Stranger Things 4's Jason Ending Was Great, But This Plot Hole Isn't!
Although Stranger Thingsseason 4 set Jason Carver up as both a vital villain and a beloved Hawkins resident, the series finale entirely forgot the latter fact in a major unexplained plot hole. While Stranger Things fixed a lot of issues that plagued the Netflix hit in season 3, the fourth outing of the series was not perfect. Stranger Things season 4’s Satanic Panic subplot wound up being a pointless addition to the season, particularly after its plot-hole-producing conclusion.
After Chrissy Cunningham is killed by Vecna in front of a horrified Eddie Munson in Stranger Things season 4, episode 1, a compelling new conflict for the show is set up. Eddie goes on the run and Jason, Chrissy’s boyfriend, immediately assumes the lovable metalhead is her murderer. While Jason is laughably paranoid about Dungeons & Dragons, he is also hurt and grieving, which makes his violent overreaction to Eddie’s absence believable.
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However, when Jason and his jock friends begin to round a posse among Hawkins townsfolk and buy weapons to murder Eddie and the rest of the show’s heroes due to this misunderstanding, the character is set up as one of the major villains in Stranger Things season 4. Jason isn't as well-rounded as most of the Stranger Things villains, yet this is not a major issue until Stranger Things season 4 immediately forgets about Jason after his gruesome death in the finale. The fact that Jason dies in the «earthquake» isn’t even mentioned on the news broadcast heard in the Wheeler home, which instead focuses on Eddie. For a guy who was captain of the town’s great hope — its high school basketball team — and able to corral an entire angry mob by taking
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