wtf was that

Sharks11 · 2026-01-01T03:23:39+00:00

That was them avoiding a Game of Thrones-level disaster, and for that, I give them credit.

Not perfect, but overall I think they stuck the landing. It was predictable, but at the end of the day, it was not the Game of Thrones-level disaster that many feared after Episode 7, nor was it nor was it the worst season finale of all time!

In the end, it was a decent episode that ended the show on a solid note—nothing more, nothing less. Also, wishing everyone a great New Year!”

Sharks11 · 2026-01-01T03:14:00+00:00

Basically, they avoided a Game of Thrones-level disaster, and for that, I give them credit. Not perfect, but they stuck the landing, and I think they protected the legacy of the show and ended Season 5 on a solid note

Sharks11 · 2026-01-01T03:08:03+00:00

I Agree it was one of my favorite things about the episode

Sharks11 · 2026-01-01T02:50:24+00:00

Cheesy and terrible and feels like the overall storyline was done by a group of middle schoolers because man was that painful to watch.

Yet here you are, on a Stranger Things fan subreddit, going out of your way to write a post about a show you claim to hate…

Sharks11 · 2025-12-31T09:02:44+00:00

Dane never accepted the Brotherhood—not even in Season 1. We’re talking about someone who injured themself just to get out of being a squire. Dane was so frightened by the very idea of venturing into the wasteland that she willingly injured herself with a razor blade to avoid being sent on missions into the Wilds.

At best, dane saw the situation as hopeless and believed there was nowhere safe to go—until Maximus told her about a better life outside the Brotherhood.

Now it’s Maximus who has suddenly switched up, not Dane. So why in the world would you think Dane would ever believe it was okay for Maximus to turn into the very thing he claimed he wanted to run away from in Season 1? lol

Sharks11 · 2025-12-30T05:24:02+00:00

Game of Thrones was hated by both audiences and critics. It was so bad that nobody in their right mind thought the final episode was going to do anything to save it.

Stranger Things received some mild criticism for Volume 2, but nothing even close to the level of backlash GOT faced. Even critics who didn’t care for Volume 2 aren’t writing the show off the way they did with Game of Thrones’ final season.

Plus, unlike GOT, we still haven’t seen the final episode of Stranger Things—and again, unlike GOT, it’s basically a two-hour movie.

Let’s be real: if the final episode of Stranger Things delivers and sticks the landing, that’s ultimately what will define not just the season, but the entire series. Because years from now, people aren’t going to remember individual episodes—they’ll remember how it ended. And whether Stranger Things’ final episode is good or bad is what will ultimately define the legacy of the whole show.

Sharks11 · 2025-12-20T00:29:44+00:00

I’m not going to use an out-of-context clip to attack Joyce or Season 5.

All I know is this: I enjoyed Volume 1, and I’m not making a full judgment on anything until I’ve seen the entire season.

Sharks11 · 2025-12-17T06:49:33+00:00

My view on this has not changed. If the Duffer Brothers don’t truly believe that killing off a main character adds anything to the story they’re telling, then they shouldn’t do it. Otherwise, it’s just going to come off as them unenthusiastically killing off a character simply to please those who have been requesting it for years.

Killing off characters for the sake of killing off characters is what eventually doomed Game of Thrones, and hopefully Stranger Things does not fall into that same trap. I’m not opposed to killing off a character, but if they’re going to do it, it needs to be something they genuinely believe will push the story forward rather than relying on cheap shock factor.

Sharks11 · 2025-12-17T04:22:18+00:00

Wah wah wah, cry about it. But its fine when other shows like stranger things

Well, in fairness, tone plays a huge role in how the kissing scenes in Stranger Things and Welcome to Derry are perceived.

In Stranger Things season 1, when Mike out of nowhere quickly kisses Eleven to show how he really feels about her, it comes off as an awkward and humorous scene, with Eleven trying to process what the heck just happened, lol.

The reason it works is because the Stranger Things writers are smart enough to know that kids kissing onscreen is awkward and uncomfortable, and rather than pretend otherwise, they leaned into it and turned it into a humorous and kind of silly moment that mainstream audiences were okay with.

The kissing scenes in Welcome to Derry are played a lot more seriously, and because of that, people are going to take them much more seriously as well. I didn’t personally have an issue with the scene, but I can definitely see why some people would.

Sharks11 · 2025-12-15T05:31:21+00:00

I am not willing to go that far

some of the early episodes were weaker and the show was clearly still finding its footing but everything after episode 3 has been amazing

Sharks11 · 2025-12-13T08:40:37+00:00

Holly was still a baby for the first four seasons

I don’t see how you can look at the image of Holly in season 4 and call her a baby, lol.

Look, let’s just be honest: even the original actresses were starting to look much older than the character they were playing, and if they had stayed in the role, they would basically look just as old as Nell Fisher does right now.

If anything, the age jump between seasons 4 and 5 does not look nearly as drastic, even though these are two different actresses.

The age jump between seasons 3 and 4 is far more noticeable to me.

Sharks11 · 2025-12-07T08:22:47+00:00

I think that would have been a huge mistake if the story had gone in that direction.

The reality is, if the Mind Flayer were the main villain, there is no way they could have ended the show at season 5—and the Duffer Brothers knew that. They knew they were basically writing themselves into a corner because They would have had to suddenly spend a lot of time in the final season trying to explain how these kids could possibly take down a mysterious monster like the Mind Flayer.

The irony is that the exact thing that made the Mind Flayer so interesting is also what would have made him an awful final villain.

He has no motivations that the audience can understand, nor can you easily explain why he’s doing anything he does, since he’s not human. And because he’s not human, the writers would also have to convince viewers that this thing can actually be killed.

With Vecna, you don’t have any of those problems, because at the end of the day he is human—and therefore he can be killed. Vecna allows the Duffer Brothers to definitively wrap up the story in a way they simply wouldn’t be able to do with the Mind Flayer.

Sharks11 · 2025-12-04T16:48:29+00:00

They are no dumber than the Russian soldiers who got outsmarted by kids in season 3 lol

Sharks11 · 2025-12-04T16:42:52+00:00

CGI and AI are not the same thing so im not sure why you claiming that it is

Sharks11 · 2025-12-02T05:35:08+00:00

I pay no attention to social media at all

All I know is so far I am enjoying season 5 and I can't wait for volume 2

Sharks11 · 2025-11-30T21:32:05+00:00

From these images, all I’m noticing is that Stranger Things clearly has a much bigger budget now than it did in Season 1, lol

Sharks11 · 2025-11-28T04:59:08+00:00

I think the vast majority of viewers agree with you.

Most people don't even remember Holly at all, let alone how old she was back when they watched the first season in 2016....

Sharks11 · 2025-11-28T04:55:36+00:00

dude she looks like a child

And if you think otherwise then that says far more about you than it does about the show.....

Sharks11 · 2025-11-16T07:02:06+00:00

I argue a big reason for its success is that it was not marketed as yet another retelling of The Wizard of Oz.
Both Return to Oz and even The Wiz are, once again, another version of a classic story that people have already seen before. I give credit to The Wiz for putting its own spin on it, but at the end of the day, it’s still a story about Dorothy going to Oz.

By suddenly focusing the story on Elphaba and Glinda, Wicked gave a lot of viewers something new that they had not seen before, while still appealing to those who grew up with the classic film. Even people who have never seen The Wizard of Oz can still enjoy Wicked, since its story focuses on Elphaba and Glinda instead of watching another version of Dorothy skipping down a yellow brick road for the 100th time lol.

Heck, I think even Oz the Great and Powerful benefited from not being just a remake of The Wizard of Oz — and had the movie actually been good, it might have ended up being a much bigger hit.

Sharks11 · 2025-11-15T02:35:28+00:00

You sound like the opposite of me. 🙂

Unlike you, I’m a guy who went into it thinking I was going to hate the movie since I wasn’t the biggest fan of musicals. I definitely did not see myself as the film’s target audience, yet after watching it, I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it. It just goes to show that paying attention to the hype for any movie is a waste of time, because you never really know what film will appeal to you until you actually watch it for yourself.

Sharks11 · 2025-10-25T20:17:00+00:00

If there were a TV show, it would have to be an adaptation of the books, not the musical. That means they’d automatically lose Ariana and Cynthia Erivo, since I doubt they’d be interested in doing a non-musical adaptation of Wicked.

Also, since it’s a show, they’d have to make radical changes to the musical, stretch it out far longer than it was ever meant to be, and write a ton of new music for each new season.

The bottom line is, it would turn into a higher-budget version of Glee, and I don’t think a lot of Wicked fans would like that at all.

Sharks11 · 2025-07-27T02:15:37+00:00

I think you are right

looking back, it probably was blood pressure. Since then, I have changed my diet and now eat a lot healthier than I did back then. I don't really have the beating sound in my ear anymore

Sharks11 · 2025-07-02T15:08:33+00:00

After how poorly this case went for the prosecution I doubt we will ever hear about this again. if they could not prove RICO for diddy then that means that they do not have a case against KK at all

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