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I liked the finale, but it was definitely not great for an actual finale. It would have been a great penultimate/setup for a finale though. Oh well.

I do really like the show, but it was definitely a bit disappointing in terms of things happening and us finding out anything. But I definitely have faith in VG in delivering though, and I'll watch episodes as long as they churn them out.

I'll catch up on the thread and see what others thought about it.

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The one we requested was this one. I have no idea why he went with toonces instead. I guess I should have been more specific.

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If DW did that, slap him for me.

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Someone explain "situationships" to me

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It's another fricking stupid term that white women came up with to try to make something dumb sound less dumb.

So they use "situationship" instead of "I'm fricking this guy and he doesn't like me enough to date me" or "I'll frick this guy until someone better comes along."

Or "hangry" instead of "I'm a mean bitch but I will blame it on the fact that I haven't had a snack in 30 minutes."

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Where is Waterworld?

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Man, this has been the narrative for 30 years now...but Waterworld was actually fairly successful back then. Just not as successful as they thought it would be.

I definitely remember it being hailed as the "biggest flop of all time" and all of that shite. But it made $274 million at the box office against like a $175 million budget. So even factoring in marketing costs, it still did okay. And IIRC I believe it did pretty well in rentals at the time too, which studios consider as well.

Also, it should have made a lot more anyway since it's just awesome.


Also, I would love to see the truthful, actual list, minus all the Hollywood Accounting involved. Something like Battleship is on the list. It cost $209 million and made $303 at the box office. Even factoring in marketing and production, there's no way it lost over $200 million...that's just a ridiculous thought.

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But it feels like these good moments are filled with a LOT of trash. There’s way too much time spent spinning wheels with meaningless dialogue that serves no story purpose, and the plot armor is too strong at times.

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These are two of my biggest gripes as well. Plot armor may be my #1; as I’ve said in here, the fact that nobody “important” ever dies is completely ridiculous and means the stakes are never actually high at all.

But like you said, the dialogue is either just plain bad or goes on way too long. Dragging the “Will being gay” shite was awful. I don’t give a shite if he’s gay or not. So he is. Good for him. But for frick’s sake just have him tell his closest friends in life and get it the frick over with. We don’t need several deep conversations with Robin about it. And we damn sure don’t need a 10 minute scene devoted to him telling his friends he “doesn’t like girls.” What sucks more is that you know there will be some ten minute conversation with Mike about it in the finale too. And the worst part is that I can just picture the Duffer brothers injuring their hands from patting themselves on the backs super hard for all of this idiocy.

On top of that, you also make a good point about new characters while existing (and formerly prominent) ones take a back seat.

The “strong woman” shite is out of control obviously. But I think it bothers me more that they keep splitting up like a bunch of dumbasses. You’re in the UD in a military base looking for Vecna and demigorgans….but hey you two go thataway and we’ll go thisaway. It’s just dumb.

Another of my bigger gripes is that aside from a couple things here or there, everything about this season just feels…lazy. Which is a very bad thing considering the 3+ years they’ve had to make this shite.

I don’t believe you to be a liar, but there’s almost no way that’s the same person. :lol:

Haven’t been able to watch it yet. But what is the general consensus on the episode?

I think I was in third or fourth grade when I stopped. My son is 6 and is still all in. I’m hoping to get at least another 3-4 years out of it for him.

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The racists here don't give the first shite about the back story.

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What the frick backstory do you think makes it okay for these pieces of shite to execute people in front of screaming toddlers? I’m not familiar with your posts generally, but I know you have a reputation of being an idiot around here. And with responses like this I can understand why.

And please don’t ignore this question. I want to know what backstory you think makes any of this okay.

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I do expect one main character to die though so it can be a talking point for the show.

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IMO Steve will sacrifice himself to either save Nancy or Dustin. Jonathan is a maybe. But I think it's either him or Steve, and Steve kinda makes more sense.

I'm not sure how Hopper survives, and I hope he doesn't. Not because I don't like him, just more because it would seem fitting that he goes out a hero of sorts.

I do think Will dies as well. And good riddance as far as I'm concerned. But I suspect he will somehow die protecting or saving Mike or Joyce (maybe Jonathan, but I doubt it).

Outside shot Eleven dies, but I doubt it since she and Mike were sort of the main storyline relationship-wise from the outset of the show.

Nancy won't die because she's special ops now. I don't think Mike or Lucas will die. Dustin is a maybe, but I don't see them killing him off since he's such a crowd favorite. No way they kill Holly. I think Max is also safe since they easily could have (and should have) killed her last season. I think Robin is also safe for multiple reasons (including NF's politics). I also think Joyce is safe as well; not only has she been front and center because of Will, but she's also the love interest of Hopper and if he dies she is safe IMO.

I think that's all of the "main"-ish characters and my thoughts. But it better be at least some (i.e. more than one) of them, or this show will drop in quality big time for me. You can't keep having all of these "life or death" scenarios for main characters where there is literally just no death. it cheapens it.