Also: "If you smell-ell-ell-ell-ell-ell…(etc) what the Rock is cooking?"

Loved the show, but it also made me realize how little I care for the "Magical Science Teacher" trope. Science teacher ex machina, maybe?

It's very rare, but CPR can restart a heart. Is it overused as a trope in TV and movies compared to actual survival rates? Oh, hell yeah. But CPR on its own without defibrillation has been known to save lives.

I agree with others that there must be some background between Jonathan and Nancy. I also think that Nancy is supposed to be newly hot and popular, so having some residual sympathy to the loser kids is understandable.

There is about a 0% chance that they would let Eleven go, though. The character, the acting, her importance to the plot… It would be a bold choice to let her stay dead, but I get why it's virtually impossible.

I still kind of think that Dr. Brenner got sucked into the Upside Down. I really thought that Joyce and Hopper we're going to encounter him there.

I thought Poppa got eaten and sent to the Upside Down. I would have loved a scene of Hopper and Joyce encountering him there, taking Will back, and trapping his ass in that world.

That longing look she has as Jonathan's car is pulling away tells me we have some irritating love triangle stuff headed our way in S2.

Can I just note how unintentionally hilarious it is that you got BarbBeth's name wrong? You shouldn't have added the edit and just sold it as a really clever joke.

I think there's a solid chance that those men in the black car made Hopper an offer to become an agent. He's clearly capable, strong, and experienced with this otherworldly shit now.

A three hour season finale is definitive proof that we are all living in some elaborate social experiment.

And the solution to governing her Essos empire? Slaughter the Masters and tell the slavers to fuck off or die (but this time, with bigger dragons!)

Aw, man, that's kind of a shame because the first episodes (while a slog at times) did pay off in the back third of the season.

Season 4 had its moments, but you're absolutely right that it felt very much like a bridge to something else.

So much wasted potential with Robert California, too (if they just HAD to keep going past Michael Scott's departure).

Every show kind of develops that "off-brand" vibe towards the later seasons, so I can see why the later seasons don't do it for some people. That being said, there was still soooo much quality in those last years that you'd be leaving on the table.

Lost's flaw was putting too many jigsaw pieces on the table, only to show us that you only needed a few of them to complete the puzzle.

If we're talking about hacking down #5, maybe.

Your point about despised Lannisters is why I hated the Riverrun shit so much. There is a precisely 0% chance that anyone in that castle would have surrendered to Lannisters and Freys - the scum of the earth - even at Edmure's command.

The WW's true weakness: heart disease.