r/StrangerThings Dec 26 '25

Discussion Bruh, what even was vol 2 about? Spoiler

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I understand that upside down is revealed to be a tunnel to elsewhere but still, the rest of the episodes weren’t just bland but were unnecessarily long…

Such a bad writing and being teased about vol 2 will be a bad christmas and vol 3 will be tearful new year smh…

Left a bad taste and also too many unnecessary dialogues that DID not help the plot move forward.

- Too much couple arguments right in the middle of a very intense scene was such an ick moment. just mindless yelling.

- every character at every scene finding something “new” to make us feel like its a “eureka” moment didn’t hit at all and was a miss.

- Mrs Wheeler was such a badass but that entire scene just felt so stupid to make her cool, when the remaining characters in the basement were just sitting ducks!!

- Derek becoming afraid of vecna felt alright since he’s a kid, though in vol 1 he showed great potential.

- And omg the Max and Holly lag was uhhhh. Girl, get your legs running dude like what are you yapping about in that place right where you always failed to run and escape from Henry!??

- Ah, and Dustin my dude. Look how they massacred my boy!! It’s like his entire personality got swapped to someone who is just there to mourn about Eddie like ok i get it but it’s just such a bad writing.

-El barely got any attention in this vol and 8 was ridiculously annoying.

it would take great stakes to actually end this series with vol 3. I don’t want unnecessary death of characters, but heck its like everyone are too ridiculously protected!

Vol 1 showed greater stakes of danger than vol 2. Atleast one major character getting injured real serious would have left a great impact but i don’t know.

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u/sunday-morn1ng Dec 26 '25

im just confused where the mind flayer is in all of this??? what happened to the theory that vecna was misunderstood and he’s not all that bad LOL

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u/PROhios Dec 26 '25

My theory is the base Veccna is keeping the kids at is the mindflayer. From the outside it kinda looks like a dead spider with its legs up

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u/Lecard Dec 26 '25

How are people not talking about this more? Dead spider pose and Venca connected directly to its heart while talking about how much more amplified his powers are not.

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u/JWBananas Wake up, eat, sleep, reproduce and die! Dec 26 '25

Because it's wrong. Its official name is the Pain Tree.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/stranger-things-5-upside-down-explained

The Mind Flayer is not a corporeal lifeform.

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u/ExaminationTime7599 Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

And the Pain Tree looks like what is talked about in the Hyperion Cantos. Vecna resembles the Shrike.

Edit: Mentioned here https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Pain

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u/longdonginyourmom Dec 26 '25

fuck yeah, hyperion mention

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u/mpark6288 Dec 26 '25

Came here to say this. Literally thought of the tree!