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conulyI do hate being left out. I have a bunch of episode-specific nitpicks, and perhaps one real Thought, and they're all jumbled up in no particular order either.
1. How does Nancy not see what a creep Steve is? Seriously. Anybody who's going to make fun of somebody whose brother is missing is scum.
2. Steve got his asshole realization at the worst possible time, but I notice it went so far as to say "Calling the girl I still like a slut is bad" without continuing on to "and I take responsibility for that action". Your jerk friends didn't do that on their own, Stevie-boy. He has room for growth, let's say that.
3. Hoo-boy, those kid bullies are something else.
4. Did kids in the early 80s really say douchebag? Seems like more of a 90s insult. What's the earliest citation on that?
5. If you can see that the derelict school bus is an obvious hiding spot, so can the guys in the helicopter. As soon as the helicopter moves out of range, you should be moving somewhere else. You're safer on the move.
6. How the sheriff got the drop on those guys as they approached the school bus is a question that will never be asked, let alone answered.
7. Here they are, alone in a big old school, another obvious hiding place if I ever saw one. The grown-ups are gone on a mission that may get them captured. The big siblings are gone on a mission that may get them killed. Have these kids learned nothing from the school bus incident? You are safer on the move. There is a reason we talk about sitting ducks! Pick up, go somewhere else. Smart money's on some place that's been searched already but isn't home.
8. God only knows what their science teacher thinks of their questions.
9. If I'm ever in a situation where I'm communicating with a loved one via electric lights, and he says he's "Right here", and I can't see them, I'm hoping that I can keep it together enough to say something like "Geez, that's real helpful, sweetie" or "Okay, but I need more information" or something. It just seems to me that however hard this is on Joyce, it's gotta be harder on Will, and it's the job of the adults to pretend that they're not, in fact, breaking down under the stress. But then, I've been known to go into crying jags over not finding the garlic press, so what do I know?
10. You know, they could've gotten El more than one stuffed animal, and enough crayons to put one picture on the wall. They just didn't want to. Fucking assholes. I want to hug her.
11. So let's look at this from the monster's perspective. It's a predator - but where's the prey? I didn't see many demonic bunnies hopping around the Upside Down. And no surprise. Suburbia isn't really prime territory for wildlife, is it? From the perspective of the denizens of the netherworld here, it's gotta be like their landscape is constantly changing, trees being removed and structures put up and rivers paved over, and they can't do anything about it. Until El made contact, did they even have any way to understand why things happened like that? Not gonna blame a hunting animal for hunting. Humans hunt too, obviously, or else how could they have gotten their hands on those guns and that trap?
1. How does Nancy not see what a creep Steve is? Seriously. Anybody who's going to make fun of somebody whose brother is missing is scum.
2. Steve got his asshole realization at the worst possible time, but I notice it went so far as to say "Calling the girl I still like a slut is bad" without continuing on to "and I take responsibility for that action". Your jerk friends didn't do that on their own, Stevie-boy. He has room for growth, let's say that.
3. Hoo-boy, those kid bullies are something else.
4. Did kids in the early 80s really say douchebag? Seems like more of a 90s insult. What's the earliest citation on that?
5. If you can see that the derelict school bus is an obvious hiding spot, so can the guys in the helicopter. As soon as the helicopter moves out of range, you should be moving somewhere else. You're safer on the move.
6. How the sheriff got the drop on those guys as they approached the school bus is a question that will never be asked, let alone answered.
7. Here they are, alone in a big old school, another obvious hiding place if I ever saw one. The grown-ups are gone on a mission that may get them captured. The big siblings are gone on a mission that may get them killed. Have these kids learned nothing from the school bus incident? You are safer on the move. There is a reason we talk about sitting ducks! Pick up, go somewhere else. Smart money's on some place that's been searched already but isn't home.
8. God only knows what their science teacher thinks of their questions.
9. If I'm ever in a situation where I'm communicating with a loved one via electric lights, and he says he's "Right here", and I can't see them, I'm hoping that I can keep it together enough to say something like "Geez, that's real helpful, sweetie" or "Okay, but I need more information" or something. It just seems to me that however hard this is on Joyce, it's gotta be harder on Will, and it's the job of the adults to pretend that they're not, in fact, breaking down under the stress. But then, I've been known to go into crying jags over not finding the garlic press, so what do I know?
10. You know, they could've gotten El more than one stuffed animal, and enough crayons to put one picture on the wall. They just didn't want to. Fucking assholes. I want to hug her.
11. So let's look at this from the monster's perspective. It's a predator - but where's the prey? I didn't see many demonic bunnies hopping around the Upside Down. And no surprise. Suburbia isn't really prime territory for wildlife, is it? From the perspective of the denizens of the netherworld here, it's gotta be like their landscape is constantly changing, trees being removed and structures put up and rivers paved over, and they can't do anything about it. Until El made contact, did they even have any way to understand why things happened like that? Not gonna blame a hunting animal for hunting. Humans hunt too, obviously, or else how could they have gotten their hands on those guns and that trap?
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Date: 2018-01-04 07:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-04 08:01 am (UTC)I mean, you've got to be a total asshole for me to sympathize more with creepy photo op stalker shenanigans than with you.
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Date: 2018-01-04 08:10 am (UTC)I love how the internet has rallied around Barb. She's definitely who I would have been in high school . . .
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Date: 2018-01-04 10:45 am (UTC)no subject
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