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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
Millie Bobby New Edition Brown is my new favourite actress in Hollywood!
She called the Duffer Brothers, Sensitive Sallies for being too scared to kill off main characters. lol. They aren't game of thrones enough!
But she is right. For such a dark show there isn't enough deaths. Like for sure Max should be dead, but she isn't. I thought she had to die for the underworld to appear. Hop for sure should be dead but then there goes 4 hours of Season 4.
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She was “absorbed” by Vecna. Her body is alive but her consciousness isn’t there. Now they can still save her sure but the condition for the fate to open was met.
The other thing is that I think thrones making the shocking main character death a requirement also does a disservice to story telling.
What we want is emotional connection to characters and stories. Whether Max is brought back or not the pain in Lucas resonated. Even after 4 years of no mains dying the deaths and near deaths still pack an emotional punch. Eddie’s death with Dustin talking to his dad had surprising heft as well.
Should they have killed Steve as he basically marked himself for death by telling Nancy all his dreams? I don’t think so, it was far more emotionally resonant to have Nancy and John get back together and Robin consoling a crushed Steve in a slightly blurred background.
Deaths don’t equal drama or stakes.