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can i be a hater for two seconds
sits down cross legged SO. aside from my usual gripes about st5’s plot-related discrepancies, as a whole, the Extent which they rely on callbacks remains a little confusing to me. sure you can claim it’s a genius full circle moment, going back to season 1, bookending itself with parallels. with our first and last scenes of the party mirroring each other so starkly. but at least to me, it reads a little bit as retelling the same tried-and-true story even though nothing you’ve set up since then allows for it. s1 works as an airtight storyline because the aim was always for this sleepy smalltown mystery to show its festering secrets like teeth and then disappear. and though nobody will ever be the same they’re jarringly returned to more or less the original positions that they occupied at the beginning, and it’s a haunting use of secrecy/normalcy as a thematic device. it works well and i really enjoy it!!! this Doesn’t work in season 5. pandora’s box cannot be unopened. the town has been stirring for some time now, they’ve been restlessly aware that something’s not right, they’re just looking in the wrong places. the pathetic fallacy of the town splitting apart is smoothed over and brushed under the rug and i’m so confused. lol. i had predicted they were setting up for the angle of being unable to return to how things were, in a physical sense as well. character arcs were diminished, suppressed, sanded down to accommodate endings that don’t subvert or challenge perceptions of them. seasons two through five have spent so much time unpacking. all the heavy lifting is done in terms of fleshing out the different elements of stranger things. it would be more meaningful to show their progression in practice, not just mike’s predictions for where they’ll go next. let the journey be real and evident, give it the gravity and finality it deserves. push past the boundaries of returning to the beginning. the finale repackages the resolution of its first season, and on some levels it feels like they’re not trying to do anything but play it safe, which is highly antithetical to the core message they insist on
can i be a hater for two seconds
do you ever think about how in season 1 jonathan can’t knot his tie and lonnie doesn’t teach him so he shows up to will’s funeral tieless. but in season 2 will goes to the snow ball with a perfectly knotted tie. because jonathan learned how to do it for him so that he wouldn’t have to be the kid whose deadbeat dad didn’t teach him.
mike not getting vecna’d has to be one of the greatest television fumbles in recent history like the set up was right there
conformitygate
will is in love with mike.
