Stranger Things (Netflix)

Converge said:
It’s way too drawn out. The whole melting building part and the Nancy / nothing burger Jonathan bit in particular. It should have been 4-5 episodes tops, but as has been noted, they’ve probably been told to draw it out by some executive somewhere.
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I forgot to mention that scene - it went on forever and ultimately nothing happened for ages until they cringe confessed their love for each other, which is hilarious in itself as they have zero chemistry this season.
 
Kainz said:
I forgot to mention that scene - it went on forever and ultimately nothing happened for ages until they cringe confessed their love for each other, which is hilarious in itself as they have zero chemistry this season.
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Exactly. They could have done something meaningful with it, like he sacrifices himself or something, but no, even the melting stuff got bored and solidified.
 
Converge said:
It’s way too drawn out. The whole melting building part and the Nancy / nothing burger Jonathan bit in particular. It should have been 4-5 episodes tops, but as has been noted, they’ve probably been told to draw it out by some executive somewhere.

Also, the amount of CGI and green screen, considering the budgets they’ve had to play with, is just too much. I’m clearly getting old - like the cast.
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Its just all filler. Couldve been 3 episodes instead of 7, far too much one on one speeches that aren't actually building any character at all.

That scene was terrible, the plot armour/literally no one in danger makes it very boring. You stop caring because you know they aren't in any danger.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
I thought the same thing, it was a breaking up convo.
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Yes I thought they were breaking up too...mentioning all the things they didn't like about each other etc.

I was wondering about the room they were trapped in and why its melting into this concrete grey and white yoghurt sludge. I had a thought that as the exotic matter sphere expanded (when Nancy shot at it) that more objects with 3D substance begin to break down at the molecular / atomic level, they can no longer hold their bonds together? So change from solid to liquid. The energy emitted from the sphere just near its plane? Not sure why there were not affected...exposure time? Some of the lab roof was already affected - surprised it had not been discovered before in the Upside Down...did it start small? I think I need to read on the physics side.
 
The lack of urgency in every scene is stressing me out.

As much as max loves Kate Bush I don't think she would even run up a hill if her life depended on it.

Having a ten minute long chat before going into a portal was too much for me. I was shouting at the screen.
 
It's just not good. Shame. I don't think much is going to change with the finale so I'm dropping my season ranking now:

1. 1
2. 2
3. 4
4. 3
5. Anything else
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17. 5

Not quite as bad as Game of Thrones ending fumbling levels of awful, but it still makes me wonder if watching any of this was really worth it.
 
There's way too many characters now and half of them don't do anything.

I have literally no clue what the military are even doing anymore. Do they actually have any goal? Find eleven?.. Vecna literally obliterated most of their troops yet they dgaf.

It's always hard to maintain a show after a couple of good seasons but this one is just a load of filler.

They should have killed off some main characters earlier on so it wasn't so packed in the end.
 
If you guys think that most of season 5 is just filler then wait until you’ve seen the last episode.

It’s weird, I thought there was way too much to wrap up in even one 2 hour episode, but somehow I ended up wondering how there was still 45 minutes or so left of the episode when I paused it.

No spoilers obviously, but it felt like the first few episodes dragged on too much yet this one was over with too quickly and with too much emphasis on the wrong parts. Just my opinion of course. I didn’t hate it though.
 
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literally feels like a bunch of writers got a bunch of kids together and pitched them a story, then asked them to make it better.


Am I wrong or did it not feel like a programme for kids in the first 1-2 seasons, before going full marvel.
 
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Overall a decent finale that won't please everyone due to the how big the show is but it's certainly not on GOT scale where no one will be happy.

The bait and switch with major characters looking like they might die started to get tedious after a while when they didn't follow through with it unless it was a minor character, then the lets make it look like Henry might 'turn to a good guy' after finding out about his past but glad they shut that down 30 seconds later, Joyce landing the 'final' blow after doing nothing all season didn't really have the impact on me that I think they thought it would with all the flashbacks.

Some shoddy CGI at times and the obvious green / blue screen scenes were almost as distracting as recent Marvel films, the flashbacks to s1 really shows how much the cast has aged up whilst we've been waiting for seasons.

Complete waste of Linda Hamilton, they could have cast anyone in her role but then they wouldn't be able to advertise the finale with her name on it.
 
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