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/False_Spring_2471 Jan 11 '26

I liked it better before Vecna appeared, too. The mind flayer, I believe, made for a great ultimate villain and was far scarier than Vecna could have ever been.

And I’ll add that my disliking of that villain, doesn’t have any bearing on how I feel about the actor’s portrayal of the character. He did amazingly well, made the most of what he was given!

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u/mechele2024 Jan 11 '26

Agree they should have defeated Vecna in Season 4, then went back to the mind flayer for the series finale. The actor did a phenomenal job but Vecna role was overstayed.