Stranger Things’ Season 5 finale is either genius or Game of Thrones Season 8 all over again, and it hinges on one nutty theory

I wasn’t expecting much from the final season of Stranger Things after watching the first part, and especially the second. The show was incredible when it first came out – a perfect blend of science fiction and Dungeons & Dragons that I absolutely loved. But for me, Season 1 was the high point, with only a few moments in Seasons 3 and 4 coming close to that level. I didn’t feel very invested in Season 5, and the finale was ultimately a letdown. It didn’t deliver on its promise of providing closure, and actually left me with even more questions than answers. I was particularly surprised by four specific things that seemed minor at first.





![A hybrid system architecture manages the complexities of clinical code assignment by employing a tiered approach-semantic reasoning with a language model [latex]BioMistral-7B[/latex] initially attempts structured output, gracefully degrading to deterministic keyword matching when parsing fails, and finally subjecting all candidate codes to rigorous validation against a knowledge base of 257 ICD-10 codes and contextual evidence, ensuring a continuous pipeline that both generates and verifies outputs while meticulously logging reasons for rejections.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.23743v1/x1.png)


