First of all I want to say, someone needs to give the sound department a raise. Wow, the music, and the sound design in this episode were beautiful. The set design was amazing as well.
I really love the way the story was going, and I was interested pretty much the entire runtime. They kind of lost me toward the end though. I was so disappointed when they killed Eddie. I should have seen it coming, since the writers love to introduce expendable characters. *cough bob cough*. Of course all of our main cast have plot armor though, nothing new there. Please... if you're going to put main characters in life threatening situations...actually have there be a threat sometimes. It kind of kills the suspense when I know, for a fact, that nobody is going to die.
Nancy, Steve, and robin were being choked by the vines for like 30 minutes. Lucas got lucky that he was born with a chin that would make Tyson cry. Not to mention the guy who tried to shoot him, doesn't know how to move his arms down, and just lets him duck the easiest shot of his life. As for Max, how did her surviving make any sense? Makes me think Vecna didn't even need to kill her. It actually kind of made me mad that eleven just... can bring people back to life now. I was like "dang that sucks, but at least there's real stakes now". Then immediately followed by "really? Grow a pair, and kill you're characters instead of constantly pretending to". Seriously though, they did the same thing with hopper in season 3, and eleven in season 1. Stop with the fake outs. It's a cheap tactic meant to get an emotional response, without actually following through. You can't keep having it both ways. If you keep doing that, nobody is going to react when you kill someone for real. I'll stop ranting now, because I DID like this episode. I just hate it when writers pull that crap.
At the end of the day, I really enjoyed this episode, and season. Definitely up there with season 1. Also, much better than season 2 and 3. Felt a lot more real than last season.
I really love the way the story was going, and I was interested pretty much the entire runtime. They kind of lost me toward the end though. I was so disappointed when they killed Eddie. I should have seen it coming, since the writers love to introduce expendable characters. *cough bob cough*. Of course all of our main cast have plot armor though, nothing new there. Please... if you're going to put main characters in life threatening situations...actually have there be a threat sometimes. It kind of kills the suspense when I know, for a fact, that nobody is going to die.
Nancy, Steve, and robin were being choked by the vines for like 30 minutes. Lucas got lucky that he was born with a chin that would make Tyson cry. Not to mention the guy who tried to shoot him, doesn't know how to move his arms down, and just lets him duck the easiest shot of his life. As for Max, how did her surviving make any sense? Makes me think Vecna didn't even need to kill her. It actually kind of made me mad that eleven just... can bring people back to life now. I was like "dang that sucks, but at least there's real stakes now". Then immediately followed by "really? Grow a pair, and kill you're characters instead of constantly pretending to". Seriously though, they did the same thing with hopper in season 3, and eleven in season 1. Stop with the fake outs. It's a cheap tactic meant to get an emotional response, without actually following through. You can't keep having it both ways. If you keep doing that, nobody is going to react when you kill someone for real. I'll stop ranting now, because I DID like this episode. I just hate it when writers pull that crap.
At the end of the day, I really enjoyed this episode, and season. Definitely up there with season 1. Also, much better than season 2 and 3. Felt a lot more real than last season.