Stranger Things 4 Fixes A Major Season 2 & 3 Mistake
Although Stranger Things season 4 promised to have the most «epic scope» of any season so far, the Netflix hit managed to avoid the biggest mistake made by seasons 2 and 3 when it comes to this increasing scale. It is never easy for a long-running TV show to increase its scope and ambitions. Particularly when a series becomes popular, the choice to open up its worldbuilding sometimes proves the adage that bigger isn't always better.
One of the biggest mistakes made by Stranger Things seasons 2 and 3 was the decision to expand the scope of the series—or rather, how the Netflix show attempted to pull this off. Stranger Things season 2 featured an infamously ill-judged standalone episode that sent the show’s heroine El to Chicago, introducing characters like Kali (aka Eight) and new elements of Hawkins Lab that have still not been fully addressed. Meanwhile, Stranger Things season 3 added a massive multi-story monster to the show’s cadre of villains, turning the Netflix hit from a small-town horror mystery into a broader sci-fi action series pitting the teens against a kaiju from the Upside Down.
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With this in mind, the news thatStranger Things 4 would have the biggest scope of the series to date was worrying. The fact that Vecna attacks victims in their minds, however, means that Stranger Things can experiment with ambitious horror ideas without depicting large-scale calamity. Stranger Things 4 gained the Fear Street trilogy’s dark edge with its creepy new villain and felt bigger because of the choice to split up the cast. However, the villain’s limited size made his attacks feel more personal and less epic, and splitting up the characters made the stakes
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