[ SECRET POST #4568 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4568 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Mike in S1 and liked him okay in S2. I liked him less in S3, but I think the writers were just being realistic about what 14-year-olds are like. I didn't find him misogynistic or mean. Maybe a bit selfish, though (see: the show being realistic about what 14-year-olds are like). His comments about girls would definitely be sexist if he were a few years older, but I think he's having thoughts that most kids probably have about the opposite sex at that age, and I don't think it's indicative of an underlying tendency to disrespect girls and women. He was pretty rude to Hopper, but then Hopper was being a tremendous dick, so it seems like more of a case of Mike reacting to Hopper's own bullshit, albeit in an immature way.

I do miss S1 Mike, though. Honestly, I liked S3 well enough, but I miss the way pretty much all the characters were in S1.

[(Anonymous)]

As much as I have been overall enjoying the later seasons, I still kinda wish season 1 had just been a standalone entity.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I feel the exact same way, anon.

[tabaqui]

This. They're kids in the 80's - there's a lot of stuff going on that we would hope doesn't go on *now*.

And he does start figuring things out as they go along, and El gets her chance to be apart from him and figure her own stuff/self out.

I'm not a fan of romance as a rule, period, but what they're doing (obsessively needing to see each other, always wanting to hang out, hold hands, etc.) is pretty par for the course for that age.

[rosehiptea]

Speaking as someone who was a kid in the 80s I think it's pretty true to the 80s. I mean, as true as a show like that is going to get.