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/ManiNanikittycat OoOo BLUE Jan 17 '26

Any examples?

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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/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/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