almost a week since stranger things was finished so i'll just say what i put on my letterboxd review -
all in all, this show has been a great experience for the past how many years i could always just go back to whenever. i got my lumax, and that's good for me. i am really happy with the ending of the two character i really kept my focus on, and am quite bittersweet on the matter that i'll never see them again on my screen. and that is fine, because they got their happy ending!
but- killing the only asian girl (who the general audience was totally unfair to from the start, racist c#nts), and the main girl, both of whom have gone through years of abuse just for it to be brushed off for the happiness or closure of others? okay - f#ck the misogynistic, racist writers who think the terms freaks and outcasts only apply to straight white men, and whose show was all about praising non-conformity when its ending was simply - conformity??
i'm sorry to say i think the show lost its magic by the end, robbing us of so many character developments (rip elmax) and overall, a message we could take away from. reducing el to a tragic female heroine is a trope seen too many times, and the way the duffers reduced her to an image of childhood fantasy rather than the human being she is for "symbolism"? it's so disappointing for any abused trauma survivors out there to see this and think that that it is the way for the cycle to end. it's tragic, yes, but even if el is a fictional character, the misogyny shown is not. (also racism and misogynoir with the way the duffers said no one is concerned about erica, do NOT piss me off.)
idk, maybe stranger things was just my tammy :/
