#st thoughts

[anerdynerd]

Can I just say, Nahla being the Captain in Starfleet Academy is such a good choice. Captains in other series' are constantly out there discovering new things they've never seen before and trying to make sense of it, which is awesome already of course, but in Starfleet Academy the federation is rebuilding and rediscovering itself, trying to come back to what and who they once were, trying to build itself anew, so Chancellor Ake being a half Lanthanite, having seen the federation as it used to be, is such a good fit! She's contacting people she used to know, she knows the federation hasn't been the federation for a while but she's stepping up and helping it grow healthily again, knowing what it *can* be. She's still discovering something new (rebuilding the federation), but her lifetime of experience is highly valuable for this moment. Idk something about that just really makes her the perfect Captain/Chancellor for the job to me

[robin-buck1ey]

Nancy wheeler, the woman that you are

[daffsforstag]

In case anyone wants to know, Steve Harrington and Finney Blake are canonically the same age.😊

[deerestkisses]

idk if this is stupid or just new information for me but fuck it. as much i absolutely love henry, mr. whatsit, 001/ peter fics, i just came to the realization that if he had someone — even as a romantic love interest — he wouldn't turn into vecna. my theory here is that you need to have a saving grace to save yourself from the mindflayer just like how will had his family & friends. henry had patty, but as per the play — correct me if i'm wrong because i js know the plot of the play and i've never seen it — dr. brenner tries to convince henry that patty was his weakness because — i'm assuming — by reveling henry's weakness the shadowy entity might manifest itself through henry in order to kill henry's weakness .i.e. patty so that it's vessel's ( minflayer's vessel .i.e. henry ) final and the only saving grace would be eliminated, making sure henry would be so alone and intoxicated by the powers he would have no choice but to join the mindflayer. this could also explaim why henry believe that he chose the mindflayer, why he thinks that he and the mindflayer are one while completely disregarding that in the Nevada's cave his accidental transport to dimension X altered his soul and blood on the command of mindflayer not henry's and how right after that the mindflayer immediately possessed his body to kill that doctor in the cave. all of that unbeknownst to young henry who had no idea where he was for 12 hrs, what happened with his soul and blood.

with all that in mind, had henry had a gf — which i'm doubting he'd even have one after patty because not only it would remind him of the horrible incident but he seems the type of guy who believes that the price of loving someone is never loving again — or even a friend, a genuine friend not like eleven who he groomed so that he can escape the lab, or just someone who could’ve been his saving grace, he wouldn't have turned into Vecna. Peter ballard would've escaped without that monologue, without the need of wanting to merge two different dimensions, and without killing half of the people.

[materiaeris]

"mike should have had Holly's storyline" imo, nobody should have vanished in season 5; it was redundant, and the idea of "going full circle" was just cheap nostalgia bait. maybe an unpopolar opinion but i actually like the children in Camazotz/mindscape storyline, and the problem is not that it takes too much screentime; it doesn't take enough. For that kind of plot point, with that many characters and that much potential, it needed way more focus (a focus that wasn't only on holly) Of course there was the main cast who couldn't be left behind, so the result is a half-baked storyline that is closed way too fast, without any consequences (Holly gets hurt by her classmates and there isn't any resolution and what about the kids after vecna dies ? What about all of their trauma about a man who seemed kind and sweet and promised them to look after them in a time where they were all living an incredible anxious situation with their town in quarantine, and that same man is the moster himself ?) the solution, in my opinion, shouldn't have been "oh let's put mike here instead" but to scrap this entire storyline and work with what they already had (A LOT. they really didn't need a "vanish" to kick start the plot) The only problem maybe would have been Max alone in Camazotz without a second character to share the screen with, but i think it would have been fixable if Max, somehow, found the way to interact with people in Henry's memory (and we would have known more about him and his past for sure, instead of juggling pointlessly in holly's memories)

[byler-is-endgame7]

GUYS WHY ARE ONLY WILL AND DUSTINS HEADLIGHTS ON IN THE POSTER

[strdsts]

i don’t take a lot of you “st fans” seriously, but mostly the ones who have anything negative to say about mike wheeler. you don’t understand him so keep your stupid mouths off of him.

[bylerclub]

It seems like more effort was put into the special effects than the script.