only taking away eleven’s happy ending isn’t a good look when you realise she is the only one out of the main group who was abused and tormented throughout their whole life. the realism excuse doesn’t work here when max gets to walk again, and hopper survived that explosion in s3.
"there was never a version of the story where eleven was hanging out with the gang at the end. for our characters to move on and for the story of hawkins and the upside down to come to a close, eleven had to go away."
this also implies that el was a burden to everybody else & for them to be happy, she has to die. it sends a gross message and with all the other fuck ups recently, i just think the duffers should never write an lgbtq+ character, an abuse victim OR a female character ever again. they clearly have no idea how to navigate that and what they did to el, kali, will, robin and vickie really makes that clear to me.
i’ll always love this show as i grew up with it… but i hope they never get to write complex storylines again 🤷♀️
edit: just found out they said they didn’t kill off max because she went through all that trauma and it would be “mean”… the duffer brothers truly never saw el as a human. they saw her as a machine
Talking about "rEaLisM" , Max missed at least 2 whole years of school, 18 months in that coma/trance, and then she definitely needed MONTHS of physiotherapy, because muscle atrophy is a REAL thing. There is not REALISTIC way that she would be graduating with them.
Also where is Max's mother?! What about the 18 months of hospital bill?!
And did the military just gave up and let them go? Hopper and Nancy legit murdered several soldiers.
Mike, Lucas, Will, Joyce broke into a "secure" military facility and technically kidnapped children. (I don't even care about the Turnbow family right now). Erika, Mr Clarke, Murray and everyone causing so much damage and there are no repercussions?! That was realistic??
Hawkins people just being chill with Hopper being reinstated as chief of police after they had a funeral for him. He gets his job back just like that?
Ted Wheeler survived but El surviving and being with Mike was too unrealistic?
I choose to believe, they are going to reunite
BUT THE MOST UNREALISTIC PART WAS THEM GETTING UP ON THOSE CLIFFS IN LIKE 3 MINUTES?!!! WHILE CARRYING ALL THAT EQUIPMENT? AND A KAIJU CHASING THEM??? WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE THAT WAS REALISTIC?? ARE THEY GOING TO SAY THAT THE ABYSS HAS LESSER GRAVITY AND YOU CAN JUMP HIGH OR SOMETHING? WTF???
