#thats all. i love the byers and i dont like noah schnapp. and if you still want to cheer him on

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i havent really made myself clear but considering st production has fucked up massively in the past & will obviously continue doing so w some of their cast members being zionists, i want yall who still follow this blog to know that i dont respect the choice to keep them as cast members at all. my single ounce of faith i carry is reserved for the disenfranchised, always. i dont care about those actors who side with genocide. im ready for st to end and im glad that it is ending. its the characters that make the story, not the celebs trapped in their individual bubbles. theyre just faces in the grand scheme of things and their shitty views cant ruin a piece of media that is kinda cannibalizing itself at this point lol. my thoughts on it end with this post.

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hi there! i dont ever make tumblr posts but i have a lot of feelings about stranger things 3 so im going to make a post about it because if i dont i will physically implode. thank you. please talk to me about stranger things 3.

thoughts under the cut because i have a lot of thoughts

also spoilers duh

SHIT THAT RULES

“MOM! GET OFF THE PHONE!”

max and el’s friendship is the fuckign BOMB dude. i love them so much

el’s wardrobe this season was GREAT

“i dump your ass”

robin translating and cracking the russian code and getting INTO the mystery. i didn’t give two shits about the russian subplot until she did

“can’t spell america without erica”

shirtless dad bod hopper??

hopper’s shirt

mr clarkes entrance?? give this man more screen time PLEASE

NANCY BURSTING INTO THE ROOM EVERY TIME JONATHAN WAS DEVELOPING A PHOTO

when hopper was beating the crap out of mayor kline and his secretary gets the phone to call for help so joyce disconnects the phone?? “who are you calling? the police?” SHE’S SO BADASS DUDE I LOST MY MIND

steve, robin, dustin, and erica’s squad was so fucking good. they have such good chemisty and were genuinely hilarious together.

the sauna test. just. the whole scene. one of my favorite moments of season 2 was in the last episode where all the kids divert the demodogs and actually do some cool shit. same scenario. they face billy and work together and its. so fucking cool and refreshing. also max worrying about her step-brother despite him having been an asshole in the past is a nice touch. max rules.

when the kids find nancy in the hospital and el throws the monster repeatedly into the wall and then out the window??? the women in this show are... so goddamn good.

WHEN THE KIDS FIND NANCY IN THE HOSPITAL AND MAX SAYS “WHAT THE FU-”

“because i love her and i can’t lose her again!”

nancy this entire season

“see that table over there, to your right?” *looks to the left* “no your other right”

alexei

WE GOT MORE MURRAY HELL YEAH

el going into billy’s head to uncover the source and finding billy’s memory of his mother as well as his traumatic experiences with his father

ROBIN BEING GAY HELLO??? HERE FOR THIS

SUZIE

hopper’s letter

im probably forgetting more stuff,

SHIT THAT DOESN’T RULE SO MUCH

so. my biggest issue with this season was the utter lack of will byers. he’s arguably one of the most interesting characters in the show given his experiences in the first two seasons, but he was hardly important this time around. he did little else other than sense the presence of the mind flayer. we’ve seen noah schnapp’s acting, so let the kid act! give him some freakin’ lines! let him DO something

this relates somewhat to my first issue, but i really hated how separated the party was this season. i was pretty disappointed that dustin was M.I.A. for the majority of the season (though to be fair his squad makes up for it), but more so upset with how little attention will’s friends paid to him. despite his importance to the series, will has never really felt like a member of the party because he’s just... rarely there. in the past he’s been missing or possessed, but this time around his friends were just being jackasses. i really, really want to see more will in the next season(s), preferably doing shit with his fucking friends!

billy’s death wasn’t great. i didn’t like the character at all, but he didn’t deserve to die. max’s reaction didn’t help. i am saddened.

did they ever really explain why the flayed were eating chemicals? was it so they could turn to mush? i don’t know if i missed it or if it was just glazed over, but it was a detail that felt... idk? out of place?

kinda petty? but i really missed steve kicking the shit out of monsters with his spiked bat.

was jonathan even in this season?

the russian terminator guy? snore

i’m so upset joyce’s house didn’t get messed up somehow. the previous seasons established this pattern of joyce’s house being this hub for crazy happenings, with the lights in season 1 and the drawings in season 2. petty again, but i was looking forward to another wacky home makeover!

OTHER STRAY THOUGHTS

yes i think hopper is still alive but i dont think hes “the american” teased in the after-credits scene. that seems way too blatant and i’m hoping its a red herring. but maybe thats giving the duffers too much credit. i think it would be much more interesting if hopper is in the upside down. if this is the case, season 4 might spend more time exploring the upside down, given its lack of importance in season 3.

the big flayed monster WAS supposed to resemble the mind flayer, right? im surprised the show didn’t acknowledge this somehow, in like a flashback to will’s drawing or something.