What’s your BIGGEST Stranger Things hot take? No limits. Go wild.
I mean ACTUAL hot takes. Not “Season 4 was a little too long” or “I wish they gave X character more screen time" You can hate a fan-favorite character. You can love a universally hated storyline. You can think a season everyone worships is overrated. You can think a ship makes absolutely no sense. You can think a character should have died three seasons ago. You can think a villain was actually right about something. You can rank the seasons completely backwards. You can criticize the writing, the characters, the pacing, the endings, the music choices, the deaths, the relationships, whatever. No limits. I genuinely want to see what everyone's actual controversial opinions are, because Stranger Things has been around long enough that I'm convinced half of us have at least one opinion we normally keep to ourselves because we'd get downvoted into the Upside Down for saying it. I'll go first. Mine is that I actually loved The Lost Sister. Yes. That episode. I know it's generally considered the weakest episode of Season 2, and Stranger Things as a whole, and honestly, I understand why. If I'm judging it as a whole, yeah, I probably agree that The Lost Sister is the weakest part of the series. I absolutely understand why people felt like it killed the momentum. But I loved Kali. I think Kali is a really interesting character, and I honestly wish the show had done more with her and her group. I also really liked what the episode was trying to do with Eleven. Kali basically gives her an entirely different perspective on what her powers mean and what she should do with them. There's a huge difference between Eleven using her abilities because she wants to protect people and Eleven using them because she's angry and wants revenge. The episode is basically Eleven being forced to figure out what kind of person she actually wants to become. And I really liked that. Do I think The Lost Sister was executed perfectly? Absolutely not. Do I think it was the best episode of the series? Not even close. Do I think it probably would've worked better if Kali and her group had been introduced earlier or incorporated into the story more gradually? 100%. But I don't think the episode is nearly as bad as people make it out to be. And that's exactly the kind of hot take I want from everyone else. Don't give me the safe answer. What's your Stranger Things hot take?