Idk I liked it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The last couple episodes especially fucking ruled. I’ll never tire of seeing someone use telekinesis to rip a US military helicopter out of the sky.
Spoilers for the whole season:
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While I was really ready and happy for them to end it this season, I actually love the way they went with it. I feel like I don’t get enough scifi/fantasy stories that get to the point of “Nope. You lost actually. Everything is fucked and now you have to deal with the ramifications of that, while also preparing for things to get even worse. Also now everyone knows about all the crazy shit you’ve been keeping secret.” And I like when stories do that plot and do it well, which I trust the ST team to do.
Like Max actually getting her limbs broken and seemingly being braindead? That was fucking brutal.
The gulag shit fucking sucked though god damn
Edit: also just so we all know, they have the whole gulag arc but the gulag system was closed down 30 fucking years before this takes place, it’s fucking absurd
My guess is that Max will actually survive. This is just my TV prediction brain based on nothing else besides watching tv before, but I’m guessing her “soul” or whatever the fuck is trapped somewhere with Vecna and they’ll revive her. And that’s why they didn’t kill her outright is because she will survive.
But I also don’t agree with this:
I watch media like this to escape from my problems, not be introduced to ones that look similar to real life.
Maybe it’s me being baby-brained but it comforts me when media presents mystical problems like they would happen in reality, and then fixes them. I need to see it go wrong to a level that I know would happen in the real world for the solution to feel comforting.
I might be overanalyzing things but it might be my deep desire for literally anything to be done to stop climate change
Also yes the breaking of limbs to escape was so fucking stupid and they basically forgot he had a broken foot immediately and he just lives his life normally and it didn’t even work so why have that scene at all????
See but I don’t think that’s what’s happening with stranger things. They failed to set up this feeble state to give us something to recover from. It’s not nihilism, it’s just a cliffhanger.
I did expect it to end nicely this season, and I would’ve preferred that, but we are getting another one and I do think they’ll do a good job of fixing it. Honestly any of the other seasons would’ve been better points to leave on, this one has the biggest setup for the next season.
Idk I liked it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The last couple episodes especially fucking ruled. I’ll never tire of seeing someone use telekinesis to rip a US military helicopter out of the sky.
Spoilers for the whole season:
spoiler
While I was really ready and happy for them to end it this season, I actually love the way they went with it. I feel like I don’t get enough scifi/fantasy stories that get to the point of “Nope. You lost actually. Everything is fucked and now you have to deal with the ramifications of that, while also preparing for things to get even worse. Also now everyone knows about all the crazy shit you’ve been keeping secret.” And I like when stories do that plot and do it well, which I trust the ST team to do.
Like Max actually getting her limbs broken and seemingly being braindead? That was fucking brutal.
The gulag shit fucking sucked though god damn
Edit: also just so we all know, they have the whole gulag arc but the gulag system was closed down 30 fucking years before this takes place, it’s fucking absurd
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spoiler
My guess is that Max will actually survive. This is just my TV prediction brain based on nothing else besides watching tv before, but I’m guessing her “soul” or whatever the fuck is trapped somewhere with Vecna and they’ll revive her. And that’s why they didn’t kill her outright is because she will survive.
But I also don’t agree with this:
Maybe it’s me being baby-brained but it comforts me when media presents mystical problems like they would happen in reality, and then fixes them. I need to see it go wrong to a level that I know would happen in the real world for the solution to feel comforting.
I might be overanalyzing things but it might be my deep desire for literally anything to be done to stop climate change
Also yes the breaking of limbs to escape was so fucking stupid and they basically forgot he had a broken foot immediately and he just lives his life normally and it didn’t even work so why have that scene at all????
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spoiler
See but I don’t think that’s what’s happening with stranger things. They failed to set up this feeble state to give us something to recover from. It’s not nihilism, it’s just a cliffhanger.
I did expect it to end nicely this season, and I would’ve preferred that, but we are getting another one and I do think they’ll do a good job of fixing it. Honestly any of the other seasons would’ve been better points to leave on, this one has the biggest setup for the next season.
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