What annoyed me most about FD was the way it felt completely disjointed from the rest of the series, and was chock full of retcons.
Parts 1 and 3-5 all were basically one continuous storyline with its own established rules.
FD starts off saying every kid in Springwood is dead, violating the basic rule of Freddy's operation (unless we're to believe that Alice/Jacob somehow fed every kid in town to him, which even if plausible, wasn't even hinted at).
Then the story continues on with a cast of complete newbies that have no connection whatsoever to the events of the previous films, which takes the punch out of the "finale" idea. Our "heroine" was quite literally pulled out of thin air, with not even so much as a hint to her existence throughout the rest of the series.
Freddy wasn't even dispatched in a cool fashion either, it was just a straight up recycling of Nancy's plan from the first film, one that didn't work at all the first time.
And then there was the dream demons. The less said about them, the better.
FD essentially felt like a parody of the Nightmare series rather than a true sequel, and it probably would be much better received if it was treated as such to begin with.
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