something people get wrong
So this is going to be another unpopular opinion but as you all know I don't care it I offend anyone about it because it's my opinion and it shouldn't be offensive.
So something that's been kinda getting to me about the show is the misconception of the main character and how season 5 will be wills season or that he should be the one to kill vecna by some weird magic way of acquiring powers.
The phrase "it started with so it will end with will" is something that is seriously annoying to me. As you all may or may not know, El is my favorite character and I'm not mostly saying this because of bias or preference but from a narrative perspective. But you guys do know that just because the very first episode of the show starts with will getting abducted it doesn't exactly mean he's the main character or that it actually started with him. Because technically it started with el opening the gate and now not even then, it started way back with Henry and the mindflayer.
An argument could also be said that it started with Brenner, but everything that lead to vecna coming into this world and will getting kidnapped was because el defeated him in 1979. I strongly feel that people forget that or are just unaware of that.
If it wasn't for El sending him to dimension x, technically the demogorgon would have never randomly abducted will. No I don't think it wasn't random. No I don't think vecna has some special plan for will or that he's getting some powers that's just ridiculous and cringy.
Again we have to remember that if it wasn't for El, henry would have destroyed the world by now and everyone in hawkins would most likely be dead including your favorite will.
So this is Canon. This whole thing actually started with Brenner, Henry and el. Will was just an unlucky unfortunate victim at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Luckily he was fortunate enough to have caring friends and family and a strong little girl who cared enough to save his life and even sacrifice hers (to which he still hadn't thanked her yet by the way). Yes the show did technically start with his disappearance but in the show in terms of timeline it really didn't. There were certain events that weren't yet shown in season 1 that led to his disappearance that later get revealed in the show.
But boy is next year about to be annoying with all the will stans and the bylers. I swear, all the will fans are bylers and it's annoying. It's also annoying that these fools try to make him the main character when he's not, we already know who is and it's not him but he's still gonna be instrumental in season 5 with his knowledge of vecna and the upside down but that's it.
