15 thoughts about season 3 of Stranger Things

Okay, admittedly, I have only seen through episode 5, but I had some thoughts that I needed to get out.

1. The kids continue to be amazing actors.
2. Oof we made Hopper so much worse. He threatens Mike's life cause he and Eleven are KISSING. He also asks Joyce to dinner as just friends and then gets mad that she talks to other men and accuses her of being scared when he asked her on a date...when he said it wasn't a date. He also gets mad that she's not over her previous boyfriend who died saving all of them. 
3. Did El and Max have to have that shopping montage? We're acting like El hasn't before tried to pick out new clothes which she definitely did last season. We're also acting like this is who Max is, which it isn't. Why didn't they go to the arcade? Why doesn't Max have El help her with some awesome skateboard tricks? They did finally start to read comic books so that's a good start.
4. We could've accomplished the Max and El adventure in a much better way. Instead of Hopper going crazy on Mike, he could've had the legit concern that it seems like El doesn't have any friends outside of Mike. He could've then arranged for Max and El to have a sleepover and then their whole plotline from there could've happened.
5. Why do we have to include a plot line of middle-aged women wanting to date a teenager? Just why? We could've accomplished the same thing with swapping Billy with Billy's dad. We could make Billy's dad a hot guy and it would make sense that people outside of Max's family don't know he's abusive. We could also get at Max's confusing feelings about having someone in her family who is a bad guy becoming even worse, but wanting to save him. And then we don't have Mrs. Wheeler, whom I really want to like, lusting after a child.
6. Why are Dustin and Steve not contacting Hopper? Like they know Hopper knows about crazy stuff and he is an actual cop.
7. Robin is a fun addition and I'm glad for the spoiler that she and Steve don't date cause it would be such a cliche.
8. Did Steve really describe Robin as perky? I just don't understand this. She is like the opposite of that and I just don't understand.
9. Will is becoming my favorite character. All he wants to do is play D&D and it cracks me up each time he brings it up.
10. How long do parents in Hawkins go without seeing their kids? Like Joyce hasn't seen her kids in days and I don't think she left any kind of note. Dustin is an only child and hasn't come home all night. Erica is 10 and while she said she had someone covering for her...it still feels off.
11. Erica is hilarious. Her calling it "operation child endangerment" is perfection.
12. Has El not been going to school for this past year? Has Hopper just kept her locked up in that cabin? Didn't he have a different house?
13. Joyce leaving town is a bad idea. Yes, it could give her a fresh start and get distance from a place where so many bad things happened, but it would also put distance between you and your children from anyone they could talk to about the trauma they've been though. Distance would also mean that if anyone ever did come after them, they wouldn't have anyone who would help them.
14. Will Jonathan and Will ever get better hair cuts?
15. The best episode so far was written by a woman...just sayin'.

(Prompt by me)

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