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So you ready, Johnny?
I am ready.
Let's do it, gang.
So Will's gay?
I guess.
I guess I never saw it coming.
I'm coming out.
I want this specific friend to know.
Anyway.
Well, it's all the people that matter, you know.
In this world.
Yeah.
and Mr. Clark
Is Mr. Clark there?
He doesn't know.
I don't know.
I'm worthy enough to be part of this coverage.
Mr. Clark in the back
like, I'm cool
with it too.
I won't kick you out of my class.
I have a device that can amplify your genus.
I have a device
that can make the people of Hawkins much more
amenable to your lifestyle.
If I just adjust the frequency.
Let those balloons
fly higher.
we just need
a wider
color spectrum of balloons
is all
just need some rainbow
blue
let's talk about a stranger
all right
ladies and gentlemen
we have watched
episode seven
of the Stranger Things
final season
even though there's
only one episode left
it does not feel like
this show is going to end
still weirdly enough
and
I'll say this
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we got to talk about the biggest moment of the episode linda hamilton got a scene to be a little
messing that's what everyone's probably talking about it's what all their questions are from the patrons
today how do you feel how did you think of the penultimate john uh the penultimate linda hamilton
appearance was great.
She's so almost a character
and I'm really excited for the payoff
of the final episode
and finally having
just a bottle episode about her.
You know, we get in her whole backstory
and then we snap out of that
only to find that they won.
Yeah, everything's taken care of.
Sweet.
No, this is I've been enjoying
the momentum and just the sort of
the pomp and circumstance of season
two, season five part two,
season two of
season five
yeah
it's interesting
because I know that the
the journey of the show
thus far for people
has been one of
a lot of hype
but also because there's so much hype
there's also a lot of propensity
for being like
I don't know if this hit or that hit
but I am very excited
for the finale
and this has had
some like really top notch
stand out
beautiful character moments
you know
started the episode off
tears in my eyes
ended the episode off with
well not quite ended the episode off
I feel like the episode kind of the
episode was ending and I was sort of like oh
I guess this must be the ending shot
versus having that feeling we're like
oh damn they're about to cut the black aren't they
no
much more just sort of like a oh
then we just sort of trail off down the road
we only have to wait like a few days
yeah it's true it's not the same as waiting a home on
yeah yeah where I am I'm generally liking
this part better than the first chunk
and I have very much enjoyed
what we've done here so far
I feel like episodes
five and six are kind of a unit together
and have felt very satisfying
episode seven feels kind of like
it's setting up episode eight
in a lot of ways
but I did really love
a lot of what I'm sure the most
talked about standout moments will be
which is like Will's big scene
and Dustin and Mike
you know
or not Dustin and Steve
having their sort of
you know, come to Jesus
or their little reunion moment,
their clearing of the air.
Yeah, they convert to Christianity.
They become gay also.
Gay Christians.
Gay Christians.
Yeah, I liked, the things I like most
about this particular episode
were individual character beats
rather than like the action.
But it is satisfying in the moment
to, you know, watch everyone get brainwave.
But there is kind of, you do
in an episode like this,
start to realize,
Is that trope of like, okay, so who's going to have said the, yeah, exactly what you pointed out, that the key phrase that will unlock someone else's mind.
And part of me finds that very charming, but also what it happens like three times in one episode.
Like, okay, okay, okay.
Let's calm this down.
Can you pass me the pen?
Yeah.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Now this is the upside down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is a play.
Which, again, always very fun in the moment.
but but yeah like looking back on this episode it does feel more like it is it feels kind of like
incomplete or it feels yeah just like it's the next transition into like a big you know
it feels like an episode of the season yeah i this that's one of my weirdest complaints about
season five is a lot of them don't feel like chapters the way how and not every season of
stager's things succeeds in that way i think one and four are the best at each one of them
feeling like a chapter yeah and then uh two and three have their episode
episodes that feel like chapters as well as five uh like but most of this does feel like an episode
yeah so yeah i i think what they're doing is the only thing like the up for the upfront thing
is last night when we shot the last two at john and i were like we have to delete social media
so nothing it's ruined and so we did and the only thing i saw was a couple of people
who i'm aware of who were like is anyone finding this really lackless and
really that's like the social media sentiment and then i saw the top comment on our video at like
three in the morning that was like i don't care what anyone says and usually when that's that
that means oh there's a lot of backlash happening or something but i'm like don't read any of it
don't want i don't want anything to influence i don't want to know why you want to say anything
yeah and so i i don't i actually have no idea what what the backlash is or what it's over or what
the discourse is and i think watching this i can i can kind of guess what it would be at
as a stranger thinks man because it's hard to do both because if you look at volume one the big complaint was it's all fucking plot and no character stuff and then this one is like we're gonna slow down plot yeah give you like character scenes that might seem like they're coming in at the moment when we want momentum on plot and action because usually a show will set up all the emotional stuff first and then do the plot and action and this is kind of done a weird structure so i can see how momentum can feel
stilted
to state the character parts
because at the end of the day
I'm like
I'm of the mindset
of I will rather get a
let's have
some people might not think
is necessary
I really don't know
if people like that scene
or not of Nancy
and Jonathan
resolving
but I'm like
I really cared about them
in the first season
and Jonathan
having the thing
with his dad
and abandoning dad
and
like him possibly able to have a future and not do the same shit as dad did like i see a lot of
these threads and i'm watching payoff i'm like oh this is worth it yeah and will you know it's been
set up since the first season that he's probably gay and it's become more clear that he's gay
and it's like they made it a bodily clear last season so to and this is a story of acceptance and
it started with will vanishing and for him to come to acceptance so i really like that and uh yeah so i
I think, like, them taking the time to, you know,
Steve and Dustin, that scene is so emotionally cathartic and rewarding.
I thought that was beautiful.
Even, like, well, getting really, like, one of my favorite things they included was
Mr. Clark.
The amount of times Mr. Clark has asked to, like, save the day, and he has no idea.
He's saving the day.
Yeah.
It's so cool to see.
So there's so much, I absolutely love that they're doing.
Whilst I can acknowledge it as a whole, like, we're seven episodes in,
so I'm feeling, like, pretty confident of saying this, as, as, as, like, a whole season,
it's like yeah it's a little clunky at times
you know and some stuff
is just really not singing as high as
maybe it should like I think a lot of hopper
is not really singing that high
again said a lot we harped on it a lot
harped on hopper a lot last time
and a lot of it does feel very repetitive
sadly when it seems like they had a lot to set up
after bringing him back from Russia but maybe they ran
out of ideas for him and 11
especially is feeling really lackluster
which is a bummer to my two
my two favorite characters
that was her feeling the most like underridden and yeah so like having that is is a bummer and but i like
the scene with her and cali like plot wise with that seizing but again that was a scene though that i felt
had more richness for a cali you know which is good yes than i then i did for 11 everything that
involves 11 and callie has been more yeah more engrossing on the calli side because she's
the one who's talking and exposing and and and
or expositing, whatever.
Well, 11 is just kind of smoldering.
Yeah.
Well, and Kelly has been through something like,
obviously very traumatic,
but also very engrossing and unique.
And so, like, you know,
she comes with a lot of aura just in general.
Well, she's also got to live in, like,
the city in the real world and be a criminal.
And, you know,
so she's got a whole backstory that a lot of people
didn't really care about.
But we like, you know?
I'm sure there's some people in the comments
who are, like, we like that episode.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what episode that is we've got to be people out there riding for episode seven.
Season two.
That was a good one.
We like to give us the spin-off.
Yeah, so that...
Bring Mohawk guy back.
Part of me wonders if maybe some of the underdeveloped stuff happened because of...
I don't want to speculate too much because a lot of it is just that is, you know, T.MZ speculation of, like, what...
I don't know if David Harbor and Millie Bobby Brown were having some real issues on set and so they didn't want them to do too much together.
don't fucking know bottom line it does feel underdeveloped and we are almost done with the series
so it's a real bummer when 11 is like the main character and uh yeah max coming back and
immediately uh you know having the resolve with lucas paying off that thread is a beautiful
opening scene so yeah like they're focusing on if you're going to end your show focus on the
characters and the wrap-ups of that and the sad part is they kind of did most of that
already with hopper and eleven so they don't really have much to develop for them here yeah it feels
just like they're the biggest crescendos of a lot of their relationship have already come to pass
and now it's like whenever especially like when hopper is on screen i appreciate what his performance is
i think david hart you know he's he's really you know sinking his teeth into this you know
sort of advanced degree of just like duty and death wish and uh you know it's engrossing in the
moment but yeah it doesn't
I don't know.
Yeah, it just feels like they're kind of done, except for the action.
I feel like them as actors are also over this.
Yeah.
That's the vibe I get.
Sometimes you watch a show and you're like, I think Steve Carroll's ready to leave the office.
Yeah, yeah.
I think Billy Bobby Brown is ready to be done with this.
And I mean, David Harbour is certainly having enough going on in life that it seems like he's probably going to be happy to be out of the biggest spotlight on Earth for a while.
Definitely.
That's right.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know the details, but I know he had to like.
step away for a bit but uh we did preview some of the questions i am liking this i'm there's there's
too much for me to really enjoy and i will miss it i wish it was feeling a little bit more like it is
concluding yeah so it does have me a little worried that we're gonna really accelerate that pedal
in the final episode i'm not in a complimentary way like it should be big but we're going world
ending stakes here, which
I think Stranger Things has always done
a really good job at writing that line
of it's technically
world ending, but it really
feels like it's all happening in this
small town. Right here.
Yeah, this is like,
oh, we're dealing with, you guys
are handling the whole like collision of another
world.
It's an encouraging event. Yeah, we've got it really well.
And it's funny because you're saying encouraging,
it does feel sometimes a bit marvelized
in the way it's being done with.
just how big it is and less intimate so that's the thing is like i think it's kind of confused the
pitch to the audience of do we want it to be the big crescendo big finale violent epicness or do we
want it to be the more intimate and i think they're trying to have both and perhaps it's not
fully succeeding with a lot of people well it's like for for me it's almost like there's this
in and out of there are times when it feels like the characterizations and the character beats
are like fused with the plot in a nice way and then there are other times that there are other times
where it's like oh i really like these character beats but they feel kind of like detached from
like oh the momentum of the plot yeah so like yeah sometimes they feel aligned sometimes they feel disaligned
and it kind of goes in and out of that so yeah it's like some of my favorite moments of the show
have been in this season there are some things that i think stand with some of the best things the show
has to offer a couple moments that have you know achieved new high water marks but yeah just like
as a fully rounded experience it's a bit funky well
I mean, we'll reserve our final verdict when it comes to the final episode.
So in the meantime, let's read some questions from our patrons.
We do this a little different than we normally do.
We admittedly preview this in between.
And there's a lot of similar question around one thing.
Yes.
So we're just going to shout out the questions and the patrons to give you guys an idea,
and then we'll just talk about it in total.
Everyone wants to know about Linda Hamilton.
Linda Hamilton, how are you feeling about her star making turns?
So a lot of it's revolving around Will, so I'll read the first one, then John, you read the second.
And then like Sean Levy and the Duffer brothers, Resident Z is saying, hey, gang, right before the final episode.
And I feel like there's so much going on, a bit nervous about how everything will tie together.
But what has been your favorite moment of Volume 2?
Mine definitely has to be Will coming out, the one he loves.
either one he loves the most, just so much emotions.
You know what?
I'm going to edit this in real time.
All right.
Because you have a different question, but you've highlighted that.
So here's what we're going to do.
We're going to come on these other two.
Yes, yes, yes.
And then we're going to struggle back to you because that's a good transitional question.
100%.
100%.
Where are we at?
Jaydell?
John, you go with Jadel and I'll read Jad.
All right.
Jadel says, hey, Greg and John.
Hello, Jadel.
Hot take.
In my opinion, Volume 1 felt stronger than volume 2.
and I've seen a lot of people online share similar sentiments.
Volume 2 has had its moments,
but mostly felt like more set up over payoff.
Maybe the hype made it seem bigger than it was.
Kind of funny, the Duffer brothers said they didn't want a Game of Thrones style
backlash to their series finale.
So now I'm really curious and low-key excited to see how they stick the landing.
That said, Will's coming out was a big moment.
Did it land for you emotionally, even with the angle that he did it,
partly to prevent Vecna from using it against him.
I'm a bit torn on how they handled it.
I appreciated that it happened,
but tying it to Vecna,
possibly using it against him,
felt a bit off almost like he was forced to.
Still, really glad he had the support
of his loved ones in that moment.
And then Jaden is saying,
how did you all like the moment?
Would Will coming out to everyone?
I was in tears watching that scene play
as by man.
Oh, he's a superhero.
As a by man.
Bye, man.
Yes, I'm here to pleasure both.
Get a single bound.
As by man, who has only come out to four people in my life in the last three years.
Now, that scene made me want to shout it.
I know what you mean.
That scene, maybe want to shout it from the rooftop.
I'm very happy they had all that whole moment, so good.
It's interesting to get two different perspectives on.
because he jaden really loved it and jadell it's like and i'm and i'm weirdly in between both because
when it happened when they first cut to the scene i was like oh he's gonna tell his mom and like oh maybe
not oh he is i was just gonna tell his mom and mike okay that makes sense i was gonna tell
everybody this kind of weird that we're just like doing this like coming out intervention
scene suddenly and it just felt like we're stopping what seems like a momentum moment to like
take a pause to do this but then when it proceeded i really liked the scene and what they gave and
provided and see and i actually understand what jdell's saying that it seems a bit like they
wrote their way into trying to justify it or something sure i'm like i don't think i mean like
everyone's been asking us to directly acknowledge this so we need to come up with the reason to
have to directly acknowledge this other than just him being a character you know and i i get they were
trying to like actually weave it into the advancing plot and make it feel like a necessity for the
plot that is about to unfold i understand uh them wanting to do that does it feel a little bit
like they you could feel the seams of them trying to get creative on to do that like was vectna
going to use that in some way i don't feel like that was really what they were saying perhaps
i think it was more about how he identified that veckna has a weakness and that weakness is there
because he has a secret and he's too afraid to face his secret and he wants to keep it a secret
and because of that that ways that that creates a vulnerability and a way to um that the way they
can like go against him and use exploit it in some way and he was to me I thought he was just
recognizing like oh I don't think he was like Fectna's going to use my homosexuality against me I think
he would say that oh I have a secret that clearly I have a lot of shame behind and it's totally
different when you're in a small town like this in the fucking 80s you know it's
it's not the same thing as it even today it's hard for people we just had jaden right now so he's
only come out to a few people so back then it's even harder and so i think by him coming to that place
of acceptance where he can feel more confident in his own skin that just made sense to me and so
when i first was introduced i could start i was feeling like i'm 80% in 20% questioning the placement
of this and then eventually that just washed away so uh yeah i i liked it i thought it was a really
powerful moment and I thought
you know
Noah Schnapp's an interesting actor to me
because when he's doing like the fraught
emotional scenes I think he's great
sometimes the only time is when I feel like his line
reading is off is when he's just doing like
Vecanus here, we're too late
you know, shit like that. Yeah.
The only test the times where I think the line reads off
when he has to do like the dramatic
shit. Good with the emotional stuff with like the action movie
dialogue not so much. Yeah but when it's
like super dramatic I'm like
there's really selling this shit right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm curious to chew on this. In the moment, I thought it was kind of conscientious, I guess. It's weird because, yeah, it's the idea that he brings out all the things that cause you pain and anguish. But, you know, I did like the idea that it's like, but to really cut to the core and to, you know, the biggest weapon he would have is something that, yeah, that causes you pain, but also that you have no support for. And that kind of made sense.
to me in a way
and Vecna is a character
you know Henry's compiling
these kids around him to
you know pull it you know
pull together his master plan and all sorts of stuff
there's like a weird
emphasis on
things dealt with communally
versus alone so
in that sense
and as like a crescendo moment for this episode
I did think it kind of interesting
and yeah it's like I liked all the versions
proposed I was like okay
telling just Joyce beautiful telling Joyce and Mike even better telling everybody like it is an
interesting kind of like growth to that scene but I'm also like well a secret held a secret shared
it all loses the burden a little bit but you know it's still a secret if only your mom and will
and Mike know you know so maybe yeah getting everyone who's important to you into one place and
saying this is the truth this is how I am so that everyone knows in case that
you know,
becomes a thing that,
you know,
psychologically Vecna tries to throw it will or whatever.
Just like having the confirmation that everyone loves him going into this and accepts him this way.
Somehow made spiritual sense to me in all of this,
you know,
because again,
it's all about,
yeah,
it's the whole happy memories versus painful memories thing.
And,
you know,
if you can get like a really big surge of love before going into this dangerous scenario,
then I feel like that kind of functionally checks out for me.
But I can,
I,
sort of open to the whole sort of chewing on
and conversation around this because I get
why it would feel just sort of like, I guess we need to
shoe on this in now because it's a few
minutes from the end of the episode and we got the finale
to go and that's going to be a lot of action so
you know. Yeah, it's more like a pacing
placement thing. Yeah, sure. Not a
why are you fucking doing this show?
No, no, totally totally.
Yeah, it was more of that.
And I think it would have been more believable
if like after he confesses
and everyone's like hugging and everything that
then Hopper doesn't go over.
And he takes off his shirt, walks out,
he's got his big American flag tattoo on his arm.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
He's like, I won't stand for any of this bullshit.
No.
Not going on the mission.
He goes out and just blows himself up there immediately.
Like, Callie, I want you to use your powers to wipe away the gaitess.
I want everything to be the same except.
Joyce is like Hopper.
It's my son.
Let him be gay, Harper.
You homophore.
Hopper, the homophop.
Oh, homopher.
Oh, you know.
I was just like a band to there.
That's why, that's why David Harbour's upset.
They made hopper of home.
He's like, I don't support this.
I want to be happy for Will.
What's going on?
Hawkins does not get gay people.
He's just worried for Will because it's going to be hard for him and he doesn't want
him to suffer.
I was hoping him in 11 would end up together.
Yeah.
Protect each other
when I'm gone
because I want to die.
It's funny because it doesn't make sense.
Anyway, thanks for the question.
All right, we've got to make these next two quick.
Resident Z.
Yes.
Back at it.
Basically, he was saying his favorite moment.
He wants it in our favorite moment of volume two.
My personal favorite moment of volume two,
I have two.
If we're going on with my action moment,
it has to death.
definitely hands down go to the moment with uh run with vekna when will's taken over and snaps his leg
it's just such a badass moment yeah so fucking cool yeah him taking over it was boss action wise
emotional wise i just as a fan i got to go steven dustin yeah like that scene okay like we
talked so much about it last time of the thing where they could just not admit how much they love
each other and they've had this
like building of relationship this
entire time
and they just can't say that you're my best friend
and that's like the love dynamics the bromance
of the story and for them
to just come right out and say it and admit that
this is where this hurt and lashing out was
coming from was nice you know
because it was like so messed up
what Steve said so to have
that paid off and acknowledge him like yeah
the writers knew what they would do yeah so I really love
that yeah it's my two favor
I feel like we're in agreement
All right. Hell yes, I'm talking about, baby.
Yeah, hell yeah.
Want to remaster T's? Let's do it.
Master T. What are your thoughts on the lack of death so far?
That's not true. A lot of soldiers have died.
That's right. A lot of soldiers we really cared about.
Barb died in season one.
Yeah, that's true. And Mohawk guy died in that flashback.
Mohawk guy died, and they brought the actor back and everything.
That's right. And presumably the whole gang died.
Bob died in season two.
Bob died season two.
Oh, my God. What's his name?
I mean, Brenner finally died.
I keep wanting to call him
Jason Inman
What's the fucking
I have not slept in like two days
No, fucking brother
Max's brother
Oh yeah yeah Billy
That's so
Dave Jake her Montgomery
I think it's because he played Jason
Red Ridge
Yeah I didn't play Jason
That's true
I was like what are I even getting the name
Jason
Yeah
Yeah
He's he's dead
But no you're right
No one's dying
and they're just going to kill off half the cast in the next.
I mean, it's weird, because, like, what we've done so far,
I'm not surprised that no one has died quite.
There are a couple of moments where I thought opportunities presented themselves.
I thought Jonathan was going to die in the last episode.
I thought Jonathan might die.
I thought they were Titanic eating his ass.
And for a second there, part of me was like,
this would be majorly messed up,
but part of me was like, what if they, what if I would find it so funny in a show like this,
if they were like, well, we just didn't account for what would happen
if she jumped through that rift and she just got splatter on the roof holly yeah just splat
uh not that this is the kind of show that we make a choice like that but at the same time
half my brain wondered i was like what if what if they're like we got her back but it's bad um
but yeah i don't know like it's something that looms over this stretch of the show because it's
the cast is commented on and everyone's aware of it and i am sort of wondering about it but also
we haven't had like ample opportunities for people to die too heavily based on what we know
they've lived through before so well i feel like if they kill off hopper which i don't think
they will but if they did i would hate that they do it especially for all the reasons i've said
before but especially now because i don't feel like he's been particularly a well-written this
season and given as much service i think oh what the hell he's just like dead now
So I would hate that.
I don't really feel like anyone's even positioned right now
where they would go out in a way that would be meaningful.
Yeah.
I mean, if Steve died, it would feel like a repeat beat of Eddie.
Yeah.
And I mean...
I don't feel like anyone needs to die.
I'm not as hung up on the whole somewhat...
I'd be more upset if they were like...
They should have died and then they didn't die.
Or like, oh, we thought this guy was dead.
And now they're not.
Like, they did that with Hopper.
I understand.
but if they did that this season with anyone
were like they clearly should have died from that
or nope they thought they were dead
in the last couple minutes they came back
and they were alive then I'd be a little annoyed
yeah I'm given what this is
in tribute to also like I'm not super mad like
game of Thrones is a little different
because somebody brought it up here like you know
it's set up a world where like anybody could die
at any time for at least a period of time
and this show has killed off characters that we like
but it doesn't have that same vibe
of like oh someone's got to die
yeah you know and i mean this team is pretty seasoned at this point no no yeah yeah but that's uh
i guess uh we're not as that i guess we're not super bothered by it no not super duper bothered by it
all right it's a thing but we got one last one all right ryan baines has anything about this
fell under one to you all i feel like episode seven was six and it could be a significant drop-off exposition
dump and fell flat at the end after the strong ending beginning from six and it's
seven i was expecting a huge cliffhanger leading to the finale i don't feel like we got that what's a
lot yeah i was kind of just going by the numbers of what we got to do next i can meet you there
that it didn't feel like the huge cliffhanger john and i both have the same response when it was
ending oh it's ending oh this must be the last show but like i said we kind of discussed
earlier that it seemed like the volume two's interest was more on the emotional stuff than it was
the plot crazy stuff yeah which is an argument in it of itself of where the focus ought to be
I found this in stretch of the show richer, personally.
I found it whelming if there was a...
I would say part one was whelming,
and this is like slightly above-whelming for me.
Yeah.
I like this a little more than part one.
Personally.
I mean, none of them reached as a whole of volume two
versus, which is kind of weird,
because when the future, if you watch this,
you're not going to be like,
well, let's move on to volume two.
just watching
Season 5.
Yeah.
But as a whole of
Volume 2,
I think it is a better chunk
than volume 1.
I don't think any of them
reach quite the heights
of episode 4, though,
if that makes sense.
You know what I mean?
That makes sense.
Like, episode 4 was
was probably still
like the coolest episode
they've done out of this whole season.
Definitely a mic drop moment.
Ha.
I mean,
will drop.
Will drop.
A Vec drop.
A demo drop.
so yeah that was cool
all good stuff all around
all good things
must come to an end
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