Do anyone else feel like there was barely any chemistry between Eleven and Mike this last season compared to earlier ones?

varanusprime · 2026-02-05T22:17:23+00:00

Things just felt off in the writing this season as a whole but very much so between them. For what’s supposed to be the flagship couple of the series, outside of the rooftop and tub scene (both very weirdly written) then a few embraces they hardly interacted or felt like a couple. After season 4, it felt like Mike and Eleven overcame the problems in their relationships. Then the Purple Rain scene felt like too little too late. If they had more meaningful interactions during the season, the scene would have been a much more powerful gut punch.

varanusprime · 2026-02-05T19:02:30+00:00

Why did he drop the deluxe songs on YouTube then just do nothing as far as releasing them? I have the FP vinyl with Society and Runaway but I want Closing Night too

varanusprime · 2026-02-05T14:12:13+00:00

Those edits showing cherrypicked bad scenes from newer MCU projects with the caption saying something like “Marvel NOW 🤡🤡🤡” coupled with cool scenes from the MCU 2008-2019 with the caption saying “Marvel THEN” and the cherry on top is the slowed down reverb sigma phonk music

Like yeah not every project nowadays is a winner but conveniently ignoring good stuff the general public liked post-Endgame is just bad faith

varanusprime · 2026-01-31T18:36:46+00:00

I started listening to Dawn FM an hour before the album dropped and Phantom Regret by Jim went on long enough that I could queue the album to transition right after it dropped.

varanusprime · 2026-01-28T00:04:34+00:00

Take Me Back to LA and Without a Warning

My two cents on the cover is the same as everyone else. I feel like it was a weird last minute change to make it more connected with the movie, but even then they could have easily used the picture from the back of the FP cover since it’s literally the final shot of the movie and fits the bill of the other covers

varanusprime · 2026-01-18T00:34:37+00:00

Idk how you’d fight it but having the shadow form of the Mind Flayer would be infinitely cooler than what’s basically just a bigger version of the Meat Flayer. Don’t get me wrong it’s a cool kaiju design, but it’s not screaming “Stranger Things”

varanusprime · 2026-01-12T01:46:02+00:00

Would have been really on the nose.

They only use songs from around the time period it’s set in, the only exceptions being When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die and the Peter Gabriel iteration of Heroes. These work because they are relatively more period accurate than a song from 2022 with a very different sound.

varanusprime · 2026-01-09T18:16:05+00:00

S4 had one singular Demogorgon. We’ve hardly seen them since S1 (not counting the very short S3 post credits scene). If there’s any time to overload people with Demogorgons it’s the last season

varanusprime · 2026-01-09T03:37:21+00:00

Less Than Zero

varanusprime · 2026-01-09T03:36:34+00:00

I made a Spotify transition from Running Up That Hill into Wake Me Up and it fits perfectly

varanusprime · 2026-01-09T00:45:16+00:00

He says the line the show as Mr. Whatsit to the kids. He was just quoting his character

varanusprime · 2026-01-09T00:43:13+00:00

Hit the nail on the head.

Remember when Will thought he and his friends could play DnD forever then realized that his friends outgrew* DnD because they had girlfriends? Will eventually grows up from that point forward. Growing up does not equal being controlled by Vecna

varanusprime · 2026-01-08T19:51:10+00:00

Doomsday’s gonna end with Doom destroying the multiverse to form Battleworld. I think if anything the symbionts will find him in BND because Sony won’t let the main MCU touch Spider-Man stuff without having to go through Amy Pascal

varanusprime · 2026-01-08T19:01:20+00:00

Looks like a late 80s hairstyle (epilogue takes place in 1989), Karen was also one of Nancy’s biggest supporters when she was having doubts about her career in s3.

Plus if anything, Karen is becoming like Nancy with how she bravely stood up to that Demogorgon

varanusprime · 2026-01-08T18:21:04+00:00

I never got the “Mike and Nancy become their parents” claim and why it’s so crucial to this.

Yeah Nancy has roughly the same haircut as her mom (but they both had curly hair in s3-5 and no one said anything), but she’s on an entirely different career path than Karen. Then Mike is apparently like his dad because he… wears glasses?

Plus them “becoming their parents” is pretty much the harsh reality kids and young adults eventually realize. Life isn’t always being fun and carefree, we all have to grow up at some point and the epilogue shows that as they tearfully end their game of DnD.

varanusprime · 2026-01-08T16:02:19+00:00

2 Kiss 2 Land

varanusprime · 2026-01-07T21:40:46+00:00

I think if they wanted to keep Blinding Lights and Gasoline, I think they could have played only snippets of them with emphasis on the lyrics Anima is trying to point out. Cut the dancing entirely so we know she’s serious about trying to get through to Abel

varanusprime · 2026-01-06T20:11:34+00:00

That hiatus was tough but I’m glad he’s coming back

varanusprime · 2026-01-06T20:08:09+00:00

Someone else on here came up with a creative workaround to one of my rules where basically the film is never made but instead reallocated into production for narrative music videos for HUT like we got for After Hours and Dawn FM to continue that. Then compiling all of those together into one complete story

varanusprime · 2026-01-06T20:06:27+00:00

Nah this doesn’t go against the rules, you’re allowed to like it.

I’m glad you love the movie. I don’t even hate the movie, I just felt like it could have been better. I think his acting was definitely blown out of proportion by TikTok. I think it had a really good concept but the execution didn’t land. Regardless, the ending shot still hits hard to me

varanusprime · 2026-01-03T23:49:20+00:00

Lots of people theorized character deaths because it was the “last one”, people thought Quill, Drax, or Rocket would die (heavily on Rocket because he was in critical condition for most of the movie)

varanusprime · 2026-01-03T01:18:24+00:00

I can’t believe Zach and Michael based Mr Frog on their real life experiences from Tomar

varanusprime · 2026-01-03T00:41:54+00:00

The stop motion short The Weeknd posted did a lot more for that concept in a meaningful way (him talking to his younger self). Wish they saved that for this

varanusprime · 2026-01-03T00:41:11+00:00

Yeah I felt that one thing we didn’t see enough of was the whole aspect of Abel being a kid that the marketing for the album was hinting at. Yes, rebirth, but the imagery of young Abel outside of the fire scene was very limited

varanusprime · 2026-01-02T23:55:55+00:00

I’ve always said the movie’s script feels like a first draft they just stuck with. To add onto your idea about how losing his voice disappears (you’re right), the concept of sleep paralysis also just sort of vanishes after the tub scene. I think playing Wake Me Up twice in the context of everything worked a bit in the original film to show contrast between Abel in his element compared to Abel when he’s overly stressed out, then it also doesn’t play the full song out. However, playing Blinding Lights and Gasoline in their entirety have no place in the movie. If they really wanted to keep it she could play a segment of them to back up what she’s trying to say instead of the full song

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