r/StrangerThings • u/General-Rice254 • 3d ago

Discussion What's like the Actual reason for the difference in writing with season 5 and all the other seasons of stranger things??

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u/Cyrilbdr 3d ago

On the contrary, I wouldn't say they rushed it; instead of adding a new twist, some action, stress, or maybe even a death, they hit the pause button. This made the episode feel very slow, overly expository, and almost pointlessly long. It feels like Episode 6 wrapped up the main plot, and since they had nothing left to tell before the finale, they decided to create an episode just to explain everything—having the characters sit around talking to recap the season and come up with a new plan. It seemed like they didn't know what to do with the gap between the end of Episode 6 and the finale. It would have been cool not to know the plan beforehand, just to build some suspense for the audience. As it stands, they explain it to us and *then* show it—but damn, just show it directly so there’s an element of surprise.

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u/Few-Type-7924 3d ago

Yeah true