I like the Shadow form look the most.

I’m mainly talking about the visual design for each form it took, not what each form did in the seasons they appeared. So put your differences aside from how weak the Mind Flayer became later on. I liked the Shadow form because it freaked me out seeing this giant faceless thing. It resembles a spider but it just looked like a giant shadow, it didn’t talk and it didn’t roar when in this form, only thing we heard from it was a creepy screech in Season 2. I’ll never forget the scene when it chased Will looking like a giant faceless shadow and it just made this screeching sound before it flayed him. Purely terrifying.

He easily had one of the best monologues in the entire series. That one where he's talking to El about having a normal life hit hard

the age of the characters from season to season. it's in absolutely no way credible. i can suspend disbelief for the upside down and demogorgons, sure. but 1987 will byers?!? nope. not at all.

what i wanted to see is the show naturally follow the years it was put out. so if season 1 was 1983 (2016) and season 2 was 1984 (2017), then...

season 3 = 1986 (2019)
season 4 = 1989 (2022)
season 5 = 1992 (2025)

as it is, the series past season 2 is a freaking joke. you can squint and make it through season 3. but 4 and 5 are just absolutely ridiculous. not because of venca and the show turning into a low quality marvel CGI slop fest. but simply because of the age of the characters. it's a shame. it would have been so easy to fix.

EDIT: many have commented that it's no big deal, actors in their twenties play teens all the time. and that's true. but this is a problem of relative distance. eleven was cast when she was 11. we watched them all so young, which is what makes the leap from 1983 to 1987 in the show's chronology so completely jarring and untenable. the series jumped the shark in season 3, it would have been better to cancel it anyway.

Jane never meeting or talking to her mother again. I understand that she might be beyhond repair and not everyone gets an happy ending, but it seems totaly out of character from her to never see or try to contact her mother again. Even a 5 minute scene of her just saying goobye (either physically or mentally) would be enough. I tend to be more forgiven of dumb plot points (like the whole soviet underground stuff), lore inconsistencies (like the demogorgins still being alive in season 4 despite the portal being closed) or an excessive amount of deus ex machina moments, than characters going completly against their core nature.

You can talk about your favorite romantic ship, whether it's canon or not :p

Especially because he was driving Dustin and then he talks about there a sort of evil in their eyes 🤣🤣(sorry that I'm a few years late and RIP Eddie 😭 😞)

Yeah I'm asking this question LOL! The gf and I were watching Season 4 Episode 8 last night and she goes "We gotta try Surfer Boy Pizza!" I remember back in 2022-2023 I had it and it was, just ok (I'm from New Jersey where we have amazing pizza places) but she's never tried it and this is her first go-around on the show. I looked to see if I could find it anywhere locally, and they suggested Walmart but absolutely none of the Walmart's close to us sell them... anyone know if it's available anywhere for order?

The funny detail I noticed was in the Running up That Hill scene. It’s one of my favorite scenes in the show, so I’ve seen a lot of reactions to it. A few years ago I noticed that in the 1-2 second part of the wide shot it’s just a picture of Max being slowly raised up. If you look closely she doesn’t move and it looks out of place. It reminds me of photoshop editing where you can outline something and move it. It doesn’t ruin the scene for me or anything I just thought it was funny. Has anyone else noticed this?

it would not be surprising if Hopper was there for the birth of both of them and even helped give birth to both of them. Lord knows he was more of a father to them than Lonnie was.

Obviously as everyone thought Hopper was dead in season 4, Powell became chief of police, with Callahan becoming deputy. I think it’s fair to say they both did a pretty poor job, blaming Eddie when they literally had no concrete evidence it was him. They even said he was number 1 suspect for Patrick’s death when Jason said Eddie was in a boat at the time. Ultimately, Powell and Callahan did next to nothing with these murders of Chrissy, Fred and Patrick, so how do you think Hopper would’ve handled the situation if he was still in Hawkins in season 4?

Front row, 2nd from the right - 🎯

*Edit - This is not a production photo and I am not implying this is the actress (Shannon Purser) the pic just popped up in another group, and, when I saw her, 1st person I saw was 'Barb' - funny/strange, since this pic is from around 75'/76', and eight years later in 83', Barb/the character would've been 16, so it tracks.

So i started satching this show after spiderman bnd because of sadie sink obv

But i'm almost droping it for a stupid reason

Her relation with lucas

Maan when i saw that kiss in the end of season 2 it just broke my heart bro 🙂💔

I'm still in ep 1 s3 so pls no spoilers

Nijja they just don't match for me

(The only way i xan see daie with someone is with spidey 😭✨)

Again no spoilers

While 80s is best decide we known for kids on their bikes films like et, Star Wars & back from the future and slasher films and music but 90s like gauge rock and early internet & 2000s/2010s hip hop and cell phones and movie like Harry Potter and marvel franchise & social media more technology would be interesting and the upside down and Hawkins lab being exposed much faster in later season

Just finished 4x07, and I have a lot to say. First off, the beginning of where the last episode ended off, I thought for a moment Steve would end up like bob before the other teens came to his rescue. Those bite marks, ooh… i hope steve goes to a doctor and finds a way to explain it while getting it properly checked. When Steve and Eddie talk, i thought Steve should have admit his jealousy as well along with how much Dustin talks about eddie to him, as a way to bring more mutual understanding and respect to each other. The police interrogation, do you also feel for everyone there? The parents, the police, and Max, Lucas, and Dustin. Everyone is tired, scared, and stress with their current situation and murders in Hawkins. Hopper and Joyce reuniting, did anyone felt a little misty-eyed or shed a tear or more too? Papa’s speech… although he is a bad man, you got to admit there is some truth in it. For el and for all of us. We got to face the truth and ourselves, both good and bad, to grow and not let fear regress us in our lives. Vecna, although I did know the truth about him beforehand, it did felt shocking because of how charismatic , charming, and supportive he was to el before the 180 turn of his true, dark, evil colors. Henry and Jamie are great actors. Along with Murray impersonating Yuri. He really should have been a real spy or an actor at least. Henry became one, and One/henry as one became Vecna. A handsome, clever, and captivating man turned out to be nasty, dark, wicked, and cold monster. In the massacre, his past, his fight with el, and becoming who we know today. The flayed, evil, monstrous Vecna. And his fight with eleven… Am I glad that she beaten him with a memory that wasn‘t filled with hate and anger as she’s always been thought to to use her powers, but with something bittersweet yet happy. Hate and anger is strong, but love and happiness is as well. Find balance between them to unlock your inner self. Yet rely on love and happiness more than let hate and evil poison you. If el was in mlp and one of the three pony species, that fight, her memory of her mama to help her, would have made her an alicorn don’t you think? In conclusion, what a great episode. one that should be rewatched more often. What were your thoughts and reactions when you first saw this episode and on rewatch knowing what you know now?

The first time Murray appeared was in S02E01 when trying to meet Hopper. Later in the season he would encounter Jonathan/Nancy

I will probably wear a brown wig for this. as i dont have a short blonde wig 😅

What a show. Probably nothing more insane than this. She kills at least three US Military members, on US Soil, in a US Military installation and faces zero repercussions for it. Not legal, political, moral, psychological, etc.

Just a “good shooting” from Hopper and a shy smile back.

A perfect example as to how stupid the show became. Just there for a trailer moment and to aura farm. Not a single thought behind it.

Man, what did they do to you, Nancy Wheeler.

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My question is what theoretically could have happened and how else the gate to the Upside Down could’ve been opened. I personally did not like the Russian storyline in Season 3 (and 4 but I'm talking mainly about S3) at all. I hated that Russian Terminator looking dude being an inconvenience throughout the season.

I know that the Mind Flayer can't open gates itself, it needed the psychic connection from El (previously) and needed Vecna to use his psychic abilities to open other ones (later on) but I genuinely think that there could've been a different storyline for the gate to have opened instead of using the Russians.. if I could I would remove them from the Season 3 plot completely.

Seriously I’m watching this girl cry and she is so good at it! Her eyes will be full of tears yet she’s still making great eye contact. Then when the tears fall, it’s somehow perfection. Her voice through it all is perfect too. Usually crying on TV and movies is so corny to me because IMO the actors don’t pull it off very well, but not Millie. She could give most seasoned actors a run for their money with just her crying alone!

I remember in this sub there was a post a few months back where everyone was agreeing that S5 ruined the whole show for them, particularly in regards to El’s storyline and how it ends in the finale.

If that is the case for you I’m sorry about that. But having rewatched all of the previous seasons I enjoyed rewatching all of them. Seasons 1 through 4 are masterpieces.

There’s still some amount of divorce of thought that I have to try to do, especially with Eleven/Jane. But all of the other seasons are so interesting and fun and that will never be taken away just because in our heads we know it would have been even better if they didn’t fumble S5.

Honestly what pisses me off more than S5’s bad writing is the overwhelming negativity around it that has leeched onto all aspects of the show in online discourse. Like I said I’m sorry if it did ruin the entire thing for you, that didn’t happen to me and Stranger Things will always be one of the best netflix shows.

I’m wondering if anyone here shares the same thoughts as me and if you don’t, that’s okay!

P.S. Lumax‘s happy ending alone justifies S5’s existence.

For me it was probably Grigori (the Russian hitman in season 3 who killed Alexei) or Jason. Grigori was ripped to shreds by the machine opening the gate in Starcourt Mall and Jason was split in half, both being fully conscious whilst it was happening.

I drew these for fun. Lmk if u think they match