I’m rewatching Stranger Things, and I had wanted to make a series of posts about the relationships between parents and children in the show, but since I don’t have that time, I thought I’d just make a quick rundown of the Dads of Stranger Things (because why not)
And so, I present to you:
Jackass Loser or, alternately, Loser Jackass
Useless
For Fuck’s Sake Finally a Good Dad, Tries His Best Dad, Sexy Dad, Tad Overprotective Dad, Will Fight The Government For You Dad, Heart of Gold Dad, Not a Great Cook But Still Tries Dad, Will Stare into the Maws of a Horror From Another Dimension With You Dad
Surprise Dad, Trying His Hardest Dad, “Hey Kiddo Chin Up” Dad, Dad Jokes Galore Dad, Did You Catch My Subtle Hints That I Was In The Goonies Dad, Self Sacrificing Nerdy Dad, Deserved Better Dad
Best Dad, How Did I Get Here Dad, Takes His Whole Squad of Kids to the Pizza Parlor After Saying NO Dad, Will Follow Squad of Kids into a Scary Fucking Tunnel to Fight Weird Dogs From Another Dimension Dad, SLOW DOWN STOP THE CAR Dad, “You’re Gonna Do Great Sweetie” Dad, Confused Dad
May I add:
Smartest Dad
Wouldn’t we be quite the pair?—you with your bad heart, me with my bad head. Together, though, we might have something worthwhile.
a letter from Zelda Fitzgerald to her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald (via floriental)
Yeah. It bugs me more now than it did when the movies first aired, because I hadn’t really done the math, but basically the problem with the casting is that they didn’t have a time machine handy. RIckman is fantastic as Snape but he’s also more than 20 years older than the character he’s playing. Gary Oldman’s 13 years older than Sirius. Thewlis comes closest but he’s still 8 years older than Remus.
Reading the books as a kid, even if I had done the math it wouldn’t have meant anything to me, because everyone over 25 or so was an Adult and I didn’t see a lot of fine gradations in that. But like. I’m 32. The Marauders-era characters are so much more believably terrible to me now, you know? No wonder they’re useless when Harry needs them! I’d be useless too!
I think this is a problem that’s largely invisible to the actual target audience, but as adult HP fans it becomes pretty glaring. The movie casting makes it hard, even when reading the books, to imagine the characters as being as young as they actually were. Or to understand their mistakes as the mistakes of people who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing because they were fighting a war/in prison/emotionally stunted by grief/etc when they were supposed to be learning how to adult.
I actually went and found pictures of the three of them in their early 30s, so you can see just how big a difference it makes.
Like. If those were the first faces we associated with these characters, I think we’d probably approach them differently?
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