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kurokoros · 11 months ago

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first of all, the duffers absolutely didn't have the full series planned out from the start because Stranger Things was originally pitched as a limited series with 1) the potential for a direct "sequel" that would follow the younger kids as adults (basically, they pitched "It") or 2) an outright sci-fi horror anthology. second of all, even if the duffers did have everything mapped out from the start that doesn't mean that plan isn't garbage.

#strangerthoughts #sorry ST reddit is driving me INSANE. please crawl back out of the duffers' asses #these guys literally lost the plot back in S3 and course corrected so hard that everyone collectively experienced whiplash #if they had any kind of plan in mind it definitely wasn't until after S2 #I would argue it wasn't until after S3 tbh #like. S1 was definitely intended to stand alone #S2 was a direct continuation that only happened because netflix saw the show as profitable #and the duffers scrambled to yeet something out in a little over a year #which is why the justice for barb plot is a thing and el's plot is so disconnected from the rest of the season #they had no idea what to do with her when she was SUPPOSED TO DIE #S3 feels like the duffers pitched an anthology season and netflix said no #like. I could have liked S3 as a standalone campy action comedy #but it being a wacky season in the midst of non-wacky seasons makes me wonder what the duffers were smoking #and if the duffers had a solid plan for vecna before S3 I'll give them my left kidney free of charge #because S4 is a messy season. they crammed things in there that did not need to be crammed in #they bloated the cast and clearly had no idea what to do with 75% of said cast #and when I talk about the episodes being too long I'm directly referring to how in the last episode the kill vecna crew are being #STRANGLED BY VINES and PINNED TO A WALL for like thirty minutes straight #at that point someone should have suggested they reevaluate what they just wrote. because what they wrote sucked #I genuinely don't think the duffers will ever be show runners again #I think they'll continue to direct. which they are pretty good at. but I don't see them ever writing anything majorly successful again

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