Television Stranger Things 4 (New Trailer)
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Can't really be avoided. Finding under 18 actors is harder and they are more limited in how much time they can work.
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Agree but the kids looking old as shit now isn't entirely on the producers, because the cast was age appropriate in S1 which dropped way back in July 2016. So the kids were cast 10+ years ago when El was actually 11 and the rest of the kids were 11 to 13. Part of the charm of S1 and S2 was watching actual kids... playing kids.
While they've milked this series past expiration, they couldn't have foreseen COVID lockdowns AND writers' strike dragging everything out even more. IMO they're doing a good job managing around Lucas growing up to be Francis Ngannou and El looking like crack whore Wendy from Breaking Bad despite only being 21 now.
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Episode 7 was awful. Shockingly bad. Hope the last one isn't along those lines.
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People don 't like gay stuff these days. I am guessing you don't like gay stuff. The end of episode 6 was the worst part of the new season with the wayyyy too long dialogue between the two girls.
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I honestly skipped through most of the epilogue, way too fucking long. I just felt disappointed after that final fight. Vecna ended up being a can. No major deaths except for Kali who they introduced back basically to kill off lol. I was on team Vecna. I liked his design, his voice, and the actor portraying him. It's crazy that they had three years to make this season and the finale still ended up feeling so incredibly rushed. Where were the demorgogons and dogs? Vecno just lives in the middle of a desert with zero protection. The Mind Flayer was a mindless 200 foot tall kaiju that got its ass kicked by normal bullets and flame throwers. Mind Flayer should have been some eldritch horror instead that got into the minds of everyone and made them turn on each other. Overall, the biggest flaw of this season is the creators just not willing to kill off anyone. Even watching this I knew nobody would get harmed. There's zero stakes and as a result zero tension. This wasn't game of thrones bad but I'm still pretty disappointed. Season 4 got me hyped again, but this brought me down.
Oh well. Show is over, I'm sure many people will feel the same way I do. I don't think I'm alone.
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5 was ranked about season 3 for me until the last couple of episodes.
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They really nerfed Vecna/Mindflayer. What was that final battle like 10 minutes long?
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I think overall S5 had the most missteps, but there were also some solid gold highlights. The last episode imo was much better than the rest of the season. They had a job to do, and it got done.
Joyce cutting off Vecna's head with the axe she's been swinging since S1, and then going off to marry Hopper, was something we badly needed. Thank god they gave that lady a win.
