Stranger Things Season 5 Spoilers!

[Loopytiles]

So excited about this! Can’t bear to watch without spoilers first.

I believe 🙂

I think the first half was exciting but overall disappointed in this final episode and in season five. I think there were too many threads over the four prior seasons and they just couldn’t bring everything together into a convincing whole. The dialogue was woeful in parts of season 5 as well.

It felt so poignant when they put their D&D books up on the shelf for the last time, affirmed with Mike’s younger sister taking over with the next generation… It was a perfect ending from where it all began. I will miss this series 🥹

I feel oddly bereft after watching.
I've loved the series (I'm the only one of my family who watch..)
I loved that we saw the kids grow up and be happy.
Dustin was so great at graduation...Eddie would have been proud 💔
I feel like I've watched all the actors grow up <sniff>
I believe 💙

Was it Patty Newby singing in the scene with the Hopper proposal at the end?

I believe 😭😭😭😭

I just watched it again with my eldest and enjoyed it far more the second time! Definitely give it another watch if you’re unsure how to feel.

I shed many tears the second watch, I’m so sad it’s over. I don’t think S5 had the cinematic gravitas of S4 but it was a beautiful wrap up.

DS thought it was - I haven't seen the play so no idea.

I feel the same, a bit empty 😕
I was like it years a go when Charmed finished and super natural 😌.
But all signs of a good show, thats how they want you to feel like.

I thought the ending was done well, I feel El finished like she did season one.

I also feel like it wasnt supposed to be massive on deaths and ultimately a coming of age show with nostalgia thrown in.

As others said first half was good but too much filler in last 30 minutes. But they didn't cover who was the guy in the cave that Henry killed and where did the rock in the suitcase come from? Is this covered in the stage show? Also it was actually relatively easy for Henry to enter the cave considering he was so scared of it so why didn't he just do it before to get Max? Yes so many questions but all in all a satisfactory conclusion.

I don’t think it was easy for Henry to enter the cave at all. It literally floored him. It was the antithesis of Will facing his fear. Will had friends and family and faced it and was met with love and acceptance. Henry faced his greatest fear alone and without closure, and at the end embraced his evil. He didn’t change. It was the dark to Will’s light.

I said to my family I thought it could be!

Who is Patty Newby? Why is she relevant to the show?

Yeah, I thought with the additional side characters, at least one of them would have died!… i had my money on Vickie and Science teacher

She is Bob’s (adopted) sister, she’s a critical character in the stage show, she’s Henry’s only friend. Her mum was a singer and she liked to sing which is why we we are wondering if it was her in the restaurant, although she leaves Hawkins end of the show.

Thanks! I loved the finale & it’s all making me even more excited for the stage show (going next Saturday!)

Oh have a great time, it’s a brilliant show! I’ve seen it twice now I liked it so much!

So much blubbing from the cast...Presumably their genuine emotions at the series coming to an end.

We thought it was the perfect ending. The Prince music was 🥰

Thought Linda Hamilton's character was pointless.

LOVED the Prince music 💜💜💜

Loved the ending. Mikes story at then end is near enough exactly what I said to dd when we watched the scene in the first half of the episode. Started with d&d and finished with D&D. Glad there wasn’t 5 deaths like everyone was saying. I do feel like they left it open, but also closed it too. Very good story telling.

Love this! Spot on. Although I do have some sadness for Henry having to face his greatest fear alone when Will was so loved. But I get why it was like that.

Did anyone hear the heart beat? I think it's an hour 23 ish in.
Just after El disappears and its a blank screen, first you hear the clock then a heart beat then the bricks being laid.
Maybe best to listen on your phone right to your ear or with headphones.

Just finished it.

Well I feel bad for my Kali distrust!

I was surprised that the “we won” bit came so soon and I kept thinking that it would reveal that it was a dream and the mind flayer had actually won. But it was different & nice to see how they all were after although a bit long, I did cry a fair bit!

Hopper seemed remarkably happy / philosophical after losing El

Yes, I thought El would be alive as he was seemingly fine. I do believe she died.

I agree that the ending was very in keeping with 80s film where the goodies always win and it was about growing up & that transition to adulthood.

Way too many characters, several should have died if it was really that dangerous, and finale was 30 mins too long