u/EquivalentVariety410

I think this popped up on booktok so many times I felt like I read it.

What I loved:

The entire opening. I see why this was basically the trailer and was what got people to the theaters in combination with the blatant tease of Stu. Accompanied with the on the nose metaphors that come with burning down the Macher, house, I thought Kevin was really cooking here.

The kills, the theater disemboweling and the beer tap impalement are kills that are so reminiscent of classic horror movie kills like the dryer scene in My Bloody Valentine, and a real credit to the series as a whole.

The rest:

I'm another crazed fan and he's my crazed friend? Really? That's...that's what we went with? You couldn't hire a guy to delete his A03 story and give it to you for this?

I have not seen a compelling argument yet for why this was good writing. "But people do be like that though", just isn't it. Wes Craven would have never.

There were a multitude of ways this could have been easily fixed with just tweaking the writing. Why not just give the fans what they were asking for and what you were teasing? Just bring Stu back. Stu has a mentally ill twin no one knew about in an institution far away with rich parents who hid him, but after both parents passed there's no one left to push for keeping him locked up. This ties the Macher house in, gives the fans their Matthew fix, is farfetched enough but not impossible, and holds ties to the actual story vs some randos. Hell, you really want to turn the fandom on it's head? Tatum had the twin, same premise, and Rose is our big reveal after Sidney immortalized her daughter with her sister's name while she was wasting away and forgotten. Would you not have lost your minds to a reveal like this? Would you not forgive how insanely far fetched this story line would be, for just a taste of that level of nostalgia and lore? And the beauty everything else could have stayed the same down to the deep fakes Stu. 😔

What I loved:

The entire opening. I see why this was basically the trailer and was what got people to the theaters in combination with the blatant tease of Stu. Accompanied with the on the nose metaphors that come with burning down the Macher, house, I thought Kevin was really cooking here.

The kills, the theater disemboweling and the beer tap impalement are kills that are so reminiscent of classic horror movie kills like the dryer scene in My Bloody Valentine, and a real credit to the series as a whole.

The rest:

I'm another crazed fan and he's my crazed friend? Really? That's...that's what we went with? You couldn't hire a guy to delete his A03 story and give it to you for this?

I have not seen a compelling argument yet for why this was good writing. "But people do be like that though", just isn't it. Wes Craven would have never.

There were a multitude of ways this could have been easily fixed with just tweaking the writing. Why not just give the fans what they were asking for and what you were teasing? Just bring Stu back. Stu has a mentally ill twin no one knew about in an institution far away with rich parents who hid him, but after both parents passed there's no one left to push for keeping him locked up. This ties the Macher house in, gives the fans their Matthew fix, is farfetched enough but not impossible, and holds ties to the actual story vs some randos. Hell, you really want to turn the fandom on it's head? Tatum had the twin, same premise, and Rose is our big reveal after Sidney immortalized her daughter with her sister's name while she was wasting away and forgotten. Would you not have lost your minds to a reveal like this? Would you not forgive how insanely far fetched this story line would be, for just a taste of that level of nostalgia and lore? And the beauty everything else could have stayed the same down to the deep fakes Stu. 😔