Son is watching S1 and he's now watched S5?! He has missed a hell of a journey
He could have gone 1 through 5 not having it over the 10 year period we had to wait!
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He could have gone 1 through 5 not having it over the 10 year period we had to wait!
Think my favourite part of the whole season was a new character - Dip**** Derek, sometimes known as Delightful Derek 
On to the finale… I found it a little much and some aspects rushed while others painfully slow. I’ve enjoyed the subsequent memes likening the world to that Linkin Park music video.
With the ending, I found the full circle with Mike’s sister and her friends and Dustin’s homage to Eddie the best parts. The sheer length of it though felt very RotK…
On to the finale… I found it a little much and some aspects rushed while others painfully slow. I’ve enjoyed the subsequent memes likening the world to that Linkin Park music video.
With the ending, I found the full circle with Mike’s sister and her friends and Dustin’s homage to Eddie the best parts. The sheer length of it though felt very RotK…
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As regards the finale...
First hour or so - great, especially the F bomb which I'm fairly certain is the first and only time in the entire run.
Second hour, Jeez Louise, they could have covered that in 10 or 15 minutes, could have done without most of it apart from
And some unresolved plot elements too
First hour or so - great, especially the F bomb which I'm fairly certain is the first and only time in the entire run.
Second hour, Jeez Louise, they could have covered that in 10 or 15 minutes, could have done without most of it apart from
The is she/isn't she scene with "El" in Iceland.
And some unresolved plot elements too
What happened to Linda Hamilton's character? I don't recall seeing her get killed or any other wrap up to her involvement.
Our heroes shot and presumably killed a fairly large number of US armed forces personnel on home soil and in the Upside Down.
Rightly or wrongly, that sort of thing generally ends with a Federal trial and a needle in your arm or 2000 volts tickling your scalp.
Regardless of the circumstances.
Our heroes shot and presumably killed a fairly large number of US armed forces personnel on home soil and in the Upside Down.
Rightly or wrongly, that sort of thing generally ends with a Federal trial and a needle in your arm or 2000 volts tickling your scalp.
Regardless of the circumstances.
The military were hardly the good guys here. LH and her team were experimenting on kids, pregnant women etc - maybe it was an off the books operation or maybe the Government didn't even know about it. Either way, if they gang were put in front of a court, it would not look good for the US - so maybe it was all covered up and LH packed up her team and moved on. Very big assumptions here 
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It is a TV show. No need for logic. In reality the US army would have killed Vecna and the mindflayer with a fleet of A10's and a couple of M1 Abrams. At worst nuked it with the B2 or B52's.
In-fact in reality there would have been zero need for the kids at all because even with Eleven captured by Sarah Conor and the two worlds combining. The might of the US military would have eaten the mind-flayer for breakfast. Especially as they had the "Kryptonite" which they never used on Vecna.
Alas it is just a movie/series so enjoy it for what it is.
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For context, I didn’t get chance to rewatch 4 before starting 5, so it may have been explained and I just don’t remember it, but did the Upside Down seem somehow ridiculously safe in this final series? From what I remember, the place was crawling with Demogorgon’s, Demodogs and the flying bat things that killed Eddie, all vectored onto you by the hive mind as soon as you entered. But series 5, you can seemingly just wander round, totally unmolested unless you happened to bump into Vecna himself.
Ah, the 'turn your brain off and question nothing' line of thinking.
How about no?
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Excellent ending to the series.
For the ending of any show you will never keep everyone happy, but this tied up most of the threads, gave a bit of what was going to happen/has happened, gave just enough insight to give the audience fuzzy feels. You don't normally get that when a series ends, as too many are cancelled before they were actually planned to (or they never really knew what they were doing from the start eg Lost).
If you came in to the show wanting super realism while basing it around kids, portals and demons, I think you had the wrong show from the start - and those people will never be happy with the ending because it wasn't what they wanted it to be from the beginning.
Interesting that the writers/directors have been explaining some of their rationale around the ending of the season, and why there were no demogorgans etc, what they wanted the message to be at the end, how other things might tie in has been really interesting. The final 5 minutes and the ending scene was perfect.
For the ending of any show you will never keep everyone happy, but this tied up most of the threads, gave a bit of what was going to happen/has happened, gave just enough insight to give the audience fuzzy feels. You don't normally get that when a series ends, as too many are cancelled before they were actually planned to (or they never really knew what they were doing from the start eg Lost).
If you came in to the show wanting super realism while basing it around kids, portals and demons, I think you had the wrong show from the start - and those people will never be happy with the ending because it wasn't what they wanted it to be from the beginning.
Interesting that the writers/directors have been explaining some of their rationale around the ending of the season, and why there were no demogorgans etc, what they wanted the message to be at the end, how other things might tie in has been really interesting. The final 5 minutes and the ending scene was perfect.
Nah, he's got an amazing power though. Gets inside the enemy and then destroys them. All while not liking girls.
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I saw a video where they are going to save the kids, then it shows epstein islands shrine thing in the distance lol.
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I guess there is zero point watching any Science Fiction for the past 100 years then!
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I actually quite enjoyed the last episode. Sad to see it end.
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We're talking about a show where children are fighting interdimensional psychic monsters like DnD in real life, getting hung up on 'but would the military really do that?' just seems like looking for problems to have a whinge about
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I enjoyed the finale even if it seemed to drag out a bit. The stuff with Vecna and Henry was great in the cave, he did a good job.
Having seen the theatre show I think that made that bit stand out a lot more.
If you haven't seen the theatre show, it is well worth it, never seen an audience give a standing ovation after an intro scene before.
Having seen the theatre show I think that made that bit stand out a lot more.
If you haven't seen the theatre show, it is well worth it, never seen an audience give a standing ovation after an intro scene before.
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Still haven't bothered with season 5