r/StrangerThingsPraise

stop saying this. it’s not true. let people enjoy what you want, it’s all subjective.

i like season 5. is it objectively the worst season? no. is it objectively the best season? no. it was subjectively the best for me, but that’s my opinion. if it’s the worst for you, it’s your opinion.

im sick of people pretending only their opinions matter.

just my thoughts.

i’m finally rewatching the whole show for the first time since the show ended. i feel weird about it so wanted to share it here. to make it clear i loved season 5. the biggest reason is how it made me feel. even knowing the reasonable flaws it has, the ending was so heartwarming and tugged on my heart so deeply that no other media has ever done for me. i think besides how much i genuinely liked what happened in that season, it making me feel that way is the best thing i could ask for. i haven’t had the heart to watch it since i finished the final episode because i have this wave of sadness and nostalgia rush over me now that it’s over. i think now that im about to rewatch, that feeling is coming back again but it has a lot more joy to it. i hope everyone has something that connected to them like every single season of this show has connected with me. i’m glad there’s a space like this sub to share this.

If you just ‘didn’t like’ Stranger Things 5 then this post doesn’t apply to you.

The point is that the absurdity of the hate received after watching four full seasons of the show AND completely finishing the season, indicates that the INTENSITY of the criticism was learned from the internet.

If it was as bad as people are saying it was, they would have stopped watching.

I can’t give you an exact reason as to why the bandwagon blew up as it did. I’m not a psychologist. But, I believe it should not be overlooked how so many people seemed to be predisposed to disliking final seasons, and others do not.

This is not meant to cause an argument or upset anyone. It is meant to deeply consider the psychological effects of Final Seasons and how people’s opinions of them are influenced.

If you want to make the claim that people are not influenced by the internet, this post likely isn’t for you either.

The point being, truth is NOT defined by the bandwagon mentality and ‘majority opinion’.

If that was the case, the world and the US would look a lot different today.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

It's really upsetting to me the hate that season 5 got. I rewatched Stranger Things with my Dad (who was seeing it for the first time) and I honestly liked season 5 more than I thought. I've always really liked it don't get me wrong, but I was having so much fun rewatching it.

Everyone's immediate reaction was generally positive, but now, most Stranger Things fans are spewing a list of reasons why Stranger Things 5 was bad, a list that can be found in a Tiktok after a few seconds of searching. It really upsets me because I love Stranger Things.

edit: obviously, not everyone is wired into social media and gets all their thoughts from there, as a younger gen-z a lot of people my age have tiktok and seem to get there criticism for season 5 from tiktok. personally, i think season 5 is pretty good, no where near the other seasons, but fun and satisfying. if u hate it, thats fine thats ur opinion we can disagree, and i can still be upset of the crazy backlash it got. i should have worded the original post better sorry for those who i offended

To all of you people saying “oh eleven’s ending is misogynistic” or “They were fridging! So sexist“, this is for you.

Honestly, calling Eleven’s ending "misogynistic" completely misses the entire point of her character arc, and it feels like you're just throwing around buzzwords because you didn't get the fluffy, fan-fiction ending you wanted. For five seasons, her entire struggle was about fighting for her own autonomy against people like Brenner and the military who wanted to use her as a weapon. In the finale, her deciding to fake her death and isolate herself isn't her being "oppressed"—it's her making a tactical, independent choice to protect her friends and completely outsmart her abusers. That is the literal definition of narrative agency, but you’re reducing her ultimate act of free will to her being a passive victim just because it makes you sad.

It is also incredibly dense to act like a female character making a heroic sacrifice is automatically sexist. This is textbook, gender-neutral mythological storytelling; look at Frodo Baggins or Harry Potter, who both had to leave their normal lives behind because they were too changed by their trauma to just go back to playing D&D in a basement. If Mike or Hopper had done the exact same thing to stop Dr. Kay, you would be calling it an epic, legendary sacrifice and praising the writing. Holding Eleven to a different standard just because she's a girl, and demanding she get a neat little domestic happy ending instead of a grand heroic conclusion, is the actual regressive take here.

Finally, if you actually paid attention to the literal plot of the episode instead of just crying over the bittersweet tone, you’d know she didn’t even die. Thanks to the plan with Kali, she completely tricked the government and successfully escaped the system that hunted her for her entire life. The final shots show her alive, free, and living peacefully by a waterfall, away from the violence and the lab. She isn't some tragic prop sacrificed for the boys' emotional growth; she is a survivor who won her freedom on her own terms and beat the system, so please stop twisting a massive victory into a sob story about sexism.

Let’s pretend it’s 2017 right now, Stranger things season 2 is about to come out. what’s going on? let’s relive those times!

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