Stranger Things is kinda dumb now... 

The true villain of stranger things is Will’s barber

The only thing I dislike about Stranger Things is how they're so afraid to kill anyone from the main cast so to create this artificial tension they simply introduce new characters and kill them off in the exact same season

I cannot forgive the duffers for what they did to Jonathan and Mike’s characters. They were by far my favorites S1-2 but then they were shoved to the side and reduced to weakling love interests. I did love Nancy, Max and Steve’s development though

Let me repeat again. Will's character got buried. He was the (or one of the) mc of S1 and 2. In Ep 1 of S1 he was smart enough to quickly realise that he was home alone, locked himself and was prepared to shoot at what like age 12? Even the adults in some shows don't have this type of awareness but then again they just forgot about Will

Super mad respect for saying Steve and Dustin are best characters, they’re literally the best parts of the show, pure gold

My biggest complaint was that the four main kids got to do basically nothing other than transport around the people who actually did things. They’ve been heroes 3 different times and now they were the most unused part of the show.

Suprised you didn't mentioned Robin in the "most characters are dumb" part. They nerfed her so bad. She went from "quirky sassy smart enough to crack a secret fucking Russian code" to "sorry if I'm talking fast my mouth moves faster than my brain am I bothering you? Because I totally get those vibes" like what? Where tf did this come from?

Will could be a really interesting character, if the writers actually gave him the time of day

My only problem is that Mike became the worst character. Remember how he wanted to sacrifice himself for Dustin in season 1? What happened to him

I only have 3 complaints about this season 1. Mike being a hypocrite when El hit her bully 2. The new character Jason getting so much screen time for reason at all he doesn’t even help with the story 3. Wills barber still doing him dirty after all these years (Spoiler- Jason died 😍)

Ok few things 1. Steve’s character development is amazing 2. The grinch comment made me die 3. Wills hair looks like an actual mushroom

Was anyone else crushed when Bob died?! He turned out to be such a sweet, caring man to Will and his family. I would have been so upset even if he and Joyce broke up but his death was also just so brutal. I really loved him. Am I the only one??

I absolutely love this season. My only issue is the California crew who aren't doing much of anything. Sidenote: They didn't say that the upside was stuck in 1983 because that's when El first opened the gate. Nancy said it's stuck in '83 when Will first went missing.

I would argue Eddie was most definitely emotionally impacted by Chrissie's death. The trauma of seeing someone floating, breaking apart and eyes exploded might make one's emotions go a little hay-wire. Everything he knew about reality has just had a dramatic and impactful shift. He now has to come to grips with his new reality and wonder if that same fate awaits him.

as much as i love stranger things,but you’re completely right. it’s lost the same magical and nostalgic feeling it had in season one and two. at least to me

It's so frustrating that we keep getting new characters but no development for the main kids, I feel like the ones that are good are holding the show together, more Steve and Dustin duo please

As much as I love Hopper, it would have been fitting if he actually died at the end of Season 3. This would have eliminated the whole Russian storyline so that they could give more character development screentime for Mike, Will, and Jonathan.

Don't feel like you went over Lucas well, he actually did change or grow to a degree and in a pretty realistic manner. Lucas didn't want to be a nerd or a loser anymore but at the same time he wanted to elevate his friends with him as opposed to ditching them for popularity. So he started working out, playing sports and hanging with the popular kids also due to the fact he was sick of being bullied and feeling like less.

I swear when you mentioned Jason I was like “who the actual f**k is Jason” and that just goes to show how forgettable and underdeveloped of these new characters are and the fact that there’s gonna be another new season makes me wonder how they’re gonna nerf this show once again

Tbh I think they ruined Jonathan bc he was a caring brother a few seasons ago and now he’s just a drug addict

My dad summarized the first few episodes of this season perfectly: it starts off as a romantic comedy for high schoolers and ends like a psychological horror

I actually like the fact that they added jasons character and his whole thing with the town cuz its realistic, like thats how an american small village would react like in the 80s, not like in s3 where everyone just accepted the fact that a "mall fire" destroyed the mall and moved on with their life

I love Hopper’s character a lot but I agree with the fact he should’ve remained dead. Also the moment they reunited didn’t felt that much emotional to me idk it felt like they didn’t care too much about that scene among everything else happening so the writing was a lil cheap idk. I mean someone died literally DIED and came back from the dead and all of them just reacted like an old friend came to visit again 💀

I completely, 100% agree with the Hopper one. I shed literal tears for HOURS after hearing the "keep the door 3 inches open" from his letter. And then finding about the post credit scene later, "the American" just took that overwhelming feeling away. But hey, he's alive, I hope we get to see him and Joyce being parents to kiddos.

for me, the only disappointing part about this season was the California group, aside from Argyle they're the least interesting tbh. I love all other plot lines though, and I liked that they brought Hopper back because of the father dynamic with El, I think their relationship is a major arc for their characters, especially because of Hopper's late daughter Sarah. Apparently many main characters will die in volume 2, so I think that might make up for Hopper returning? Idk, I just know that season 2 and 4 are my favorites because to me they're the darkest ones and I love that kind of genre.

His "Joker" moment was when he read his parent's mind and found out what monstrous things they had done. Henry had probably been gleaning terrible inner thoughts from people for years.

Might be a hot take but one of the most annoying things for me was that El lost every sense of her newfound style in season 4. Like it was such a big thing in season 3. Her bonding with Max and the bright colours. "What you want, not what Hopper and Mike want". She was coming of age, feeling herself and in season 4 she just wears the most boring outfits. All of them are not dressed half as cool as in season 3 but for most characters i don't care. For El it was a major part of the plot and they also had flashbacks about it in this season. I feel betrayed!

I quite liked Stranger Things S4… as it’s own standalone series that had nothing to do with the previous three seasons. It feels like the first two seasons were exploring the first idea the showrunners had for the reasoning behind the upside down and then the fourth season was them exploring a totally different narrative. Like, in this one, Vecna picks on people with trauma and lifts them into the air to kill them, but in the first season, people were killed and/or brought into the upside down randomly?! what relation had the demigorgon to Vecna, I don’t feel like that was ever adequately mapped out.

Why does everyone forget that Will had a parasite. He was infected by an intelligent enemy, luring others in to look for him. As far as the story, its all leading up to a showdown with Vecna, who uses your depression against you. Eleven is lying to friends and lashing out, Will is depressed, they are both connected to the upside down.

I wish Will played a bigger part in this whole grand scheme. I feel like everything that happened to him was just kinda…forgotten? Pushed to the side? I feel like they could do so much with Will’s character and don’t bc they clearly don’t care about him anymore

"Chrissy this is for you" *not emotionally effected by Chrissy's death whatsoever*

Mike in s2: I’ll sacrifice for Dustin by jumping in the water :) Mike in s4: imma not care about Dustin anymore 🥱

I always assumed Will had bad bowl haircuts to show that his family was basically too poor to afford real haircuts, so Joyce just used the classic bowl style which she could do herself.

I loved this season despite the plotholes you mentioned. The only thing I didn't like is that they killed off Eddie who was adding a lot to the story, it felt like they just introduced new characters this season, to kill them off because they're too scared to kill any main characters. Same with Billy Hargrove..the whole volatile child grows up to be a sacrificial adult trope.

Mike is personally my favorite character but i feel like over the seasons they just developed him into a main love interest stuck between a love triangle between him, eleven, and will. (Except there is no love between will and eleven for obvious reasons). I really want them to do more with his character in season 5 as I feel like they havent even dedicated that much time into his story. If anything, i think they gave nancy the spotlight between them. Mike is very overhated and i really hope to see him have a redemption arc in season 5

My question about this show is WTF HAPPENED TO WILL’S DOG?

I do wanna address your comment on hopper and how them “bringing him back” made his death not mean as much. If I recall at the end of the third season they actually hint that he is alive. The Russians mention an “American” and for me I wondered if either Billy or Hopper survived somehow. So they weren’t necessarily just bringing him back as a last minute decision, it was clearly something planned since the last season

With the Mike point, it's possible that he just matured past that. Like, when he was a kid seeing his bullies get beat up was awesome, but now that he's older he realizes how messed up it is. I totally agree that his character is basically pointless now though lol.

I think my biggest complaint with stranger things is that they refuse to kill anyone from the main cast unless they’re introduced that same season or an antagonist. Barb was the only character with an excuse for that since it was impossible for her to have been introduced any earlier than she was. It also bugs me that any time an established main character has “died,” it’s been a fake out, like with hopper at the end of season 3 or max at the end of season 4. Going into season 4 i had a really strong feeling that a main character would actually die, so strong that in the graveyard scene with max and when steve was attacked by demobats i genuinely panicked about whether they would make it out. And then at the end that all finally paid off when max started floating off the ground with no music around to save her, and i cried so hard that i had to stop watching for several minutes to calm down. And then i hit play and it cuts to el saying “no” and i knew that she would save max, and it just pissed me off. It makes me feel like an idiot and i refuse to get so worried about the main characters again because now i know that the duffers dont have the guts to kill off an important character like that

Personally I think the biggest issue with season 4 is the simple fact that the younger actors are no longer able to pass for the age of the characters that they portray. In seasons 1-3 the main child actors were close enough in age to their characters (I think Noah and Millie were actually younger than their characters) that they could pass for that age. Then the pandemic happened, production was shutdown, and actors got older. However, the characters didn’t really get older, they simply started the next school year. So in season 4 it’s obvious that the younger actors are no longer close in age to their characters.

for eleven, i think the whole point was that after hoper “died”, she started trauma blocking even more of her already limited memory. i feel as if her season two and three story lines show how dependent she was on hoper, and having him stripped away from her like she was would definitely cause trauma (especially considering the circumstances), and she’d block more and more of her memory to keep herself safe. it makes sense she wouldn’t remember opening the gate considering she was so young and already messed up at the time of the incident. i think this was over all a pretty good season, one of my only complaints is how many different story lines they were following at a time, it was a bit difficult to follow everything, and i wish they had focused a bit more on the california crew, but other then that i feel like volume two will most likely tie up any other (seemingly) lose ends

what confuses me about Mike is that he’s literally witnessed Eleven commit multiple crimes (shop lifting, murder, etc.) but her hitting a bully in the face with a skate is where he draws the line???? What????

finally some respect on dustin's name 🙏🙏🙏 the way dustin has had pretty much zero character development besides becoming increasingly more hot-tempered each season and still manages to be the best character in the show is insane to me. gaten is truly such a talented actor and he does really well at playing comedic characters like dustin or jared in dear evan hansen, but i also love that he's able to take it much more seriously and play a character that is so batshit insane and fucked up in the head like michael in honor society. i'd love to see him cast as a serious takes-no-shit evil mastermind supervillain in a superhero movie, i think he'd pull that off really well and it would be a fun contrast since in real life he is the most passive and non-threatening person on earth lmao

After watching the show I hated Jason significantly more than Vecna. To this day if I come to dislike somebody I will make a point of how much I dislike them by saying they're up there with Jason. For some reason Vecna just didn't emotionally scar me the way Jason did. Ya know?

something i find funny is that Joyce really enrolled Eleven into a public high school when she spent almost her entire life in Hawkins lab and probably doesn't even know basic math. I doubt Dr. Brenner was teaching her what to do if Jerry gave Cindy 5 apples and he has seven how many does he have left?

Jonathan really got sidelined this season. I don’t care about him and sometimes forget he exists 😭 Honestly the California group really hasn’t done much besides moping around in the house and running from some evil government dudes who tried to kill them, because of Eleven. I kinda like the Russia storyline mainly because of the dynamic between Joyce and Murray. We all knew Hopper wasn’t dead after season 3, plus they revealed in a teaser 3 years ago that he’s in Russia so I wasn’t worried. Overall I still really like this season. What song is saving y’all from Vecna?

Season 4 was kinda distant but it gave us few of the most loved characters, Eddie and Venca or Henry Creel or Peter Ballard, the actors did a great job and are getting the recognition they deserve

little tip: if u r watching a series and along the way new random characters are introduced don't get attached. 70% of the time they are introduced to be used as sacrificial lambs for the storyline.

Unpopular opinion: I was actually really intrigued by jason, Chrissy and Eddie. All of their character arcs made sense, just wish we got to learn more about them

Something that my dad pointed out is that in season 1 she cannot speak. She can only say a few words. I think it was just a given that they didn’t talk a lot, and they focused more on experimenting than education. What doesn’t make sense is that in season 4 we see that Brenner talks all the time, and other test subjects talk to her a lot too. I know that the other kids have probably just as much trauma as her, but why is she like the only one who can’t speak??

I agree with most of the points you made in this video, I just binge watched Stranger things This week knowing nothing about it prior and I definitely have a few issues with season 4. I feel like they just tossed out most of the character development from the previous 3 seasons. I Honestly think that the show could of ended with Season 3 and I would have been satisfied with the ending, even though I love Hoppers Character. Season 4 just doesn’t fit with the rest of the storyline. Also them completely forgetting about Will in seasons 3 and 4 is horrible, he could be so much more important to the storyline. And the whole 11 thing in season 4 doesn’t make much sense- She can’t talk basically at all in season one yet in her flashbacks she is having full conversations? And I personally think it’s pretty convenient to just have her forget everything that happened in the lab until it’s useful to the plot (I know she may have blocked it out because it’s traumatic, but she has memories of several other traumatic events). Overall I love the show, but season 4 doesn’t fit with the rest of the show in my opinion.

That moment when he said “every scene with Dustin in it is the best scene of the episode, and when Dustin and Steve are together it’s just pure tv magic” is the moment I decided to hit the like button 😝

Satanic panic was a real thing in the 80's therefore Jason's story line was waaaaaay more relevant than we give it credit for, which I understand cuz we don't like him but understand that in the 80's, a lot of people were actually calling DnD a cult and was regularly said to have claimed the lives of multiple innocent young people. (Idk how true it is that some kids used DnD as an excuse, I'd have to do more research about it, but it seems highly unlikely and parents were worried about their "poor children's brain rotting" so they made up some silly lie about the game that more than likely turned up a few real cases causing real panic amongst parents and children alike) Holy crow 1.1k likes? I'm famous y'all lol

Season 1-2 were awesome compared to 3-4. The thing about 3 and 4 is that there was nothing mysterious about them anymore. They just ended up being too predictable and you knew that the characters wouldn’t die. Season 1 actually kept the main part of the story a complete mystery the whole way through. You never knew what was going to happen until you got to the last couple episodes. Now when you watch 3 and 4, you pretty much know what is going to happen because they are more focused on making the fan favorite characters as likeable as possible.

7:37 I agree. Dustin's the only one in the friend group who seems to actually be likeable all the time and have a major role. This kid could go on a killing spree and murder half of Hawkins, and I'd still root for him. Ntm his scenes with Steve are absolutely incredible, and rly show how far Steve has come.

Alex's points make sense but I still really like Season 4. It's much darker, much more dramatic than previous seasons. I will say that each season seems like it's supposed to be self-contained with only certain elements carrying over season to season.

I AGREE SO HARD WITH THE DISCONNECT OF SEASON 4!! I've just been sitting here trying to figure put why these new characters feel so unrelated to the rest of stranger things. So much so it almost feels like a different show or a spin off whenever they are on screen. And this is why!! They don't interact with the main cast like at all

This just gives more credence to show that seasons 1-2 were not the creation of the duffer bros, but rather the gentleman who sued the duffer bros.

What he said about eleven is stupid, he obviously missed the fact that Mr.Bremer said Eleven fell into a comma, and lost her memory of everything except her powers. And what he said about the upside down being stuck in the past, was not because eleven sent one to the upside down, it’s because that’s the date of when will went missing. Will has something to with this because of his time in the upside down.

They kinda implied in 4 why 11 was weaker in 3. When she did that enourmous surge of closing the portal, it started her weakening, like getting a fractured leg, and after everything she had to do in 3, it's like the equivalent of continuing to work on a fractured leg and breaking it instead of properly healing. I did detest the retconning of her entire arc, and how kinda pointless her snapping and assaulting her bully was. It was just a convenient plot way to get her to be taken away. It would have been just as effective to have her be grabbed during the insanity of the shoot out. It would have left Mike feeling like more of a failure to protect her, and would have made sense why they are looking for the lab instead of a jail all of a sudden. Her being bullied in general and hiding it made sense, she was the tough can handle literal monsters girl and now can't handle one ordinary teenager so she doesn't want to be seen as weak. But the excessiveness, the way the entire school joined in the bullying, it just made no sense. Why did they hate her so much? Will is weird, too, and they didn't show him being bullied. All of it was just handled poorly as a setup to remove her from the group. Adding 1 and having him manipulate a young 11 was perfectly fine, and they could have shown that negative emotions are what created the portal. There was no reason to have her memory loss as a result of it.

About the new characters being added, I think most of them have been good. Chrissy even in her short screen-time, managed to make me care about her and it was heartbreaking to see her die. What I think they have done great is making us care about Eddie and Chrissy with such a limited amount of screentime in episode 1 only. That is why people care about Eddie because they have shown his fun unique personality and the bond with Dustin and crew with that DnD game. Among the others Argyle and the jock guy were ok. And actually Enzo is a really underrated character I think

The thing about Season 4 that really kept making me so angry and confused, and just made zero sense to me is the entire Hop in Russia story line ... don't get me wrong it was exciting and brought in some cool scenes and characters. But every single time the show cut to Hopper's story, I would get mad and be like, "this makes zero sense "... at the end of season 3 the entire mall was surrounded by military and police. And it was clear that joyce had told the military what was going on, so how the hell did the Russians who took hopper get out of there?... They literally just did a blah blah blah...RUSSIA! It's a great show, but sometimes they rush through some things that really need to be explained...and by doing the whole Hop and the Russians somehow escaped the mall and town surrounded by the army and police, they completely missed the opportunity to have had Hop and the Russians escape into the upside down to escape the blast... idk that plot hole just bothered me.

I feel like Season 4 brings out some long running issues with the show. Too many characters, no tension cause nobody from the main cast can die, too many plots. If we let Hopper stay dead, then Joyce can replace Argyle and we can have a family journey with the Byres family, and Mike I guess. That’s only 3 plots. And yeah I agree that it’s kinda odd how literally EVERYTHING surrounding Vecna just comes out of nowhere. Like it doesn’t feel like it’s recontextulizing the show, it just feels like a retcon. And Eleven just forgets literally everything that happened. Oh also Mike sucks 😛 I still absolutely adore the show, and I love all the seasons, but there’s a bunch of issues. I hope Season 5 cuts down to the original cast more. Give Jonathan and the kids other than El and Max more stuff to do, with more interesting personal and character complexes.

I would argue that the friend group splitting up may take away some of the heart and teamwork established in the earlier seasons, but it also symbolizes what happens when kids grow up and find themselves. As much as I don't like Mike, I agree with him when he says they can't just stay inside playing D&D together... they're going to go down their own paths someday.

I'll preface this with: I understand why you'd feel this way and everyone's entitled to their own opinions. But here's my own opinion about some of the points you made. - I do think Eleven's character arc is a little repetitive, tbh, but I don't think the Vecna thing reverses any of her character development. If anything we're just reinforcing how her powers work while also learning more about her. Whenever she over exerts she has to go back to the basics, so when she loses her powers entirely, she has to go back even further. When she sends Vecna off into the Upside Down, it's possible she didn't just "open a portal" but that she actually created the whole fuckin' place. Leaving 001 the opportunity then to sort of be the first to connect with it and shape it. It's also possible that it's frozen the next time the portal opens because Will (the first to be taken) had an influence over it, or maybe Vecna just finally had an opportunity to connect back with this world, but we still haven't had an explanation for that so I wouldn't say it's a plot hole yet, just a plot point. - I'm going to hazard a guess that the characters act dumb because they're no older than 14-15. Why did Mike think it was epic when El hurt his bullies, but not her own? Probably because in the moment, he was thinking selfishly, as well as the fact that I'm pretty sure the bullies were threatening him and his friends, making fun of Will's death, and had been likely torturing them for years whereas he only learned within that afternoon that Angela was a bully and not El's friend. Mike's character arc this season isn't fully done but it seems to me that he's coming to terms finally with El being her own human and not an idealized person he had in his head, and it's possible he actually doesn't love her in the romantic sort of way. Idk. Will also deserve more screentime imo but he's kind of quietly been going thru character development, getting a bit bolder across the seasons, I'm guessing vol2 will give him the big catharsis of a coming out scene so that'll give people more to chew on. I also actually really liked Mike and Will's interactions this season because they were incredibly close s1 & s2, so we finally get to see them back together and close after Mike's asshole arc in s3. I can see why people might find them boring if they're not as invested in that friendship though. - The gang all being seperated does suck and some of the extra characters like Jason are not very interesting, but I don't understand how Eddie isn't "related to the main characters". He's directly shown to be a role model for Dustin and Mike in the episode he's introduced, and then further is integrated pretty well into the Dustin/Steve/Robin group. Also Chrissy and Fred pretty much immediately die, they're basically filler/side characters to show how Vecna works which has been done across all of the seasons, so I don't get what's wrong with them. Jason is most annoying, and Argyle feels unnecessary to me, but most of the other added characters serve some kind of function. I have a feeling that this "season" might feel half baked right now to you because, well, there's still like 3 or 4 hours of content left to go when vol2 drops. We haven't gotten everyone's character arcs to finish yet and we also don't know how many people are going to die in the finale, not do we know the full lore about certain things. Vecna's monologue was kind of a lore dump but it was also only from his own manipulative mouth, so he could still be hiding shit we've yet to find out. I think s4 is one of the stringer seasons but it is a little too bloated for its own good, but I also think sometimes people are forgetting shit like... The ages of the main characters, or the fact that it's actually realistic for characters to have flaws. .... Okay that's all I'm just too invested in the show for my own good, congratulations if you read all that.

One rule that Stranger Things has never, ever broken is no character will die who is on the good side and has also been on the show for more than one season. Which basically encompasses all the main characters. It's funny, because they hyped up the deaths for Season 4 so much before it came out, hinting and hinting and hinting that main characters would actually die. And yet, the deaths followed the same rule as all the other seasons.

i love the show but it’s getting too predictable to the point where we all know that the newly introduced characters each season die by the end of it. robin was lucky to make it out of s3 alive honestly.

I love how Alex says “Chrissy, a new character who we don’t care about, who dates Jason, who we don’t care about, and starts hanging out with Eddie, someone we don’t know yet” Alex knows we care about Eddie.

I found it absolutely BIZARRE that Hopper broke both of his ankles yet he can run, jump and climb like nothing ever happened almost the very next episode and to my understanding, there was NOT that much time lapse in between each episode (if any at all). For some reason this really aggravated me. Probably more than it should have. I found myself constantly screaming at my tv “aren’t your ankles fucking broken?!?!” Meanwhile he’s running like it was nothing. No wincing, limping, pain, NOTHING.

The reason 001 got powers but not Will is probably because of what 011 did to him. Also it could be an effect of him being in the middle of dimension being created in real time right next to him

completely agree with everything!! so nice to hear someone else with the same thoughts, I feel so many people put it on a pedestal and don't talk about what has been lost or the plot holes. I love the show, and therefore like to deconstruct the good AND bad!

Dustin, Steve, and Robin are the golden trio of the series. Whenever any of them are together, it is pure magic.

Eddie is honestly one the best things the show has added in awhile ( and that guitar solo tease for part 2 looks awesome)

Mike was told that Angela was El’s friend, he was just confused and didn’t know what el was going through

tbh i agree with the most things you said. For me this season doesn't feel like stranger things and it lost its charm and everything i loved in the previous ones. I couldn't care less about new characters and i was really sad how they handled Mike, Will and Jonahtan (even Hopper and Joyce tho) I think the show would be perfect if it ended at season 1. First season had the best writing that i've seen in a while and every season after lacks it.

To be fair, the government shipped Eleven and the Byers across the country into witness protection to get away from the shenanigans of the earlier seasons. The freakout, at least to me, was because even Mike was all, "Dude, you cant be doin this. Gotta keep it on the downlow."

the memory loss thing is an actual thing called dissociative amnesia. it’s basically when things are so traumatic for a person their brain represses certain events. that’s probably also why elevens vocabulary was so poor in the first couple seasons. her loosing her memory is an actual psychological thing that happens to people that experience major trauma. All of the lessons she learned didn’t “not mean anything” because that’s why how she is now. she didn’t remember all of the lessons she learned because she repressed the memories. yeah it is a kinda sucky plot twist but it’s a very real thing that people go through. so all her development did matter still because that’s how she became who she is. Also one didn’t get his powers in the upside down he always had them. He probably unlocked them because he became “enlightened” or something. He has a mixture of all the kids abilities. So him going the upside down didn’t do anything except make him look like the grinch. also i hate mike he’s the worst character nobody can change my mind :) anyways idk if this explained anything lol

Maybe I’m weird, but I get emotionally invested in characters as soon as they come on screen 🥲 Also I love will 😭

Hooper would be my fav character but keeps getting by the idiot bat. Characters can do stupid things without it being bad, sometimes his mistakes make sense with his character, like continually leading Eleven on or without thinking getting angry and punishing her in a way similar to being put in isolation in the lab. It comes from him not knowing how to handle a situation like this and from a place of fear for her. Then you get shit like jumping into a fucking mysterious hole with no known exit that he has good reason to suspect could have monsters in it and not notifying anyone at all when he has a dependent.

I think this is one of the first videos I’ve mostly disagreed with! There’s a lot of hidden details that tie into all of the other seasons and everything seemed to click more for me during this season. It’s not over yet so some plot holes will fs be fixed in the last two. There are also a lot of subtle hints in their playful dialogue, like all of the dnd scenes. But like with Will not getting powers in the upside down like 001, he’s different because he’s not like any of the doctors children. He didn’t have any powers to begin with. And eleven is shown slowly losing her powers as she gets weaker, which was the main point of this season. I will say that a lot of main characters were put on back burner, like Joyce and Jonathan, but I think that’s so we can build up more storyline with the others. I hate riverdale so I hope they never get to true riverdale format lol ETA: I also really appreciated the depth they’ve added to some of the characters. Like Will is starting to come to terms with his pent up feelings and resentment towards Mike that has been building up over the seasons, Lucas is trying to be accepted and well liked by the popular kids but also struggles with not being supported by his friends, Max is dealing with the trauma of watching her abusive brother die and dealing with her guilt. We also get to hear more of Hoppers storyline and how he had a family.

I have ptsd so I'm gonna come forward about the Eleven forgetting everything. This is a huge thing about ptsd. My trauma happened when I was 8-10 but I cannot remember it nor can I remember anything before 10. I remember bits and pieces but not enough for me to remember the fact I gave my little sister a scar at 7 (Which I don't believe I did). Hell I didn't even know what my trauma was until I turned 16. I think they did Eleven perfectly and the show did it well. That's like the only point I had to counter because I liked how the actress did it. Even having ptsd attacks and such throughout which are unseen. Though it did annoy me that it went out of no where, I still think it was fine. Nothing like Riverdale. Just wanted to say this piece just in case anyone was wondering. Also ptsd comes in many forms as well so even if one person can remember their entire trauma, some people forget their entire personality.

Lately i felt like stranger things has become worse with each new season but i didnt know why and couldnt put it into words. but you explained it so perfectly. i feel like everyone has fell in love with all the new characters, eddie especially so im glad im not the only one who felt like this

I love how the writers are like “it absolutely positively ****HAS**** to be this way,” and I’m like does it, though?? Does it really??

When Eleven sends One to the Upside Down, she wasn’t opening a gate, just banishing him. The opening closed quickly after.

Another thing I didn’t like about season 4 is continuing the love triangle between Nancy, Jonathan and, Steve. Like Nancy practically broke Steve’s heart cause she felt like she didn’t actually love him in season 2 and also to get with Jonathan and now she’s interested in Steve again when Jonathan is far away. Also Jonathan magically feels like he doesn’t love Nancy anymore either (I bet they did that so the audience doesn’t hate nancy for technically cheating). I felt like for s4 it was just forced to add more drama

Not Alex pulling the classic parent "I'm not mad, I'm just *overly dramatic sigh* disappointed" card.

Another thing I hate is how they just kinda brushed off Jason's death. Like, it was really cool and all, but it was fast with no reaction so basically everyone missed it.

In regards to Hopper being alive in Season 4: there is literally a scene 20 minutes later (after about 5 seconds of credits) in the same episode that heavily implies Hopper is still alive. Him having a role in season 4 should not have been a shocker to anyone.

Ik Chrissy was a new charecter but I instantly really liked her,, her death hit me like a truck coz yk it actually felt like her character had soo much potential😩

YAAASSS AS soon as he brought up Dustin my heart fluttered. Seriously yes he is the ONLY one to give a damn about. The others are just floating along with the same mindsets (slightly developed)

I think the reason why S4 was kinda like all over place is because they didn't expect to make a 4th season they thought S3 would be the last season so they had to make up new story lines and monsters as for the eleven thing I think the story line for her powers is that she learns to use them and then she goes into to slowly losing them and then she has to get them again I agree there's a few problems with stranger things but overall it's one of the best series I've seen (especially coming from Netflix) im not sure if I'm correct that's just what a think , great video

"Chrissy's death didn't effect him in any way." Eddie: "Chrissy, this one's for you." That's after beating himself up for not being able to do anything while she was being murdered and leaving her, and before sacrificing his life for others. Chrissy and her death had a big impact on him. Anyone who actually paid attention while watching the show would know that. It friggin' traumatized him.

had me with the title

Wow. You are minimizing his trauma of being an outcast and NEEDING spiders to be friends. I can't believe you.

4:35 No, Alex is wrong. So in the 70's she sent 001 in the upside down(opened the gate) with the "screams of anger" that's why when he sent him to the upside down the upside down is red, now in the 80's(1983) she opened the gate with the "screams of sadness" so that's why the other upside down is blue. The color of anger is red, the color of sadness is blue but if you have the same powers as her and send someone in the upside down with the screams of anger you will instantly past out after 77 seconds and forget that you sent someone in the upside down, if you bring a book from 1986 and go to the red upside down it shows "1979" but if you go to the blue upside down it says "1983" so Alex is basically wrong. Also Eleven didn't remembered her mother she just discovers that she has a mother and tries to communicate with her.

Theres some messy parts but honestly I really love this season. I really love how they went a more teen detective kind of theme for most of the season instead of just completing focusing on El and her powers which they do also but its more of a B plot until they connected it at the end, which I really liked also. And honestly I don't think Mike is being a hypocrite because yeah she attacked his bullies before but as far as I remember she just more focused on scaring them while in this season she was on the border of almost killing that girl. Which yeah she deserved a good knock to the hewd but El did take it a tad far but understandably so and just a tad lol

7:29 Totally agree regarding Dustin. I would definitely watch a spinoff of just him and Steve hanging out. The two best characters in the show I might add

I feel like that the season’s only get better and better 😅

I love how the series was so entertaining and fun and then turned into a wasted series

Unpopular opinion: Mike is probably my least favorite character of Stranger Things. At least out of the main group. He just drives me nuts most of the time. I loved Eddie and I think he deserved better than what he got.