Watching Stranger Things with Eva, on Episode 3

[conuly]

1. If Nancy were to take a gun and do a mass shooting at her job, I would cheer her on.

2. Translation doesn't work like that.

3. Has El been getting any sort of education this past year? Is she enrolled in school for next year?

3a. Hopper is... kinda a bad option for dad. What with his dead daughter, and his repeated El-related traumatic experiences, plus the fact that El had to be isolated for a while for her own safety... I mean... I don't think anybody is in a position to realize this, but he already veers too hard on the bad side of overprotective. It's not a good fit.

Comments

[conuly]

I feel like Joyce would've spent a lot of time over the past year getting her school-ready. And it doesn't have to be all on her - El has two adults, three young adults, and several older kids in on her secret. If each of the oldest took one evening to tutor, and her friends took the weekend to go out and talk with her and do things, El would be doing a lot better. (And THAT is the reason she shouldn't be holed up with Mike making out all the time. She needs to talk to a wide variety of people if her language skills aren't going to atrophy. That window is closing!)

[cloudsinvenice]

Yeah, if they could've focused on getting her into middle school with a new intake of kids, maybe with a cover story that she's someone's niece from out of town who's been sick for a long time and needed a change of air...

She'd actually be better hidden the more normal a life she was living. One kid in a crowd of other kids doesn't stand out. One kid who seems to live in a cabin in the woods with an irascible guy who can't have a rational conversation about raising her, a kid who is never seen in class, who the local paediatricians don't know... THAT kid raises suspicions.

And as long as Hopper's on his "I'm the sheriff, I can do what I want!" kick, maybe he could be stealing her a social security number - I assume cops know more about how all that works than most people...

[conuly]

Someone's niece from out of the country would be a better bet, cover up the language skills.

[cloudsinvenice]

Right!! Just pass her off as a third culture kid; it'd explain everything.

[conuly]

Also, didn't our semi-clandestine government agency give her a SSN when they gave her a new identity last season?

[cloudsinvenice]

I shared this discussion with a friend and she pointed out the same thing!

Just what does Hopper think is going to happen? Or have the writers literally forgotten that development?

[conuly]

He's not in a frame of mind to be reasonable. See: Dead daughter, lots of traumatic stuff involving El. Plus, the shadowy government agency did tell him to give it a year to let things calm down.

But... I mean... you can go too far!

[cloudsinvenice]

I suppose another aspect of it is that Netflix series tend to have built-in three season obsolescence, so they're not even expecting to follow these kids all the way through high school/life...

[conuly]

IDK, they ended on a sequel hook. But why do people keep breaking into the Upside Down!? Can't they find some other way to tear down creation for laughs?