Fourth season weird thingsone of the most obvious flagships of the Netflix series can be considered the best of which issued up to date while waiting for the fifth. Its special mystery about the upside down world and the monsters that dwell there, and the emotional drama of the main characters is the most interesting, the revelations shock us like never before, and it contains at least three great episodes.
They leave us speechless the final segments of the chapters “Dear Billy” (4×04) and “Massacre at Hawkins” (4×07), as well as the final clashes in slow motion in “Containers” (4×09). First of all, for the amazing audiovisual compositions that Shawn Levy and the Duffer brothers gave us in them. But also thanks to the script written by the seconds and the memorable performance of Jamie Campbell Bower in the shoes of a great villain.
Despite this, There are audiences and critics whomarvelous, they would prefer it focused only on new killings of Hawkins, and what, then, they would spare the Soviet plotin which Jim Hopper attempts to escape from the POW camp he was imprisoned in after being kidnapped at the end of the third season, and furthermore, Joyce Byers and Murray Bauman land in Kamchatka to get him out of there and bring him back to the United States.
Warning, spoilers ahead!
Proper Narration by the Duffer Brothers
lThe reason they own is because the sequences which the Duffer brothers and their creative team dedicate to this part of the plot they are uselesswhich do not contribute much to the main narrative thread, the conflict with the monstrous Vecna, first known as Henry Creel or Odin, of which, on the other hand, we found that this is one of all weird things from the very beginning, because this guy has always been behind the raids and violence in the Upside Down World in Hawkins.
However, we believe they are wrong. You have to think about the needs of development and the credibility of the story. on Netflix and, on the other hand, in the two dramatic moments that he brings to or, well, that he comes to the conclusion of Jim Hopper and company’s nasty adventure on this cold peninsula of Russia, across the Bering Strait from the US state of Alaska. With that in mind, what happened in prison is entirely justified.
In the scene after the credits of the third season weird thingsthey let us know that Jim Hopper He didn’t die in the explosion to prevent the opening of the portal to the Upside Down World in The Battle of the Star Court (3×08), but as we said earlier, he was kidnapped by the Soviets as they show us. in the opening scene from The Curse of Vecna (4×02). And we must keep in mind the emotional weight of his disappearance and what, to get it back you need the right story.
The thoughtful structure of the fourth season of “Stranger Things”
We could not see good storytellers in the Duffer brothers if they solved the Kamchatka issue with two scenario trifles. Escape from a totalitarian state is objectively difficult, especially if someone is in custody, belongs to an enemy country, and their captors do not like the interference and disruption of their plans in the United States. And the salvation that Joyce Byers and Murray Bauman seek is also not easy, for the same reasons.
So, episodes of the fourth season weird things so we are told slowly. Especially because premature return Jim Hopper it would take away strength to his victim, to the pain of his supposed death, to his captivity, to the adventures of returning home, and to the emotional reunions that follow. Also, it was necessary to delve into the role of the USSR As for his mysterious experiments with the inverted world.
On the other hand, the structure proposed to us by the Duffer brothers is based on the goal that the charactersseparated by many kilometers get together in combat against the hive mind of the villain in “The Counterparty” with this amazing alternating montage of various encounters – two Vecnas, one with the Demobilists and one with the Demogorgons – D in the endeveryone meets again per witness a disaster in Hawkins and keep fighting in the future.
