because i can be delusional one last time, here are all the inconsistencies iâve gathered so far that makes me believe that either the finale didnât happen or was a vision or it was a tragic ending:
mike ending up like ted. even the same hairstyle.
robin suddenly dressing in frills and has long hair
rovickie break up out of nowhere when last we saw robin was promising to take her on a date
el saying goodbye to mike in her mind when the sirens were blaring and she shouldnât have been able to do that
the voltage dial turning from grey to red
the coming out scene dialogue inconsistencies
mike being unable to tell el i love you even though that was his plot for the entirety of st4
el saying mike understands her better than anyone else when el says the opposite in st4 and her love for max is what makes her more powerful than sheâs ever been
the mind flayer and vecna defeat being very underwhelming
max at the dnd game crashing out about how the campaign doesnât make sense the way weâre crashing out.
all the wsqk clues not adding up
duffers said weâll know who opened the byers door bolt in ep1. the show still hasnât told us
why was will framed as the exotic matter in the bridge episode drawing with an x over his heart?
why was the painting not addressed when it was wills entire st4 plot?
mike and wills eternal sunshine outfit inspirations when it led to absolutely nothing
max graduating with the boys when sheâs missed a year of school
WHAT was vecnaâs plan exactly? what would merging worlds do? what would it look like?
where were the demos both in the upside down and the abyss?
what about birthdaygate? why do henry and will share birthdays?
why do joyce and hopper never mention knowing henry?
what was the point of the âsnowballs to avalancheâ conversation?
why did will go from hopeful to giving mike up in a day?
why do the military let them go? and why is there a memorial with eddieâs name on it (as seen in BTS)?
why wouldnât mike touch will even before the coming out? and more so after?
is mike grieving el the emotional weight of the finale? because it didnât move me. in fact it pissed me off that he couldnât say he loved her even then.
the duffers equating el to her powers in an interview saying she had to die. when millie herself said elâs st5 arc was realising sheâs more human and less superhero.
if iâm missing something, feel free to reply and iâll add it in edits
edit (more):
creelby parallels with byler going unmentioned
âcan love defeat fear?â theme in tfs, but the finale was âcan weapons defeat the mind flayer?â
where is henryâs backstory? and patty?
does will still have powers?
we never saw Will's Vecna Vision
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do the kids have powers now?
is the mindflayer even dead?
the lies and contradictions in Interviews
the tape in promo
will standing like henry in shock jock and that not leading up to anything
whereâs the turnbow family?
how did steve become a teacher without going to college?
what happened to owens?
what happens to the pregnant women in the lab?
how did killing the mind flayer and beheading vecna not hurt will?
everyone in the epilogue sitting with their hands like henry:
the whatzit board game in hopâs cabin in the epilogue (and in mikeâs basement in the epilogue)
hop moving on from elâs death faster than mike, when all of st5 was spent showing us that mike barely mentions el and hop was ready to die to keep her safe.
why does the epilogue parallel the campaign at the end of season 1: 10 hours long, full of plot holes.
why do nancy and karen, mike and ted have the same hairstyles - which is also coincidentally henryâs hairstyle
AI generated images in the credit rolls or at least drawn to look like AI art.
will is a magic user (illusionist) in the credits. heâs never been that in the show.
the graduation robes in the epilogue being orange when in the ronance book, nancyâs graduation robes are green
the blank yellow poster in the graduation scene
mikeâs hand weirdly twitching all the time
volume two suddenly splitting byler and elmax when we know that mike and max have always been two of the most important people to will and el respectively.
even more inconsistencies:
karenâs scar disappears in the final scene where she opens the basement door and calls the party up
the handle on the door in the basement behind the party is on the right (when itâs originally on the left)
the duffers intentionally sounding stupid in interviews (saying the demos arenât in the final battle because they didnât anticipate it. when vecna saw through the memories of both el and hop that episode AND can spy through will)
why 12 kids? the duffers said they didnât really think about it an they like clock imagery, but robin in the narrative specifically asks âwhy 12 kids?â
willâs vecna vision is basically the ending mike wheeler got
âand meâ âand meâ / âi believeâ âi believeâ sounding like cult chants (this is just an observation)
floors, outfits resembling chessboards.
no mention of suzie at all
whereâs the 3rd waterfall in mikeâs version of el escaping? if itâs his fantasy, why isnât it right?
dustin says âchaotic good and chaotic badâ but itâs âchaotic good and chaotic evilâ (they even put the alignment in the credits) also there are three classes of chaos - chaotic neutral too.
expanding on a point before but melvalds doesnât sell milkshakes like will said it does
will canât enjoy getting lost in the woods
they said barbâs body will return. we didnât see it. they also said no scenes were cut in st5.
five chimes as the abyss starts to descend. last season we were told that each chime represents one victim
why are the âpopular kidsâ suddenly chummy with the party? what led up to that?
why does mike hold el so awkwardly in his last conversation with her?
scene of party playing dnd and will is in his will the wise costume in the finale - not a scene that happened in the show.
credit erasing will behind mileven in the rink o mania scene
