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To whom it may concern, these are my sideblogs:

Merlin sideblog (Gwen and Arwen centric)

BTS sideblog (+general Kpop and Kdramas)

Harry Potter sideblog (totally inactive)

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Stranger Things Season 2, Chapter 9: The Gate

Mike and El are the absolute cutest. El looked so pretty with her pink lip gloss and pink blush. I got "butterflies" when they locked eyes at the dance because they're so pure and wholesome. Max and Lucas are adorable too. Max's hair looked so pretty. And Nancy was a good older sister to Dustin for dancing with him.

Max handled Billy so well - a total badass. But why did everyone freeze when Billy grabbed Lucas and pinned him to a wall? I don't care for the mom Steve jokes but him lecturing the kids with a kitchen towel thrown over his shoulder and his hands on his hips was good. He was real fun this episode. And he and Dustin are very cute.

Nancy must've left a nice scar on Will when she poked him on his side with hot iron. That whole cabin scene is really good.

The thing with Hopper is that he cares and he recognizes his mistakes eventually but should we excuse it? He didn't just lie to El, he left her alone all the time, didn't seem to buy her cute things and fun games to entertain her and cheer her up (besides eggos), didn't hang out with her much, didn't actually have a plan for her. Meanwhile, he's always there for Joyce.

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Stranger Things Season 2, Chapter 8: The Mind Flayer

The downfall of this season is that the mind flayer is a really weak villain. Also, there's too much Will. To me, El is the heart of the show, along with Mike, but both are outsiders this season, if that makes sense. Going from season 1 to season 2, the change is noticeable.

Anyway, poor Max is trying to connect with Mike but he's not having it. And Bob's gone and it's whatever. The crew giving the shed a makeover so the mind flayer can't find them is hilarious. It never stops being funny how no one can find El in a small town where everyone she knows lives. Wouldn't the mind flayer look for Will in his own house??

The villain is just too abstract and boring.

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Stranger Things Season 2, Chapter 7: The Lost Sister

So, this is top 5 best ST episodes. I'm gutted. The only bad thing about this episode is Kali's crew, but if you ignore it it's not even that bad.

I love Kali. Knowing how her story ends is devastating. This girl who loved her sister wanted her to commit suicide together because she had been defeated. That was always her story. She lost El, escaped, found a family, had to leave them. She stopped believing she could be happy so she decided to turn the weapon she had been made into against those who had made her become one. She never found "home" and the closest she came to it was when she met El again. El is younger, and we know she forgot a lot about her time at the lab, but Kali never forgot her sister. Their bond and love was so pure. They really loved each other. I love the song that plays when they are together. Kali never found her Mike or even her Hopper. She survived on anger. I hope she found some peace in helping her sister disappear - because I refuse to believe El died. It's really sad...

The episode is actually beautiful. El is promised so many "homes". Mike offers her his in season 1, then Hopper, then Terry's sister, then Kali... She chooses her friends and Hopper. But I think El could've stayed with Kali if not for Mike. When Kali tells her to recall things that angered her, she first thinks of seeing Max with Mike (keke), but then she "digs deeper", to those who imprisoned her and lied to her, and thinks of Hopper. When she thinks of home, Mike comes to her mind more often. She goes back for her friends. And it's Mike's fear that scares her and helps her make up her mind imo.

I begrudgingly find myself understanding season 5 better. As much as El loved Hopper, I think she saw them as kindred spirits. She needed a parent and he needed a daughter. I wonder if El ever saw herself as his daughter - in the sense that she was like a daughter but maybe not a daughter...

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Stranger Things Season 2, Chapter 6: The Spy

Underwhelming episode, clearly a set-up for the climax of the season but meh.

What I liked:

Nancy and Jonathan

Steve and Dustin bonding

Max and Lucas. I liked that Max opened up to Lucas. He gets to see a different side of her. Season 3 baffles me.

What I didn't like:

No Eleven. Her episode is coming but she needed more screentime this season and in most seasons.

Mike is just there... I get it that without El he is lost and not entirely himself, but he's trying to help Will. He's smart. But they only let him hang around Will and Joyce without contributing much.

Bob. It's not that I don't like Bob, but this season made me realize how useless he was. I mean, he was good for Joyce and the one who gave her the idea to move out of Hawkins. But the shock of his death was his only real impact.

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Stranger Things Season 2, Chapter 5: Dig Dug

Very, very good episode where they finally bring all the plot elements together. Mike is still washed-out but everyone else gets their moment.

Lucas's scared eyes when he puts his hand over Max's mouth (when she talks loudly about El) are so good. He communicates so much with his eyes. I love Lucas and Caleb did a wonderful job playing him. Billy is still the worst. People ship him with Steve just because they showered together? Like wft?

I like Max this season. There are moments I don't, but she's growing on me. I like Max and Lucas' dynamic a lot, I can't fucking understand why they ruined it in season 3. Max takes Lucas seriously. She gets mad easily but she really likes him and wants to be part of the group. And El loves Mike more than anything and takes him so, so seriously - no one cares for her like him. Yet in season 3 Max is always dumping Lucas and El dumps Mike without a care in the world. Makes no sense. El never, for once, took Mike for granted, except in season 3. I'm not looking forward to getting to it.

But season 2 is better than I remembered. Dustin's mom is awesome, I wish we saw her more. I also wish we'd seen more of the Sinclairs. Baby Erica is so cute.

My favorite part of the episode is El and Terry though. I love Terry, she's a badass and her story is so interesting. Permanently upset that they didn't do more with El's character, Terry, Brenner, the lab... there was so much there... Terry's love for her daughter is so beautiful. She's strong and smart like El. What happened to her was awful, and poor El had to witness that. The flackback scenes in the void are so good. It makes no sense that we didn't see more of Terry. El would never forget her mom.

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Stranger Things Season 2, Chapter 4: Will the Wise

Well, I wish Mike and El had more screentime, I like El a lot this season. She uses her powers like they're an extension of her, she's smart, tough, argues back. She's angry and real. She feels like a real teenager who is growing through shit and has gone through shit. She survived almost a month by herself in the woods, she fights Hopper, that asshole, tooth and nail. His behavior is so despicable I can't believe they brought him back in season 4 while El is either dead or not returning to Hawkins because that's realism. Calling her a brat, saying he "feeds, teaches, and protects" and only asks for three things in return - i.e., for her to be a miserable shut-in - but she "can't even do that". Then he says he can make her go back to the lab with one call. "I'm not too fond of you either.". He's a 40 year old man yelling at a 13 year old, he's pathetic. And in the end he'll blame his behavior on Sarah's death. Like, if he was that worried about El he wouldn't forget about her constantly. Blaming everything on his days in Vietnam and on Sarah's passing is Hopper 101.

Poor Max, Billy is awful and the party is excluding her (with reason) from their secret AV meetings. Billy's racism is also appalling and it's the first time I'm really noticing it. Before, when he said "those kinds of people", my white ass didn't even make the association...

The girls and the gays really suffer on this show. By girls I mean El, Max, Kali, Terry, Nancy, and by gays I just mean Will - to be clear.

This whole plot with the tunnels isn't bad but everyone magically putting two and two together is too ridiculous. Will drew hundreds of abstract drawings and Hopper and Joyce just put them together in an afternoon like some kind of 3+ yrs 100-piece puzzle? And Hopper spent hours digging without knowing for sure he was in the right spot? And he didn't look super exhausted? He shouldn't have been using his arms at all the next day.

I think the storylines just feel too disconnected. The party is barely doing anything - Max is the main development, Lucas has Max, Dustin has Dart, Mike is aimless. Nancy and Jonathan are doing their own thing. The main storyline is some shadow monster, rotten pumpkins, and Will having "feelings". The scene where Will explains to Joyce what happened in the school field reminded me of that time Millie imitated their dynamic on Jimmy Fallon. She got it right to a T.

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Stranger Things Season 2, Chapter 3: The Pollywog

I can't stand that El's entire storyline is suffering. It's fucking annoying, it's like the writers get off on it. Male superheroes have sob stories that help them get laid and female superheros just suffer to show they're strong - because there's nothing more beautiful than women's silent endurance in men's minds. At least El gets to be mad. She went out to see Mike and even that went wrong. They did have to use Max to make El jealous? Also, I truly don't understand why people love El and Hopper. Like, he does the bare minimum and can't even care about El more than a teenage boy who knew her for a week. Please.

Joyce is ridiculous. Everything that made her interesting and relatable in season 1 has become gimmicky in season 2. She's just neurotic and apparently finding clues in everything. She pauses a low quality video at just the right moment to see some shadows, grabs baking paper, traces the shadows, and - voilà! - she's cracked the code. Absurd.

Everything is moving kinda slow, but it's not as bad as I remembered, at least for now.

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Stranger Things Season 2, Chapter 2: Trick or Treat, Freak

It's genuinely painful watching this show knowing the ending. El just suffers and suffers and suffers. No one remembers her or cares except for Mike. Mike talks about her, calls her everyday, tells her he misses her. Meanwhile, Hopper forgets about her when she isn't right in front of him. Imagine what Mike meant to her. The one person who gave her hope and made her feel important. They deserved so much better...

Millie and Finn are so pretty, such a pretty couple. Nancy also looks so so pretty. But I can't get over the difference between the actual teenagers and the young adults playing seniors. Jonathan looks and acts like Will's dad and Will is clearly younger than the other boys. Billy is another adult playing a teen. It's so weird seeing actual teens next to adults, having to remember they're four years apart. I don't like Billy at all, I think he's a pretty unnecessary character and I'm not looking forward to two seasons with him. Every season ST adds useless characters, or characters who overstay their welcome.

The boys are the cutest ghostbusters ever. Poor Will. I like his and Mike's friendship. Back when Mike was still the "heart" and leader, he's the one who notices Will because he's not having fun either and Will is sort of a welcome distraction. Mike is clearly feeling invisible but it's nice to be needed by Will, who's also a tether to El due to the Upside Down.

As for Max, I don't like her mean girl personality even though I get when she's coming from. I've never liked this stereotype. Max and Erica are both very popular characters and share some traits, like being tough, looking down at the nerds, being "honest"... I don't care for it. Max doesn't want to be girly and relates more to typical boy hobbies, but she doesn't like boys either which of course is something we are supposed to admire in her. As a feminist, it feels like I'm not allowed to dislike Max, but I do and I lowkey hate her in season 3. I don't know how to genuinely like her. I like her in season 4 and some of season 5, but...

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Picked up ST again due to boredom and a self-destructive commitment to just finish the rewatch and be done with it.

Season 1, Chapter 1: MADMAX

The ST writers can be so dumb. Kali had so much potential. They tease her in the s2 opener but only properly introduce her in the second to last episode and then forget about her until they need someone to get El to kill herself... Kali is cool and her death pisses me the fuck off.

The episode is good and sets up the season really well. Poor Nancy, poor Will, poor Mike and Eleven. He called her for 353 days... Like, imagine if Hopper cared for El like that! He leaves her alone the entire day, doesn't warn her that he'll be late, doesn't cook actual food for her, yet lectures her about rules. If you wanna be an actual parent, maybe care more about your child than your crush and her kid. Mike sure as hell wouldn't forget about El an entire day knowing she had no one to talk to, had lived in isolation and been neglected for 12 years, and couldn't even go outside the cabin for fresh air. Like, I hate the guy.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer – 2.19: I Only Have Eyes for You

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I haven’t posted on this blog in 6 years but felt I needed to come on here today. I feel devastated by this, as I am sure many of you are feeling this way too. Always knew this one would hurt, Rest in Peace, our Watcher ♥️

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Stranger Things, Season 1, Chapter Eight: The Upside Down

This was an emotional mess. Season 5 really ruined the show. How can I watch Hopper (preemptively?) negotiate Will's rescue in exchange for El and not feel like his story was all about Joyce and Sarah? Will reminded him of Sarah and then El did too; in the series finale, El absolves him of any responsibility towards her and he rides off into the sunset with Joyce... Hopper definitely loved El, but how much of it was guilt and grief?

El was only a footnote in this epilogue too - the party plays a campaign that's too short and has inconsistencies, like some princess, and Mike looks towards El's fort in pain. Isn't this exactly like the show's ending? Mike's almost entirely alone in grieving El. It was painful watching her choose Mike over Brenner, hold her hand out to him, believe for a moment in his promise of a normal life together, and later say goodbye to him... She was a little girl and told the Demogorgon "No more" like it was her responsibility, like she was tired of fighting. Fuck you Duffers.

Anyway, Nancy, Jon, and Steve trying to kill the Demogorgon to protect the others is very similar to Mike's idea to hurt the hive mind in season 2...

I just don't understand how Hopper realized that El was alive... I'm not sure this is explained satisfactorily in season 2.

Final review: before, I thought this was a perfect season, now it's only good...

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Stranger Things, Season 1, Chapter 7: The Bath

Almost at the end of season 1, and, surprisingly, missing the chaos of other seasons. This one feels a little dull, which is a wild thing for me to say. This rewatch has been really different for me, maybe because I'm truly paying attention to everything.

Mike and El are cute, duh. They trigger my cuteness aggression when El is cleaning herself up and Mike tells her she's still really pretty - and he makes a funny, embarrassed face afterwards, the dork. He also tells El he's glad she's home... And they almost kiss! But I have to confess that the age gap between Finn and Millie is bothering me a little. She kind of looks 9 and he 12/13.

Mike is so funny and dorky. "If anyone asks for me, tell them I've left the country." "We're fugitives now." Baby, you're in middle school.

Lucas and El making up was very sweet, and later he even drapes a blanket over her... Good boy.

Joyce remembers she has two children this episode. She tells Jon he's not alone, but it's not very convincing. She believes it but doesn't act like it often. In addition, Joyce and El engage in a "who has the biggest doe eyes?" contest. It's seriously lethal. El is super brave for choosing the bath when she's so scared of it... I love that Joyce thanks El and is there for her during the bath. El has never had that kind of motherly comfort before... This Joyce and El are cute but sadly it doesn't last...

Also, I love how a middle school science teacher knows absolutely everything about physics.