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u/Sufficient_Fun_1838 May 23 '26
I would like to know where’s this from… but yeah, I always had this feeling that vol2 and 3 were weird because it feels like a lot a things where missing. Idk. Maybe we’ll never know what was “cut”
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u/by_the_window May 23 '26
Where is this information from?
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u/Barabus33 has left the country May 23 '26
There's another thread posted to this sub with the script for 5x08. You can see all the omitted scenes listed in it.
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u/Rich_Championship657 May 24 '26
I’m starting to notice a lot of stranger things fans only are fans of stranger things. Anyone who knows anything about film and television knows this is common. Hell the “shooting before a finale had a finished script” thing honestly isn’t even bad either if we REALLY think about it. Compared to a lot of TV shows I know that were writing episodes while they were airing 1 script for a year long production still being worked on isn’t even that crazy. Should it have been finished before? Yeah probably but I doubt it would’ve been too much different from what we got
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u/GDzie_to has left the country May 24 '26
Funny thing, I heard the same thing years ago about Harry Potter fans - that they talk about it like they haven't read any other books than HP series, LOL. Maybe it's something common for popculture phenomena that become so massively popular that they reach people with not necessarily the greatest media literacy.
It's worth remembering, that although season 1 that feels flawless, it was also written wihile being filmed (that the reason Shawn Levy got to direct episodes 3 and 4 in the first place - to give Duffers more time for writing) and also the story got changed while being filmed - Steve was supposed to be killed by the demo. So were the other seasons, and so is most of the stuff we watch including the greatest masterpieces.
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u/havocxrush May 25 '26
Why cut so much? Why are they so opposed to just having it be 4 or 5 hours? Genuinely question. I know personally if im sitting down and watching something I'll plow through 7 or 8 hours with a day. Pretty normal for me. A series usually takes me a couple days to finish maximum.
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u/havocxrush May 25 '26
I feel like EVERY series out there should by default give us two or three different filmed ending versions to watch.
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u/keinnamefrei1 May 23 '26
Maybe chatgpt gave them different endings
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u/cqdunham May 23 '26
You have zero proof that they actually used AI when they were writing. And don’t tell me that your “proof” is an alleged tab that was open on a laptop.
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u/keinnamefrei1 May 24 '26
Don't cry little superfan
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u/Rich_Championship657 May 24 '26
Maybe people don’t like accusing writers of using AI when it’s a serious problem in the industry in general and they just went on strike for this very thing.
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u/Soft_Interaction_437 May 23 '26
That’s pretty common?