# Stranger Things - Final Season
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix
**Created:** [July 16, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926 "2025-07-16T17:13:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/41 "2025-12-14T03:54:34Z")
It doesn’t look as bad as the aging of the kids on _Resident Alien_.
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### Author:  [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/42 "2025-12-23T22:18:40Z")
True dat. Now there’s a fine show that lost its footing. And also featured guest star Linda Hamilton.
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### Author:  [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/43 "2025-12-26T02:20:31Z")
Mike is wrong, Will is not a sorcerer with innate ability. Will is a warlock that derives his magic from an extra planar power.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/44 "2025-12-26T11:38:12Z")
I don’t know if it is the lighting but I’ve noticed in lots of scenes the older “kids” skin looks dry and thin. They are playing 20, actually 30, and look 50.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/45 "2025-12-27T01:08:32Z")
I was just saying exactly the same to my wife.
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### Author:  [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/46 "2025-12-27T01:29:44Z")
> [@Frodo](#):
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> I was just saying exactly the same to my wife
That’s great, cause it was actually my wife that said it to me.
(And one of these maybe I’ll be allowed to bring my halfling warlock back on an adventure.)
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/47 "2025-12-27T01:41:56Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> I don’t know if it is the lighting but I’ve noticed in lots of scenes the older “kids” skin looks dry and thin. They are playing 20, actually 30, and look 50.
Meanwhile, Winona Ryder doesn’t look much older than most of the kids.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/48 "2025-12-27T01:55:57Z")
Loved the season up to this point, just having finished all but the finale(to be released!).
I think the idea of 11 dying or staying behind is a misdirect. She will survive fully and be back in the regular world, losing her powers(I guess?).
I don’t really see any of the kid cast dying, to be honest. I mean, maybe 11’s sister? I mean of the core cast, I think they all make it.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/49 "2025-12-27T02:04:35Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> I think the idea of 11 dying or staying behind is a misdirect. She will survive fully and be back in the regular world, losing her powers(I guess?).
Uh, spoiler-blur, maybe? I’m only up to ep.5.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/50 "2025-12-27T20:43:01Z")
> [@echoreply](#):
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> Will is not a sorcerer with innate ability. Will is a warlock that derives his magic from an extra planar power.
My reaction was “they could at least have used a D&D class that existed in the ‘80s, like the psionicist”.
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### Author:  [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/51 "2025-12-27T21:17:58Z")
> [@hogarth](#):
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> they could at least have used a D&D class that existed in the ‘80s
I was waiting for someone to argue with me, so I could retort that neither sorcerer or warlock existed until at least the 90s (in D&D).
I _think_ that the Will, Mike, Max, etc. group is the exact same age as me—set to graduate high school in 1989. At the time the full series is set I was playing AD&D, Middle Earth (Iron Crown, Rolemaster based), GURPS, Traveller, Star Trek (maybe a Rolemaster based system?), and James Bond RPGs. I’d bet the kids would have at least dabbled in some alternatives to D&D, but I don’t know of one that breaks magic users into all those classes.
I can accept the D&D inaccuracies, because the biggest anachronism of the show is still the flashlight batteries that last longer than 20 minutes. You know Mike’s dad would have been whining the whole time about the kids going through stacks of batteries for their lights and radios. No way Max’s mom could afford all the AAs need to run that Walkman all day (Lucas’s family seems pretty well off; he was probably her main supplier).
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/52 "2025-12-27T21:33:30Z")
Another anachronism that I don’t see anyone talk about is that magic is real and there’s an entire evil fantasy world underneath ours.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/53 "2025-12-27T22:01:59Z")
That is not an anachronism.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/54 "2025-12-27T22:17:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Another anachronism that I don’t see anyone talk about is that magic is real and there’s an entire evil fantasy world underneath ours.
That’s a premise of the show. “Batteries last longer” is not a premise of the show.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/55 "2025-12-27T22:31:22Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Another anachronism that I don’t see anyone talk about is that magic is real and there’s an entire evil fantasy world underneath ours.
Remind me, what is the actual time when magic is real and there’s an entire evil fantasy world underneath ours?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/56 "2025-12-27T22:57:33Z")
Dragon times.
My point was that it’s all madey-uppy stuff, so anachronisms can be waved away.
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### Author:  [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/57 "2025-12-28T00:34:24Z")
That’s not how madey-uppy stuff works.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/58 "2025-12-28T00:36:22Z")
All fiction is made up.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/59 "2025-12-28T01:05:49Z")
I am reading reddit, bastion of intelligent conversation. Ha.
They seem to really think Millie Bobbie Brown:
- acted terrible in this season of the show
- looked super botoxy or plastic surgeried up
Uh, I noticed nothing like any of this. She seemed:
- about the same as always playing Eleven
- As normal looking as ever
Anyone else not even give her a second thought?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-things-final-season/1020926/60 "2025-12-28T01:54:27Z")
She’s fine. The character of Eleven has always been stiff and stilted, due to her treatment in the facility keeping her stunted. And she’s not botoxed up, she’s just grown up faster than her character and looks her real age of 20-ish.
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