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It is not a dialogue, even if the following words are spoken by Eleven and Vecna, that monstrous humanoid, or other, in which the creators of strange things have embodied Evil from Volume 1 of this Season 4, which today premiered its climax from Netflix.
“It’s the beginning of the end”, predicts Vecna, who if he were a dog at that moment would be happily wagging his tail.
“My friends need me,” played by the heroine Millie Bobby Brownwith short hair, like Jim Hopper since he was imprisoned in Russia.
Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) returns to the lead role she didn’t have in all of Volume 1. Netflix photo
But … How many times does Eleven have to have a nose bleed?
Who will Vecna decide to attack? To Max? The tape will be cut on the cassette with Run up that hill?
Will this volume II be very different, as was volume 1 compared to the – weak – third season that preceded it?
Vecna, whose identity was revealed in Volume 1, wants to take revenge.
These are all questions all of us fans have been asking ourselves as soon as May ended – which fan didn’t finish watching the seven episodes of Volume 1 that weekend that started on Friday 27th -.
And that, yes, sure, sure, they have their answers in one of the two episodes (Potatoalmost an hour and a half) e the guest (the two and a half hours are not reached) in which Netflix, the Duffers or all together have agreed and divided this outcome.
Jim Hopper and, in the background … Pay attention.
Maybe or surely because it has to do with the ending, no matter how much the two episodes are watched in a row, it is the guest of which more images and sensations persist.
And not because inside Potato important events do not happen and they will have their effect on the next.
Max and Lucas prepare to face Vecna. Maxine insists …
And probably in what will be the fifth and final season, with an important time jump, as announced by the Duffers.
Stephen King, Spielberg, his path
The Duffer brothers said that when they daydreamed, staring, the strange thingsthey envisioned it as a story written by Stephen King, directed by Steven Spielberg.
Eleven and Martin, in “Dad”, chapter 8, penultimate of this season 4.
And if we go back all this season 4, with the two volumes, they came very close to the idea they had.
In episode 9 the fight, the battle, if not the war between Vecna, Eleven and their friends takes place. It is quite bumpy and a little tangled, but not complicated. It is a mental duel, but the terrain is not between neurons but in different areas, different places that are reached through, let’s call it, different portals.
If it looks twisted, it’s not, but that’s because I don’t want to ruin it.
From Russia with humor. What happened in Volume 1 on Russian soil was supposedly comical. There is no more room for jokes.
The “What have you done” who, rather than asking, reproached Papa Martin (Matthew Modine) to a little girl Eleven, at the beginning of Volume 1, at a certain point returns. Everything has an explanation for her – I do not dare to say the logic of her yet – for her, no one from the armchair or from the bed at home will remain without understanding what is happening.
Except at the end, of course.
Vecna’s left claw. There will be a long battle in the final episode.
But the focus of volume 2, for me, is that battle. Which is extensive, it lasts almost an hour. That’s what we were preparing for, right?
The Duffers, who co-wrote, as always, the scripts for the 34 episodes of the series and directed these two episodes, are reminiscent of Spielberg and slow down the villain’s appearance, as did Steven in Shark.
And if the humor they imbued with what was happening in Russia, with Jim, Joyce, the smuggler Yuri and Murray was, by far, the weakest part of Volume 1, there are hardly any gags here. There isn’t much room for jokes.
The mental duel between Eleven and Vecna was decisive. Or not?
And unlike Volume 1, where there was an intrigue – who Vecna is or how Vecna was born – there aren’t so many puzzles anymore, and expectations are focused on that confrontation.
One of the interpreters had also warned that volume 2 was carnage (carnage, he said, which sounds more and more beautiful).
Neither too much nor too little.
Eleven as a child, as she appeared in volume 1. And also in volume 2.
If in volume 1 the storyline has been sustained well enough without the presence of Eleven, this will no longer happen in the epilogue (I’m not saying there will be tension without Eleven appearing, but that Eleven will regain importance).
And someone has to die. The Duffers have informed him, so it’s not a spoiler. Nobody could believe they all went to last season. Stain.
There are more homages to 80s classics, like Jason’s mask Tuesday 13the mansion we have already seen in volume 1, similar to the one in Amityville, Synchronicity of The Police on a turntable, e Every breath you take turning into Dream a little dream of methe latter without many reasons.
All united we will make it. At least, that’s what they decided to do in volume 1.
“One day I will die. But not today ”, condemns Jim to his beloved Joyce. Well, he warns that on that day not, but if someone dies, Vecna kills him, or sacrifices himself for the others? Is she the same?
Not everyone will make it to the end of volume 2.
There is a moment when, yes, all seems lost. But well, “My friends need me,” said Eleven, and among those red flashes so characteristic strange thingsFrom Season 1, in a dark sky, Season 4 Volume 2 concludes and leaves us prepared for what’s to come.
And who knows what it will be.
“Strangers Things” Season 4 Volume 2
Very good
Fantasy / horror. USA, 2022. Two episodes (almost 4 hours), SAM 16. Of: Matt and Ross Duffer. With: Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, David Harbor, Sadie Sink. Available in: Netflix.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
