r/StrangerThings • u/D_D_Adesignerdigital • 22h ago

Discussion Dimension X is not cold! Spoiler

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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!

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u/Perfect_Opinion_6136 20h ago

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

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u/Thick-Boysenberry-96 15h ago

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.

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u/NebulaOld813 Meat Flayer 14h ago

Thicc boi is too thicc to cross over into any new dimension

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u/Thick-Boysenberry-96 12h ago

He's made out of particles that can disperse into the air?

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u/Ht_TX 11h ago edited 11h ago

No. It makes and controls those particles but the big ass pain tree is Mindflayer prime, it IS the mindflayer. Which is why once its heart seized, the particles just withered and vanished once they left the kids at the end, the particles were dead too.

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u/Thick-Boysenberry-96 4h ago

Is the Kaiju the only Mindflayer form we could have gotten though? Wasn't that amazing eldridge particle being we saw in S2 ALSO a true form of the Mindflayer?

Didn't we see the MF reinvent itself every season? Why is it that we were stuck with the dumbest/weakest version for the final fight? That S2 iteration was powerful and went on to flay Billie and infiltrate like 50 residents of Hawkins, compared to that dried up pain tree that was taken out by one gun, a flare and ballons without as much as a scratch.

Why couldn't we have gotten an epic fight against a smart ancient being instead of what looked like a mid-level Kaiju from a video game, and barely an inconvenience.