*IMHO I still love this series, I'm looking forward to season 5, I found out about it back in January last year and fell in love with it, because I really love science fiction, I hope the Mind Flayer will be returned in season 5, since he still remains the main pure evil, and besides, I adore him, this mystery ... This Lovecraftian ... At the expense of season 4, he went to me, in principle, I put 7/10 the only negative is that the villain is not scary, not interesting, not handsome (although in human appearance is pretty cool man) because this is a villain ala "Freddy Krueger" literally, although at first he seemed to me a burnt Thanos, to be honest, I was not interested in watching such a villain, I was more interested in the fact that demogorgons were grown in a Russian prison, and I was so happy that I saw the Mind Flayer there in the form of intelligent dust, that he was alive and well, and such an audience that says: oh, this is the same thing, he created it, why you defend the mind flayer, Vecna king he are cooler, etc... it really infuriates me very much, for me they are different, and 001 only gave him a form, and the flayer, even when he was a 001 child, he inspired him and tried to contact him, and it seems to me that they have some kind of symbiotic relationship or they made a deal, but to be honest, season 4 became almost a horror movie in the style of Freddy Krueger and others similar, I always thought and will continue to think that this show will be fantastic for me, besides, Vecna does not look like an outstanding monster, since over the years I have reviewed a bunch of horrors where there were similar villains. is that so?... But the Mind Flayer is very interesting, such an unknown, mysterious creature from which it is not clear what to expect and what he will do, he is quite smart and cunning because he almost caught her in season 3 11, and deprived her of his power, but all the same, since Vecna and the flayer are supposedly allies, then of course they helped each other, although when a huge portal opened at the end of season 4, the flayer will no need a Vecna, he can betray him and crush him, well, what he supposedly says: thank you very much for that trust me, now you no longer need a pathetic smug person. Something like this, especially since the flayer did it on purpose at the beginning so that Vecna would think that he was in control, but in fact he was not, he only helped a powerful creature to get into our world and capture it, before that, when 001 got into the wrong side, we see that the Mind Flayer was still like that and he was alive and reasonable, how did he still come up with this plan to take over the world, he just inspired 001 with childhood and gave him such an ability, and it seems to me that the Mind Flayer also captured worlds in past times, and perhaps he somehow lost his previous form or was in hibernation so that the form disappeared (well, it was inactive) I just really don’t want such a villain to be leaked that he’s like a dog or Vecna’s pawn, but I see that he’s capable of more, they showed us for 2 whole seasons with him, intrigued, everyone liked him, if the authors wanted to merge such a cool creature, then why should we intrigued by all those seasons? It's kind of stupid, plus I'm amused by the fact that in season 4 they showed a new villain, talked about him, and at the end he just lost, well, that is, he fell out of the house, and then disappeared somewhere, all the same, the Mind Flayer is more interesting, he still doesn’t give up even when there is no chance of winning, my favorite seasons are still 2 and 3, since I still like science fiction more, and horror well in the style of serial murders already somehow tired and that's putting it mildly, in any case, season 4 turned out to be good, interesting, exciting, and very cool, and please stop writing that these entitys are the same, even most people will prefer the main villain an alien creature with powerful and unknown power than a burnt 40-year-old man who looks like Freddy Krueger who just took offense at humanity and received abilities from childhood, and then thanks to the Flayer. And yes, I’ll say it again, I have nothing against Freddy Krueger, it’s just that Vecna is very similar to him. Only he is fatter and I don’t like it at all, it’s like copying a character and making him even uglier and worse, I once loved horror films and still want to love them, but you know, horrors are already all known and what and how and where, and space and alien entitys still have a lot to no know about them, what secret they hide about, of course, if you combine horror and fantasy then it will be sweet, and then not always, because it should be competent, and not like that, all 3 seasons were one fantasy and 4 solid horrors without it, I don’t want to scold this series, I love it very much, I'm it’s just the first time I’ve come across such a thing that everywhere in the comments they argue and swear about this, I’ve seen this a lot, this is some kind of bacchanalia happening, and you can say that I’m defending the Mind Flayer, but maybe it’s true, the Actor who played Vecna and 001 coped with cheers and played very well, I don’t blame him, but here the nitpick is not to the Actor but to the villain of the film, do all you understand me?* P. S *I also want to note that when Billy was controlled, he said "WE" and not "I", Vecna would not purely say that because he seems more selfish, and I also want to note that Vecna clearly did not know that the Torturer's dust in the Russian prison if he knew he would make sure that the dust escapes as soon as possible because it can harm him himself, since people can do experiments with fire on dust. the conclusion is this: they have a symbiotic relationship and they still act differently*
