Stranger Things 5x8 | Extended

I sleep terribly at night, so it’s 2.00 am and I’m rewatching these reactions. Man, when Will is using his power and says “I’m not afraid of you anymore, We’re not afraid of you anymore”, the chills I got. This boy has been targeted since he was 11 by Vecna and FINALLY he’s able to take back control. Between this and episode 4, Will owned this season. And the flashbacks to everyone that they’d lost when Joyce cut off Vecnas head, that will never not make me cry. I’ll struggle with El’s ending always but I do believe.

52:35 does anyone else notice that when will is talking to Henry? It's just like in the never-ending story. When the princess is talking to the one kid and she's crying. Someone has to know what I'm talking about. They definitely were inspired by that

Thank you brothers for this reaction. I cried just like y’all. The Duffer bothers ended this well. Catch y’all on the next one !

Now that you guys have seen the whole thing and felt your fresh watch emotions, I’m very interested to hear your guys’s thoughts about the season as a whole and how it’s been handled in a stranger things review kinda like your movie reviews. Cause I’m very curious about your opinions on all the discourse and writing decisions

Either she’s 100% alive or plot holes she was holding kalis wound blood all over her hands but the rest of the episode there’s no blood on her no stains. It had to all be an illusion

Y’all had the best reaction to this finale hands down

The way my heart stopped at Steve hanging over the side of the tower. He’s always been my favorite. I had to pause when I watched at home because I immediately burst into tears. I could not lose Steve. Then seeing him be rescued by Jonathan, the logical part of my brain said “the Duffers have always said they love Steve, so why would they kill him?”. But final episode, you never know. The scene where they’re playing D&D again, then putting their campaign books away, that was the last scene they filmed together. So absolutely, every one of those tears was real. I’m so incredibly sad it’s over, but so incredibly happy I got to live a lifetime where this show existed and then experience it all over again with my 16 year old daughter who loves it as much as I do.

Posting this here as well as on the full length reaction for people wanting a bit of hope after what happened to El. I believe El is alive. She is the Mage. Kali used illusion power. You can see El's hand glitching, right before the bomb went off, like you see Kalis glitching when she was in the lab to fool Dr Kay. The static from the speakers at graduation, that's how El communicated to Mike in season 2 to let him know she was there. That's also when he realized she got away, because the machines that the military used that are a siren that made it so El couldn't use her power, those were still going off, so how could she have pulled Mike into the void to talk to him? That’s also why Mike at graduation when looking at the speakers, then seeing the military machines was starting to realize she was alive. Also, if she’d used her powers while she was stood waiting for the bomb to go off, her nose would have been bleeding, her nose wasn't bleeding, because she wasn’t able to use her powers. Mike saw the door to radio shack open and close, but no one there, because El was cloaked with invisibility. Also, it does a closeup on her hand for the glitch, but also, there’s no 011 tattoo. She’s alive. Kali saw a life for El beyond this and I think that Mike will look for her. Even though he said he doesn’t know where she is, he’s protecting her, but he knows. He was the one that suggested the 3 waterfalls, he knows it's a real place, he knows he'll find her there. I believe.

This finale 😭😭😭 killed me dead

YOOOOO🔥🔥🔥