#vick rants

He was only 7 when he got corrupted by the mind flayer. It must've felt like he ruined his whole life after opening that damn suitcase. All he wanted was to be normal

He was abused at home (alcoholic dad, mom who did drugs) and his mother (fuckass Virginia creel) tried to act nice but deep down we all know she's just a piece of shit. When Henry tried to hug her she didn't even hug him back. She also tries to pretend that his issues don't exist and tells him to just "be normal" instead of comforting him. She did everything wrong

Poor Henry got bullied at school and eventually had to leave the girl he loved because of Brenner. If Brenner has no haters, i'm dead. I will forever hate this man for everything he's done. Not only to Henry, but to Eleven as well.

The way he treats Henry is insane. Hurts him, then grabs and comforts him. It's so unsettling. He manipulated Henry so much. The worst part is that Henry had no choice but to give in to Brenner, because he had no other adults in his life who cared about his problems (his parents preferred to believe that he could be fixed and turned to normal).

When he realized he couldn't control Henry, he just decided to make clones of him (this was also during the time of the Cold War - which is pretty interesting. the dumbass government wanted to use kids with powers to fight the russians)

"You are as much of a father to them as I am" is DISGUSTING it made me feel so sick. There's SA undertones and henry was literally groomed and this is really overlooked.

He used soteria to take his powers away from him...to make him powerless so he can control him....even after he had no use for henry he still kept him imprisoned at the lab. Henry's just been in a prison all his life I mean I would've gone insane. The punishments were crazy too, my heart ached when I was rewatching s4 and heard henry's screams from the electric shock punishment. And Brenner just stood there watching.

He deserved a much better ending...his death was written poorly and rushed. Whether he died or not, it should've been written better. There were so many plot holes and inconsistencies. How was Henry/the mind flayer so easily defeated..I hated the pathetic death

I don't get why they would create such a deep and complex character like him if they were gonna kill him off in the most pathetic way possible

The First Shadow was so interesting but they never put it on Netflix. TFS ended up having almost no impact on the show. No mention of Patty, Henry's family in the past, or the fact that Henry even went to school with the adults. Such a great storyline just for nothing to be included. Because of this, a lot of people just see him as just a villain and don't understand him well

HE WAS THE FIRST VICTIM. The first victim of Brenner, the reason the show even happened, and a major victim of the MF. But the show didn't go further into anything. He was the most important part of the story. He could've even won, but he was just killed off, as if they wanted to just end the show as quick as possible. It was lazy writing and a major loss. Whether he lived or died, they could've wrote it way better.

I was hoping to see more flashbacks of him. I wanted to see his time at the lab growing up, I wanted to see him meeting all the other kids, and I wanted to see his relationship with El when she was small (this could've been so interesting). I wanted to see more of his relationship with Brenner as well BUT they just completely threw Brenner out of the plot after s4. His relationship with El, specifically, could've contributed to his outcome. His death could've been more sad and impactful, El could've even spared him, thinking about their bond from the past. But no, his head was just chopped off by Joyce.

Speaking of his death, we all know how easily he was defeated. The final episode was 2 hours long, so I thought that THE final battle would've been interesting to watch at least. Yet they took the mind flayer, a creature so powerful, out in 5 minutes. The MF is so important but not looked into enough. We don't know much about it and we never will. The relationship between the MF and Henry should've been looked into as well

They painted Henry as just a villain when he's the most tragic character (spoke more about it in this post). It hurts my heart how everyone in the show had good support systems, friends, families who cared...but Henry grew up all alone and spent most of his life trapped. He was used, manipulated, groomed, and then imprisoned even after the soteria was planted in him and he became powerless (imagine how that feels...)

We never got to understand the soteria too. After s4, it was never brought up. I would've loved to know how it works and how brenner even made it (evil but genius I fear). Another thing they could've built on but forgot about.

I will never shut up about his wasted potential and stupid death. The only part I really liked was the cave scene, where jamie's acting moved me to tears. He really did amazing at portraying henry's pain and trauma, but a lot of people didn't watch TFS so they didn't understand how deep it was. Opening that suitcase ruined his whole life

first off, we have Henry, and obviously we know stuff about him from the play, but in the end nothing from the play was mentioned in the show at all. we should've gotten to see his life at the lab. what experiments were conducted on him? for how long? how did he react to having his blood taken to make copies of him...and what happened for Brenner to implant the soteria in him? a billion questions all left unanswered. we didn't get to see his relationships with anyone in the lab (barely any scenes with El too). what I'm most mad about is how little we got to see of him with brenner

brenner and Henry have such a complex and interesting relationship that is never explored in the show. we should've seen brenner's reaction to henry's 'death'. we should've seen his thoughts during every experiment he conducted on not only Henry but all the lab children. after all, this man is a genius. he is so so significant and to me he is one of the real villains in st. he's such an asshole and he along with the MF corrupted Henry and abused him. also the grooming was wild?? if you've seen TFS.

lastly the mind flayer, who was defeated in s5 in 5 seconds. such a powerful entity but no history or anything. the VR game has more info on the mind flayer than the show. see, the MF is so interesting and literally the main villain. such an important character and we don't get to learn much about it?? there should've been like a whole other season explaining just the MF and Henry, etc. the ending also sucked ass, I wish Henry could've broken free from the MF because their objectives were different, but the MF was the only thing that had ever "wanted" him (besides Brenner but sadly he died before getting what he deserved) so I guess he felt attached and didn't think he could let go

and repeat after me

okok so

im hoping for atleast 1 scene of baby hunter

and im pretty sure wittebro will be in this ep

hunter finds out he's a grimwalker

cuz if he isnt a grimwalker i'll just throw myself into the wall

he has to be

it doesnt make sense if he isnt

anyways besides that i think that there'll be hunter and luz sibling moments which would be really fun to watch

and it would be a lil distraction from all the angst

im trying to mentally prepare for whatever shit happens

im not ready

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

6 MORE DAYS

ok ngl i cried just a lil bit after watching TTBK

the raeda was so cute sjakdjskdk

young raine, fuckin precious

young eda and lilith, also precious

aNd DaRiUs AnD aLaDoR-

5 sparkles - i rant about random stuff

ok lemme just talk about how wierd it is that zeno robinson voices young andrias

like, it feels like hunter is talking

but he's not