they connect!

How it has felt watching tvl after waiting for 2 years, and excitedly recommending the show to everyone I know:

Will and jonathan pre-season 1

Joyce and her sons🌟🌟

The lack of mystery and fear shown through characters is one of the biggest reasons that season 5 failed. It was too rushed and didnt focus enough on the characters we’d been following for multiple seasons, so without seeing the fear theyre feeling, it feels stale. Especially through the wheeler family, buidling hollys characterization through scene after scene of her didnt work for the nostalgia bait because its the opposite of what they did with will; where his characterization is based off his short scenes and other’s love for him. Instead we only see sadness through mike and karen, and anger through nancy. Joyces and Jonathans reactions worked because they had a mix of emotions that bled through every scene they had in s1. Joyce didnt need to face off with a monster to be a fighter. The horror wasnt fighting monsters but also other people’s beliefs about your capabilities.