"This meant that inside, Eleven could go one-on-one with Vecna (also known as Henry, or One, or Mr. Whatsit) while outside, her friends used their flamethrowers and guns and flares and slingshots and whatnot to take down the Mind Flayer. (You could tell that Nancy was going to be the badass of the fight as soon as you saw not only her big gun, but also her hair, which strongly evoked Ripley in the Alien movies.)"
"As the group prepared to fight Vecna, we watched one scene where the music swelled as Hopper poured out his feelings to Eleven about how she deserved to live and shouldn't sacrifice herself. Roughly 15 minutes later, the music swelled for a very similarly blocked and shot scene in which Eleven poured out her feelings to Hopper about why she wanted to sacrifice herself. Generally, two monologues are less interesting than a conversation would be."
Stranger Things concluded after five seasons with a two-plus-hour finale that staged a climactic battle and a lengthy epilogue set 18 months later. The central sequence takes place in the Abyss, where Eleven confronts Vecna inside the Mind Flayer while her friends attack the creature from outside with flamethrowers, guns, flares and slingshots. Nancy emerges as a standout in the battle and Joyce decapitates Vecna, ending the immediate threat. The finale is weakened by repetitive, melodramatic monologues and several conversations that add little, including Jonathan–Steve and Will–Mike exchanges following Will's coming-out moment.
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