International Differences that turn into screaming matches of misdirected fury is one of my favorite genres of humor
Can we talk about how raw of a quote “When I kill God, I’ll make a law in the universe that makes every being put carrots on their sandwiches. … And you? You will eat sandwiches every day.” is
if a demon from the upside down’s about to kill me and you need to find out what my favorite song is, please just tell my mother i love her. i can’t choose my favorite song for the life of me.
Here’s the thing I’ve been ruminating on… Whether the Duffers were queer baiting or are a bit homophobic or scared to actually make any characters queer bc the straight audience is the important audience or whatever– The cast, tho, aren’t. I think possibly what they’ve been hinting at or alluding to is that whether they were supposed to or not… They were playing their character that way. Like Maya and Natalia were leaning into the chemistry and like the idea of ronance. Like Joseph making Eddie flirty with Steve and Keery being on board with it. Or Noah and Finn do think Will and Mike like each other. And yeah, you could say it’s another form of queer baiting but I see it more as the Duffers aren’t going to make it canon but the actors actually know what people want and give us what they can. Does that make sense?
I could be way off with this but… It’s just food for thought and all that.
“We kind of stitched [Eddie’s vest] so it would look like he did it himself … We added a belt buckle that has a handcuff on it … We gave him a chain on the leather of his jacket, like maybe the zipper broke, and he tried to close it. So we really focused on little details.”