Board 8 > Stranger Things

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Volume 2 was good, shame they killed the best character.

I'm impressed that this was the best season since the first while having so many plates to spin

Definitely felt like it was losing a few of those plates at times but it mostly fit together pretty well

Biggest asspull is definitely the Demogorgon being in the Russian prison. That whole plotline was contrived as hell. But still, good shit

Steve exists so impossible.

I don't get how people can like the California stuff more than the Russia stuff.

I also admired how Mike handled what El was going through too and how supportive he was throughout it all

This is very confusing, Mike was awful. He watched her get bullied and did literally nothing.

Somehow in a show about psychics and D&D monsters coming to life I simply couldn't take two civilians getting into Russia let alone storming a Russian prison during the Cold War and coming out alive along with the person they're trying to rescue believable at all. Everything that happened during that plotline I was just kept going "how?" Which puts it below the California plotline for me.

Are you thinking about Will? The whole thing was Mike didn't know she was getting bullied because she kept telling him she was fine in letters and then when he finally saw with the rollerskate incident, he wanted to make sure she was ok. But also even Will was trying to cheer her up as it went on, he just didn't do enough. Which sure you can debate on that he should have done more, but being an extremely shy and non-confrontational person I could see why he might be like that. Like it's not great obviously but again, believable at least to me.

Somehow in a show about psychics and D&D monsters coming to life I simply couldn't take two civilians getting into Russia let alone storming a Russian prison during the Cold War and coming out alive along with the person they're trying to rescue believable at all. Everything that happened during that plotline I was just kept going "how?" Which puts it below the California plotline for me.

No Im talking specifically at the roller rink, when El is in the center getting bullied and Mike goes to the DJ. He should have been swinging on the kid filming and especially the kid who threw the milkshake. Literally anyting but standing there like

No Im talking specifically at the roller rink, when El is in the center getting bullied and Mike goes to the DJ. He should have been swinging on the kid filming and especially the kid who threw the milkshake. Literally anyting but standing there like

What did Will do that could make you not like him?

If they had killed Max in that first Vecna interaction, I think that would've been an all time top tv scene for me.

I imagine their plans make sense for keeping Max alive, though whether it's good or not, we'll have to see.

I mean it is such a cowardly way to manipulate the audience. We get the big emotional impact of killing off Max without actually having to deal with writing the consequences with killing off Max. 11 having whatever the hell powers she can pull out of her ass to seemingly bring people back to life is just the absolute worst sort of writing, and instead of worrying about core cast members being in danger we don't have any of that tension next season. Of course Max is coming back because why the hell tease her death only to be "not really" otherwise.

It was just such an insanely frustrating conclusion to what should've been a fantastic capstone to the season.

Rickon had a purpose. Ramsey was trying to bait Jon Snow into making a mistake. It worked, and Ramsey would have won the battle had Deus Ex Sansa not happened.