the way that love is genuinely just not fucking winning
sibling love: jonathan and will had like one scene together, kali wants el to kill herself and theyāre highkey beefing, the wheeler siblings all have lobotomies, and lucas and erica didnāt get a single meaningful scene
parental love: joyce hasnāt spoken to jonathan once since telling him to go in the van, hopper doesnāt trust el, and karen is there ig
friendship: genuinely steve and dustin are the only solid friendship rn, mike and will (byler aside) are supposedly best friends who just donāt interact all volume, el and max talked for one second even though elās love for max literally brought her back to life in season 4, genuinely not a single stand out friendship in this entire volume save for dustin and steve
mentorship: so robin was telling will to move on? what kind of fucking advice is that it completely twists the meaning of her beautiful speech, and also letās talk about how mr clarke was highkey nasty towards erica like where the fucking love at
romance: boy donāt even get me started here. jancy bones, mileven has zero chemistry or meaningful moments, reducing wills love to a little crush, jopper fine ig but a whole nothing burger, the only good one was lumax, i actually wouldnāt change anything about that
ācan love conquer fear?ā well probably but not the love between these people cause i fear there isnāt any
itās just sad to see that this is what my favorite show has come to. I was so certain that love would be the key to it all, and that this season would be character driven, showing love that comes in all shapes and sizes. I thought that they would at least treat wills love for mike with some more respect, byler canoncy aside, why is his love described as nothing more than a crush when thatās just not what weāve been shown as an audience. It also breaks me that the love between the byers family once drove this show and now we just donāt see that. Jonathan and Joyce had such a wonderful dynamic and season 1 and we just donāt see that anymore. The party used to also be so close and now they justā¦donāt talk? I was certain that theyād at least give elmax a better reunion but they just didnāt. I really donāt understand how you can say that this is a show about love when you just donāt show that