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I am really into Stranger Things

Can we talk about the changes they’ve thrown at us between Cable Girls seasons??? [SPOILER WARNING]

They’re wild, to say the least, and too fast, in my opinion. Though I’ve kept watching, numerous people have told me they left the show following the transition into S2. They justifiably couldn’t handle it.

A breakdown of the S1-S2 & S2-S3 transitions:

The Season 2-3 transition will have the most details, since it’s freshest on my mind.

During the Season 1-2 transition they failed to show us how it went down after Lidia sold the blueprints to the machine. We come back to a phone company owned by an Argentinian we’ve never met & Magda has become bitey and confident overnight (sure, characters and people develop but usually we get to see them do so... this was a jarring difference and somewhat saddening for those of us who found she changed too much/had fallen in love with her little quirks & mannerisms from before).

Somehow Lidia didn’t get booted from the company throughout all of this (they may have explained this but, again, so many things happened quickly/weren’t shown).

During the Season 2-3 transition We didn’t get to see Carlos and Lidia fall back together, which would’ve been satisfying for viewers to see. (How did she break it to Francisco??) Francisco, who’s been pining for this girl since pubescence, is now walking Lidia down the aisle to another man. Okay. (At least he slides out for a smoke during their vows.) For some reason, Carlos does not immediately become outraged at his mother’s presence at their wedding. They try to justify this by saying that many months have passed since The Attempted Forced-Abortion Incident but, again, the audience hasn’t gotten to see these months. Besides, even if he can now stand being in the same room as them, doesn’t mean his wife is. She tried to kill Lidia’s unborn baby, for goodness sake!

Lidia has already given birth, and one is supposed to become attached to baby Eva immediately. We don’t really get to do that, since she gets kidnapped before the first episode even hits the halfway-mark.

Carlota’s dad crashes the wedding to apologize to her. She doesn’t question why his heart has suddenly changed, or why he’s doing this now. She just hugs him and rolls with it. Ignoring that this is a complete 180 for his character, shouldn’t this have merited (any) build-up and a proper scene? He promptly dies a hero during the wedding fire.

Marga sees her shy husband flirting with a woman on the street, and doesn’t recognize this as completely out of character for him?? More realistically, she would’ve had questions. Marga would’ve taken it as a personal affront and asked Pablo how he could ever do such a thing to her. Instead, she gives him a standard-level reprimand and says she “won’t stand for it.” Then we find out the flirty man was actually Pablo’s twin brother.

EDIT: Also, was anyone else thrown off by Carlos’s willingness to give up looking for his baby?? If her body hasn’t been found AND there is no explanation as to where she went, how can you just give up?!????? Why is Lidia doing this alone?!