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apatheticlexicographer · 10 months ago

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it's been years and it's still genuinely crazy to me that the first two seasons of stranger things had this throughline where all the bad things that were happening in hawkins were directly caused by the us government and that they were excusing the awful things they were doing to their own citizens (children!) through cold war/red scare reactionism. and then in season three there was a secret russian base under the town mall.

#when it came out i didn't give too much of a shit bc i was like 13 #i mean. the inconsistent character writing threw me and i thought the plot was goofy AF but i enjoyed it well enough at the time #but oh my days it was stupid as shit #sorry??? no i'm not #s4 the character writing improved but the plot was still pretty goofy. and SO bloated and drawn out OH MY WORD #i mean at least as of s4 the bad things are once again mostly caused by the US government #if u consider HNL's involvement with henry to be the reason for his... everything #(i have not seen TFS spoilers/summary nor do i give a shit abt it. sorry)#but the russians are still just the russians. just actually in russia. which does make a little more sense i guess #but did we REALLY need to go there??? to the fuckin gulag??? the demogorgon gulag???#when u think about it the demogorgon gulag is just superhell for straight people #i would have taken bigfoot in the stranger things cinematic universe over hopper's adventures in the USSR #when i was doing ET theorising i mainly stuck to byler shit and did not delve into plot predictions #and the reason for that is simply I Don't Wanna Think About It Too Hard Or It'll All Fall Apart #Because It Has The Structural Integrity Of An Emaciated Jenga Tower #its been like half a year since i participated in the fandom i think i can break my silence lmao #i'm secretly a little hater <///3

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