Stuff That Keeps Me Believing
"'You don't get to write the ending'" -> Mike writing the ending
Mike only showing an ounce of emotion around Will in vol1 -> not
showing any beyond the Byler hug in Shock Jock. (I think he got possessed/taken around/during the Mac-Z battle in Sorcerer)
The 'Sticking the landing' interview w/ Shawn Levy (and the part about forgiving a lot of the sins for a crappy middle)
Pretty much everyone's character arcs
Max essentially waking up perfectly fine (no blindness like hinted in S4), and able to skateboard 18 months after being in a coma for 18 months (that's 1.5 years of absolutely no muscle movement whatsoever!).
Will's trance in Ep6 adding up to essentially nothing
What happened to Will helping Vecna one last time?
Transition to epilogue w/ clock ticks and another brick being put on the wall (+all hinted Pink Floyd & never even being used)
Epilogue giving everyone their worst (domestic) ending
S5 interviews not matching with the content
The budget being like 500 million, and half the series looking like shit
The longer than usual filming period (esp. compared to other seasons)
Dustin's graduation speech (totally forgetting neutral alignmnet, and calling alignments classes. That annoyed me and I've only ever created one D&D character that never even got used. Buddy, you've been playing this game since you were a child. I think you'd know the difference. Esp. since canonically, you're a huge D&D nerd)
The whole cave thing w/ Henry + no backstory OR Patty
"'Milkshakes at Melvalds'" and the fact that Will had to come out to everyone including his MS science teacher? Like that whole coming out scene...
Mike's supposed big role in finale
Plot holes. So many plot holes
No explanation of why number 12 was so important
Duffer's near radio silence since finale. They could've shut this down a while ago. Or at least have said something
The doc highlighting how unorganised everything was
The fact that they can write a good show that is pretty tight w/ continutity and such for 4 seasons (+a little of vol1), just to completely drop the ball on the final 4 eps? Yeah. Doesn't add up
Why the hell did Noah get in trouble for the 'happ-satisfied' remark if there wasn't a Byler endgame in the S5 we have now. The 'happ-satisfied' could imply that there's more...
The whole S5 being described as meta by Millie being wiped from the internet (plus nothing about S5 so far has been meta)
Mike only getting offered 2 doors in the epilogue (like how Max gave up on the third, and only had 2 doors in the mindscape) We were told there were 3
Every occurrence of only getting 2/3 things in epilogue
A whole lot of other stuff that I don't remember off the top of my head