Stranger Things on Sidechat | over time, it feels like the writing shifted from "how would [character] respond to this situation?" to "how can we get [event] to happen in the narrative?" and obvi the latter isnt a bad line of thinking in moderation, but it feels like so much +

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over time, it feels like the writing shifted from "how would [character] respond to this situation?" to "how can we get [event] to happen in the narrative?" and obvi the latter isnt a bad line of thinking in moderation, but it feels like so much +

Anonymous 3w

of the focus when it came to writing season 5 was put on "how do they kill a physical mindflayer" that we lost the warmth of the individual characters that have brought us this far

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OP 3w

for example, in season 1 when will went missing, joyce and jonathan both werent home because they were out working. their family is not financially stable, which is established in this conversation. is the byers' financial instability a plot device for will to get lost? my answer is no, because the demo could have just taken him in the woods. maybe jonathan was sleeping, or called karen to check in, then searched for will himself to find nothing and tell joyce in the morning. the plot does not

Anonymous

OP 3w

hinge on the byers financial status, it's just a trait that can exist completely separately, but they found a good way to tie it in. now, will's coming out scene in season 5. it makes no sense for his character for him to come out to an entire room of people like that. he wasnt ready yet, and the suffer brothers KNOW that the ONLY way to get him to come out in this apocalyptic scenario is to throw some vecna manipulation shit in there. will did not do that shit on his own terms!

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OP 3w

it just feels like so many narrative choices in s5 were made with the thought of "how can we get this action figure to do this pose" rather than actually having characters be competent enough to make their own choices, and actually doing worldbuilding that makes sense. another one. they said the melting room only existed because they wanted jancy in a life or death scenario

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& im truly convinced they only brought kali back (and the whole kay restarting brenners program thing) because they KNOW that jane/el would not randomly be like "i gotta die" and they knew they wanted her to die at the end for whatever misogynistic bullshit reason so they just created the craziest scenario possible to get to that end point, and thats why it falls so flat

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OP 3w

they reduced mike to el's boyfriend and just gave him fuckall to do this season- they dont care about his character development anymore bc hes not driving this main big mcu-esque plot forward in any major way!