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Why I Made This Page

Long story long I've had brainworms for this show since about 2017 (yeesh). I've spent more hours than I'd like to admit making content, analyzing, and agonizing over this and even if it became slop in the end, I can't help but love it. There are soooo many ideas and wishes that this shitstorm has planted firmly in my head and its a disservice if I don't share them with #thepeople. So uhhh welcome to a glimpse of my very NORMAL and REGULAR and SANEEEEE brain

Some random thoughts of mine

Things about the show I like :)

  • The central focus on the byers family, such a good example on how domestic violence shapes family structures, personalities, leads to ostracization but also an unbreakable closeness, they are the HEART OF THE SHOW!!!
  • El's (abandoned) arcs about wanting to feel human, placing both the idea of being a monster (s1-s2) and also a superhero (s4) as equally dehumanizing to her... the whole set up of her not accepting mikes confession in s4 and her learning she does deserve to be a person was sooo cool what happend to that
  • The use of memories in s4 and the idea that shame was what vecna targetted and not "just tramua" which added to the whole friends don't lie thing cause its like do you choose to be honest with the people you love or will you succumb to the fear of opening up. Also they actually had SOME moral weight like Max's shame was abt being secretly glad billy was dead isolating her and making her feel like a sociopath, els was her perceived murder of the kids in the lab + her argument w mike making her feel like shes not truly human, hoppers revelation that his blood poisoned sarah + that he was a danger to joyce and el making him feel like hes inherently a plague to those around him. So sad cause this DIRECTLY SET UP either a mike or will centered vecna season because theres already the shame of being queer but then you put el in there and will feeling unlovable/disgusting OR mike hurting the people he cares about most due to innaction/comphet sighhhhh sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
  • Autistic robin
  • EVERYTHING ABOUT WILL I AM HIM HE IS ME I LOVE HIS LITTLE SMILE AND SASS AND QUIRKS AND DYNAMICS AND FAWKKK
  • comphet/gay mike, YOU CAN TRY TO RETCON HIM BUT HE IS REAL TO MEEEE
  • the love makes you crazy/they do say it makes you crazy/crazy together/so stupid/stupid girls/not stupid tether OUGHHHHHHH OUGHHHHHHH
  • the parallels and coding and lord lumax jancy jopper byler tethers come home
  • SORCERER
  • the best thing i ever did, mikes home being wills home, the hand he held being unpossesed, the will voice, its hawkins its not the same without you JUST KILL ME
  • the HORROR of season 2 like the mindflayer design, will describing how it felt for it to inhabit him, the whole exorcism scenes wowww
  • whenever mike is in a dumb outfit, like in cali, or the hellfire shirt, i even like him in his dumb fangs thats my gay son i love him sorry i do i just do
  • rowill, the avalanche scene, the coke cup scene, them laughing in the tunnels oh im gonna cry
  • another mention to wills flashback and all of his dyanmics in it, joycewill, jonwill, byler. theyre all so sosososososo fucking special to me
  • the STAKES and tension and love between hopper and el in s2 wow
  • s3 elmax and I DUMP YOUR ASS!!
  • jancy esp in s2 phew the chemistry was just radiating off the screen i LOVED ITTTT
  • core four mention once again
  • madwise crumbs, i ate it up idgaf
  • s1 s2 s4 and somee of s5 humor and the way plans were made and revelations happened and people came together in disjointed parts it was just great

Things about the show I don't like :(

  • They're lowkey allergic to like, making people of color important but you didnt hear it from meee
  • Billy slop of s3, and s3 hopper. They def ammended this by making Max's arc about being glad her abuser was dead in s4 and carrying shame abt that, and hopper kinda had the assholery beat out of him in s4 which was fun
  • The whole holly and kids arc like, the thing that made the s4 stuff interesting is there WAS moral dillemas with our main characters and there WOULD be that intrigue w a vecnad will or mike but like holly? shes obviously in the right, there is not shame, its just a total backslide and weird focus oughhh
  • ourple rain, pddt pddt, ELLLLL, three waterfalls wow i LOVE being a mileven
  • s3 russians what was that, honestly most of the plot/horror/arcs in that season fell flat for me ough
  • doctor kay like i dont need butch papa ok what are we doing
  • mileven kisses, will you be like my brother vs thirteen year olds making out vs finn popping a vein wolfhard
  • karen pedo arc like ok bro
  • steve and jonathan dick measuring contest that was s5 like PACK IT UP
  • wills coming out scene and just s5 v2 having everyone there ok
  • el being designed to be in this dehumanizing superhero fit all of s5 and it had nothing to do with her arc in s4??? wasnt even poetic tragedy they were just using her like an object it all felt weird like why make a point of having her not accepting mikes confession only for it to go nowhere
  • botched cyrano trope GUHHHH
  • "demos" bro shut the fuck up
  • THE CORE FOUR NOT SHOWING UP IN S3 S4 OR S5 LIKE WHAT THOSE ARE MY SONS DIE DIE DIE
  • jason plot was yawnnn
  • wills vecnad thing just being like, something he refers too?? cutgate youre real to me
  • massacering of jancy
  • oh queerbait lol
  • THIS is holly THIS is vecna THIS is the van THIS is me telling you to SHUT THE FUCK UP