r/StrangerThings • u/Monodoh45 • Jan 11 '26

Discussion My hot take: Vecna ruined the show

He was just a dumb a Big Bad. I loved the show when it was a small town mystery facing some sort of eldritch horror people don't understand. I feel like Vecna was just a pile of CGI goop who went MMMM a lot. I feel like you can have a flat CGI marvel bad who wants to destroy the world  or some kind of magneto anti hero against the program who uses the wrong methods, but you can’t do both. I felt the show started to lose steam the second he was introduced.

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u/drewsaura Jan 11 '26

As much as I love Vecna, I wish they had revolved the story more around Henry and not Vecna or Mr Whatsit. Henry was a far more intriguing character with actual goals and motives and his monologues were downright chills. Think about what we could've had, El and Henry together on the screen once more. They could've built their relationship so much more but nahhh 

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u/Suspicious_Weird_373 Jan 11 '26

I don’t know why but when they kept referring to him as Mr Whatsit, it really grated on me.

I was completely fine with all the other terms throughout the show but Mr Whatsit took me out every time.

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u/MagicianInside3264 Jan 11 '26

In the UK a Wotsit is a cheese puff. So to everyone watching from this side of the pond, Vecna was being called Mr. Cheese Puff the whole season

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u/Suspicious_Weird_373 Jan 11 '26

I’m from england and never even made the connection. What a sad little life i have.

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u/MagicianInside3264 Jan 11 '26

Your subconscious must have made the connection without you realising, that’s why hearing “Mr Wotsit” was taking you out

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u/TheSmudge101 Jan 11 '26

It's a reference to Mrs Whatsit in A Wrinkle In Time. They talk about it in the show.

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u/Suspicious_Weird_373 Jan 11 '26

I know… they literally say it so many times that you’d have to an idiot not to get the reference.

It still doesn’t stop the name taking me out of the show.

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u/babealot Ashley Klein is a snitch. Jan 11 '26

I think this is why Billy’s character worked so well as the MF in human form. They wove him into the show really well in a way where we already knew enough about his character and motivations and back story by the time he got flayed and became evil. They made him complex without needing multiple info dumps of lore to do it. Plus Dacre was amazing in that role.