Dacre could really possibly be thinking Billy’s gay and has a thing for Steve Harrington, i have some good ideas, just hear me out.
It’s hard to deny the chemistry in Billy and Steve’s sort of flirting rivalry relationships in s2 which had like NO logical evaluation in s3 AT ALL, even though their conflict didn’t come to an end. What even was this conflict about? Was it really “the king of Hawkins High” thing? cause Steve didn’t care a minute about it and there was no display of Billy enjoying his new status till the end of the season, no nothing also in s3. Why did Billy pay so much attention to Steve if he wasn’t any trouble for him? What for?
And do you remember that scene where Billy was getting ready for his date? He cared so much about how he looked, curled his hair, checked everything. But as far as we know he never cared about any girl in town, all we saw is his close attention to himself and, yes, Steve. And then his father comes in and calls him a “faggot”, and I wonder why exactly he was so sure Billy was “looking in the mirror like one” in the first place. Homophobic people never bring this subject out that easily, so was there a reason? Moreover I just love the fact that Darce actually i n i t i a t e d adding this scene in the plot, so that people could see m o r e of Billy’s personality.
We know from Dacre’s interviews that he added quite a lot to his character that was not in the script. And what we saw as a result was actually so SO similar to another character, Adam from Sex Education, who just like Billy had difficult relationships with his tyrant father who called him “fag”, dated a girl he didn’t care much about and bullied a boy at school to show his strength, and guess what? he gaypanicking aggressively kissed that boy instead of beating him up in the end. (I can easily see sth like this happening i s2ep9 if there weren’t kids around. cause everything else fits perfectly.)
Except for Karen.
There was this scene with Billy flirting with Karen in s2. And it looked so weird, but you also could think that Billy is just trying to get his confidence back and also get some info from a woman who sees him for the first time. (and being just a pretty boy is so not his style). And I was ok with that till i saw the evaluation of their acquaintance in s3. I’m not going to talk about how offensive 4 horny mid-aged women with kids of Billy’s age were when looking at him, especially Karen, I just want to know what was the reason for Billy choosing this particular woman to make out. It can’t be just the pretext to get out of town and become the first victim of the mind flayer. So Karen should be special.
And we actually soon learn that her appearance resembles Billy’s mom. Oedipus complex, mr. Freud? Gee, that’s a bad one, forget it.
But Billy seemed to be very much into this Karen idea and he really didn’t want to hurt her even with a mind flayer inside (i mean, he wanted but fought it) which makes s2 scene with Karen quite serious.
The whole thing is actually really confusing, so here’s what I think happened.
Karen probably was Duffers’ idea, which makes some sense and makes me deeply upset. And it became clear when Billy stopped being a background character (though to me he never was). In s3 Dacre didn’t have as much freedom for building up his character as before, he got the script with a leading role for him and now all Billy’s moves were closely looked at. And there wasn’t any interaction with Steve there, even though it seems so logical to me to assume that their conflict needed at least some kind, any kind of ending. All we’ve got instead was a dead end.
It seems to me that Duffers and Darce had different opinions on the matter of Billy’s personality and it just went out of control at some point while they were filming s2 and it created a kind of paradox. And it went nasty, if you ask me.
But what warms my heart is this idea that the Harringrove chemistry we saw comes from Dacre, consciously or not, and I want to believe in it.
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