No nuance and characters are saying the obvious stuff, because viewers are looking at another device while watching. We’re so cooked.
No nuance and characters are saying the obvious stuff, because viewers are looking at another device while watching. We’re so cooked.
Welk, that validation of many people’s suspicions about Netflix shows. Stranger Things’ last episode was particularly harrowing…
World’s ending, every second counts!
*monologues for 5 min about the importance of friendship
Ohh they defeated the thing, that was pretty cool. Wait, how is there an hour left? There’s gonna be more crazy action, right? … right?
< flash back to a year prior with writers sitting around a table >
So, we want to go out with a bang, The final episode needs to be a full 2 hours … and change. Now the bad news, our SFX budget is only greenlit for half of what we asked for. We need ideas, and … Go!
Man, the scene between Mike and El, fuck, that shit flies when they are kids, they are adults now, that wouldn’t even fly in a soap opera. It was so bad it gave me “oh hi Marc” vibes.
Ok. I’m not going to watch it can I have a tl:dw?
It actually happened quite a lot in the last couple ep’s
They’re writing them as if they’re still 12.
Steve: re’re gonna need some weapons, * picks up a handgun *, Dustin: I have a better idea! tapes a knife to a stick and shoves some nails through a trash can lid, as they run off to prepare to fight a kaiju.
Mike to Nancy: I’m gonna need one of those guns. gives him a flare gun
spoiler
In El’s last reliable scene (there are future scenes that might be postulation), she draws Mike into a psychic construct to tell him she needs him to make the others understand her decision. backstory: They’re imploding the upside down, which is a wormhole to an alien planet, and she intends on staying behind to be killed by it so they military can’t find her and restart the project again (which they’ve done multiple times now)
EL: None of this will ever end, not if I’m still here.
Mike: No, No, we’ll figure something out, we’ll fight back, we always do.
El: I need you to talk to the others.
Mike No. No.
El: I need you to thank them for me (breaking crying) For being so kind to me. And teaching me what it means to be a friend.
Mike: No, please don’t do this, please don’t do this
El: Mike, I need you to help them understand my choice
Mike: But I don’t, I don’t understand
El: I know. But you will, one day you will. You understand me. Better than anyone. (breaking crying) you always have. From the day we met.
(break to every touching El: scene montage since season 1 playing Prince’s Purple Rain)
(break to the current scene, where, in slow motion, they all, while being restrained by the military, watch her get sucked into the vortex that undoes the upside-down)
For the next 30 minutes of airtime (18 months later), they follow up on every life decision for the entire cast.
At the end of all that, Mike, running the end of their shared D&D campaign, gives an alternate take on the last moments of “the mage” that parallels the real-life experience they saw, but paints it as she escaped, and provides a plan with some ‘evidence’ and details how it happened, followed up by cutscenes of her living on—setting up for possible spinoffs.
Same level writing as in other show when they went: +“And let people decide their leaders? *erupt in laughter”