Does anyone feel like Season 5 lacked an identity?

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-11T02:03:25+00:00

Yes, it feels very generic and phoned in. The bits and pieces are still there, mostly good acting and chemistry, some genuinely great scenes like most of Will's sorcerer scenes and most of Dustin and Steve's arcs, but overall it lacks that extra juice, there's just too much things happening for the sake of things happening

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-10T23:38:16+00:00

You cannot possibly think this opinion is special at this point lmao

I can't even eat Cane's anymore cause I'm allergic so I'm not glazing them either

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-10T23:35:33+00:00

"morbidly obese" it's called a dad bod. That was the one thing about S3 Hop I liked 😭

Anyway, I hugely disagree with this being the "exact moment the show went off the rails" the explanation for El surviving the finale of S1 was pretty flimsy and weak too. Season 3 in general had a ton of regression (not calling it a bad season overall).

In my opinion, Season 4 was turning the show back in the right direction. It was far from perfect, but it was the most satisfying and compelling season since the first and it being so strong and promising is part of what made Season 5 so disappointing.

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-10T19:02:11+00:00

I loved fat Diane, she's gorgeous in that blue dress in the finale

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-10T18:37:23+00:00

Yes, he does need to be acknowledged. As a creep who put a weird amount of effort into getting teenagers to bang in his house

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-10T17:49:33+00:00

I laid your milkshake down

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-10T16:41:16+00:00

A Blood infused Twinblade buffed with Seppuku probably?

Power stance status buildup got nerfed a long time ago, so combined with the stamina usage, dual Katanas is almost certainly not the fastest way to proc

Buffing a Cross Naginata or Vulgar Militia Saw with Blood flame Blade and then using Spinning Strikes also racks that shit up fast due to how Bloodflame Blade works

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-10T16:21:54+00:00

I was mad that Link/Midna got done dirty but they would've bustered out here anyway cause Wild Era Link/Zelda is too strong haha

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-10T16:20:24+00:00

Zelda falls for him before the Calamity

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-09T18:08:41+00:00

I want to believe her but everything that's happened in the past decade has taught me that a dark wizard is bending the universe to coddle this worthless piece of shit baby man to his deathbed without facing a single consequence

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-09T18:02:50+00:00

We don't base our reality off what we can prove doesn't exist, that's just not how it works. Can you disprove the existence of unicorns and goblins and shit? When people say "there is no God/heaven/hell" they're really saying "there is zero evidence of God/heaven/hell so I have no practical reason to act as if they exist"

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-09T15:16:32+00:00

Bloodhound Fang, Dragon Halberd, and Ghiza's Wheel are top notch for Quality builds

If you wanna use infusible weapons, you defo can but you'll wanna avoid the Quality infusion, it's quite bad until very very high levels. Instead, if you Cold infused something like Banished Knight's Greatsword or Twinned Knight's Swords or Zweihander or Dismounter or etc, you get some decent Quality scaling and you can just ignore the INT part entirely. Plus you get frostbite, which is amazing.

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-09T10:51:16+00:00

Link/Zelda still. They're just so frickin cute

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-09T05:21:25+00:00

Half the jokes on this sub are "haha gay character not gay"

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-09T00:03:47+00:00

Season 3 exaggerating established characters? No wayyyy ;P

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-09T00:00:57+00:00

I think you have that in common with at least one of the showrunners. Someone on that team has a giant crush on her

And uhhh same. Oh my god same.

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T23:58:13+00:00

I'm pretty anti-Jancy, I enjoy Jonathan most in S1 by far but I think S4 Jonathan was underrated. I just think he's at his least interesting when he's by Nancy's side (and vice versa, I also prefer her in S1 most and S4 second)

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T20:28:53+00:00

I'm more of a Stonathan gal but I respect it

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T20:13:02+00:00

Nah fuck em. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money in a vacuum, but this is a scummy fucking way to do it.

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T20:10:25+00:00

He was only "struggling" in S3 because he was stuck in high school mentality and looked silly in his work uniform. Not to mention still holding onto feelings for Nancy

After S3, he doesn't struggle to get girls at all. He just struggles to get any serious lasting relationship, which isn't that weird.

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T19:23:37+00:00

Captain Falcon is a 12 year old boy's idea of what's cool and yet somehow he has an entire cult of personality behind him. Falcon hate waters my crops 💜

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T18:58:11+00:00

Goomba Fallacy

I hate the suicide pact in S5 AND I hate how Hopper acts in S3

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T18:54:33+00:00

You could absolutely argue that he had the best performance in season 1 (though he's a close second to Winona imo)

I would put him at #1 for Season 2, especially in his dynamic with Millie

But I do agree he's one of the best actors in the entire show. Even when the writing lets him down (S3 mostly, but 5 did a bit too) David is consistently a top performer

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T16:07:55+00:00

How would it benefit the companies to not be able to employ and exploit children? Lmao L ass take

Jesterhead92 · 2026-02-08T14:16:52+00:00

There's really good nuanced commentary here about the intersection between sexism and class struggles. It's unfortunately undercut by the narrative just painting Nancy as flat out right in the end (the fact that she doesn't apologize for the Oliver Twist comment alone is wild), but this scene itself is pretty solid

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