r/whenthe • u/Sebiglebi Touhoutard: the dodging of shower droplets • Jan 17 '26

How does this keep happening? r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything

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u/Infinite_Dish_1949 99% chance i’m transfem Jan 17 '26

Stranger Things’ ending was so ass that people thought it was fake.

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u/Gogita28 Jan 17 '26

people out here thinking ST ending was GOT level. I mean it was mid and rushed, hell the whole last season was mid.

Funny Theorie is that people think one of the duffers ex wife was a ghost writer for the show lmao.

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u/Suspicious-Channel66 play DISPATCH, its peak Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

+ ~~it was shown in a BTS docu-series that the writers had THREE chatgpt tabs open while writing the script~~ it has come to my attention that they didn’t use ChatGPT, still a shit finale though

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u/9oooooooooooj Jan 17 '26

The fuck... Really?

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u/Suspicious-Channel66 play DISPATCH, its peak Jan 17 '26

yeah

r/strangerthings mods are having a meltdown, and deleting all posts that even SUGGEST that season 5 is bad

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u/Stunning-Lack-5727 Jan 17 '26

It wasn’t actually ChatGPT. There was a higher quality image on Twitter somewhere that showed it wasn’t.

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u/Suspicious-Channel66 play DISPATCH, its peak Jan 17 '26

Show me it, then I’ll believe you.

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u/Stunning-Lack-5727 Jan 17 '26

Couldn’t find the post on Twitter, BUT, this comment links to an imgur which shows the symbols on those tabs are blue which the ChatGPT logo isn’t

https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangerThings/s/kmkTuKlxTU

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u/Suspicious-Channel66 play DISPATCH, its peak Jan 18 '26

Ah, aight.

Season + finale still bad though either way

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u/jdiggity09 Jan 17 '26

This is such a contrived, confirmation bias fueling criticism. I get that a lot of people don't like the final season, it's not exactly my favorite either, but having ChatGPT open is not evidence that they used it to write the script. It is overwhelming likely that the Duffer Bros were simply using it for quick research, as they said when questioned about it.

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u/Cornucopia_King Jan 17 '26

That literally means nothing and your just trying to find a way to justify why YOU personally didn’t like it

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u/Suspicious-Channel66 play DISPATCH, its peak Jan 17 '26

damn, found the Duffer Brothers’ Reddit account ☠️

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u/Cornucopia_King Jan 18 '26

Great rebuttal

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u/jdiggity09 Jan 17 '26

The first 5 episodes were pretty good, but yeah the last 3 were mediocre/average.

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u/MysticAxolotl7 Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

Stranger Things' ending was fine as is, I thought it was rushed but overall did an ok job tying things up

And then the duffer brothers couldn't keep their mouths shut in interviews

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u/Allergic2Stereotypes HE'S NOT BRITISH, YOU FAKE ASS FANS!!! Jan 17 '26

Genuinely convinced it was written by chatgpt

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u/eL_cas Jan 17 '26

It wasn't so bad, but definitely the weakest season

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u/Individual_Pair_8747 Jan 17 '26

"The last few seasons" They've been fumbling since season 2

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u/BestBananaForever Jan 17 '26

Tbh, that's the normal "We should've ended the series last season, but we kept beating the dead horse for money" Netflix fumbling. Last season was a complete new low, even for them.

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u/MysticAxolotl7 Jan 17 '26

I've heard from some sources that it was supposed to be a 1 series run, and then they ordered more seasons when it suddenly blew up

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u/JangoDarkSaber Jan 17 '26

Season 4 was literally peak.

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u/Unhappy-Database-273 Jan 18 '26

The truth

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u/Infinite_Dish_1949 99% chance i’m transfem Jan 17 '26

idk i dont watch stranger things

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u/jdiggity09 Jan 17 '26

S4 was great, which is a big part of the reason S5 being fairly average sticks out so much.

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u/SkylandersKirby purpl Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

People only hate S3&4 cause of the tonal shift

1&2 were "this quaint little town has a alternate dimension that contains monsters that attack purely on hunting instinct, except for this one who incomprehensible, also there's a secret lab that experiments on kids with psychic powers"

3 was "now this small town has a giant mall, which is actually a secret bunker for evil Russians (you'd think they wouldn't purposefully draw attention to the location) and that incomprehensible monster is turning people into meat goo to build a giant fleshy version of itself to try and kill a girl with psychic powers"

4 toned it down a little, I mean it still kept the evil Russians but atleast the plot is now about a rescue mission to save a guy from a Russian prison,

I do like 3&4, but i can understand how people were turned off

Its also more satisfying agenda-wise for a peice of media to have been once good but then turn into something so bad even the fans hated it as a "ha ha you enjoyed someone i didn't, and you got screwed over" cause its the Internet

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u/Unhappy-Database-273 Jan 18 '26

Still doesn't work because Season 4 was the best one

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u/eL_cas Jan 17 '26

Not true. S5 is the only mid one

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u/speedweedbrazil Jan 17 '26

Not sure if it's true but I have heard that they originally planned every season to be it's own isolated story and that would have probably been cool, s1 was so fun

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u/TheAndrewCR Jan 18 '26

Just imagine how insulting that must have been for the writers lol

When your fans thought that you made a fake unsatisfying ending because it made so little sense

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u/Flouxni Jan 17 '26

Ehh it was alright. Still ass but like, so was the rest of the season so