Watched Stranger Things season 4
Jul. 7th, 2022 05:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly1. I know that Will's actor is good at playing "distraught" and "sad" and "melancholy" and "obviously and hopelessly in love with Mike" (seriously), but I hope next season they let him express some other emotion. Maybe he can get a boyfriend. Or go to an art school. Or do both these things.
1a. Will is a better brother to El than Mike is a boyfriend to her, and a better friend to both of them than Mike is to either of them.
2. Some people absolutely deserved a roller skate to the face. I do not normally advocate violence against teens, but honestly, there are limits. What the hell did El ever do to her anyway!?
3. Our villain of the season, Vecna, did the impossible and made me wonder if anybody could dislodge Dr. Brenner from "most hated". Upon reflection, no. I'm not really certain that anybody, least of all Brenner, could have actually helped Henry/One/Vecna with his homicidal misanthropy, but I am sure that Brenner didn't try and probably made it worse. I am extremely glad that El did not even pretend to forgive Brenner as he died. Fuck that asshole.
4. But seriously, Vecna is terrible. He's so pretentious! Not to mention arrogant. But despite all his long winded monologuing about the evil of humanity and the superiority of spiders (an insult to spiders, but I'll get to that) and remaking the world in his own image all he really did to the Upside Down is mind control all the wildlife he could get his slimy tentacles on and shape part of it into a half-assed version of Hawkins. I am sure it is no coincidence that his evil death cloud took on the shape of a large virus. He's nothing more than a small-minded blowhard with no artistic sensibility whatsoever.
4a. Also, I don't want to hear one thing about the superiority of spiders and how they inspired him blah blah blah. That's just him wallowing in his own ignorance. Spiders do not go out hunting because they hate flies, or because they believe themselves better than the other spiders. They eat, and they defend themselves, and other than that they don't go out of their way to hurt anything that they don't have to just because they can. They only want to survive, like everything else. Sure, that's probably small comfort to their prey - but geez, can we not? You're not like a spider, Vecna. You're like a human, admittedly one suffering from a deficit of both empathy and ethics - but that doesn't make you special. You're just an asshole human, like lots of other asshole humans.
5. Sometime before the final showdown, Robin took the time to get a beret. This was a good decision, and I admire her priorities. She clearly said "This beret will tie my whole look together" and went with it, and that was the right call.
6. I noticed that in the last scene, the person collecting donations said that if something is in really bad shape, to just toss it. This is just one of the many reasons that cash is better than stuff - cash isn't ever trash just pretending to be charity, and nobody has to sort it.
7. The entire Russia subplot was superfluous and insufficiently connected to the rest of the plot. Plus, I notice we have no resolution on the Good Guard - did he defect to America? Did he go home to his son and hope that somehow the Party just forgot he was a traitor? Ugh. This is gonna bug me.
8. Hopper, did you learn nothing from Vietnam? Weird defoliant is drifting out of the sky. WHY ARE YOU ALL STANDING AROUND STARING? Go inside the house and don't leave again without at least wearing long sleeves, long pants, a hat, and preferably something to cover your mouth and nose.
1a. Will is a better brother to El than Mike is a boyfriend to her, and a better friend to both of them than Mike is to either of them.
2. Some people absolutely deserved a roller skate to the face. I do not normally advocate violence against teens, but honestly, there are limits. What the hell did El ever do to her anyway!?
3. Our villain of the season, Vecna, did the impossible and made me wonder if anybody could dislodge Dr. Brenner from "most hated". Upon reflection, no. I'm not really certain that anybody, least of all Brenner, could have actually helped Henry/One/Vecna with his homicidal misanthropy, but I am sure that Brenner didn't try and probably made it worse. I am extremely glad that El did not even pretend to forgive Brenner as he died. Fuck that asshole.
4. But seriously, Vecna is terrible. He's so pretentious! Not to mention arrogant. But despite all his long winded monologuing about the evil of humanity and the superiority of spiders (an insult to spiders, but I'll get to that) and remaking the world in his own image all he really did to the Upside Down is mind control all the wildlife he could get his slimy tentacles on and shape part of it into a half-assed version of Hawkins. I am sure it is no coincidence that his evil death cloud took on the shape of a large virus. He's nothing more than a small-minded blowhard with no artistic sensibility whatsoever.
4a. Also, I don't want to hear one thing about the superiority of spiders and how they inspired him blah blah blah. That's just him wallowing in his own ignorance. Spiders do not go out hunting because they hate flies, or because they believe themselves better than the other spiders. They eat, and they defend themselves, and other than that they don't go out of their way to hurt anything that they don't have to just because they can. They only want to survive, like everything else. Sure, that's probably small comfort to their prey - but geez, can we not? You're not like a spider, Vecna. You're like a human, admittedly one suffering from a deficit of both empathy and ethics - but that doesn't make you special. You're just an asshole human, like lots of other asshole humans.
5. Sometime before the final showdown, Robin took the time to get a beret. This was a good decision, and I admire her priorities. She clearly said "This beret will tie my whole look together" and went with it, and that was the right call.
6. I noticed that in the last scene, the person collecting donations said that if something is in really bad shape, to just toss it. This is just one of the many reasons that cash is better than stuff - cash isn't ever trash just pretending to be charity, and nobody has to sort it.
7. The entire Russia subplot was superfluous and insufficiently connected to the rest of the plot. Plus, I notice we have no resolution on the Good Guard - did he defect to America? Did he go home to his son and hope that somehow the Party just forgot he was a traitor? Ugh. This is gonna bug me.
8. Hopper, did you learn nothing from Vietnam? Weird defoliant is drifting out of the sky. WHY ARE YOU ALL STANDING AROUND STARING? Go inside the house and don't leave again without at least wearing long sleeves, long pants, a hat, and preferably something to cover your mouth and nose.
