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Like, for real you guys, they missed so much potential for not betting on those two and the fact that Erica of all people was the one helping Dustin out in his great anti-stablishment performance just shows all the chaotic good they could've brought to this world. They match each other's smartasses like no other character. Just like, the BRAINS of these duo, man, imagine what they would be capable of together!!!!

Found-family trope and friendship conquers all? Don't sweat it, your grown-up group of friends will hardly have a monthly pre-scheduled reunion that happens off camera, mind you. Ah!, and that's generous, alright, because some parties don't even get an alleged epilogue together. They just naturally part ways because guess that's life suck it up.

Oh and don't even think about hope, mind you. Because the traumatized kids are much better kept isolated (alone in the woods or in a crowded bar, you pick your poison).

80's authentic aesthetic that literally set a trend for 2010's media worldwide? Sorry, no time for retro vibes, too busy filling the season with awful dialogues and creating new plot holes we won't get to finish because we honestly don't even care.

Complex characters? Ugh, no. Let's just fill the rest of the blanks with new characters that have like 628262 more screentime than the protagonists of this 10-year long story (even better if said protagonist is a strong female lead). And since we're at it let's just make one of those main characters a canonically piece of cardboard shit when the show was, as mentioned, supposedly about friendship and love and community.

Music as a driving force of the plot? Again, the awful dialogues are a much more important soundtrack, sorry. Might even release them as a spotify playlist to further torture people. Just leave some David Bowie in the credits of a gut wrenchingly disappointing finale and that'll do the trick.

A mother's fierce love for her outcasted, traumatized son? Shit, this woman already took too much screentime, let's just leave her as a caricature shell of who once was driving the whole narrative and give her a scene of gratuitous violence in the end that doesn't even make sense, thanks.

Nothing.

They gave us absolutely nothing with this season, while robbing us of everything this show meant.

they picked those deeply emotional memories as background for a beheading? in a sci-fi show supposedly about interdimensional travelling, found families and self-acceptance?