking about season 4, and explicitly say that season 4 was the first and only time they EVER had scripts done before shooting (and this was only because of the extra time they had due to the pandemic shutting things down.) they even go on to say that typically they’ll have about the first 4 episodes done and then start shootings while finishing the rest. they also mention that they started writing season 5 while finishing season 4.

aka they did not just “wing it” as people love to accuse them of doing. not to mention, idk about yall but i love watching behind the scenes things for all my favorite shows/movies and it seems pretty standard for this to be the case, even for movies! they’ll often be doing rewrites and edits throughout on already existing scripts because they’re changing something in the scripts they’re still finishing.

i just feel bad for the duffers man haha. like the whole chat gpt thing too, such bogus. using the worlds grainiest photo of a circular logo and then acting as though it’s 100% the chat gpt logo is nuts. that logo could have been anything haha. the screenshot was a blur. 🤦🏻‍♀️ they wrote an amazing show, and whether you like the ending or not is totally subjective so it’s ok not to like it but it’s not cool to bash on these guys as hard as people did and try to discredit the amazing work they did. i know it’s been over a month now so def time to move on hahah but this interview just stirred things back up for me 😅

just completely ruined the show this entire season was so bad just 0 real development or answers on anything