STRANGER THINGS Finale Trailer Sets The Stage For An Epic Showdown Between Eleven & Vecna

This show shit the bed hard, like really fricking horrific writing. Granted the show's quality has always been up and down with most people generally viewing at least half the entire show as a mistake.

How this show is being viewed reminds me of the backlash to BBC's Sherlock when people thought we'd get a secret episode to fix things because the writing was so poor it couldn't possible be real. We've already had the community make a petition to release a different cut of the Stranger Things Volume 2 episodes because they feel the good scenes were cut out. It's so bad that it's worse than Game Of Thrones level.

The most prominent theory people have is that Episode 5, 6 and 7 didn't actually happen due to a combination of continuity errors and trying to retcon it all into being "Vecna's Play" or "Mike's D&D game". You can see tons of people remarking on this labeling it as 'Playgate' out of desperation that the finale will actually save the show.

There's a theory that Will is being possessed by Vecna, which is just a repeat of Billy being possessed in prior seasons, and means Vecna has repeatedly slipped up again and our set-up to the finale is that Vecna forced will to out himself to everyone as being homosexual... that's the level of cringe we are at.

It's so bad that it's worse than Game Of Thrones level. They retconned the ending of the previous season so they could repeat the same tired military tropes of the previous four seasons - they have a bland and uninteresting military character who is not intimidating in the slightest and has a generic plan that we've been told doesn't actually work anyway because the blood she's stealing is incompatible. Worse still is that some of the finale is going to feature them.

There's zero way the finale can be satisfying, we have around 15/16 characters several of whom only joined the group in the penultimate episode. Half of them have not interacted at all with each other this season, some are meeting for the very first time. Vecna's had basically no wins this entire season and is capable of being beaten by multiple members of the cast, he's also written as an idiot not realizing that maybe the comatose girl is being kept at the only hospital in Hawkins given they are all stuck in quarantine after the events of last Season.

Mind Flayer has been absent so if they drag that concept back it'll feel hollow. All of the children characters have plot armour and they've already set-up the notion that the closing of the wormhole would reset time, erasing any deaths that do occur, rending the stakes meaningless. There's a heavy leaning on other material, even more so than prior seasons, stealing ideas from aspects like Harry Potter or A Wrinkle in Time, the later is probably not a good source of inspiration given people associate that with the box office bomb from 2018.

A majority of the memory subplot is just repeating the shit from the stage play, admittedly nobody watched the stage play, but it's just repetitive, slow and redundant because it serves solely to explain that Vecna is being manipulated by the Mind Flayer which contradicts what we were told in Season 4. Nobody gives a single frick about whether Henry Creel is a sympathetic villain or not at this point when he's a mass murdering plunging tentacles into children to pump them full of Mind Flayer Particles and yet the finale is going to have the characters going through his backstory? Too little too late.

They've turned toxic every heterosexual relationships in the show except for Max & Lucas, the only interracial couple in the show. They brought back the most hated character, Kali, from the worst episode and proceeded to have her tell Eleven to kill herself and Eleven has agreed to this????

Then you top all that off with the main threat of the finale not being Vecna, not being the Mind Flayer, but just them stopping the collision of Dimension X/The Abyss with Earth - which is so poorly developed because it's an entirely different realm we've not remotely explored and now it's akin to just dropping a big rock on the world.

It’s been the weakest season but still enjoyable. I’ll be watching this.

If your biggest fear is keeping you from achieving your goals, and you're able to eliminate your biggest fear with a courageous speech, it makes perfect sense to do that. People seem to forget this was the eighties and coming out was a big deal back then. People were murdered regularly for being openly gay and they usually faced no consequences.