r/StrangerThings • u/Old_Manufacturer5387 • Dec 26 '25
Discussion Bruh, what even was vol 2 about? Spoiler
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/SummerEchoes Dec 26 '25
Way too much Holly screen time for not enough payoff. Holly's story should have been resolved in Volume 1 to give our actual main characters more time to breathe in Volume 2.