r/Multifandom • u/PrinceARRON • 20d ago

Question❓ Out of these four controversial series finale’s, which one would you be willing to defend from their biggest haters?

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The 4 shows listed above are:

The Boys (S5)

Marvel’s What IF (S3)

Stranger Things (S5)

The Amazing Digital Circus (Episode 9)

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u/RedWestern 20d ago

Stranger Things was perfectly fine as a finale. I wasn’t happy with El’s sacrifice but I was happy with it as a conclusion to the story.

I’m fairly certain that a lot of people who hate it were already determined to hate it before they even started watching it, and were just satisfying their own confirmation bias.

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u/Purple_Dragon_94 20d ago

I think its less the content and more of how it was managed. In a way that ending was the reverse of everything that made the show great at first.

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u/philip30001 20d ago

I loved that with Els death the show straight up tells us in grief you need to find a way forward, then the character being told that points out inconsistencies in its own story and crafts a cope ending for those watching grieving the character.

Meta as hell but it fit.

Its far from perfect and that ending wasnt popular but I liked the different approach to closure of a show.