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Thats what I mean. In Season 5 they show a tube being shoved down Will's throat and Vecna talking to him about how week Children are and how they will do what he wants.
Yeah, that's still a perfect metaphor for the show's relationship with the audience [in that the writers clearly see anyone invested in it as stupid children]. "Fuck you, we're going to erase all prior characterization and what made these characters great in the first place, and hit them all with the stupid bat, retroactively rape the one affected most by said stupid bat, and turn them all into props. But, for the fans who will be especially annoyed that this happens to the characters we're still desperately trying to pass off as children despite them being 10 years too old for that, they can have this loli wearing a uniform denoting she's cute and funny."
But hey, getting terrible results when tasking a bunch of writers that all hate boys [and the young men they become] with a burning passion to write a show made great through its portrayal of men is par for the course, so I guess it's no surprise this show suffers from it.
This isn't even the first major series where its most important kid character gets violently penetrated in a retcon not 2 minutes into the work's runtime. (It further devolves into angry lesbians screaming at Skynet about their vaginas; coincidentally also featuring Linda Hamilton.)
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