I wasn't going to post this because I dont normally interact with any fandom because I'm too old for all the shit that goes with it. But just let me shriek into the void for a moment because it makes me feel a little better about the horseshit that was those last episodes of season 4. The duffers do not know how to write characters. THEY. DO. NOT. KNOW. HOW. TO. WRITE. CHARACTERS.
At least not developed characters with any kind of arc.
Stranger things is literally the plot to their D&D game from when they were 13 years old and any character development is totally incidental to that plot.
The reason Steve has a character arc is because of Joe, the reason Robin is even half interesting is because of Maya and the reason Billy is so complex is because of Dacre. Do not forget that.
Billy is my favourite character, he is complex and interesting and multi layered and Dacre was one of the best damn actors they had and they threw it away because he is quite clearly based on their own bullies, you can tell from any interview when they talk about his character and it didn't matter about anything else, he had to die hated because of that.
Their characters are just props. Virtually all the characters are two dimensional. Most of them are charicatures. You get back story for Eleven and Hopper because they are the 'heroes' but theres very little character development. They are all in the same place they were two seasons, three seasons ago, except Max.
I think one of the best examples I can think of for this is the relationship between Billy and Max. Particularly why they came to Hawkins. Does anyone know why? She blamed him, he blamed her. It could tell us SO MUCH about each of their characters individually, their relationship with each other and the other members of their family but it doesn't forward their D&D plot so we never find out.
What do you want to bet that we never find out what was in ANY of the other letters Max wrote? Also where was her mother when she was in hospital?
There is so many more examples I could give. Will. Nancy. Steve. Jonathan. Eddie. Argyle.
THE DUFFERS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO WRITE CHARACTERS AND WHEN THEY'RE HANDED CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT ON A FUCKING PLATE, THEY SMASH IT OVER OUR HEADS INSTEAD OF DOING SOMETHING WITH IT.
The only good thing to take away from this is that we now own these characters. And we can develop them and we can build them and change them because the duffers don't know how.
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