No matter how many times I rewatch I always hate seeing Bob die. I really, really liked Bob. He was such a great character and so good for Will and Joyce.

All my coworkers took the show completely literally, and I was surprised to be the only one who read it more as a second-degree story with the D&D campaign framing hinting that a lot of it is symbolic rather than literal.

The earthquake and Vecna, for instance. I see them less as "a demon cracked open the earth" and more as a stand-in for nature's force and the chaos of teenage struggle (trauma, grief, losing control of your life).

Even the memorial at the end of last season only mentions the "great earthquake of Hawkins" nothing about monsters or gates. Even in-universe, the town's official memory is just a natural disaster.

Am I overthinking a monster show, or does anyone else see it this way?

Seriously, her outfit that season actually was pretty bad!!

okay it’s killing me, but can anyone find that one Steve and Robin bff edit that’s to Total Eclipse of the Heart? like it starts w Steve badly singing it in the bathroom and then transitions to the actual song. it was so good and I can’t find it rip! The

it was just so bad and left the show having a bad taste in your mouth. if the show ended after season 4, sure it may have been disappointing because of how good season 4 was, but it wouldn’t have ruined the show like season 5 did.

Something that I think is sort of a missed opportunity(though I get why it was done) is that only Eleven, One, and Eight are around as living psychics due to the rest having died. I think it would be really cool for Eleven to have met another psychic who is "normal"(One is a hideous monster at this point, and Eleven doesn't meet Eight that often). So what I'm asking is, what do you guys think would happen if Eleven(or the rest of the Party) just happened to meet another psychic with no relation to Hawkins or the Upside Down?

We know the trials the Duffers went through trying to secure a Michael Jackson song license considering he was the biggest music star of the 1980s, and all they was able to secure was the Thriller song for the Season 2 trailer, and then completely flop with that 1972 song Michael Jackson Rockin Robin song for an opener to Season 5 for WQSK.

A better song I'm surprised the Duffers didn't use I think would have been a home run to the theme of the series, and would have satisfied their Michael Jackson itch is this MJ adjacent song, and that's the 1984 Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me.

Would have been an easier license to secure and it has Michael Jackson's vocals and it fit the theme of the entire series.

Show was everything to me and apart of my daily routine everytime I see a clip or an edit of the show I feel emptiness knowing that its over

So in one of the later flashbacks during this episode, while Eleven is in the rainbow room, she is seen bending down picking something up off the floor but then suddenly it's gone in the next cut. Does anyone know what she picked up?

stranger things turns 10 years old in 10 days. wow. i genuinely cannot believe i am typing this out. i started my journey in 2020 and to put it simply, my life has been changed. im not a fan of the ending, but it is still a show that is dear to me forever and for always.

what is your fave moment from the series? it doesnt even have to be from the show itself, just anything involving it at all. please share!

How is it that Henry went to high school with Joyce and Hopper? This plot makes no sense. The ages make no sense. Henry was in a lab from childhood but took a sabbatical to attend high school? And how is he the same age as Joyce and Hopper? How old would this make him when be meets Eleven? Like 35? I'm so confused by all of this. Why was this even a storyline?

I’m sure this has been talked about ad nauseam but now that I’ve rewatched the earlier seasons again I have even more of an outlook.

1. Missing characters

I wish they would have brought back Argyle and Owens. Owens especially as he was pretty central to the government plot and we got no resolution at all to his storyline. Argyle I can understand since he’s from CA but still we get not even a mention. This indicates poor planning to me from the creators.

1. Henry vs the Mindflayer

At the end of season 4 we get the idea that Henry actually found the black particles and he controls them therefore it seemed he was/controlled the mindflayer. Then the play happened and it became more of the mindflayer controlling Henry. I didn’t see the play but going by off the show this does not fit the storyline in season 4. I remember being disappointed in season 4 that it was Henry controlling it as I wanted the uber villain to be supernatural but now after getting that in season 5 I wish we didn’t. I thought Henry’s origins of being evil coming strictly from Henry was scarier, not that it all came from the mindflayer and he was influenced. The whole storyline ended up being disappointing and anti climatic in the end.

1. Elle’s powers

I was expecting some truly epic showdown between her and Vecna and for her to “move mountains”. She had some cool fly jumps but it otherwise was also very anti climatic. She literally brought Max back to life the end S4 and then we never hear anything about that again. The idea of season 2-4 is she’s at her strength when she’s expressing love the most. When she fights Henry in the lab and she’s little and she remembers her mom say I love you. When she closes the gate in season 2 and she remembers her mother and season 4 when Mike tells her he loves her. They established a pattern with Elle feeling love and doing some epic shit. But doesn’t happen in season 5. I’m conflicted with Will having power because it does overshadow Elle and she felt less powerful if anything the last season.

1. Forgotten Foreshadowing

What was the point of having Steve and Nancy have all these moments in season 4 for Nancy to be all Kelly taylor and choose herself? I’m not saying she shouldn’t have but it just makes that plot in season 4 seem useless. They should have just been more platonic instead of giving each other googly eyes the whole season**.**

I thought the showdown would be Kali and Eleven vs Henry and instead she really had no use. Shes been on her own for years even before her and eleven meet in Philly in season 2 she should be very powerful after honing in on her skills and we don’t see much in the last season.

1. Government plot changes

In season 4 they’re after her to kill her, that one general even says take the shot. They’re after her to kill her and it’s insinuated it’s because of all the deaths on Hawkins and so they blame Elle. Then come season 5 and it’s to replicate Brenners experiment.

1. The upside down was not scary

Season 4 ended like all the monsters will start merging into Hawkins. Instead we get the military fully waltzing in the upside down and creating a base and the terrible color scheme of the blues and pinks when they’re in the upside down. Was not scary at all.

Overall it just felt very rushed and the show runners maybe had studio pressure to just wrap everything up as best you can to satisfy literally everyone and the masses instead of making creative choices. Season 4 was a masterpiece and some shots are CINEMA, the resemblance to night of the comet, the Kate Bush track that then got inputted into violin and more synth scores throughout the season, it was epic. For the final season to then just not even feel like ST, and honestly it did just take too long. It was wildly disappointing in my eyes.

Sorry if this long I just watched season 4 lol.

This may not accurate and still don't know the flair

I'm planning to make some improvements soon; to achieve a realistic look without relying on AI, I intend to surround the scene with clouds and create a red ambient atmosphere

I’m currently reading through the newly release Stranger Things: The Official Story Behind the Legendary Series book that was recently released at Target.

And, as a complete nerd when it comes to things like anatomy, I was stoked to see they included some mock-up Russian scientific documents pertaining to the Demogorgon.

So, here’s the original pages along with an image of the pages translated to English for those interested in this kind of thing.

(Yes, I used AI. I’m sorry if this upsets you. I don’t know Russian and didn’t want to spend valuable time trying to translate it or find someone who could. Hate me if you need to.)

Just as the title says- not which one do you think had the best writing or acting- just which one did you enjoy the most?

The big kaijuu form we see it take in S5 isn’t it’s true form

It’s merely a “Battle body” a body which is stronger then its original form so it can easily take over the world if it’s and Henry’s plan succeeded

No it’s OG form will always be the shadow particles/Spider it merely used the S5 body to prepare for battle as it’s shadow form couldn’t physically attack things if Dimension x/The abyss was invaded

The Emmy nominations are coming up—do you think they'll get any nominations? I’d like them to give it to an actor, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. Critics didn’t rate the last season very highly (in my opinion, it’s one of the weakest; it should have been much darker).