I found it kind of disappointing, tbh. I realize it took place over a week, but everyone was paired up with their groups and there was zero overlap until the very end. Especially weird since the kids (well, Dustin) were split, both Dustin's group and the other kid group were tackling their own insane mysteries and never seemed concerned that they weren't together as a team.
Overall, felt like the content would've been fine as a movie but was just too much spread over eight seasons with so many unnecessary scenes.
Was sad that Will didn't get much to do beyond gasp and say "He's here!", since I think he's the strongest of the kid actors and honestly the most interesting of the kid characters besides *maybe* Eleven, though she's kind of run her course tbh (though the twist about randomly losing her powers at least changes this up a bit). I was expecting Will to have more confrontation with the Mind Flayer, considering he literally was the thing's host last season, but oh well, give him a rest from being the series damsel in distress.
I don't think Hopper's actually dead. I'm not super attached to his character or anything, but I found the final scenes so fucking annoying I'll just be irritated to fuck if he doesn't come back. SUPER TIME SENSITIVE MISSION: let's sing a random musical number, let Hopper and Winona Ryder share knowing but worried glances, stare at the Gate in awe for a few seconds, crack a line about "ready to end this?" (no SHIT asshole) and slowly, ever so slowly, start counting ONE... TWO.. aw fuck Russian Terminator showed up to fuck shit up. Seriously so predictable and aggravating.
Re: Stranger Things 3
I found it kind of disappointing, tbh. I realize it took place over a week, but everyone was paired up with their groups and there was zero overlap until the very end. Especially weird since the kids (well, Dustin) were split, both Dustin's group and the other kid group were tackling their own insane mysteries and never seemed concerned that they weren't together as a team.
Overall, felt like the content would've been fine as a movie but was just too much spread over eight seasons with so many unnecessary scenes.
Was sad that Will didn't get much to do beyond gasp and say "He's here!", since I think he's the strongest of the kid actors and honestly the most interesting of the kid characters besides *maybe* Eleven, though she's kind of run her course tbh (though the twist about randomly losing her powers at least changes this up a bit). I was expecting Will to have more confrontation with the Mind Flayer, considering he literally was the thing's host last season, but oh well, give him a rest from being the series damsel in distress.
I don't think Hopper's actually dead. I'm not super attached to his character or anything, but I found the final scenes so fucking annoying I'll just be irritated to fuck if he doesn't come back. SUPER TIME SENSITIVE MISSION: let's sing a random musical number, let Hopper and Winona Ryder share knowing but worried glances, stare at the Gate in awe for a few seconds, crack a line about "ready to end this?" (no SHIT asshole) and slowly, ever so slowly, start counting ONE... TWO.. aw fuck Russian Terminator showed up to fuck shit up. Seriously so predictable and aggravating.