"What have you done?" Papa growled after 11 had cast No 1 to other dimension. It is so easy to blame the wrong person, when you have no idea what really happened, but then again it's not really that far for the 11 to go mental and produce the same exactly result as what No 1 did when he cleared the DoE underground facility.
Why is that Papa didn't act on his anger after 11 fell on the floor?
Eight years later, in the secret underground facility, he was doing everything for saving El as she drifted back to the reality. I just can't say he was doing it out of love, but it was self-interest on saving the only subject he'd left from his previous studies. It also surprised me that the doctor's didn't cheer, when she demonstrated her power straight after she got up from the medical table.
In their shoes, I would have whooped and clapped hands, but the doctors looked more like they were in a shock. Afterwards, Papa showed that he'd learned nothing, especially not on the bedside manner, as he was spilling out his beliefs on Vecna's invasion.
He could not stop El from leaving the facility, which curiously is located outside the Nellis AFB in the Nevada desert. Aliens and psychics. What is about that place? And just like with the ET's, Papa couldn't let El to go. He did everything, even put her into a chemical come, to try to turn the girl's head. What a monster.
When after a little while the Major's men assaulted the underground facility I was cheering for them to come to rescue, even though Papa for once told the truth about El being the main mark. Why is that Major so bloodthirsty?
Nancy's dilemma, the boarding that shouldn't be there, even if it's made on classical American style. I just can't believe it. But I do get that she's in the worst possible place, and there's not much else she could have done, when it's Vecna's dimension. But why is that the general needed to reveal his plans like a two penny villain? Why he needed to send a message to 11?
He could have easily done the worst and turned Nancy to one of those grotesque corpses, and the kids could not have done nothing to stop it from happening. Instead, he revealed that plan on splitting the Hawking's in two with his dimensional tear.
The bigger surprise came with Nancy's explanation and with the revelation about the four gates, that should have already happened, but the Scooby gang stopped it. I really liked that El snooped their battle planning and the facts that the kids had no idea on how to fight the Army of the Darkness. After all, none of them are Ash or have his ability to cope with the demonic forces and put them down. Only Eleven can do that. But it didn't stop them from making the plan and accepting that Max victimizes herself by ditching Kate Bush.
I loved that they still got an idea to get guns and gear, and to do that they nicked an RV straight out of the trailer park.
Back in the Gulag, things weren't really improving. At least the two got to see each other, and I loved that Joyce confessed her love and told the Sheriff that he's, "the hero of Hawking's," Maybe because he'd been, "gone for eight months," and they'd buried him already.
The interesting bit is that the guard at the outside couldn't handle the beast, even though four of them emptied their AK's at point-blank range. The bullets did absolutely nothing and the most certainly didn't stop the monster, from tearing them to pieces, even though at the same time they'd another one strapped on a trolley at Gulag's basement. With its chest cut open.
Did the guards miss all those shots, because Hopper was able to put down the wounded one with one round in the head? 7.62 Makarov doesn't have more omph than the AK round. It physically isn't possible. And then there's the fact that all the gunners were aiming, before they lose.
The bigger surprise was with the gallery of monsters that Hopper found out next. To my eyes, the Soviets had been on the case for a long while, and in the heart of the lab they'd the most terrifying monster that we'd seen so far. The way it looked reminded me of Lovecraft's Soggoths, as they too don't really have a shape, but they do have tentacles.
The lost boys, Mike especially. I get that they're on a rescue adventure, but the feelings Mike are putting out aren't really correlating with what we are seeing. Instead they make me feel that Mike doesn't really know about his sexuality and what he felt towards El weren't real. Instead he got the fussy feelings and that led him to misjudge about what he really likes.
At least they find El in the desert and took her with them to after Dr Brenner died. Not going to miss him.
