Stranger Things Season 4

[corrector]

Stranger Things 5 just recently came out. It looks some episode is getting allot of negative buzz and people are complaining this is like the ending of Game of Thrones. Will came out that he was gay and that Vescna was using his fear of his friends rejecting him and that one scene, among others have got people turning their heads against this whole season.

Oh, and that cliffhanger at the episode 4 -- meant nothing much in this new season. They couldn't deliver on a pay-out for waiting 3 years to see how that resolved. Just more rabbits holes, exposition and unnecessary reveals. Final episode is expected to be dropped tonight. Honestly, the show has kind of lost me a little. It's like I don't care emotionally for that last episode *ue vol 3), compared to seeing the rest of vol 2 of the same season.

 

[characternote]

Only heard of it recently in a news article on facebook as apparently there's a girl on it who loads of adults are thirsting over, but she's like 14 or something lol

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

I've watched the first three episodes of season five, but I could tell you what happened to save my life. As soon as it starts, it just seems so stupid I start reading things online without paying much attention. And when I started season 5, I couldn't remember at all what happened in season 4. I wasn't really much of a fan since the beginning, since the whole show is a bunch of rehashed tropes from other movies.

 

[corrector]

Only heard of it recently in a news article on facebook as apparently there's a girl on it who loads of adults are thirsting over, but she's like 14 or something lol

You have to hand it to Stranger Things for reinvorating 80s music.

Lets just say the whole sequence here is she was kidnapped and her mind was placed in this "happy place" by her captor.

I didn't know about Tiffany until I saw vol 1.

Her character was last seen in vol 2 plumetting to her death, falling from the sky from the Upside Down, but Vecna suspended her fall and brought her back up to his lair.

There has been allot of memories that came to life from my own childhood in the 80s. I went on school trips with my classmates. They came back to life vividly. The smell of the school bus, vinyl. Lots of good 80s memories flooded in.

 

[corrector]

I've watched the first three episodes of season five, but I could tell you what happened to save my life. As soon as it starts, it just seems so stupid I start reading things online without paying much attention. And when I started season 5, I couldn't remember at all what happened in season 4. I wasn't really much of a fan since the beginning, since the whole show is a bunch of rehashed tropes from other movies.

I dug how they spinned that Diana Ross song, Upside Down, and made it refer to the "Upside Down".

It is things like that that give me a good reset feeling. I liked that song, but could never imagine it being used in that type of way. The start of the season had a good type of energy compared to how Season 4 ended. While it could be disappointing that we didn't see the dimensions open and monsters just invading Hawkins, like the ominious prophecy by Nancy Wheeler, and that picture of the three headed dragon. But instead had a similar energy like Ghostbusters, lol

I'm happy that I got memories from the 80s pop up into my mind. The 80s were a dangerous time with me as well. There were times as a kid, that were not safe. I do remember once an old guy tried to lure me with candy, but my mom stepped up, interrupted him and saved my life. Another time, I lost my mother, and had to find the way home by myself, and stayed at a neighbours house and my mom was so relieved ot see that I was alright. Of course there were issues as a kid too among other classmates (changed schools two times and settled at the last school). Also remember, there was this one time, a adult lady showed me lewd photos of herself on a photograph and I think put her number on the pic for me to call her. She worked at a coffee shop that my dad would regularly take me to. The overall area has drastically changed. Used to be local white folk, now it's people from Somalia and feels like a different place that has nothing to do with the 80s when we used to frequent the area allot. Anyway....

I think the monsters in the movie highlight the dangers of the 80s in my own lived through experience (ie what may lurk in the shadows). There was also that Chernobyl disaster in 1986 . Remember people were encouraged to take iodine for the radiation. Like I said, this show helps bring these memories back to life with me. That's an example about how the 80s come alive whenver I look at this program.

 

[corrector]

I am unable to watch Stranger Things 5 finale but want to. As I'm subscribed to Netflix, I can't watch this show on my desktop. The only venue for this show is the basement area (ie after other quened movies are purged first), but I have to stay upstairs in case my folks need me other activities. Apart from that, the only other way I can reliably watch this last episode is on a tablet in bed if I have trouble sleeping and wake up at night (ie which is how I watched the last 8 episodes). The thing is, I've now taken Tylenol before going to bed and have been sleeping nicely, with no back or leg pain keeping me up at night where I end up watching a show like that....so for now, this show is inaccessible to me since I cant watch it if I'm sleeping.

Well, anyone else saw the Finale cause I didn't yet.

 

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Had woken up in the middle of the night and started watching the last episode...but decided to take it off and go back to sleep (which I did) and woke up well rested. Didn't feel right to watch it at that time. Perhaps it is the Tylenol.

There are allot of reviews lighting up all over youtube about this last epsiode and there may be some spoilers (ie even thumbnails has images and titles which could betray plot points)...but too drained out to care about it. The movie quene may be down to two in line so I may end up eventually watching this at the home cinema system at this rate. The Leave of Absence does make for more time on my hands.

 

[corrector]

Saw the Finale. A memory popped into my mind about when I first learned to ride the bike in the late 80s as a kid. That bike was stolen.
Fast forward to 2009. I bought another bike, and have been having elaborate bike ride seasons form 2009 all the way up to this past summer in 2025, all inspired by the memory and education of learning to ride that first bike as a kid. I never gave up on that in the end. A memory gift after viewing that Finale. The mantle has now passed to the younger generation (ie end of the show).

 

[Clockwerk50]

I finished the series finale last night. Some things I didn’t like were that the long gaps between seasons made me forget what had happened before, there were scenes that could have been cut but were kept to pad the runtime, and some of the special effects looked very cheap.

Overall, this season was much better than the last one with the helicopters and the Russians, where I fell asleep most of the time. It was also pretty entertaining, especially since I didn’t remember much from earlier seasons. I didn’t mind the ending either, and I’m sure most rational people would agree, even though the internet compared it to the ending of Game of Thrones. Honestly, it was nothing close to that abomination.

 

[Solomon]

Season 5 was mid-The show start of great lost a bit of traction season 3 had a great season 4 but season 5 they decided to pull that gay stuff.....

 

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Season 5 was mid-The show start of great lost a bit of traction season 3 had a great season 4 but season 5 they decided to pull that gay stuff.....

If I were to re-watch season 5, I'd likely stop it at vol 1, and stop there.

That being said, as a first and one-time only watch, I did not mind watching it to the finale as it was a fun-watch to me. But the whole glue that keeps fiction together means it should not change the goal posts for plot convenience otherwise it becomes spectical without substance. The wormhole idea was terrible. Also what was the point of season 4 creating those gates if it means nothing on Season 5? It's like it put this huge cliffhanger on season 4 which meant nothing at season 5 and turns the Upside Down into a big joke. Even an operational military base in the Upside Down? Come on. You can't take the story seriously after that. They just made a half-baked attempt to make some sort of Marvel Endsgame (ie btw, imagine if Captian America confessed he was gay and he liked Dr Strange before a final battle, lol)

I think Season 3 is one of the most re-watchable season and hits a sweet spot. Season 4 (ie after vol 1) was great for exploring the Upside Down world on a level we didn't see before...but still too dark. I didn't think Season 3 was as dark as other seasons, and has more of a fun vibe to it overall.

 

[corrector]

I finished the series finale last night. Some things I didn’t like were that the long gaps between seasons made me forget what had happened before, there were scenes that could have been cut but were kept to pad the runtime, and some of the special effects looked very cheap.

Overall, this season was much better than the last one with the helicopters and the Russians, where I fell asleep most of the time. It was also pretty entertaining, especially since I didn’t remember much from earlier seasons. I didn’t mind the ending either, and I’m sure most rational people would agree, even though the internet compared it to the ending of Game of Thrones. Honestly, it was nothing close to that abomination.

You are not as invested in the show to feel disappointed by it. Did you look at season 4 (ie the one before it)? It sounds like you are referring to season 3. If you skipped season 4, then you should look at that.

 

[Clockwerk50]

You are not as invested in the show to feel disappointed by it. Did you look at season 4 (ie the one before it)? It sounds like you are referring to season 3. If you skipped season 4, then you should look at that.

Without cheating, if I remember correctly, season 1 was about Will disappearing, season 2 was about the sheriff being really angry and fighting everyone, season 3 was about Max’s brother, season 4 was the road trip and the helicopter, and season 5 was the one recently released.

I watched them all, but I guess I wasn’t as invested because of the long time between seasons and the nature of Netflix shows. The last ones I’ve seen, Wednesday and Outer Banks, have been non-stop action, and I can’t really differentiate them. Their episodes blur together because they follow the same formula and become repetitive after a while.

 

[corrector]

Without cheating, if I remember correctly, season 1 was about Will disappearing, season 2 was about the sheriff being really angry and fighting everyone, season 3 was about Max’s brother, season 4 was the road trip and the helicopter, and season 5 was the one recently released.

I watched them all, but I guess I wasn’t as invested because of the long time between seasons and the nature of Netflix shows. The last ones I’ve seen, Wednesday and Outer Banks, have been non-stop action, and I can’t really differentiate them. Their episodes blur together because they follow the same formula and become repetitive after a while.

Fair enough, it sounds like you did watch all the seasons. Season 3, Max brother sacrificed his life. Season 4 included the helipopter and road trip...but allot more than that. It help set up Season 5. You thought season 5 would be this epic showdown with a three headed dragon (ie new monster from the Upside Down), or that the Upside Down would have invaded Hawkins (ie along with the vines and monsters) once the gates had opened at the end. None of this showed up in Season 5. It sounds like you watched the series but didn't connect too deeply with the story. If you took the story seriously, like really connected with it, then you would feel disappointed by the writing by Season 5 since they failed to deliver a proper follow-up from the cliffhanger. Instead you get this cheesy story about the military just patching things up with steele plates, having its own base in the Upside Down, and then the Upside Down itself being a wormhole. This threw allot of people off. It's like the show was serious up to season 4 and they were not able to do season 5 properly. It's not to say that season 5 is bad..it is still entertaining, and delivers a Marvel-like specticle. The audience score on the RT is low for season 5 -- 53%. That's very low.