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The Neverending Story is my all-time favorite film, so that scene of course resonated with me and I loved it in all its absurdity.
This actually felt like the most "real" moment in all of season 3 to me. I could totally relate to what Will was feeling. As an adult and a lifelong bachelor I still experience that very same feeling of abandonment when I know I will always rate below my friends' girlfriends or wives or whatever.
I have genuinely liked all three seasons. If I had the rate them, it would be #1, #3, #2. My biggest problem with season 2 is that it lacked the camaraderie of the other 2 seasons. Eleven spent 7 out of 9 episodes basically locked in Hopper's cabin, and didn't reunite with Mike or the other boys until the final episode, and then only briefly before being separated again when she goes off with Hopper to close the rift. On top of the that you had Dustin and Lucas fighting over Max, causing more divisiveness. Billy and Max were introduced, but weren't given anything of significance to do. I feel that season 3 rectified all the issues I had with season 2, making it more of a group effort and giving all of the characters a part in the plot. I have often likened Stranger Things to AC/DC. It's basically the same story each season, with minor variances, but at least you know what you're going to get. There's something comforting about that. I certainly do not want anymore of season 2, episode 7! I am completely fine with the story never leaving Hawkins. While looking forward to season 4, I'm also worried about what direction it might take considering how season 3 ended.
Yes, the ending of LOST sucked, but it was nowhere near this disappointing, if for no other reason than LOST wasn't half the show GOT was, in my opinion. I could see a trainwreck of a LOST ending coming by the beginning of the third season when I thought it became obvious they had no idea where they were going with the plot and were just making it up as they went along, piling on more and more questions that you knew they'd never be able to answer satisfactorily. I don't know anyone, on the other hand, who predicted the ending of GOT would or could be this much of a failure (which just makes it all the more disappointing). I blame it solely on the writing and not lack of episodes or being rushed. The LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy was approx. 8 hours long (minus the end credits) and it told a complete epic story from beginning to middle to end, and never felt rushed. The last season of GOT, by comparison, is about 7 hours long and they couldn't even come up with a lackluster ending. I went in hoping not to be awed or amazed, but rather to just get something passable that I could live with and which wouldn't lessen the re-watchability of the show (so much for that hope). If we had gotten more episodes or more seasons, we'd have just gotten more filler and more contrivances and more characters doing stupid and contrary things simply to motivate a plot that the writers clearly had no idea what to do with. They had plenty of time to wrap this up and failed miserably.
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