Stranger Things fans are furious about Eleven’s fate in the series finale

You better run down that road and up that hill if you haven’t watched the series finale of “Stranger Things,” because there’s spoilers in front.

After nearly a decade, “Stranger Things” is over. It’s the show that put Netflix on the map not only as a producer of acclaimed prestige television series like “House of Cards,” but also as a studio capable of producing pop culture items that will be talked about around the world. It’s the closest thing the streamer has to a “Game of Thrones,” and now ‘Stranger Things’ ended disappointingly.

Don’t try to think too much about how the Vecna ​​fight was over in five minutes, or how Henry Creel’s (Jamie Campbell Bower) story and relationship with the Mind Flayer was really just that. explored in a play “Stranger Things” that most people don’t know aboutor even how many topics were simply forgotten — like military experiments on pregnant women, why the demo creatures seemingly disappeared in the show’s final episodes, or how Max (Sadie Sink) graduated high school after being in a coma for a year.

Then there’s Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), the key to the series and the flip side of how it all started. After five seasons of torture by scientists, inter-dimensional monsters, and the US military, his reward was…to die? Or worse, living alone in the middle of nowhere. This was a very disappointing conclusion to his story and fans are not happy about it. Like a Twitter/X the user said: “If a person should have had a well-deserved happy ending, [it] was EL and no one else.” The fact that she ends up either dead or completely alone is disrespectful to the character.

A fan took social networks to complain about how safe the “Stranger Things” finale was, at least compared to how creators Matt and Ross Duffer teased a bunch of character deaths. “But in the end, only Eleven dies, and she’s the one who deserved a happy ending, thanks for that big joke,” as they say.

Indeed, the finale of “Stranger Things” failed when it came to character deaths, only by killing off Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) in a rather disappointing way that took away from her character arc. Either doing the same thing to Eleven and making her sacrifice herself to save a world that has never been anything but cruel to her or, worse, making her spend her days separated from the community that taught her joy and happiness, is absolutely wicked and a betrayal of the other characters that people fell in love with in the first place.

A “Stranger Things” fan said it best when he wrote about Twitter/X“When will the writers realize that the audience is very tired of seeing female characters sacrifice everything only to end up alone and isolated? Eleven has been manipulated and abused her whole life, she found a home and a family, and forcing her to give that up is not a way to empower her.”

If we are to believe Mike’s “happy ending” where Eleven is alive, then we are supposed to believe that her happiness also means leaving behind the love and family she has found. She can’t win while she exists, and even if she doesn’t die, she’s just a ghost, unable to find companionship or love.

‘Stranger Things’ may not have sparked a blatant reaction “Bran the Broken” Style Ends Like “Game of Thrones”but it still made Eleven look pretty damn dirty.