Two months after the finale of Stranger Things.....
and i feel nauseous everytime i see even a frame of that last void scene between Jane and Mike. literally. not kidding.
i just remembered that because i saw an thumbnail with a specif frame, where they're resting their foreheads together, in a youtube video and my stomach turned immediatly
i can truly puke just by thinking about it for too long
that whole finale makes me wanna puke tbh, but this scene specifically is the reason i think i will never have the stomach to rewatch Stranger Things again.
Mike and Jane had the most unfair ending of all. Their ending was truly horrible. And the worst part is that they thought it would be freaking bittersweat??? that shows me that in the end they didn't give a shit about the charachters anymore, they knew they had to, so they just wrote whatever would be the most "accepted" by the fans without having in consideration everything they have written before that point
that scene makes me so profoundly sad, and not in a good way
as a writer you have a responsability when you create a charachter and share its story with the world, that story might not be real, sure, but it is real for at least one person out there. in the case of ST, it is real for thousands of people who identify and see themselfs in at least one of those charachters
you can write a scene that makes me profoundly sad, please do, but it needs to make sense and have a payoff to what you have been building for so long until that exact moment.
my honest opinion is; i didn't like the ending of ST one bit, for any of the charachters, it was the shallowest and most obvious thing of ending i have ever watched, it was like an band-aind put on top of a fucking crack, it didn't fixed or answered shit. it betrayed everything it standed for and stabbed every single one of us who thought different and acctualy care about this story and these charachters right in the heart.
instead of remaing truth to the show itself with a honest ending, they choose a ending meant to impress and to beat expectations
well, congratulations, that is step number one in how to fuck up everything.
the reason that specif scene in the void makes me so mad and so sad and so nauseous is because that is the last interaction Jane has with anyone before sacrificing herself.
what they did to Jane Hopper........ how could someone fucking write that.........
and the writers had the GUTS to try and turn around saying "well... maybe she's still alive!!" with a theory that makes no goddamn sense from an characther that hasn't done shit since season 2, that hasn't interacted with her or treated her properly in more than one fucking scene per season, and now you're just thowing in my lap a half ass lame ending that completely destroyed the main charachter as a person, reducing her to a childhood thing that the "real" charachters need to let go in order to move on, meanwhile, the point of your stupid show that made it so famous in the first place, was about how childhood is something that we never truly get rid of, because without it, what is the fucking point of being alive???? you just FUCKING recycled the ending you had planned in the first freaking season, that yes it made sense back then, BUT YOU JUST WROTE 4 MORE SEASON AFTER THAT AND YOU WANT TO STICK WITH THE SAME ENDING????????? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?????????????
........... how could someone write that?