My stranger things opinions that I am not budging on
1- Mike is not a toxic boyfriend, he dropped the ball a few times, but he did pick it back up every time.
2- Lucas Sinclair is 100x cooler than Billy Hargrove and Jason Carver combined
3 - Will does not need to be with Mike to be happy
4- No, Will is not the most traumatized. Stop putting everyone’s issues on a totem pole and putting Will on the top
5 - Jonathan and Joyce were more likely to have been physically abused by Lonnie than Will based on the way they acted around him
6- Yes Jonathan was parentified, no it was not Joyce’s fault
7- Billy was not a good brother, Max was his emotional (and maybe physical) punching bag really
8- Steve probably does not have abusive parents, stop copy-pasting Jonathan and come up with something new.
9- Nancy is not an apathetic person, this girl is ruled by her emotions, it’s a canon fact.
10- Nancy and Mike’s sibling relationship is fine. It makes sense that they don’t hang out all of the time as they have different friend groups and schedules. Nancy drives Mike to school every day canonically. Just because they aren’t the hugging type doesn’t mean they hate each other.
11- El is mature enough to have a romantic relationship, she is mature enough to understand what a romantic relationship entails, she understands that she likes Mike romantically, she did not mistake him for a brother or a friend.
13- If you think Martin Brenner loved El genuinely, I do not trust you
14- Henry Creel was a nice kid. He stopped being a nice kid when he killed children.
15- Will is actually the one who needs independence from Mike
16- In every byler fight, Will was also in the wrong, he also had terrible timing.
17- If you judge max for “using el for her powers” when she was worried sick and terrified for Billy, then show some of that judgement to Will when he canonically tells Mike in the van scene that he wished that El could make money for them to play DND all day
18- Nancy did not abuse steve
19- Nancy had every right to call their relationship bs (it was bs)
20- Mike was not under any obligation to play DND with Will, nor was he under any obligation to find Dustin. He is not their mom.
21- Nancy is not Steve’s prize because he matured
22- Steve canonically was a bully in s1, stop ruining his character growth by denying it ever happened.
23- Steve is not the mom, he is the annoyed big brother who is actually good at taking care of kids and thus gets saddled with it
24- Someone needs to pry Robin away from Steve. (The fanon Robin, not the canon one)
25- Max’s advice to El in season 3 is more of a case study of the blind leading the blind. But she genuinely thought she was helping though. I love mileven though and I was sad they broke up, but I don’t blame Max though. She was just excited that El wanted to hang out with her.
26- I feel like we understate how much Sara’s death hurt Hopper. Like why does no one talk about it?
27- Barb better keep haunting the narrative.
28- Stop woobifying Will and Steve, they are not innocent angels, they can be really mean sometimes. Their flaws are what makes their characters interesting, not the stans who insist that anyone (the wheelers) who dare to bite back are the issue. I like them for being the mean, dramatic people with a heart of gold that they are, not the innocent babies victimized by the evil wheeler siblings you insist they are.
