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Film & TV / Stranger Things 4 *SPOILERS*
« on: 04 July, 2022, 06:27:17 PM »
So, now its over, what did people think of it? SPOILERS**
I thought it was pretty good - characters were fine, though Mike remaained as whiney and useless as previous series. Loved Eddie and leaning into the Satanic Panic I thought was a good call. ST is trying to do what Chibnall did with its gay charcters with its metal characters, though. Dont have a problemw with Eddies demuse, but it could hvve been more meaningful - in what way is he the hero? Or his death part of that heroism? If he had kept running, he would have kept the bats occupied longer AND survived - I see the theme they were gonig for, but it lose something in the execution - shame after the Master of Puppets scene.
The ending I didnt grock at all. OK, so 11 brings ax back from clinical death and reverses the gates opening - but Max is now comatose and her mmind is a blank when 11 tries to look... Then the gates silently open back up a coouple of days later... not so much a cliff hanger as a head scratcher. Feel liek they';d have been better not having a fake out "happy ending" if that's where they were going to leave it?
Overall, I enjoyed it, but it still suffers with a lot of weak story telling that I've come to expect from modern TV. How did Papa create a "chip" to block Ones powers? How does he know all about how Ones papers work now: "he takes all their memories" How would he know?
How did the Russians transport all those Demogorgons and such to Russia if they didnt have a way to subdue them?
I kind of wish they hadn't gone with the disaster ending - I know theres only one season left, but they were stretching credibility last season by writing everything off to a "Mall Fire" - was there also a hospital fire?
I thought it was pretty good - characters were fine, though Mike remaained as whiney and useless as previous series. Loved Eddie and leaning into the Satanic Panic I thought was a good call. ST is trying to do what Chibnall did with its gay charcters with its metal characters, though. Dont have a problemw with Eddies demuse, but it could hvve been more meaningful - in what way is he the hero? Or his death part of that heroism? If he had kept running, he would have kept the bats occupied longer AND survived - I see the theme they were gonig for, but it lose something in the execution - shame after the Master of Puppets scene.
The ending I didnt grock at all. OK, so 11 brings ax back from clinical death and reverses the gates opening - but Max is now comatose and her mmind is a blank when 11 tries to look... Then the gates silently open back up a coouple of days later... not so much a cliff hanger as a head scratcher. Feel liek they';d have been better not having a fake out "happy ending" if that's where they were going to leave it?
Overall, I enjoyed it, but it still suffers with a lot of weak story telling that I've come to expect from modern TV. How did Papa create a "chip" to block Ones powers? How does he know all about how Ones papers work now: "he takes all their memories" How would he know?
How did the Russians transport all those Demogorgons and such to Russia if they didnt have a way to subdue them?
I kind of wish they hadn't gone with the disaster ending - I know theres only one season left, but they were stretching credibility last season by writing everything off to a "Mall Fire" - was there also a hospital fire?