The lab has been compromised and nobody is safe. Hopper, Joyce, & Bob attempt to escape with Will and Mike but must traverse the halls of the lab. Bob must reset the breaker to reset the electricity and gets separated from the group. While trying to escape he gets attacked by the demadogs and dies. The group runs into the rest of the cast in the parking lot and they all head back to Will's house to interrogate him, realizing now that he's a spy for the Upside Down. They make an interrogation room in the shed as to not give away his position to the Upside Down entities. Finally, the thing possessing Will realizes his location and alerts the demadogs. They come to attack the group but Eleven comes and saves the day as the episode ends.
Mike continues to be a jerk to Max. I know he's still upset about Eleven leaving, so hopefully now he'll stop being the worst part of Season 2 now that she's back in his life.
The death of Bob made zero sense. Besides the fact that he's one of the only redeeming characters in season 2, the way they shot his death scene was full of nonsense. When he leaves the basement after turning on the breakers, there's this long shot focused on the gun that he mistakenly leaves behind in his hurry to get out; so he's defenseless. This should come into play right? Wrong! At no point during this would he even have the opportunity to use the gun even if he had kept it. He hides in the closet and then eventually escapes to Joyce. Yes, he should have known that that flimsy door wouldn't hold back the demon dogs so there was no time for them to have this cutesy moment. But the dogs attack him so quickly that even if he had the gun, he never would have had time to grab it, aim, and fire. And there's never a moment where he reaches for where it used to be, any sort of callback to that shot would have been something but they don't do that. Everything about that sequence was poorly made.
Also, you think that the Upside Down demon (whatever you want to call him) would look at Will's house to see if that's where they're hiding him. That would be the first place I'd look! All this is a bit ridiculous.
We've built up to this season finale but it doesn't have the same weight to it as it did last season. Maybe because it's no longer "fresh" (for lack of a better term) but I'm not as emotionally invested in the story this time around. Hopefully the season finale will blow my socks off.
Mike continues to be a jerk to Max. I know he's still upset about Eleven leaving, so hopefully now he'll stop being the worst part of Season 2 now that she's back in his life.
The death of Bob made zero sense. Besides the fact that he's one of the only redeeming characters in season 2, the way they shot his death scene was full of nonsense. When he leaves the basement after turning on the breakers, there's this long shot focused on the gun that he mistakenly leaves behind in his hurry to get out; so he's defenseless. This should come into play right? Wrong! At no point during this would he even have the opportunity to use the gun even if he had kept it. He hides in the closet and then eventually escapes to Joyce. Yes, he should have known that that flimsy door wouldn't hold back the demon dogs so there was no time for them to have this cutesy moment. But the dogs attack him so quickly that even if he had the gun, he never would have had time to grab it, aim, and fire. And there's never a moment where he reaches for where it used to be, any sort of callback to that shot would have been something but they don't do that. Everything about that sequence was poorly made.
Also, you think that the Upside Down demon (whatever you want to call him) would look at Will's house to see if that's where they're hiding him. That would be the first place I'd look! All this is a bit ridiculous.
We've built up to this season finale but it doesn't have the same weight to it as it did last season. Maybe because it's no longer "fresh" (for lack of a better term) but I'm not as emotionally invested in the story this time around. Hopefully the season finale will blow my socks off.