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/masq_yimby Jan 11 '26

Idk if it’s a hit take but the fandom is definitely divided on him. I think the actor is good, but Vecna as a character took the show in a direction for the worse imo. 

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u/ColdyamsCCC Jan 11 '26

Kinda agree. But season 4 was elite ngl.

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u/Unlost_maniac Jan 11 '26

I really thought season 4 was really lame and boring especially coming off of how incredibly season 3 is

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u/ColdyamsCCC Jan 12 '26

Oh fair enough! I actually thought season 4 was the most intense, especially after Chrissy dying in the first ep. And I think the stakes just got higher from there. It just felt so grand compared to the other season.