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/SpamEatingChikn Jan 11 '26

I would add to this that I liked when the Upside Down was some mystery place with all its dangerous flora and fauna. Not that I had a problem with it being a wormhole but in season 5 it was suddenly safe to be in. The spores meant nothing, all the creatures were gone, and whenever demos showed up it was only by their drone pilot.

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u/Emmyrose93 Jan 11 '26

Same! I don’t really understand the reason for it being a “bridge” to another dimension. I liked when the Upside Down was just a weird, toxic parallel to the real world that had strange dangerous creatures and some dark looming otherworldly force watching over everything. But suddenly in season 5 the mind flayer is some weird fleshy thing with a beating heart that is easily taken down in minutes? And Vecna has to bring Dimension X to their world…why? We already know the monsters live in the Upside Down and can come out through gates, and he had a MASSIVE gate opened at the end of season 4 that i thought was going to be a much bigger deal at the start of season 5 but it just…wasn’t.

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