Stranger Things LIED To You
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Did fans write a better ending to Stranger Things than Stranger Things did!? A lot of people seem to think so… let’s talk about it!
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| 0:00.0 | Did fans write a better ending to Stranger Things than Stranger Things did? |
| 0:04.0 | A lot of people seem to think so, so let's talk conformity gate and how Netflix has a lot to learn. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, Internet, welcome to Film Theory. |
| 0:15.0 | So after nine long years, the kids of Hawkins, Indiana have finally grown up, and Netflix's biggest show, |
| 0:21.4 | Stranger Things, has come to an end. Well, sort of. There are still tons of books and |
| 0:26.3 | spinoff cartoons, and a spiritual successor and a stage play that is shockingly important to the |
| 0:31.3 | lore of this series. Like, really, I gotta hit up Broadway to get the full picture here? What's next? |
| 0:36.3 | Lour in Fortnite? Oh. |
| 0:38.3 | Regardless, the main Stranger Thing series and all of its adventures with the Psychic Eleven and her friends in the upside down is finally over. |
| 0:45.3 | And personally, I thought the series finale had a lot of good and a lot of not. |
| 0:51.3 | Do I hate it? |
| 0:52.3 | I mean, I do. |
| 0:53.3 | Just not like you guys do. Yeah, the final fight against Vecna and the mind flare was so rushed. And really, we're in the home dimension of the Dimmigorgans and not one is going to show up in this final fight. Something that was pointed out in the writer's room and dismissed. There has to be Degregor, dog, like something. It's crazy if there's nothing |
| 1:12.2 | there, I think. Yeah, it really would be. A lot of their writing was clunky. There's a good reason to |
| 1:17.5 | believe that some of it was AI-assisted or generated, and they went into production without having |
| 1:22.4 | finished writing the season. We went into production without having a finish script for the finale. |
| 1:28.5 | Have we learned nothing from Star Wars? |
| 1:30.8 | Somehow Palpatine returned. |
| 1:32.3 | But all of that being said, though there were a lot of holes that didn't make it logically |
| 1:37.5 | satisfying, I did find the conclusion emotionally satisfying. |
| 1:41.7 | Like Game of Thrones, season 8, this was not. I don't want it. |
| 1:45.1 | Like, if we weren't going to have some tragic horror story ending with like everyone dying, |
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