God I wish I wasn’t right, but I swear, it’s like I’m not even surprised just fucking disappointed. I’m not a fan of this late trend in writing when they create a new all around lovely character just to kill him off. Possibly the somewhat queer coded one.
And now I’ll just get back to Billy Hargrove again, because apparently when I speak about Eddie I can’t help but mention Billy. Their stories somehow are so similar in spite all of their differences. For me, both of them were queer coded, both of them could’ve been lovely with Steve, both of them brought out a strong reaction from the audience and both of them had unsatisfying and hurried deaths. Knowing that we would lost main characters in the end of this season made me guess in the last days, like everyone else, who made sense to lose. And obviously who would shock the most because well, we’re watching stranger things after all. And when Eddie crossed my mind, I told my myself come on, they won’t do that cheap trick of introducing the most precious character and kill him off, right? We barely know anything about him and we’re interested so why murder him. But when it happened and it had to happen since Eddie got many cheesy, I’m about to the die kind of lines, like I said I wasn’t even surprised anymore. When Billy died, we didn’t know much about him, but a lot were interested and just before his death, we did learn a little more that only made us realize that maybe, there was a way for Billy to end up being a different person, maybe even a good one, albeit a complicated one. All that got squished into the last 2 minutes of his life and we supposed to take this as a redemption arc of a kind. Like I already said it just simply felt rushed. Because we sort of seen a possibility of a promise that Billy in the end couldn’t fulfill. Just because he died a hero, just because this is what he could’ve been, he sadly never got the chance to truly be. The case of Eddie is different and yet for me, it’s the same flavor. Eddie died saving a town that mostly despised and belittled him. Eddie became important just to die an insignificant death. Not for us and the gang of course, but for most of Hawkins. And meanwhile Billy was generally liked as the handsome alpha type, he never got the emotional intimacy, he possibly craved so much and lost through out the years of abuse with his father, Eddie who was precious to the ones close to him, had zero chance to be accepted by his surroundings and never will. And it simply leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And I get it, life and death don’t make sense. Most of the time death seems senseless, but yeah, this is a tv show with sci-fi elements, so let’s just say I don’t watch it to be realistic. I’m very underwhelmed by the whole thing. Don’t even get me started on the Steve and Nancy thing…. So I guess here’s to Eddie Munson and Billy Hargrove. Who never made out of the hell called Hawkins and abrupt character deaths, but hey, this is what fanfiction is for.
