However i was wondering why he didn't pack up Will or kill him if he didn't need him, it just seemed strange for Vecna to leave this loose end
Will might be his ticking time bomb to turn on everyone else when the time is right. Perhaps Will--as the ticking time bomb--might attempt to turn the tables on Vecna at the last moment of some crisis, perhaps sacrificing himself to end every threat.
How is Murray getting the money to equip them with all this shit?
Murray was always sold as someone who has deeper connections to / involvement with the shady-to-criminal side of life, so through said shady life he's able to obtain whatever he can by means not practiced by the normal world (IOW, he's not just running around stealing items). The others seem to know this, hence their belief in his ability to procure whatever odd things they request...within reasonable limits.
How do they not suffer any legal repercussions from drugging and kidnapping the entire Turnbow family? I think that was the point where I basically lost any suspension of disbelief here.
Legal repercussions from...? The military? They do not appear to be concerned with random domestic issues beyond that directly tied to the Upside Down and its impact, and local law enforcement seems to be pushed into the background / unaware of much in that town.
Are the boys just skipping school? I dunno, all sense of normalcy seems to have sapped out of the show.
I assumed they ditched school, which was and remains a common thing for teenagers to do.
My general point across all of these is that in earlier seasons, the interpersonal coming/of age conflicts (like Max getting introduced to the group in Season 2, or Lucas becoming a cool kid in Season 4) built slowly across the season. Here they just introduce a lot of conflict bombs, which they are defusing one by one, which makes it the opposite of dramatic tension. [/quote]
With S5 being the end of the road, the series has to speed up everything toward the final conflict. Its not the most creatively satisfying way of handling things, but finality of it all leaves little room for the kind of character development seen in earlier seasons. Many "ultimate conflict" TV shows and movies end up written that way.
It's also worth noting that Nancy isn't really getting any scenes to speak of with either one of them alone, so it's not like you could really argue anything resembling a love triangle is going on right now.
She does not need to be, since S4's established Nancy warming up to Steve / complimenting him
to Jonathan. In this season, she freezes as Steve brushes against her hand--with Jonathan standing on her left side, which was a fairly undeniable way of indicating that Nancy is not outright rejecting Steve's
type of presence or reestablishing a comfort zone around her. I cite the Nancy/Robin scene again, where she (Nancy) is speechless about Robin's "neanderthal" observation; she could have been written to shoot down the implications of Robin's comment by affirming her relationship to/love for Jonathan, but that's not happening because Nancy
is somewhat conflicted, hence her being in a soft triangle.
Yeah, but what did that stuff amount to after the first episode or two? Dustin's just surly and fighting with Steve, instead of vibing with him as a friend.
Yes, his resentment of Steve likely stems from the fact Steve's post S3 / pre S4 life had him
living a life not closely associated with Dustin, so the latter latched on to Eddie as his new older brother figure. Once Eddie died, Dustin appears to lash out at Steve for the "crime" of moving on / not being around as much in Dustin's life in that aforementioned post S3/pre S4 period. At the moment, Steve seems to be aware of this,but is being mature/kind enough to avoid confronting Dustin about his suspicions.
