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Dec 16, 2017 5:42 AM
baileydespain
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Decoyape11
The secret world of Alex Mac got really weird towards the end.
LarryTesler
Cropping is hard
terribledeathwhinny
Barb knew too much about something, that is why they didn’t want her found, the truth would bring the town to its knees. The parents one Mr
terribledeathwhinny
Fred Krueger.
cinemaislifeandviceversa
It wasn't unrealistic but kind of betrayed the idea that the show was 'by nerds for nerds'. Show writers didn't care about her either.
SometimesISayDumbShit
What is this? I don’t remember seeing it on Stranger things
DagothWit
This from the after-show, Beyond Stranger Things.
Daloth
It's almost like some movies and TV shows have characters who aren't meant to be important.
EwokDude
Like Chuck, the older brother in Happy Days.
cinemaislifeandviceversa
Nancy was that character. If they were a little braver with their writing she would have been monster chow.
Greeneyeddevil
Well to be fair they were made to think the much older young adult had run away. By people who can make Will dolls in a day. So.
CANTSTOPFARTING
DerFoxeh
Poor Barb.
RoxanneLaWin
Barb deserved better
crimsonghost1
Giiiir, we should jussst...make out in our pajamiiies!
scrawnyclownsnatch
What are you scared of Marm? You know I'm just gonna come ask you for your hair again
GremGrem
It’s Bullshit.gif
superanth
They did kind of write-off Barb, didn’t they?
UPerinOR
Well...she WAS a redhead, after all....
heartlessninja6
Will Byers Mom was a single parent. You don’t mess with that.
CrackedWalnut
HOABS OH AEO HELL EVERYWHERE
Jburli24
Sadly, there's a lot of reality in this. Like the massive searches for one missing teenager turning up the bodies of other missing kids.
CroissantMagnet
If you go missing. it helps if the chief of police wants to bang your mom.
PrincessFucker
Again*
gewalt
thats not a fair threshold. EVERYONE wants to bank wynona rider
RoxanneLaWin
MihaeIKeehI
Silentbunny
OtterAvalanche
YUP.
MrBinns
But they found her car and then it went missing so they thought she just left
namelessfish
The bad men staged it. Put her car at a bus station and made it seem like she was just an unhappy teenager who left home
iCurse
Why would you drive your car to a bus station then take a bus? Just leave in your car..
attackofthequokka
shhh let people enjoy their surface level nostalgia pandering
CaptCanada
You can track license plates
gewalt
not so much back then.
Racack
When exactly do you think they started using license plates in investigations and missing persons cases
cinemaislifeandviceversa
Except just like Will multiple characters had proof this wasn't the case. It's not their fault though, it's just not great writing.
Daloth
Do you think the same of someone who dies first in a horror movie with no backstory? Some characters are literally JUST MEANT TO DIE.
cinemaislifeandviceversa
But compare it with Scream if you like. Spoiler alert. Drew Barrymore dies in the first five minutes and yet her character serves a function
cinemaislifeandviceversa
Very few horror movies have good enough writing where that is a comparison worth making. We're not talking about an 80 minute horror movie.
Daloth
The main reason people complain about Barb is they see her as themselves and feel she is done in a tv as they are in real life. That's all
cinemaislifeandviceversa
Right, she is relatable, and that's a good thing. People should relate to a character who is warm of spirit and supportive.
cinemaislifeandviceversa
The writers made a choice to not follow a character who is underexplored on TV - instead they followed Nancy, who is (as she says) a cliche.