re: Stranger Things Season 5 Discussion Thread - All Episodes Released - Finale Spoilers

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He's my favorite character in the entire series. Let it be forever known that in S5E2 when the demogorgon attacked his family, he didn't run like a bitch.

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I was hoping he would just fall into the gate and end up sleeping in the chair in his house in the upside down because he didn’t know what else to do

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Vecna is misunderstood and is a good guy (Noah said that in interview)

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So are they pulling a Mind Flayer is Emperor Palpatine and Vecna is Vader?

That would be so lame but I actually could see them doing that since RoTJ was 1983 and fits the 80s.

11, 8, and Will all finally convince Vecna during a battle that there’s still good in him and he sacrifices himself to destroy the Mind Flayer.

Gay.

S4 setup Vecna as the true villain in my mind. He needs to die in a massive throw down with 11.

His appearance at the army base was badass

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Did I read this wrong or did will accepting his gayness give him super powers?


Just started a rewatch and they totally called his superpowers in S1 E2.

ETA: …irrespective of his gayness.

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What did they do in episode 2 of season1?

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Yep! It was the inverted circling of the wagons tactic. Peak military strategy on display

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They also use the Starship Troopers tactic of walking within hand to hand distance while using a ranged weapon.

Dumb

I could see this happening as it doesn't take much creative ability to write that ending.

My 9 and 10 year old have been asking to watch the show for a while so we started them on Season 1 with some fast forward moments. (I forgot how much sexual innuendo there was between Steve and Nancy.)

It's a real shame how far the writing has fallen off a cliff.

We just finished. None of the stuff complained about in here bothered me at all. I did find period of some of the episodes boring and pointless though.

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He's my favorite character in the entire series.

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Wow, that's surprising. He has like 5 total lines the entire series

I guess he's a little hard to relate to and annoys me as a dad because he's so different from my dad who never sat still, is always joking around, etc. Mr. Wheeler is a bumb on a log of a dad.

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Let it be forever known that in S5E2 when the demogorgon attacked his family, he didn't run like a bitch. He stood his ground and tried to beat the thing back with a fricking golf club.

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He did, he did. Which actually might be the most surprising thing that's happened in the series so far. I was glad he did.

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Does anyone else miss how much scarier the Upside Down was earlier in the show (especially S1)? I don't know how else to explain it but it looks way too "safe" and "clean" now.

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Because there are seemingly no monsters for some reason. We watched the characters brave hell and die fighting in the earlier seasons.

Now there are helicopters flying around no problem

Mrs. udtiger just hit me with the trivia that the guy that plays Tom Wheeler (Joe Chrest) teachs theatre at LSU.

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Yeah it reminds me of how much more of a horror movie T1 is compared to T2.

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I don't think this is a fair comparison. While both films are part of the same franchise they are both different genres.

The Terminator is a sci-fi/slasher film that has more in common with Halloween and Friday the 13th than other popular science fiction films from that period like Blade Runner. Terminator 2 is a pure sci-fi/action film.