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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe it’s 2022 and we still need to analyze every gay or possibly gay character to determine if their existence is realistic and ok or superfluous and done for an agenda. Gay people exist. Many, many more than you think. Surprise!

I have several LGBTQ friends and family members. That said, they are less than 5% of the people I know. So yes, having 2 gay main characters (that aren’t a couple) seems to be an agenda, not representation.
They did plant the seed early in season 1 with Will was being teased for being gay.
I don’t mind - but it is obviously an agenda.

OMG stop watching if you can't handle having TWO gay characters on a show

Can you read? I don’t care, but it’s obviously an agenda.
FWIW, one of my brothers is gay and be is trans. They are in their 50s. Being gay in the 1980s was SCARY. As in beat them to death scary. No one would casually be “out” in Indiana. They would be in super denial. Robin and Harrington aren’t that close when she discloses, which would never happen.
The way Will is playing it is more spot on based on my ACTUAL experience watching my siblings.

I agree with you about the 80s but my take was that they were both coming down off the drugs from the Russians and that is why they got confessional. But Steve is amazingly supportive for an 80s guy.

If it was IRL, Robin would totally act like she didn’t disclose. Harrington would be like “well, if you were with the right guy…” (wink, wink, look at my dick ‘cause it will please ANY woman into being straight).

Anonymous wrote:Seems like we need “an agenda” if people still think having two gay characters in a large cast seems notable.

Whatever you’re trying to accomplish here with the “agenda,” it’s obnoxious and will backfire. It’s overdone and too in your face.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe it’s 2022 and we still need to analyze every gay or possibly gay character to determine if their existence is realistic and ok or superfluous and done for an agenda. Gay people exist. Many, many more than you think. Surprise!

I have several LGBTQ friends and family members. That said, they are less than 5% of the people I know. So yes, having 2 gay main characters (that aren’t a couple) seems to be an agenda, not representation.
They did plant the seed early in season 1 with Will was being teased for being gay.
I don’t mind - but it is obviously an agenda.

OMG stop watching if you can't handle having TWO gay characters on a show

Can you read? I don’t care, but it’s obviously an agenda.
FWIW, one of my brothers is gay and be is trans. They are in their 50s. Being gay in the 1980s was SCARY. As in beat them to death scary. No one would casually be “out” in Indiana. They would be in super denial. Robin and Harrington aren’t that close when she discloses, which would never happen.
The way Will is playing it is more spot on based on my ACTUAL experience watching my siblings.

I was alive in the 80s, too, so you don't need to lecture me as if you're the only one who knew what it was like. People complaining about TWO gay characters on a TV show have an easy way to prevent themselves the displeasure of that experience.

Will explain further since you’re either dim or being deliberately obtuse. It’s not just one show, it’s every recent show. New kids movies must have the obligatory gay trope. It’s trite. Predictable.

While I thought the final episodes were a bit better than the first few, I didn’t care for season 4. I thought the story lines were unnecessarily stretched out and overly predictable. There were so many instances of characters lucking themselves out of death that I no longer saw them has authentic or real. I hope the Duffer Brothers get more creative and throw real curve balls to the audience in Season 5. Otherwise, the show is going to end on a whimper while wearing a meaningless mask of 80s nostalgia.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing that bothers me about Robin’s story: Why the hell did the producers make her love interest look just like her!?! The scene at the end of Episode 9. It’s like identical twins making peanut butter sandwiches. Do better!

I thought she looked like molly ringwald.

They don't look the same to me, they just have the same Molly Ringwald teeth. And the love interest is Anne with an E!

When she wore the hat I yelled “Molly!!”

Seems like we need “an agenda” if people still think having two gay characters in a large cast seems notable.

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Anonymous wrote:The only thing that bothers me about Robin’s story: Why the hell did the producers make her love interest look just like her!?! The scene at the end of Episode 9. It’s like identical twins making peanut butter sandwiches. Do better!

I thought she looked like molly ringwald.

They don't look the same to me, they just have the same Molly Ringwald teeth. And the love interest is Anne with an E!

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe it’s 2022 and we still need to analyze every gay or possibly gay character to determine if their existence is realistic and ok or superfluous and done for an agenda. Gay people exist. Many, many more than you think. Surprise!

Many things exist but aren't deliberately featured on every.single.show. This is just the flavor of the month.

Yes, they’re deliberately featured. It’s called representation. It matters.

Yes... it matters for promoting an agenda.

It’s so unrealistic that every show before the 2010’s only had straight people. So unrealistic I’m tired of the hetero agenda! I don’t have a problem with straight people, I just don’t want them shoving it in my face. They even have straight kiss scenes in Stranger Things between Lucas and Max, El and Mike, AND Hopper and Joyce — yuck!

You do realize the majority of the population is straight, yes?

And I think you need to learn to read sarcasm.

I understood you were being sarcastic…didn’t understand your point whatsoever.

Anonymous wrote:The only thing that bothers me about Robin’s story: Why the hell did the producers make her love interest look just like her!?! The scene at the end of Episode 9. It’s like identical twins making peanut butter sandwiches. Do better!

I thought she looked like molly ringwald.

Anonymous wrote:The only thing that bothers me about Robin’s story: Why the hell did the producers make her love interest look just like her!?! The scene at the end of Episode 9. It’s like identical twins making peanut butter sandwiches. Do better!

I was wondering if any one else felt this way!

The only thing that bothers me about Robin’s story: Why the hell did the producers make her love interest look just like her!?! The scene at the end of Episode 9. It’s like identical twins making peanut butter sandwiches. Do better!

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe it’s 2022 and we still need to analyze every gay or possibly gay character to determine if their existence is realistic and ok or superfluous and done for an agenda. Gay people exist. Many, many more than you think. Surprise!

I have several LGBTQ friends and family members. That said, they are less than 5% of the people I know. So yes, having 2 gay main characters (that aren’t a couple) seems to be an agenda, not representation.
They did plant the seed early in season 1 with Will was being teased for being gay.
I don’t mind - but it is obviously an agenda.

OMG stop watching if you can't handle having TWO gay characters on a show

Can you read? I don’t care, but it’s obviously an agenda.
FWIW, one of my brothers is gay and be is trans. They are in their 50s. Being gay in the 1980s was SCARY. As in beat them to death scary. No one would casually be “out” in Indiana. They would be in super denial. Robin and Harrington aren’t that close when she discloses, which would never happen.
The way Will is playing it is more spot on based on my ACTUAL experience watching my siblings.

I agree with you about the 80s but my take was that they were both coming down off the drugs from the Russians and that is why they got confessional. But Steve is amazingly supportive for an 80s guy.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe it’s 2022 and we still need to analyze every gay or possibly gay character to determine if their existence is realistic and ok or superfluous and done for an agenda. Gay people exist. Many, many more than you think. Surprise!

I have several LGBTQ friends and family members. That said, they are less than 5% of the people I know. So yes, having 2 gay main characters (that aren’t a couple) seems to be an agenda, not representation.
They did plant the seed early in season 1 with Will was being teased for being gay.
I don’t mind - but it is obviously an agenda.

OMG stop watching if you can't handle having TWO gay characters on a show

Can you read? I don’t care, but it’s obviously an agenda.
FWIW, one of my brothers is gay and be is trans. They are in their 50s. Being gay in the 1980s was SCARY. As in beat them to death scary. No one would casually be “out” in Indiana. They would be in super denial. Robin and Harrington aren’t that close when she discloses, which would never happen.
The way Will is playing it is more spot on based on my ACTUAL experience watching my siblings.

I was alive in the 80s, too, so you don't need to lecture me as if you're the only one who knew what it was like. People complaining about TWO gay characters on a TV show have an easy way to prevent themselves the displeasure of that experience.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe it’s 2022 and we still need to analyze every gay or possibly gay character to determine if their existence is realistic and ok or superfluous and done for an agenda. Gay people exist. Many, many more than you think. Surprise!

I have several LGBTQ friends and family members. That said, they are less than 5% of the people I know. So yes, having 2 gay main characters (that aren’t a couple) seems to be an agenda, not representation.
They did plant the seed early in season 1 with Will was being teased for being gay.
I don’t mind - but it is obviously an agenda.

OMG stop watching if you can't handle having TWO gay characters on a show

Can you read? I don’t care, but it’s obviously an agenda.
FWIW, one of my brothers is gay and be is trans. They are in their 50s. Being gay in the 1980s was SCARY. As in beat them to death scary. No one would casually be “out” in Indiana. They would be in super denial. Robin and Harrington aren’t that close when she discloses, which would never happen.
The way Will is playing it is more spot on based on my ACTUAL experience watching my siblings.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe it’s 2022 and we still need to analyze every gay or possibly gay character to determine if their existence is realistic and ok or superfluous and done for an agenda. Gay people exist. Many, many more than you think. Surprise!

I have several LGBTQ friends and family members. That said, they are less than 5% of the people I know. So yes, having 2 gay main characters (that aren’t a couple) seems to be an agenda, not representation.
They did plant the seed early in season 1 with Will was being teased for being gay.
I don’t mind - but it is obviously an agenda.

OMG stop watching if you can't handle having TWO gay characters on a show

NP. I'm not bothered by it at all, I love both characters, have gay friends and relations, but I can still acknowledge there is an agenda these days.