#st5 documentary

[bylertruth3r]

Finn making Mike caress Will's binder with his thumb but them not using that shot.. thank you Finn you tried for us

This is Byler #tome

Mike Wheeler found dead at 16, post here

[massy2ly]

This is how I FEEL about this and I just really hope I’m not wrong

The Jim Hopper I know would not move on, laugh, and casually talk about everything the future has in store for him a YEAR AND A HALF after losing his daughter. He wouldn’t even let her get to that point in the first place, and he certainly wouldn’t stand by and watch it happen from afar. And there’s no universe where he would accept that suicidal speech she gave him, the one where she frames growing up as earning the right to choose to blow herself up in front of her family, as something reasonable, let alone empowering.

We’ve spent over four seasons watching Hopper be eaten alive by guilt and severe PTSD over Sarah. Her death defined him and he carries her memory into every choice he makes, every risk he weighs and every relationship he allows himself to care about. His entire worldview is shaped by the fear that it could happen again, especially with Jane. Protecting her isn’t just a priority for him but the one thing nothing and no one has ever managed to pull him away from.

So I’m supposed to believe that all of that just collapses after a two-minute conversation? That he suddenly caves because an abused minor (a kid who thinks that peace comes through self-destruction) tells him that trusting her means letting her sacrifice herself? That he believes her when she equates being a good father with stepping aside while his daughter chooses to die? I just don’t buy it.

It feels ridiculous not only because this doesn’t line up with the Hopper we’ve been shown again and again, but also because the show itself has consistently drilled Sarah’s trauma into us for five seasons. To resolve that arc like this feels anticlimactic and just off. Watching him smile for photos, joke and talk to Mike about moving on, slow dance at Enzo’s and openly dream about a new life less than TWO years after he watched Jane be atomized while he did nothing is jarring to me.

I really hope this is part of whatever Vecna has engineered and that we’ll see a different outcome in the fixed episodes. Because if this is truly where they’re taking it, then either I’m the one who misunderstood Hopper as a character, or we’re looking at a pretty serious case of mischaracterization. And that’s without even touching on the fact that Jane, out of many characters, shouldn’t be given that kind of ending.

It just doesn’t add up. Of course everyone is allowed to move on, that’s life. BUT not that soon and especially for someone like Hopper.

This picture makes me want to cry now, OMG

[wlwarhammer]

I really thought the duffers just forgot how to write stranger things turns out season 5 was actually their first time writing it

[gracious-midnight]

"The tab on the computer actually wasn't chat gpt!"

Idc if the tab was grindr

Im still gonna accuse them of using AI to write the script, that's just my INTERPRETATION of what happened

[happywritermom]

So I somehow survived watching that trainwreck and...did anyone else think their choice of song for the end credits was weird? "Should I stay or should I go now?" I mean... I'm pretty sure they didn't give us much of a choice but to go, but...what if? And isn't that the song Will used to help himself ESCAPE???

[violetjellybeans]

You know with all the weird stuff that is dropping everywhere, not to mention that documentary, I am feeling way more clear about conformitygate than ever. Of course, I think the Duffels fuffled the whole thing with that ass writing. But I think a lot of things still don't make sense even then.

Conformitygate might just end up being real. Only, not in the way we all thought it was gonna be.

[wlfhrdlvr]

i keep seeing so many screen caps from the documentary where the actors and other writers are pointing out inconsistencies, bad storylines, duffers talking abt going through bad script after bad script, chatgpt tabs open on their computers, that they started the finale without a finished draft of the finale script, and worrying that it was going to be a shit show. the jokes fucking write themselves

[mybreakdowns]

"it's gonna sound sad, but i feel like i really didn't feel like i had a lot of friends as a kid, and now i have so many more friends"

oh! so we're actually the same person got it my day is ruined