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forcedhesitation · 2 years ago

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kali has always been and will always be my favourite stranger things girl. she was so interesting in such a short frame of time & had so much potential to be a really amazing and likeable member of the main cast.

i love that she is actually morally grey and while she is right about some things, she actually does question herself when she realises she is wrong (showing eleven their abuser & trying to force her to cope with her trauma in the way kali herself learned to, despite eleven having already begun to heal a different way). which is more than can be said of the way some other characters on the show are written.

stranger things is actually pretty good for this overall, but i love that kali hunts her abusers down and kills them, there is not enough of these kinds of characters in media that fully condemn and do not forgive the people who abused them. sometimes, villains cannot be redeemed and i think kali was right to want to kill these people who took her from her family & abused her and all those other children. none of this “killing makes me just as bad as the villain” nonsense with her.

i will forever want to see what her relationship with el could have been if they hadn’t just ignored her after s2. how the two of them could have learned different things from each other. i could easily see how she could have fit into the narrative if they let her come back in s3 & 4. and as a steve fan i would have loved to see her become friends with him T__T

#thoughts about media #thinking a lot about st's flaws today #yes im aware there was an issue with the integration of the lost sister episode into s2 #and there were issues with its overall structuring #every instance of someone talking about how cool kali is does not need to be met with WeLL thE LoST SiSTeR epISODE WaS BAd BeCaUSE...#i don't care if you don't like kali. that is your own personal failing and about as enticing for me to listen to as people who hate steve #i genuinely do think kali had the potential to be a more interesting character than a lot of the others on the show #she's also extremely relevant to the plot and i feel like it'd be very interesting to see her be part of the story again #like it would have been really cool to see how a character like her would have be integrated into the different tones of s3 & 4 #aaaaaand i really do think she and steve could have easily had a friendship akin to the one between steve and robin

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