twenty times i lost my mind as someone who’s fave is karen wheeler 🤍
when she was referred to as “i.f.t.,” breaking bad reference, in the honest trailer for season five. i don’t expect anyone to know what ted did in the first shadow, but reducing her to her partner who acts repulsed by her is pretty gross no matter what
the duffers sitting her next to ted in the season five finale with her wedding ring on when they could have easily implied divorce without doing or changing anything
the duffers unknowingly giving her the exact character development she needed in which she learned she was a lot stronger than she thought she was, only to put her back in the life she despises
the duffers saying that they might have overdone the gore as they’re about to film her attack scene and going through with it anyway
the duffers replaying her attack over and over again for shock value purposes
the duffers giving her an unnecessary, dark, complicated, and strange storyline in season three and calling it “hot”
the glorification of her alcoholism by the creators and some of the fandom but not my lovely mutuals never my lovely mutuals
the oversexualization of her character but not by my lovely mutuals never my lovely mutuals
a lot of dark themes surrounding her character being framed as comical
just the lack of love and care she gets both fictionally and in the fandom
the fandom glazing ted for doing the bare minimum once and then ignoring or straight up not knowing some of the things he’s done
the fandom reducing two of her children to nothing but ships even though they’re very interesting characters who have been through a lot
assuming she’s shallow or a mean girl and constantly mischaracterizing her that way when literally everything she’s ever said has been either self deprecating or admiration for others
the way that she seemed extremely depressed in season one but we got no backstory because all her scenes were just her talking to her kids to move the plot along
being reduced to “just a mother” constantly when she’s a complicated lovable woman
her mischaracterization in rebel robin down to her hair color and physical description being wrong
not showing joyce’s reaction to her almost dying even though joyce is her only close friend who has lived with her for over a year, making it extremely unrealistic
not enough scenes with other adults? wtf?
not enough scenes where she’s happy or at least not crying or hurt
