Ok, I'm about to go to bed for real this time, but now I'm rethinking the order of my rewrite fic (that I've been working on for years)
I seriously want to delete season 3. Not everything, but I'm debating mashing the concepts of season 3 with season 4.
I think I have an idea how to do that.
I'm thinking Joyce moves away after season 2. Not all the way to California though. I'm thinking somewhere closer. Like Chicago.
A LOT would have to change. The Hopper/Byers won't be a family yet and stuff like that, but I have some ideas.
I am most certainly erasing season 3 Hopper from existence. Instead, I think I will write Hopper finding every excuse in the book to "check in" on the Byers. Whether that's a phone call or even if he "happens to have business" in Chicago for work. Supposedly. Obviously, he'd take El with him. That would give me space to develop El with the Byers a little more
For the season itself, I may write this as a summer trip. I was debating having them all going to visit Will, but that's too much. Instead, I will have Will visiting Hawkins. This I think is perfect, almost as if he's very presence makes the supernatural stir again
One thing that disappointed me about season 3 was them claiming some inspiration from The Thing. The best part of The Thing was NOT knowing who was changed and who wasn't. So I'll be using that way more
I really don't want to write the soviets. Or at the very least, there will not be a soviet base under the mall. But, I will write some kind of soviet presence in Hawkins.
Where I start mixing it with season 4 is the US government getting involved, pushing past Owen's authority over Hawkins and causing issues.
I know I need to involve a gate opening somehow and the giant rift and all that, but I can decide that in a week once Stranger Things is finally over
Ok, now I sleep











