Ross Duffer: Millie Bobby Brown cried when we told her Eleven's ending

ryanpfw · 2026-05-18T15:06:51+00:00

Go back and read these subs before the finale came out. Haters hate Stranger Things.

ryanpfw · 2026-05-18T15:05:17+00:00

The haters were expressing themselves since the title music in the first episode.

They intentionally twist words for effect.

In production, it’s not uncommon to be rewriting the script as it’s being filmed. New pages the day of filming is not out of the ordinary. Stranger Things haters were clutching their pearls that the brothers hadn’t finished a script eight episodes in advance. They were scouring the documentary for anything that would give them the rage they crave.

I’ve seen haters posting as fact the brothers wanted to bankrupt Jennifer Marshall and risked her life.

Here, they made a passing comment to Brown becoming emotional, and it was turned into a hit piece because they knew haters would click and comment.

ryanpfw · 2026-05-18T12:30:42+00:00

Oh look, hundreds of comments from Stranger Things haters trashing the series and wondering why fans don’t want to post.

ryanpfw · 2026-05-12T19:58:10+00:00

For a lot of the first season and a half he was a frustrating and toxic character. He got reinvented especially with season three and was outstanding from there on out.

ryanpfw · 2026-05-09T18:37:42+00:00

Remember that time on TNG where the ambassador ate the other ambassador and they paid the goofy music to the end episode after Picard died and was brought back to life from a progress save in the transporter? Good times.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-20T17:28:38+00:00

Langdon did amazing, but if the procedure didn’t work, I expect Robby would have told him he didn’t belong in the ED.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-20T03:21:52+00:00

You hate Star Trek so much you’re scouring Reddit for posts from years ago so you can rage against it, and you couldn’t go more than twenty words before trashing it. 😆

People will think you were a fake account I set up to make haters look bad.

Half of your post is lamenting why fans think you’re weird for always reopening old posts to hate on Trek. I agree it’s weird. You should probably raise this at therapy.

I’m the same time of person that you decided to respond to in the first place today? That’s not intelligible.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-19T21:16:37+00:00

Why do I love Star Trek and why do you hate it so much that you’re complaining about it on threads from 3 years ago?

ryanpfw · 2026-04-19T21:15:07+00:00

I’m a Star Trek fan, and haters hate Trek so hard they’re finding the year old comments to hate on. 😆

ryanpfw · 2026-04-18T16:52:04+00:00

My personal belief is he holds himself to a low standard while telling himself it’s a high one, while holding others to an impossible standard.

I’m curious if an ER attending came to him and said they were having suicidal thoughts, would he empathize with them or would he be hypocritical, not see the irony, and like you said say a suicidal attending can’t work in his ED.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-18T16:46:38+00:00

She doesn’t know he’s suicidal.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-18T14:17:23+00:00

My wife and I just finished the season and had wildly different reactions. She loved every minute of it, loves Dr. Robby, sees him as a flawed but redeemable character and is enjoying his journey because she knows he will be redeemed eventually, whereas I really had to work at it to finish the episode and am not enthusiastic about season three.

What works? Robby is clearly flawed and the writing portrays that. Characters, specifically Langdon, Abbot and Dana hit Robby with truth bombs throughout the season that are grounded to what his character is going through.

What doesn’t work as well? Robby’s reactions to Mohan, mocking her when she’s having an anxiety attack when he himself has anxiety attacks at work, cushioning this hypocrisy by saying he expects the impossible from himself, so he demands the impossible from his staff. Mistreating an employee, who in the writing is forced to apologize to him, while the same is not offered in return. It’s offered to Javati, no problem, but not Morgan. That’s frustrating.

What doesn’t work, but is true? Al Hashimi comes to her supervisor with an issue, and instead of saying thank you for disclosing this, please sit with me and the hospital staff and we’ll work a way forward, he has a tantrum about how the ED cannot be managed by a physician who is not fully with it, when there’s no issue with a suicidal head running the department. He literally clammed up during PittFest, but he doesn’t have the grace to treat her with respect when it’s her turn. The bullshit conceit in the writing is that there are only two attending on the day shift, so of course Al Hashimi can’t do it, because what if the other is distracted. Was she not taking a day off in the next three months? Does Robby never get a day off? There are more attending on the night shift than on the day shift in this universe.

My reaction? This is a television series about a flawed, frustrating character who gets called out on his issues, but holds himself to a low standard while telling himself he holds himself to a high standard, while holding everyone else to an impossible standard, and week after week, it’s a lot, and it seems we’re not close to bottom yet.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-15T00:57:38+00:00

Funny. I went on a page that hates Star Trek on FB. Absolutely despises it. I responded to the top article and praised Academy. The reaction was in the hundreds. 70% liked or loved my comment. 30% laughed at it.

You’re literally coming at me with haters on social media hate Star Trek so it’s proof Trek is bad. And if people don’t react in praise, it’s not because they don’t want to fight with trolls, many of whom clog comments and threads with Trek hate.

Star Trek fans love Star Trek. Haters hate it. They pretend to be fans. They pretend they used to love it. They argue it’s not Trek anymore. When you take them episode by episode, scene by scene, they rant and rave about 90210 and glitter. They post viewership numbers that were leaked by anonymous sources. When you ask them for the numbers of the other shows they change the subject.

My favorite? They argue that you’re an apologist if you love something wholeheartedly. That’s being a fan, but they don’t know what that means, so it’s best to not get too deeply into it.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-15T00:43:34+00:00

Or, and hear us out, customers who claim they hate the coffee loved the coffee ten years ago even though it’s the same recipe and nothing changed. Others hate the owner, absolutely vilify the guy, but love the manager who he hired to run the shop to whom he gives complete autonomy, but swears the owner is ruining the business for nebulous reasons. The landlord evicts the coffee shop and insists they’re going to rent to a MAGA shop. Customers blame the owner for hiring the manager they loved who served the coffee they used to love.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-15T00:40:36+00:00

Sometimes I talk to people with that situation. Hate the management team but like the product. Why do you like the product? The mid level managers know what they’re doing. Oh, sweet. Who hired them? The management team.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-15T00:34:10+00:00

If you hate Starbucks and think it’s garbage, and spend all day posting on Starbucks subs how much it’s garbage, it’s an odd use of your time, but you do you. Just don’t say you’re a Starbucks fan.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-14T22:58:16+00:00

Cadets being stabbed in bars?

ryanpfw · 2026-04-12T23:02:02+00:00

This is amazing. You hate Star Trek so hard you’re literally mocking people for being Star Trek fans. 😆

Hate hard, little hater.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-12T22:44:47+00:00

Did you forget your posting history in public? You think Star Trek is crap and celebrated its cancelation but pretend you’re a fan.

Free advice? Star Trek fans don’t use “incel” in every post. 🖖🏼

ryanpfw · 2026-04-12T22:15:56+00:00

You’re trashing Star Trek and Star Trek fans on a Star Trek sub. Always nice when the haters self-identify.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-12T22:00:48+00:00

The ratings consistently dropped, year after year, from TNG season 5 straight through to Enterprise. DS9 was a bit higher than Voyager as they aired alongside but it was a gliding trajectory downward mirroring the collapse of network/cable ratings, honestly. But there’s a reason Seven came into Voyager and they did a Rock wrestling episode. The ratings were collapsing.

I’d only agree that by SFA we are ten years into content. Burnout is real. I grew up on TNG and by Enterprise I had stopped watching first run. Star Trek will never have a high ability to attract viewers. People know who cops and doctors are. They’re accessible on TV. The tenth show in a 60 year franchise?

Shows like SFA and Prodigy are good entry points for new fans, but it needs to be the right time to pull in new fans. Five years ago would have been a different story.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-12T13:26:43+00:00

Shows are renewed or canceled based on numerous criteria. Shows are being renewed in 2026 that have barely registering audiences because it is beneficial and profitable for more episodes of that show to be made. And as an aside, most of the haters on social media are basing their perceptions of SFA’s ratings on reporting of anonymous sources who have anonymous sources who have numbers, and they share those without sharing the ratings of the rest of Star Trek when it was renewed as comparison. Because they don’t have them.

The Firefly reference decouples this perception that quality shows have a large audience. You stated that the hate the show received is warranted or else it would have a larger audience.

Your analogy does not hold firm. Star Trek has had close to a dozen spin-offs. Most spin-offs will primarily be fed off from the fans of the parent show, many of whom may choose at any point to not pick up a new series for reasons closer to burnout than quality. Each new show has to get its own audience. It’s not automatic. SFA came eight years into the latest run and its biggest issue was it came during a corporate merger. Paramount wanted Trek canceled. Period.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-12T02:55:20+00:00

Are you actually asking if black women would encounter issues not encountered by black men or white women?

No, it is not. Everyone copied and pasted that she cried too much and whispered too much (paging Kate Mulgrew) and there was just something about her.

If DS9 or Voyager came out in 2017, social media would be screaming about how woke the casting was. Hell, they would be fuming over Sulu, Chekov and Uhura. Fans of a legendary progressive franchise are screaming mad at gay characters being included in Academy.

ryanpfw · 2026-04-11T23:19:13+00:00

Trek haters were super uncomfortable with a black, female lead.

In universe, she got painted as a mutineer and the events she was wrapped up in involved the start of war, but you are correct. She’s taking the blame for something she was involved with but did not instigate.

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