#everytime there's a road trip in the show it ends up being cut off (Joyce an hopper in S1 Nancy and Jonathan in S2)

[enamouredless]

Yeah, I hope they don't go back to Cali. I also don't know if I like the different locations thing, I would've preferred it if the cali road trip crew got more screentime, but they haven't got much so far. Even though they're going to get El, their storyline in vol 1 did feel quite disconnected from the other main plots. There's only one season left after this so I want them to be in Hawkins with everyone else lol, it also just makes it easier imo. I love season 4 but sometimes less is more, and I miss the s1 and s2 days where they only really had like two main plots to follow.

I still believe we're gonna get more scenes with the Cali gang maybe in ep 8, some bts pictures were released of them at a gas station so not all hope is lost for me yet.. but overall yeah it was pretty bad.

Sometimes it feels like everytime el is part of a storyline she takes over the entire thing, like the majority of the introduction of the byers family in California was like some brief mentions of both will jonathan and joyce... Which like, i understand by now el is considered the main character of the show and like I know I'm being really biased when I say things like this bc I love the byers family and will is my fave but the fact that we barely got to see how they were doing in such a new environment it's literally insane.. the first TWO seasons revolved around this family... now they're a background characters in els story??

And I know it must be difficult to try and balance out so many characters within one storyline and maybe the writers wanted to do more but idk man.. it's just really disappointing to see, kinda hoping they scrap this whole california storyline at this point and they focus on Hawkins again with everyone there, but honestly I'm not sure if that'll happen. here's to hoping ig lol