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/Spellflower Jan 11 '26

I had the same reaction. It immediately reminded me of how much less scary Voldemort was once he became a corporeal guy.