First of all,
Hopper. Does anyone else fucking love Hopper as much as I do? I absolutely loved the relationship between him and El. I loved that it was not always sweet and perfect and that Hopper would act unreasonable and ‘stupid’ (
), but that’s only because he was driven by fear for El’s safety (and you gotta consider, he knows too well how it feels to lose one kid already). That moment outside of the lab when Hopper was apologising to El through the radio and later when he’s driving El to the lab to close the gate and their conversation then? Shit hit me straight in the fucking
daddy issues feels, yo! <3 David Harbour and Millie Brown are both fantastic actors (Millie, I think, is definitely the strongest of all the kid actors - who are all decent anyway) and it was great watching them bounce off each other.
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Speaking of great acting, I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of watching
Winona Ryder!!
Of the four boys,
Dustin really stole the show for me this season, haha, he was fucking hilarious as always and I adored his budding friendship with
Steve. Speaking of Steve! So glad this season completed the redemption we saw budding from the end of the first one. Fucking love Steve. Him and the kids. Just. Perfect. This moment slew me.
Also, that moment when Steve reached the rope first (when they were underground in the vines) but immediately went to work getting the kids up first. <3
Concerning Bob's Death
*hugs the Shademp*
Unfortunately, some asshat told me about that death before I was finished with the season, so I wasn't able to get the full emotional impact of his death, I think, especially when it looked like he was gonna make it for a second.
I was iffy on Bob at the start, only because he was being played by Sean Astin (I feel a mild annoyance whenever I see Astin ever since I found out about that stupid book he wrote dogging on the cast and crew of LotR) but Bob was just too good, too precious. I adored Bob, and the more I adored him, the sadder I became knowing that he was going to inevitably die.
I also hated that they lingered on his death. I don't understand why that happened btw. A mild pet peeve of mine this season was the
selective eating habits of the Demodogs. Why don't the Demodogs finish their food? Why were so many apt on eating away at Bob? Are especially good people especially delicious? How come that one Doctor (his name escapes me atm) was able to walk away from his wounds whilst the rest of staff were murdered (almost instantly it seemed) with wounds that looked similar? I know Hopper was able to come in and help the Doc but it had been a while, hmm. HMMM.
Nancy and Jonathan were a bit boring. Jonathan's best moments were with Will.
This season's finale wasn't as epic as last season's imo. I mean, it was pretty fucking epic (El levitating as she closes that giant ass gate say what), but the emotions of finding and saving Will in the first season can't be beaten.
I personally hope Hopper and Joyce don't boink cuz it would be too cliche and weird methinks. Unless their coming together was written well... but generally, I'm on Team 'Just Stay Good Friends'. Oh, and so glad that Bob never reacted with jealousy or hostility whenever Joyce expressed concern for Hopper or when they rescued him from the vines.
What else? Watching Dustin cry at the dance because he couldn't get a partner broke my goddamn heart. I know that feel. ;_;
TIME TO QUOTE FOLKS
We could’ve totally done without him or traded his life for Bob’s. And is he racist??
Yeah, Billy was really cutting it close to me in terms of pointless characters (though I thought X-SOLDIER's post on the justification on both his and Max's existence was pretty excellent!). I'm hoping he gets a bit more fleshed out in the third season. I think his best moment (certainly his most human) was when he was getting beat on by his father, because the actor was very good at conveying his fear and anger in his eyes at that moment.
ALSO was anyone else getting low key creepy child predator vibes between Max and Billy? He certainly beats her, but I'm scared that there might be even more than that going on...
Also, I think Billy is definitely a racist ha, based on the language he used. As soon as he saw Lucas, he was saying something about how people like him and Max don't hang out with people like
them, dehumanising and making Lucas an 'other.' And he got really violent when he picked out Lucas at Will's house on the last episode. It felt very personal. Like, he knew that Max was hanging out with kids outside of Lucas (when he was threatening to run over Mike, Will, and Dustin on their bikes), but something shifted when he noticed Lucas. And, if we got really picky, Lucas sort of set that stage when he and Mike were arguing about being Venkman. Mike said something about how Lucas was supposed to be Winston, and Lucas basically argued that Mike only expected that of him because they're both black.
I thought it was interesting that they didn't go ahead and say it. I guess that would've brought in a subject that was too heavy for the show? Cuz surely that would've had to address and solve that, eh? So, it was better to just hint at it and trust the audience knew what was really going on (so I thought)!
It felt like he really didn't have much to do this season which was weird considering he was such a big part of season 1. Yeah sure, we saw more of him in the finale going into those huge tunnels but other than that I can’t really think of anything of note that Mike did in the other episodes. If I could summarize his story arc this season it would be this: mopes/broods over Eleven’s disappearance then proceeds to babysit/accompany Will during his possession phase where he basically was just…there? IDK then evenutally he reunites with Eleven.
Totally agreed! I don't think I minded his lack of presence in this season though.
And did any else find their "romance" a little over the top sometimes? I mean sure the Snow Ball dance was cute and all but at the same time I was like "jeezus you kids are only 12" specially on that scene where they were like "I can't lose you again!1!" "You won't, I promise etc etc" I mean, I understand they were each other's first crush so it maybe a normal reaction for kids their age?
Haha, yeah, the romance was pushing it for me as well... It was mostly cute, but I also mostly didn't care for it I guess?
Fuck you Stranger Things I love you but I also hate you
fuck you I love you I hate you
eff u i <3 u but i also
cking h8 u
it is only because you made me love you that you can hurt me this much
This is basically me whenever I watch any of this show haha. So many feels.
^Here have a Stranger Things hug
Thank you for sharing this, these two are definitely in my top five list of season faves. XD
A supremely impressive follow-up. My biggest nitpick is that there were a few too many coincidences. It is quite rare that I have this FEW nitpicks.
Fucking this. I couldn't pinpoint them all atm, but there were one too many times where I sort of cocked my head and thought, "Well, that was lucky." or, "Well, of course they figured it out that quickly."
Didn't take away from my overall enjoyment of the show though! Hyped for series 3!
