#jasper watches st3

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“i have terrible footing” then maybe you should plant your goddamn FEET harrington jesus christ did billy teach you nothing you dumb twink

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steve and robin loving women and also being gay solidarity

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billy trying to play house n live out the american dream w heather REEKS of internalized homophobia and repressed homosexuality duffers if you don’t want him to be gay stop queer coding him so goddamn well challenge

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billy antis really be reblogging my posts like my whole blog isn’t just a diary recounting every time i’ve wanted that man to run me over with his car, spit on me, and then raw me until i fucking die. y’all wildin.

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the duffers really do suck so bad at writing that once they decided they couldn’t stereotype steve as an asshole, and the whole mom shtick was gonna get boring, they went and made him a one sided, ‘dumb blonde’ esque, comedic relief character because they don’t know how to write complex characters and it SHOWS. they didn’t know what to do with him and instead of taking what good development they started in season 2 (nancy, the kids, the fight with billy, absentee parents, just billy in general tbh) they pigeonholed him into a romance with robin that’s completely unbelievable and predictable, AND on top of that also made him flat and lifeless and that’s just such a fucking waste of potential i cannot comprehend how maddening this season must’ve been for joe keery to act

ETA: lmao i’m stupid i retract this take robins a lesbian literally i’m just a fool

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final stranger things 3 thoughts

so i’ve slept finally and maybe cried a bit more and like? i figure i should actually talk abt what i liked instead of shit posting lmao. obviously this post contains spoilers under the cut. y’all have been warned.

first off i just wanna say, plot wise, this season was the strongest by far. while i’m really unhappy with how the duffers handled the writing of their characters (which i’ll talk more about later) the story line and plot devices they used to pull off this season are absolutely superb. episode by episode and together as whole i find it was really well paced and well executed. the fact that they had more than one antagonist—and not the “”human antagonist”” bullshit they pulled with billy in s2—makes it all that more interesting to watch and i think that’s what really what keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. with such an extensive cast of characters they were really able to pull off having two separate stories really, really, impressively well. this season was the most gory yet—and i’m totally here for it. the cgi was 11/10 and maybe this is just bcuz im a fucking weirdo but the monsters this season were the best they’ve ever been. shit kicks ASS.

that being said, they don’t know how to write good character development and it SHOWS. most of the characters this season come off so one-sided and lacking substance. specifically for me this was the worst with steve, at least up until the final few episodes. it feels like they turned him into comedic relief for absolutely no reason, and his only motivation the whole time is girls girls girls. the last few episodes were better, more so after robin came out, but the whole time he just kind of feels like an empty shell of a person with no substance whatsoever. same goes for mike, i get that eleven has always been the biggest part of his story, but to make him even remotely believable there just needed to be something else for me. idk, almost everybody this season kind of fell short for me, including billy. the writing didn’t do jack shit for him, and the only thing that i think really separated him from the rest was dacre’s performance. of fucking course i’m biased, but the low budget redemption arc that was given to billy really would’ve never worked without dacre’s skill to back it up.

specific scenes i really enjoyed? the sauna scene and billy’s death scene obviously. for once i’ll give them credit for writing these scenes very well, and of course props to dacre and sadie and millie for just? being able to invoke so much emotion. i also really enjoyed the will/mike scene out in the rain (gay rights or whatever). the whole alexei/hopper/joyce/murray dynamic and all of their scenes were also top notch, we stan.

anyway literally fuck the duffer brothers fuck them that ending was such a cop out, and probably the only part of the plot i really hated. for the obvious reason that they killed my boy billy, which by the way? fuck that. stop killing off victims of abuse for shock value and “”redemption””, write stories about victims getting help and victims getting better instead of taking the easy route and have them die the hero. stop treating trauma like a throw away plot device you can use and then ignore. also like? fuck them for making robin gay. like yeah okay i would die for her i love her and i’m glad we have representation and maybe i’m salty because i wanted billy to be that person for this show, but it just feels like representation for the woke points, not because it’s important to the story. i dont know some of y’all might hate me for this but it would’ve been so much more impactful if it was billy. they set it up perfectly, the whole max and billy blaming each other for leaving cali (which never gets explained, also, but in my brain it would’ve worked really well if say, max caught billy with a boy and ratted to neil), the weird thing between steve and him (which the duffers had to pull a quick no homo on lmao), the agressive queer coding in all of his scenes in general, not just with steve (i’ll die on the hill that the scene with heather’s family was absolutely born out of internalized homophobia. as well as him going after karen, that shit reeks of repression and denial), his dad calling him a f*ggot (which i mean sure it’s the 80’s, but it’s seems like a very pointed insult to me) and the whole toxic masculinity thing he’s got going on that just feels like too much to write it off as it just being the 80’s. it just really felt like the duffers cut off something that could’ve been so powerful and important, for no reason other than no homo. idk it just? rubs me the wrong way.

this season was good, but it’s just could’ve been so much better and i’m just? disappointed but not surprised at this point. idk it just feels empty and hollow and i can’t imagine what they’re gonna do with s4 now that everything is just kind of? eh whatever. i think i’m gonna go take another depression nap and then maybe come back to cry abt my boy some more lmao. fuck the duffer brothers.

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steve ur dumb she’s a lesbiaaaannnn

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y’all keep going on abt how billy is a child and karen’s praying on him lmao like yea he’s vulnerable of course, nobody acts that way if they’re not, but that’s not because he’s a “kid”, he’s a victim of abuse who’s struggling to come to terms with what’s probably a decades (if not more) worth of internalized homophobia beat into him by his asshole deadbeat dad! y’all just wanna take the easy way out and pin your disgust on karen wheeler when really y’all just hate that your ‘gay boy uwu tv picture perfect harrington romance’ experience was ruined by actual realistic and complex story telling literally goodnight karen wheeler isn’t a pedophile, billy hargrove sure as hell ain’t a kid and his story and character arc IS NOT and WILL NEVER BE about steve harrington y’all just mad stupid

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y’all out here talking shit abt karen wheeler look MAD dumb jesus

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joyce is the only valid character on this whole goddamn show change my mind

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alexei deserved better y’all all he wanted was the good ole :( capitalism experience and y’all had to do him dirty like that

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we only stan erica sinclair in this household, the rest of y’all ? bitch im gonna kill you

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dacre fucking went off on that sauna scene huh... that’s my mf BOY god i love him the talent

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erica really is the only one who knows what’s fucking going on huh

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yk what? fuck nancy wheeler

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literally it’s getting light outside what’s going on