leigh (ross duffer's ex wife) having written explicit queer horror romances before (fear street trilogy. i haven't watched it but apparently there's a couple in there similar to byler?)
ross duffer getting divorced between s4-5 production
volume 1 feeling like a completely different writer's room from vol 2-3. as in the writing quality just... tanked
the hints on the writers' twitter account, that one poster at a strike protest "byler won't write itself". btw that twitter account stopped posting in 2023, which i think is around when writers strikes were happening, take from that what you will
constant contradictions in the duffers words with the season 5 story beats teased pre writers strike
the subtext already built into the show that reflects the way slowburn queer romances have been set up in other shows-yet vanishes mysteriously from vol
the "for will" tape and mike funko pop with the painting never being explained
previously well written queer character (robin) is suddenly written very weirdly at the end of the show and has an off screen breakup, despite ST always showing breakups on screen. also the difference in her coming out scene vs will's? how could those possibly be written by the same people
a cast interview implying the duffers didn't show anyone the script at all
all of the attention to detail in the cinematography, set design, character outfits etc building to nothing
like call me insane but i'm pretty convinced that the duffer brothers lost people in the writers room + leigh, and we can now see them for the mediocre screenwriters they really are
edit: oh how could i forget to add that no fucking way any feminist writing in this show was the duffers' doing.
no way they wrote el and max's friendship or honestly any of el's complexity and heartbreakingly beautiful character trying to be a person after growing up in hell. no way they did that when they called her a girl E.T. and gave her THAT ending + all the stuff in the recent interview about mileven and this being the ending they always envisioned for her + making her entire arc tangential to the men that saved her. oh and killing kali
no way they wrote erica when they say in an recent interview that nobody would care what happened to her. the misogynoir is fucking disgusting auughhhhh
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