#strw

STRANGER THINGS REWATCH

ep1

the beginning of the end and we're back at the beginning of course! unfortunately the beginning looks like shit this time :/

playing kids in the first episode of the last season of this show like man you knew how that would make me feel......

leave the radio out of this it's for ME. okay fine it can be for robin and steve too ig🙄

el being born in pride month oh im sure

that training sequence was so corny that i forgot to be excited to see el again

what is with this jonathan and steve dick measuring contest why are they doing this to them. i dont think they would act like that

I know im not supposed to know what a crawl is or what's going on but well. I don't know. and it's pissing me off

it is so hard to take this show seriously when every line is a one liner. and there's no such thing as a one liner when every line is one.

holly so abby fnaf movie

one thing about hopper is that he's gonna be mean to el

if anybody wanted to protect holly at all they wouldn't be telling her "monsters aren't real" and dismissing her invisible friend. like they cannot be that stupid their has to be another reason right (there was not another reason they just didnt think it was relevant that holly's mysterious imaginary friend was telling her about monsters when they KNOW that monsters exist. classic st character assassination for nancy and mike not to be concerned)

I can't believe this show is trying to make me give a shit about holly in the final fucking season. and sorry to be woke again this show will do anything but prioritize it's characters of color they're like nah what if we made mike and nancy's baby sister who's done jack and fucking shit for four seasons a main character. like huh???

lucas and will solo scene i used to dream for times like these. when i cared about will.

for max!

anyways lesbian kissing in stranger things i never though i'd see the day! but of course it's used for the progression of will's arc🙄

hopper got in two car accidents but that beanie is GLUED to his head he's so vince bb27

the demogorgon has never run fast as hell on all fours like a dog what the hell is that😭😭😭

karen alcoholic arc we just gotta let it happen it was inevitable 

who gaf about the holly kidnapping

ep2

this whole demogorgon in the wheeler's house scene is probably just how it felt to be in anuclear family in 1987

I love the wild demogorgon inconsistencies like literally last episode he killed like a million armed military men and karen is able to mostly fight him off while drunk with a broken wine bottle. girl okay.

cannot believe they wasted a reuse of "the vanishing of" episode title on fucking holly. and we haven't seen erica ONCE

they let el go into the upside down alone and still they aren't really too concerned. I know her powers are strong as hell but shouldn't we be worried. im worried

now honestly i don’t think steve would stand somebody up multiple times but what do i know i guess

yeah they wrote argyle out of this didn't they. i mean it would be weird if he was here but they would have given him a mention at least....

yeah and during all of this bullshit with the demogorgon nobody was worried about dustin. it's very much giving when a dead kid was found in max's neighborhood and nobody cared to check if it was her. for some reason. as per usual this show is addicted to character assassination and it starts with none of them giving a shit about anybody anymore

remember when you used to have to be quiet in the upside down you can just yell in this place now

oh they actually fr thought holly had an imaginary friend😭 worst family ever tbh 

like you're telling me that steve is MAD at dustin for getting beat up you're joking like steve knows he got beat up and he's Still mad not concerned like bruhhhh that's his brother 

like the vibe when will was taken vs the vibe when holly is taken and hopper and el are mia is crazy like nobody gaf but will missing was the most serious thing in the world

btw if this show can't commit to killing karen ted and holly then this show can't commit to shit (killing anybody)

BIG SCARY FLESH WALL

behind every evil hell dimension is a eviler even more hellish dimension ig?????

yeah shocker that mr whatsit is henry who cares bro

ep3

new upside down lore just dropped there's an EVIL WALL

her mother says she sounds perpetually insincere. many such cases for girls like us.

henry's fuckass hat holy shit 

stealing benzos from your girlfriend's work thank you robin 

look my hot take is that will's bowl cut isn't that bad

STEVE FULL NAME STEVEN REVEAL???? mr universe......

murray is so evil it's a classic that he would suggest that jonathan should propose to nancy when her parents are in the hospital and her sister was kidnapped into the upside down. never mind the fact that nancy would not fucking get married. whatever fuck this show

waittttt i love that el can kind of mind read now she's literally my everything girl 

least subtle kidnappers of all time btw. let's pull the van up to thr front of the house and load the bodies up in broad fucking. moonlight.

oh  none of the neighbors are hearing this? steve busted out the chainsaw they broke sixteen million wine bottles. it's whatever

the demogorgon rich person house fight was actually so fun thank you for giving all my girl friends weapons 

max in henry's dream dimension and she's dressed like she's gonna play scarecrow in a genderbent production of the wizard of oz

ep4

let's do a name reveal for all of this kid's kidnappers

"come try us dipshit!" while robin cowers and erica is stances up like she's about to catch a baseball

this derek kid is actually bringing a lot of fun and humor to this show. thank you sire 

"suck my fat one!" "jesus, what?!" rare maya hawke acting w

all of them giggling gleefully in the car after getting into the upside down.....wait I forgot this show is awesome

the military taking all the kids in hawkins away. i cannot emphasize this enough. this is literally just like the 5th wave.

max having a crab pin and a bug pin on her shirt im not gonna bother trying to figure out where she got those from or why im just gonna let it be fun

literally as if max hadn't been through enough she had to see a bunch of mutilated child corpses how awesomeeeee

and we missed max's whole time loop era you're joking stranger things i hate you. and she fought for her literal life for the third time and almost made it out of the dreamscape but the show didnt let her because she hasnt been tortured sufficiently enough i guess.

could el have gotten stuck in the upside down in a less stupid outfit 

robin clocking will's tea (gay) like it's a big deal as if everybody hasnt been calling him a faggot since season 1

robin wants to be eskild but it's not working out

they made caleb mclaughlin say that dick joke with a straight face can somebody anybody free him

when brenner dies another cartoonishly evil villain rises like what even is dr kay doing hereeeeee who even is she why should i care.

wow this whole demogorgon massacre scene is so ridiculous it's hilarious honestly

all the kids vecna kidnapped are all lil gay kids. no? oh okay.

and will is his own vecna because like sure okay 

will childhood flashbacks but no lucas. boooooooooo

and who gaf honestly 

my stranger things mutuals (all four of them) predicted will powers like twenty million years ago just btw

el kill count so far: 3 random military men bringing her series total up to 22!

big thoughts (there are not that many and other people have already said these things more eloquently im sure):

okay so first of all i have to ask. where are the russians. is that something we've abandoned.

how this season started was just also weird like we spent the whole first episode (being generous by saying just that) playing catchup on what we missed between seasons. like why is there so much exposition FIVE YEARS into this show

there are a lot of complaints to be made about the character assassination of literally everybody in this show and i neednt get into it all but i will bring this up again. why does nobody seem to care about each other. like yeah they all Care i guess but it's more like how you would give a shit if an acquaintance died not how you should care about somehow that you've been through countless traumas with. these characters have all been through something so unique and yet none of them actually feel bonded because of it anymore. they should all have some baseline understanding of each other and love for each other that they just dont. el and hopper spent three straight episodes in the upside down and nobody is concerned. dustin was missing for the entire crawl and nobody was concerned. etc. what is going on.

i have to speak on kali. during season 4 i was whining about how they never had her back even though she is the only lab kid without telekinesis and the only person we know of that has henry's power of being able to manipulate what somebody thinks is real and tangible in front of them. so it baffled me why nobody (i have to assume el told the others about kali and her powers) thought that kali's expertise could be useful. and that's only on a utility level as well considering that el would probably want to have kali back just so she could have somebody that understands her. especially considering how important el and kali finding each other (somebody like them from the lab) in season 2. and while im glad to have kali back for this season i do have two issues. 1. if im the average stranger things viewer who didnt dedicate years of my life to caring about this show, why should i care? we havent seen kali or even had a mention of her since the end of season 2 which came out literally seven fucking years ago. who is going to remember that. 2. any impact of having kali back is offset by the fact that none of the characters we care about chose this, the government chose this. what made kali's introduction so important was that el's mom pointed her in teh right direction and el Chose to find her and Chose to stay and Chose to be mentored by her. from our perspective el hasnt thought about kali once since s2 so how am i supposed to expect el to care that the government has kali locked up. if el really cared wouldnt she have mentioned her? tried to contact her? tried to find her in the mindscape or whatever? but no. fuck all this.

kind of related. for a show that's about el this season sure is a lot about will. which is such a weird decision because he hasnt done anything but sing in the upside down be possessed and have a crush on mike for four straight seasons and this show expects me to give a shit about him having powers? yeah okay

and speaking of powers its so fucked that el had to be tortured in a lab for most of her life then go through all that shit outside of the lab the retraumatize herself to get her powers back then work to get her powers as strong as they are now and will gets to just. have powers now i guess. men can laugh while women can only chuckle.

just generally this season the stakes feel so low. i dont have a way to expand on that i hope you know what i mean.

and finally. these four episodes were just so nothingburger. nothing happened. i watched this shit two days ago (intently at that) and i could barely give you a plot summary because there's so little plot to summarize. is it that hard to make your show interesting when you have an all star cast (okay maybe like five all star cast members) an infinite budget and a great foundation? apparently so.

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