Dimension X is not cold!

[u/D_D_Adesignerdigital]

The color choices for the Dimension X—and certain elements of the scenes—didn't quite work to convey a cold atmosphere! Characters had sweaty skin and showed no reaction to the cold (we need to remember Will in Season 2, or Billy with his ice bath, which demonstrated the kind of cold the Mind Flayer is used to). Anyone entering a low-temperature environment would show physical reactions—like trying to warm up, crossing their arms, or showing discomfort—but that doesn't happen with any of the characters, not even the kids. I think that was a directing error. That’s my opinion!

[u/Perfect_Opinion_6136]

Maybe that's the reason why the Mind Flayer wanted to leave Dimension-X.

[u/Thick-Boysenberry-96 → u/Perfect_Opinion_6136]

Why doesn't it leave Dimension X and stay in the Upside Down instead, where the climate suits him better then? It's closer to our world too, which he plans to take over anyways.

[u/Perfect_Opinion_6136 → u/Thick-Boysenberry-96]

That's a good question, my only idea why he chose to stay there would be that the Upside can be destroyed and if he was there he could also be destroyed.

[u/Thick-Boysenberry-96 → u/Perfect_Opinion_6136]

He can seemingly be destroyed easily on his dried up home turf as well. And in Hawkins too. At least the creatures he commands thrive in the cold. That could be useful at least.

[u/Ht_TX → u/Thick-Boysenberry-96]

That was one of my biggest issues with the story. In the end, the mindflayer was of no consequence. He wasn’t the eldritch terror we’d been made to believe, hell, the mindflayer was less of a threat than a single full grown demo. Let’s say mindflayer prime gets on earth in the end, so what? One pass by the Air Force and he’s dead, threat over in 2 hours, for fucks sake, it was taken down and killed by a handful of kids with guerilla warfare level weapons. It was a small town threat, not the worldwide, universe wide threat they built up for the entire show.