Chapter 3: The Monster and The Superhero

hi more stranger things cos i lost control of my life
i hate marvel/dc so much just the word superhero makes me reel
anyway. oh yeah the guy that lies to eleven.
oh yeah uhhhh massive spoilers for season four of stranger things. tense music plays as military man angrily gives science man a thing
while blaming him for. idk. stuff.
oh they think eleven is vecna. i forgot
by they i mean the military
also kinda boring ngl. i cant imagine els gonna get in trouble for assaulting angela cos theyre both underage
but what do i know god i hate argyle
anyway his brain is fried and jonathan found a moment to get high i guess so the kids sure are in safe hands ah yes a blip. just a blip.
shes too young to notice it now but god damn these two are irresponsible
then again theyre also teens so i suppose i shouldnt judge em too harshly stop saying blip aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ah yes, murray. so more russia shit.
time for me to skip i guess
i dont like murray. he brought jonathan and nancy together. also the russia plot is all him. and its garbo. ugh ok joyce just said he cooks! (cos the dinner theyre eating was made by murray) and this is his response
that kinda made me laugh. i dont hate murray as a character its just the plots hes involved in are generally kinda shit
stranger things usually has great character writing but it stumbles on the plot here and there
um. not that that joke is stellar writing.
jack did all the cleaning in our house when i was the sole breadwinner so it just reminded me of that but i thought it was cute disregard 80s!jays comment i gotta say jonathans really sellin the stoner-eating-some-godly-carbs-face here STOP SAYING SHMACKED ARGYLE GOD YOU MAKE ME HATE CALIFORNIA AND IVE NEVER EVEN BEEN THERE
let alone in the 80s.
that. were. before i existed
BUT STILL i cant believe they kill eddie and this fucker gets to walk his shmackin' ass into season 5 if he wants to eleven feelin guilty for hitting angela cos it made mike mad and also bein reminded of papa while chucky-esque music plays
pretty sure its supposed to be reminiscend of anoes music but im just saying what it reminds me of
regardless angela totally deserved that hit and as a bullied kid im surprised mike isnt on her side
oh but she did lie that angela was her friend now i think of it lucas walks in on hat guy and the other jocks getting ready to lynch eddie
that toxic masculine urge to murder another man
and then go oh we shouldnt have done that cos the law. but secretly still being proud cos RAH MAN DEFEND TERRITORY!! !
but uh yeah that guy is still just a hat. i dont even know his name i heard someone call me a freak from miles and miles away, i better hide hey so like.
like my taste in men isnt entirely scrungly scrimbo or whatever, cos,
i think eddie is cute and i know thats a really popular opinion
just. wanted to put that out there
cough uhhh so lets keep watching theyre all like oh eddie weve done this like three times before youll be fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine
and hes just there lookin at his cornflakes wonderin if they laced them with somethin jonathans all like hey you guys wanna see a movie and wills like no i wanna sit here and stare at mike while i pretend were having dinner together like a domestic couple that is happy and married and hes my husband and i am his
uh i mean i heard the movie is bad so lets not go < mike left. sad will. this is his arc. mike does eleven related thing, will sad.
im not even judging it thats just whats going on lol how did i not pick up on the anoes 3 reference here.
thats my favourite nightmare movie.
hang on the movie opens with the mc building the main house on elm street outta sticks.
idk who wrote the script for season 4 but i want to personally thank them for appealing to my interests so hard elevens arc is "welcome to puberty you have superpowers and nobody else does, welcome to loneliness"
mike tries to relate but shes like mike u cant make peoples faces bleed cos u made their brains into mush inside of their head, u just dont get it apparently mike never says he loves her in the letters which is why eleven got so hurt when he was like omg why did u do that at the skate rink
which. damn mike thanks robin im gonna call him vecman from now on
also the music here is very strongly based on the anoes soundrack. cool friendshiiiiiip
also steve is still in love with nancyyyyyy
which is kinda a good story imo cos she doesnt like him anymore which makes sense cos shes got other priorities but in older media she would still get with him and just be a housewife who is savvy at some stuff she liked as a kid. whereas nancy prioritises her own interests. so thats cool vecna is trying to find new victims by looking through their memories and jfc this one's dark were back with the jocks (cos the final thought vecna scanned was actually one of theirs) and ah yes, a garage band, a clear sign of satan. omg its eddie's friends. quick guys summon the demon thing from deathgasm
...
that reference wouldve made more sense if id have liveblogged that film but id have to censor so much. (I hadn't yet at the time lol) greetings and salutations muscleheads the fuck do you want the jocks are trying to find eddie and lucas is with them. the band (i think their name is corroded coffin?) is disappointed to see lucas turn coat.
also ngl tempted to rip the sleeves off my red flannel to get this jacket the guy has surpriiiiiise the jocks turn to violence cos of course they do. meanwhile lucas tryna pretend he is somewhere else !!!!!!!!!! i know this flag from fallout new vegas
oh yeah were back in california. idk why i got excited.
i just love fallout new vegas i guess theyre tryna set up this narrative that eleven killed a ton a people and im just thinkin man not even the most casual of watcher is gonna think that
like itd be a bigger surprise if she did
but el is no lucy elfen lied
(no judgment to lucy elfen lied that show surprisingly aged quite well) this lady asks if will/jonathan (and mike) are el's guardians and jonathan begins saying no but will interrupts him with this
which was somethin i really liked about four. thats sweet as hell
eleven has two brothers who love and care about her now i love that for her
also will's not letting his crush on mike get in the way of the fact that he cares for his sister. again, good character writing robin.
oh my god.
i need that jacket.
i need that jacket so bad.
i fuckin love clothes with eyes on them theres more patches which makes it even better but GOD i love eye related imagery
i want to get an eye tattoo'ed on my left wrist eventually, with like, a cool design
but i havent got it yet so jewelry and clothes will have to do for now i feel bad for robin, both steve and nance dont like when she speaks her mind and try to get to the point as fast as they can. robin isnt even saying anything bad
shes just going "so were looking for someone who can do impossible things" and also "i thought maybe you knew exactly what was goin on and you were hiding it" which is a veiled compliment so god damn nancy that is cold
fucking GOD this is so relatable
robin straight called out that nancy seems annoyed and she denies it. so robin comes in with this
like dont fucking lie nancy be straight about it
itll benefit everyone including you
>nancy dismisses it
ok lost some respect for miss newspaper there
god damn. uh also max is talking to a counsilor chrissy was also talking to. its a lead to get max into the plot
cos like, the best episode is about her hey dudes i stole the counsilors keys lETS GO LETS GO LETS GO hey gang i think my basketball friends are about to commit a murder
might not even be necessarily eddie just whoever they find. they wanna kill, yknow hello el is now in fbi custody again. oops. robins tryna make conversation while nancy says fuckall
like i get that u dont know what to say nancy but also shes trying so hard. the least you could say is no did you find anything oooh their lead was sent to pennhurst! I know about that place. its mad haunted (this is prefaced by nancy mentioning steve to robin) NANCY ARE YOU SERIOUS
ARE YOU THAT BLIND
i gues i'll just slap this one the "it was the mid eighties" board along with jovial drug use and. uh. idk serial killers being a casual thing
damn upon rewatch im really starting to dislike nancy nancy dismisses a book cos its about bigfoot and ufos when shes from hawkins and saw three supernatural events herself. what, bitch
also once again i am reminded of a friend a mine that like, totally believes in aliens
but is then disrespectfully dismissive of ghosts. like i get u can believe in one and not the other but i feel like you should at least be a lil more nuanced about it nancy you dress like shit meanwhile robin is wearing the coolest jacket ive ever seen you dont get to roll your eyes and walk away from the projector like youre better than her ooooh what a surprise robin finds genuine information in the weird lil magazine. whodathought. this is the jocks' murderkit, i guess
they were gonna tie eddie up and then shine a light in his eyes, and then, uh shine... another light?
in his eyes?
seriously theres like three flashlights in this trunk oh nvm there was also a crowbar and a bat.
but very much multiple flashlights, also.
Majo: omg DBD ref...
yeah just clicky click eddie until hes stunned
ok american friends i gotta ask.
do diners still exist.
i know st is the 80s but still. ive seen them in more recent stuff
i gotta know
Majo: Yes!
dude form the start of the episode convinces el shes gotta use her powers again to save her buddies in hawkins. thus the episode title max remembers her trauma ok thats bad.