I loved it but there are some massive plot holes, I hope they’ll be explained in vol 2.

I’m v surprised I liked it too, mainly bc even though I thought there were big flaws in pacing and it being over crammed, & some choices made (I could go into that lol); I really liked El’s plot and ep 4 and ep 7, and Nancy and the Hawkins plot (Ronance and the Core group). And while Cali needed way more time, I liked some of what was there (minus Suzie’s fam lol).

But let’s go over the plot holes—which stood out to you? I’ll put some that stuck out for me behind the cut for now bc of the big spoiler (which I thought/hoped would be true):

One that stuck out to me involved the UD—would the murder sites be in the past UD which is supposedly frozen on Nov 6, 1983? (Edit: actually that makes sense with gates ig.) I also tech thought Nancy’s room was frozen with things that wouldn’t be from when El opened the gate.

But the main one is we know that gates were opened earlier, so why didn’t it freeze then? Like shouldn’t the UD have frozen in 1979 in the lab massacre, at least?

Also with Henry Creel being 001 (a plot twist I always thought made sense so was happy was accurate lol), they didn’t give enough explanation abt how he assumed powers and how it connects to the MF? They’re basically (in that killer monologue from JCB—I loved his performance!) like: oh yeah I loved predatory spiders and hated rules. It’s like okay, lol, but how did he as a kid get the power to kill his fam and raise their memories like that? Like if Vecna is the MF’s “five star general,” is that connection only forged after Peter/Henry/001 is sent into the UD by El? I was also still surprised he works for the MF instead of the other way around, but that makes sense based on how long the UD has existed.

I also still want more of an explanation of how the mindscape works within the UD (Nancy getting pulled into it from the UD was alarming). Ig this goes back to how Henry developed his mindscape powers.

And not as a plot hole, but I’m super curious why Nancy was given access to Creel history and also how they’ll get her out of the trance—music? A big cliffhanger for her.

I did also find it satisfying to have vecna’s motives for killing (to open holes), but don’t get why he’d suddenly start to enact that plan.