So, so much “chittering”

I think it’s about time Nancy gets her due credit for being the steadiest of the group and for her first instinct always being to grab a gun and start shooting.

It’s a common trick shows do when an actress is playing somebody who has barely hit puberty while the actress has the body of somebody much older. Especially when only three years have elapsed in the world of Stranger Things while it’s been between five and six years in the real world. Both Millie and Sadie look a lot…

I always felt that was a lazy criticism by people who needed to find an excuse to denigrate it because it was a widely popular show that made no attempt to be anything more than be an entertaining show. If anything, it deserves a lot of credit for how seamlessly it integrated all of the 80’s stuff. 

It also relied a bit too heavily on tropes. Way too many characters live just long enough to say something only to die a few seconds later

Finales like that are often not as good as mid-season episodes as too much of it gets weighed down by exposition.  Thus was definitely the case of these episodes 

Like GoT, the finale was both overlong and too rushed. It felt like about 8 hours of plot stuffed into 4 hours of tv yet dragged at times 

Joyce, however, further her role as possibly the worst mother in TV as she once again doesn’t seem to care where her kids are at any given moment 

It’s also an effective to hide the fact that Millie Bobbie Brown has, err, grown a lot since the first season. It’s the same reason they have Max wearing a lot of loose fitting clothes and a jacket through most of the season 

I agree. I think I’m over the whole idea that main characters have to die after both Lost and GoT (not to mention Buffy). It’s a fun show, it’s not supposed to be “dark,” let everyone live. I don’t care if it’s not realistic that they all somehow seem to live.

I feel like Argyle was the show’s nod to Fast Times and Argyle the Spiccoli character. It fits with how the first couple of episodes aimed at being an 80's style High School movie. Fast Times was even mentioned a few times in it.

That was my feeling too, that it was just too much. I mean, one monologue before the climactic moment of anything is okay, two is pushing it, but three huge monologues all delivered when it looks like everybody is about to die is maybe one or two many monologues. They could have also cut about half an hour of it if…

We all knew he was going to survive until S5 because they’ve already announced there was going to be a S5. Also because the Duffer Brothers kept on saying it was going to be a depressing ending and compared it to Empire Strikes Back

I mean, Journey is a pretty horrifying band but using an orchestral version of “Separate Ways” to close out a penultimate episode of a show is just a no. A BIG NO. There’s no way you can square an incredibly dramatic scene with the circle that is a high-pitched caterwauling Steve Perry.

“When we met last week, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.”

Obi Wan has to go undercover at Luke’s bar mitzvah

I am reminded of one the basic rules of tv- that there always has to be a love triangle, thus making Nancy (and probably Jonathan) safe 

I think the fact you don’t have to wait does make it seem better, especially if you know it’s not the strongest season. There’s a lot of good stuff in there, especially with the four boys, that keeps you engaged. Let’s not forget it also gave us the show’s best couple- Dustin and Steve 

They’ll all be enrolled at the never mentioned University of Hawkins

I saw someone else say that Jonathan won’t get called because the Byers family had suffered enough. Nancy is the only one without a compelling reason to keep other than she’s awesome. It’s not like she’s been given the most compelling plot lines through most of the show