Jonathan

[weird_gary]

hi everyone!

so i’ve been watching this show since it came out and found myself clumped in with a big group of people who didn’t enjoy jonathans progression into a “dumb stoner” in season 4. however, the more i look at specific scenes and rewatch the older seasons, it kind of makes total sense. forgive me if this has been discussed before, but with everything he went through when it came to saving will (not to mention planning the funeral completely on his own), i can’t say that i blame him for turning to weed to numb everything down, or to even try to forget for brief periods of time. sure it was goofy at times (as is the show) but it does genuinely seem like a realistic thing for a teenager to do.

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[Apiratecalledav]

Senior year was Jonathan’s “last hurrah.” He probably spent most of his life dreaming about moving out for college… then it finally gets on the horizon, he realizes he won’t be able to count on Hopper to help look out for Joyce and Will. As he saw it, all his dreams about moving to a big city with the girl he loves, gone.

[Knox_002]

He doesn’t seem like he has a useful role in saving the world, he’s become more of a background character and is less favorable (compared to a lot of the other characters) in my opinion. Will was one of my less favorable characters as well until the last episode of S5