TV Analysis/Interestposting

Here you can enjoy listening to the sane take of a Ross's ex-wife, Leigh Janiak, behind the Fear Street trilogies, who understands the meaning and weight and implications and repercussions of her job as a movie maker. (edited by me, this was originally a 50 minutes long interview). In this video she is mostly talking about her own films, but I compiled the jabbs taken at people who believe films should be nothing more than meaningless slop, and a beautiful analysis of the treatment of women, poc and gay characters in horror stories, and it's truly refreshing. I'm serious, listen to it if you want to feel a bit more sane in your indignation.

It's refreshing because THIS, in contrast, is what the duffer twins have to say about their decade long piece of "work" :

Note that they apparently don't know anything, leave everything up to your interpretation, and think their use of the born sexy yesterday trope is fine because she only represents childhoof magic, at the end of the day.

Let's make this the most emotional decapitation in history ! ... seriously ? this is what you care about ?

I believe many of us were here because we were holding our breath waiting for them to subvert ALL the tropes. But in the words of the Duffer, the real outcasts are the white men who like to play DND, and they believe in coincidences.

Was Stranger Things a misogyny, homophobia and racism fest all along ? In the words of one of our Dear Cast MemberTM Gaten Matarazzo : El needed her whole life post lab to revolve around an unhealthy obsession with Mike in order to grow as a human. The relationship she started when she was fresh out of a lab and had no possible way of understanding what romance even was or meant was essential to her beeaaaauutiful character arc. And Will's love for Mike was just a crush, just this tiny ibbity crush that had to span 3 whole seasons only to prompt Mike's empty, self-centered confession to El. Prompted by a beautiful painting Will had poured his soul into that (despite having been heavily marketed) will NEVER be adressed ! But it was just a crush, you guys </3 Couldn't you infer that from Will's heartfelt speech in the back of that godforsaken van ?

I guess her really did find Byler funny at all ! Because isn't it funny to make Will's storyline revolve around a love that was NEVER going to happen ? Don't you feel represented ? Appreciated ? Respected ? When we could have wrapped that shit up SO MUCH earlier and give him a proper storyline ?

Maybe the noise was so loud because the show *itself* pointed consistently to it AND the marketing CONSTANTLY fanned the flames ? Merch, interacting on social media, implying that it could be. Maybe that's why the noise got that loud in the first place ? Dumbasses.

I don't wonder why she divorced your ass, Ross. You and your brothers are serial idgaf-ers and nothing burger fans when she seems to be the OPPOSITE of that. This has all been an empty, meaningless, extremely unself-aware nostalgia and callback soup for more conformist things. For an audience who thinks nothing wrong of El's storyline, of Will's storyline, who thinks that abysmal Mindflayer fight was the coolest thing they had ever seen, and that you shouldn't look for deeper meaning, or One Sign of an understanding of the things that are wrong in society because as long as it looks good, they're going to mindlessly eat this slop up. Anthem for the marginalized who ? The redditors. Literally, the basement dwelling incel redditors of the world. INCREDIBLE WORK !

I don't wonder why she divorced you, but I do wonder if it is not people like her, and maybe some other people in that writers room, and costume departement, and sound departement, and set design departement, etc, that managed to keep this boat afloat for as long as it had without it showing its true colors much more clearly, much more early.

Here is my timeline of the last 3 and half years :

Scrip writing started somewhere around end of September/October 2022. The SAGAFTRA strikes spanned all the way from July 14th to November 9th 2023. I'm assuming you guys were writing from October to July. I'm assuming you resumed writing then, and production finally kicked into gear in January 2024.

We know two things : the date of one table read (EP4) on December 6th 2023, and the fact that only the first 6 episodes had been written by the time that table reads happened. Your wife filed for divorce in February 2024, but I doubt this was when you found out yourself, so who knows, maybe it affected the writing of episodes earlier than E7 and E8. I'm guessing you had to know earlier than february unless she surprised you with it. Regardless, there is one thing that I can infer almost FOR SURE from it : that the last 2/1 and a half episodes were written post divorce. Something tells me it started to affect the story a bit earlier than that.

Maybe your wife was too woke for you. Maybe you were not woke enough for her. Either way, I think SEVERAL PEOPLE were playing you twins' asses like a fiddle because HOW are there SO many signs pointing in the one single direction this show went the OPPOSITE of at the very last seconds/episodes. How does it feel like the epilogue is mocking itself, with the perfect lighting and slicked back haircuts, and Robin in frilly blouses, and the prisoner jumpsuit coded robes. Why does it feel like it is mocking its own extremely ironic-ly conformist ending ? Maybe this is just taking revenge on the many times I'm sure you and your ex wife, as the film nerds that you are, were discussing the meanings, parallels and allegories in the films you watched together and she annoyed you, as you quietly thought that she was stupid and was "just making noise" for "looking into things too much". For caring. Do you know that word, caring ? About things. Anything.

I don't know. Maybe that was queerbait. Maybe it was actually going in the direction it was CLEARLY aiming for for years and you chickened out last minute, or felt like you needed revenge, or something. Maybe you are so stupid and your heads are so empty you don't even realize just how insanely self-contradictory and inconsistent your show is because someone sabotaged as best they could your inceler things story right under your noses and you never realized.