I actually had the had the opposite reaction. I was actually ready to be pissed off thinking that they were going to kill the flesh flayer then all the people were somehow going to reincorporate out of the sludge. I’m glad they stuck to the dark tone. It was in keeping with the influences of films like The Thing, Invas…

I suppose if I have one gripe about this season, it’s the fate of all those poor townsfolk who were taken over by the Mind Flayer. I guess chalk it up to my similar feelings about Barb in season 1, but I just kind of hate when characters are used and victimized and never get a chance to be saved. The show really…

“But... Tammy Thompson? She’s such a dud.” I’ve never loved Steve Harrington—easily my favorite character in a crowded ensemble—more than I did in that moment.

I loved Steve, but I think I love drugged-up Steve even more.

This. Stranger Things is, at its heart, actually a 1980s movie, so in that context, if you put yourself in a Reaganesque 1985 mindset, then a fear of the Ruskies infiltrating America like this is totally plausible. In 1985, we didn’t know about Chernobyl, the Berlin Wall, or how terrible New Coke actually was. Sure,…

The clear MVP of this season is that perfectly ridiculous sailor outfit that Steve is permanently trapped in. I can’t decide what’s funnier, the stupidly short shorts or the little hat.

When Robin comes back with the blueprints her line seems to be almost a direct lift from Sneakers. (1992) Here are the original lines from the movie.

While I’d generally agree with you on the trope being overused, it’s framed far better than you imply here. This ends up being a lot more about Mike having developed into a genuine teenage asshole to Hopper than said policing.

So...parents in these things should just trust their teens to govern themselves when it comes to sexual involvement?

It didn’t seem to exist at all. There were the two guys escorting Jon out of the city, but there were only Wildlings at Castle Black. I think it was just a ruse to trick Grey Worm. The Night’s Watch no longer exists, and everyone else knew Jon would run off with the Wildings.

My favourite part when they sent Jon to the Night’s Watch, which has no longer has a reason to exist.

so that the show could use its budget in less episodes

I love that Jon was apparently stupid enough to confess despite there being no body.

Yeah, kind of surprising for a ultra-traumatized killing machine abused from early childhood to go ballistic after losing the one source of kindness he has had his whole life. What an a-hole.

Him being a complete and utter putz is one of my favorite sub-storylines from the whole saga. Arya should’ve challenged him to an archery contest for the throne on the spot.

Euron can sense main characters from 100 miles away. It’s one of his powers that he has.

That Dany was in danger of crossing a line has been in the books and show for a very long time. There have been cracks in her empathy and humanity throughout going all the way back to her reaction to Viserys’s death. She’s gone for mass murder more than once and usually in horrific ways — Qarth, Vaes Dothrak, various…

Wife: How was the episode?

The scorpions were only as accurate and powerful as the plot needed them to be.

There was a saying on some old Battlestar Galactaca boards, “Everything you want, in the worst possible way.”
I’ve been waiting for Dany’s sack of King’s Landing for five years, and this is what they gave us. Thanks, Benioff and Weiss, for not letting us enjoy anything.
Clegane-Bowl kind of saved it. Kind of.