#i feel like i might get some disagreement about lucas especially but i'm ready to fight

[literaryspinster]

I do believe that Black characters can be set up by the creative team to be disliked by the dominant audience, I’ve seen it, but if you’re applying that to every Black character with a complex personality then you’re skewing closer to respectability politics than thoughtful media criticism.

#lucas sinclair #mel medarda #my babies my loves #stranger things #arcane #i feel like i might get some disagreement about lucas especially but i'm ready to fight #if you want a Black character who just politely gets along with his white midwestern friends in the 1980s then you and i are different #he stands up for himself and speaks his mind and that's good actually #now i don't think he's treated perfectly by the show but white audiences not liking him isn't the problem #their affection for Black characters is extremely conditional #so if he were exactly the way they argued he should have been in s1 then they would have found something else to hate #and like if he'd still been the same way throughout the show and not just in the first few episodes then i'd probably agree #but the way i see it he was just being smart and showing more care for will than many of his other friends