what a dogshit fucking disaser of a season lmaooooo
stop that shitty general

now someone explain that monster heartbeat sound after they got out

>>217243680
This general is on its death throes. Approaching beating a dead horse. Surprised it has lasted this long.

can shitflix die already and we all collectively agree that their franchise-hijacking chapter never happened
if you own shares in this company you are legit scum of the earth

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I wanna go back...

>>217243820
Last scene she was ever decent in. Nancy's character had one of the worse declines.

>>217243717
Im honestly surprised pluribussy generals are still going. Its a nothingburger show about a middle aged lesbian. Surprised the average incel here can relate to her at all. Or maybe they must really really like Vince. So weird.

didn’t dysgenic things end already?

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Why is she so fucking perfect bros? It hurts.

>>217243963
kek you missed out loser

>>217243960
>Im honestly surprised pluribussy generals are still going
Those are obviously shill threads. It's always easy to tell when a thread is forced. Just like the Rings of Flop.

9 is coming.

>main villain is a rando

yikesamoli

>>217243960
>Surprised the average incel here can relate to her at all
Partway through the season, the show introduces a new hero in the form of a driven loner who hates his mother.

Did the Duffers forget that Will was an artist? It seemed kinda reductive for the "where are they now" bit to have him depicted as just a gay guy meeting up with another gay guy at a bar. Once he "came out," did all of the old Will's ambitions just die, and everything became about chasing dick?

>>217243680
>stg/
It's dead. Let it go.

Nancy and Jonathan needed to go at the end of season 3 or maybe get killed midway through season 4.

Such a waste of screentime.

>>217244561
Will invented HIV/AIDS if you read between the lines

>>217244670
thats actually canon. he invented AIDS by being the first fag from the 80s

9 is coming. you can hear its heart followed by a clock ticking.

>>217244758
im an assistant writer and this is true, Will is the first Aids type of fag

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>average Stranger Things enjoyer when Murray says "snookums" for the 32nd time

>>217244561
He got throat raped by the mindflayer, which made him gay. How is he supposed to go back?

>>217244653
Killing a few off from the main cast would have improved the show.
>Robin
Affects Steve
>Nancy
Affects Mike/Steve
>Jonathan
Affects Joyce/Will
>Lucus or Max
Affects the group
>Erica
Just dead space

If they killed all these characters off, it would have felt like there's actual stakes and reduced the bloated cast.

>>217244653
Considering how their storylines end I’d agree but I think you can at least get some mileage out of killing one and giving the other a new plotline, that and I was redpilled on Jonathan/Vickie in the last thread

>>217243971
because you're a creeper nonce

>>217244561
He went to NYC to be gay, that's about as Artiste as you can be in the 80s

>>217245978
He probably gets AIDS

>>217243680
>didn't use DISPOSABLE HEROES instead of the much more expensive Master od Puppets

Retards were always going to GOT it up. Where the fuck is Barb?

>>217246041
Rotting in a corner since S1

>>217245665
he emotes and looks so much happier doing friendship scenes (yes yes byler but he was having the time of his life with the Lucas ones as well) than he does with romance ones.

>>217246156
>than he does with romance ones.
Probably because El was on a suicide mission the whole mission

>>217246271
*season

>>217246315
Tell me janny, why are you such a tranny

>>217243680
Stranger Crusting more like

it's ok mom I'm a faggot
we'll win by the power of gay
everyone switches off

>>217243680
Can we agree that this nigger was the cringiest retard alive?

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Alexei >>>> Satanist flunkee >>> Fat kid that's funny because he's an asshole that swears LOL get it?

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>in secret episode, i am back!

>>217246522
alexei is the best
S3 was tha last decent season and tha show died with him

>>217246494
yes, i hated this twat in stranger thigs , also in fantastic4

Episode 9 is coming trust the plan duffer patriots

>>217246522
Alexei was arguably the best(definitely the funniest) post-season 1 addition, it’s a shame they decided to have him be the one-season sacrifice considering the fact Eddie and the pilot were just shittier versions of him

>Steve most popular ST character
>Tops the charts in multiple countries

Is there anything Joe Keery can't do?

>>217243685
but enough about season 3

>>217246666
Get the Duffers to stop shitting on Steve.

Just learnt from the 404 Media podcast that some sicko put Holly in a bikini using Grok. I tried to search for the thread to tell him he's disgusting, but it probably got deleted.

>>217243680
https://www.youtube.com/live/gKwydku9Xw4?si=-leMCdyu6vF0yhAP
>So, Holly is clearly Dorothy (right down to her appearance and dress) — innocence caught between worlds, between reality and a dream. Made more obvious when she stumbles upon Max, the Scarecrow — also made obvious by her appearance this season, but also, of course, by the fact that she's in a coma, and needs to "find her brains." Billy is the Tinman - coldhearted, needs to find his heart (and does, when he sacrifices himself at the end of season 3) — BUT, even more so like the Tinman, because Billy's soul is shown kind of still existing in the hellscape, or Vecna's mind, possibly still alive, sort of like when the Tinman rusted, and was kind of still alive, no heart, not able to move, not really living, and needed to be "revived" with some oil. And Eddie, the Cowardly Lion, of course. Obvious in appearance (the mane), and also with his constant self-deprecating remarks about being a coward (always "running"), until the end of season 4 anyway and needing to find his courage and "not run." Vecna/Harry = the Wizard, and, as he appears this season as Mr. Whatsit, even appears as "The Wizard" behind the curtain, with the tophat, etc. But... who will be Toto, and pull the curtain back? Barb? lol. Idk. Oz is the upside down or dimension X, Kansas = Hawkins. The Yellow Brick Road = all the portals and the pathways linking hawkins and the upside down. Wicked witch and Glenda? Not sure... El? Dr. Kay? Flying monkeys ... demodogs?

>max graduates on time after two years in a coma
>eddie still in school at 20
Just how dumb was this fucker?

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>>217246971
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/stranger-things-finale-end-credits

After the final scene of episode 8 plays, the show doesn’t jump to its typical credits sequence. Instead, it takes a beat, rolling into a nostalgic animated end-credits segment and letting Bowie’s “Heroes” play all the way through.

The idea came straight from Keery, as the Duffer Brothers were finalizing the show’s last moments. Keery suggested using the original version of “Heroes,” a song already woven into the show's DNA thanks to earlier seasons featuring Peter Gabriel’s cover.

“It was actually Joe Keery who suggested that we do the Bowie version,” Ross Duffer tells Tudum. “Once Joe said that, we immediately knew that was the right song to end the show on because it is, in some ways, an anthem for Stranger Things. To use the original Bowie version just felt fitting for the conclusion.”

>>217247160
>Just how dumb was this fucker
He simply wasn't interested in it and no one could convince him.

>>217247550
Based on his interactions with Chrissy I assumed in the back of my head that he was a creep to some extent, selling drugs to schoolkids already should give that impression

I rewatched the first 2 seasons and now I’m confused as to why this series didn’t end on a Nancy/Johnathan wedding.

>>217246562
>*Pumps
purple palm tree delight into vecna's lair*
>*Suplexes him while he's having a coughing fit*
>"Heh... Nothin personnel... kid..."

>>217247872
Because the Duffers are fags and decided that both Jonathan and Steve thought they weren’t worthy of Rambo-Nancy so all three just stay single

>>217246666
Quads of truth

>>217247531
Cant those twins do anything on their own?

>>217248423
As I mentioned in the previous thread Maya Hawke had a melty about having to be Steve’s love interest and wanted to be a lesb (despite being with a guy irl, so make with that what you will) and they rolled over, so I assume they’re either pushovers or share a single consciousness

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how did this anon predict the ending in 2022

why was Vecna killing kids in season 4? i literally dont remember

Robin should have never have been a lesbo. She should have fucked Steve. Also Robin and Johnathan should have been killed off in season 4

>>217249008
a byler who was half right. kind of have to give it them they crafted an ending that satisfied no one

>>217248423
They're pretty good at giving post season interviews that confuse everyone and makes people hate them more than they already did.

>>217249172
For teh lulz

>>217249172
Something about opening a gate? I dunno doubt the Duffers remember either so probably doesn't matter.

>>217249234
Aside from Jonathan/Vickie kino I agree, neither served any purpose past season 3 and had no reason to exist beyond to keep their fans happy

>>217249172
The ghost writer wife divorced them between seasons 4 and 5 so we’ll never know

>>217246666
make Robin straight

>>217249172
To destabilize the wormhole on the Hawkins side enough so that the hungry hungry flayboy can come over to play and feed once his shithole world gets slammed into ours

>>217244983
Fenbendezole parasite cleanse would fix him right up.

I know people have speculated on the “making of” doc being the actual 9th episode, but have they really thought through what that would mean? Maybe the reason why the finale feels so off is because the bridge that Vecna creates is not between Hawkins and dimension X, but between the on-screen world of the show and the real world. Maybe the doc starts out normal while covering the first few episodes, but by the end of E7 he has fully escaped and exerts his influence on the production of the finale, hence all the continuity errors, unresolved plot threads, bad writing, etc.. Vecna essentially traps them in a forced and self-indulgent happy ending so he can escape to the real world

Or maybe I’m just schizophrenic idk

>>217243687
It's just something they can use to justify a nostalgia bait sequel in 20 years

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>>217250960
>Or maybe I’m just schizophrenic idk
I think its time to let it go anon the animated will be out in like 6 months or something to fill the void.

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Royal mail "Stranger things" stamps
https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/stranger-things

>>217251133
What an insane merchandising level they went with for this season. Also Mike and Lucas got fucked over

>>217249172
Wasn't it to open a gate to hawkins so he could return or something?

Dead by daylight
https://youtu.be/x_EFt53cAQ4?si=nfTFqIV7VJafn0kE

>>217244611
What is dead may never die.

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>>217244611
>https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/subject/stranger%20things%20general/page/20/
Fuck you we're about to see a /tv/ tradition die of old age and bad writing show some respect

>>217250960
There's no special episode. Get over it, losers.

>>217243680
>Stranger Things is over
What is similar to it? I miss my streaming show friend simulator.
Heeeelp!!!

>>217253713
In what regard? 80s theme? Friend simulator? Mystery/horror theme? I'd recommend Twin Peaks if you haven't seen it yet.

Across the entire story, Steve ended up growing the most as a person. He started out as King Harrington of his school, and the one relationship he took serious and got over his Ego for ended up dragging him into things far beyond his imagination.
If this didn't happen in S1, he'd end up as the "peaked in high school" kinda guy. Like Johnny from Karate Kid in Cobra Kai S1.
Instead of that fate, Steve discovered things in himself he never knew were there. I think that's the most satisfying character arc in the entire show.

>>217247160
Given how he was self conscious about being a coward, it probably was less about him being dumb, and more about him being afraid to face the "real world," so he was just comfortable and safe being the local school drug dealer, and making friends by being the cool older nerdy "kid" at the high school, and acting like he was actually wanting to graduate was just to cover up the fact that he just wanted to sit around and play D&D with teenagers and fuck around in a garage band for the rest of his life.

I enjoyed the big video game boss at the end with the weak points and it feeling like a big WoW raid. I liked the abyss and wormhole plot line. I liked the end with them growing up and shelving their childhoods.

I enjoyed the final episode and finale.

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>villain conquers his fears

Kino

>>217254745
Considering how phoned-in nearly every other actor was by the end, Bower’s scenes felt like they were from an entirely different show, I can definitely see him being in way more movies and shows moving forward

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>>217243680
>how dare you get mind-broken by your girlfriend's unexplainable supernatural murder? you deserve to unceremoniously die!!

>>217254568
Basically Will without being gay.

>>217254883
I talked about this in the last thread, it felt like the Duffer’s singular consciousness got fixated on ‘straight white Christian guy evil’ to the point they missed out on making him an interesting character that could have been in the main cast had they had the balls to kill off a character that’s been in the show for longer than a season

s5 was an extreme missed opportunity for hawkins to be faced with the truth that's been hiding beneath this town for the last 4 seasons. the s4 finale set it up, the entire town had a giant chasm inside it and people were hospitalized, there's spores everywhere, and eventually the demogorgons would begin their hunt, i refuse to believe that no one in that writing room wanted this. what happened...

It's been a while since I physically cringed at something, but that Will coming out of the closet scene was painful. Did they really have to push his gayness in the show?

>>217255012
>>217254883
and yet he still has more depth than the 12yo psychomurderbullies in season 1.

>>217255121
the reasoning for it was retarded too
>off screen, vecna showed me an alternate universe where if i didn't come out i'd be miserable
vecna has the power to predict the future now instead of simply giving people 4 visions until they die?? meanwhile the sacrificial kids get a storybook house to play in

>>217254883
He seems dumb in the context of our reality, but in the context of the Stranger Things reality, his belief that Eddie had supernatural powers was no less believable than what was actually happening, in fact he was absolutely right, he just pinned it on the wrong being. He was probably one of the most compelling human antagonists in the series, but his death was literally a blink and you miss it deal, to the point I didn't even notice it the first time. Just as weird was how the whole bullied Dustin plotline was basically abandoned without any real resolution. I guess they were just satisfied enough with killing Jake the Snake, desecrating Eddie's grave, and beating up Dustin that they called it quits? They held their grudge for more than a year, so it seems odd they'd just quit. Sure I understand not killing them or something, but at least something with Dustin or Steve reporting them and having them arrested or at least expelled would've been a clearer conclusion than them just being forgotten entirely.

>>217248823
So that's why despite them framing her as a lesbian, the chemistry between Robin and Steve screams that they are a happy couple.

>>217255121
The gayness itself isn't problematic, it's been a vital part of the character's arc for a long time. However, that specific scene is ridiculous and bad, especially so since the conversations with Robin earlier in the season were both rather well-written and decently acted.

>>217255149
Exactly, the only real discussion I’ve seen about him online is people saying he was way more understandable and likeable than the Duffers wanted

>>217255149
S1 Mike a real one for actually jumping off the cliff lmao

>>217255242
>I have to announce to you all I'm gay and you have to accept it so Vecna can't use it against me
It was just weird. It all might have played better if the characters actually had made gay jokes or something that would lead Will to believe he'd get anything but support. Alternatively, he could just have told Mike, Joyce and John on their own.

>>217255341
I did like the subtle, probably unintentional, joke in S2 about Mike jumping off a cliff if his friends were doing it. Yes, he would.

>>217255440
He was a real one for the first two seasons.

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Billy was the best anti-villain this show has had, and killing him off was a mistake.

>>217255663
No, he was well-executed by the show's standards. Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse. Had they kept him around, they'd have had to neuter him.

>>217255712
Wrong. Billy should've been Vecna. Henry is cringe

>>217255739
There never should have been a Vecna. The whole concept is stupid. In S2 we see the MF in his most powerful form getting ready to come through the gate. He doesn't need another stooge that breaks the canon of the show.

>>217255712
Doesn't matter. Some characters are the soul of the show. Billy had that aura. Made the scenes immediately interesting. Henry is so edgy and cringe, I can't comprehend they thought this was somehow a good villain.

Vecna was lame, but at least his backstory wasn't full dogshit... outside of how it affected the canon

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Sorry everyone, but Holly x Henry is canon.

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>A picture is worth a thousand words

>>217256402
She would've ungayed him
She would've saved everyone from S4 and S5 if she had been around when he was a boy scout

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Some sittings for Golden Globes are revealed

>>217255771
The mind flayer was cool because it was so inconceivable, making the true mastermind a human with a backstory was retarded baby show writing

>>217243717
But I just finished the series last night…..
Anyway I don’t give a shit as long as based Steve gets his happy ending with all his The Ones so all is well

>>217244561
He painted the inside of the mindflayer on the barn door, that’s the last it comes up.

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S5 existing has made S4 worse in retrospect and unfortunately may drag both of those seasons below S3 in the power rankings.

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>>217256402
>>217256587
Jamie x Nell is canon too.

>>217244653
Jonathan kept getting cut off from everyone he had a connection to besides Nancy, then they gave him Argyle and it just reduced him to “dude weed lmao” guy wondering why his hyper driven girlfriend doesn’t fuck with him anymore. I’m not saying he should have died but having hardly any screen time with his family gimped his character hard because anyone in Nancy’s orbit that’s not Mike turns into her fan club.

>>217255171
Yeah, huge waste of time to set up that bully plotline then go nowhere with it. Dustin throws acid in their face and then they just beat him up a bit and leave to never appear again? Those bullies realistically would have killed or crippled Dustin in the woods, or shown back up later to beat his ass repeatedly.

>>217246494
He’s fine but of the OG kids he had fuck all to do but wait in a hospital room. The little sister overshadowed him hard.

>>217256938
Every season makes all of the previous seasons worse because there are so many contradictions, inconsistencies and retcons.

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>>217257079
Me on the left

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@grok do your thing

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>holly

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>her face when you pump so hard the hymen explodes

>>217243680
all the other characters turned into shit
he would have carried the show into the end
they fucked up

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>>217257680

>>217255349
>gay jokes
That's illegal on Netflix unless the character is immediately and brutally killed. The audience would have burned down the company.

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Who else is #Hollymaxxing? I can only cum so much in one night

>>217257710
Did he hit tho?

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>>217257750
probably

>>217255771
There never should have been a Vecna because the show was supposed to be about the Montauk Project (where Joyce and Hop move to at the end, which is not a coincidence). But that should would not have gotten a tenth of the audience ST got without all the nostalgia bait of the first seasons.
The story of Montauk had everything that made this show good and then some: government child abuse leading to super powers, larger than life otherworldly threats, interdimensional travel, and gays (although the gays were gays because they were raped as boys by paperclip Nazis).
Really, what a waste. I hope one day we get the TV show the Montauk Project deserves.

>>217257710
>Pushing hair behind ear
Why do women always do this

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>holly the heroic
>holly the qt
>holly the tulpamancer
>holly the cleric
>holly the anal queen
>holly the cun knee

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>>217258004
It's a nervous tick they do when they're around a man they're physically attracted to.

>>217258081
>he likes anal
closeted homosexual

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>will is taken when young
literally the first scene was Will getting kidnapped and mouth raped in cgi
>holly is taken when young
>vecna has the demo's literally abduct children in the fourth episode
>in ep 2 there’s one of those spiral pedo symbols when they’re looking for holly
>henry/vecnas house is blue and white, in between 2 sets of trees
>vecna is a creepy gay twink
What's going on? What are they trying to tell us? This is all an allegory for pedophilia in some way...

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>>217255663
billy should've lived and become the bejita of the cast

>>217254620
The elementary kids taking their turn to play at the end was a pretty good way to close it out, can’t lie.

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>>217258245
What the fuck?! Vecna and the upside down is an allegory for the elites and their society, that the government desperately tries to cover up and hide. Duffers are on some shit. This season really is about pedophilia... There was also some clear anti lockdown jokes in the first episode of this season

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Maya Hawke owes me an enthusiastic blowjob

>>217247072
Fucking retarded

ConformityGODS, how are we feeling about the doc being a New Nightmare situation?

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wouldn't mind taking her out for some ice cream on the beach