"Stranger Things S 2 scarier & darker"

I must admit... having suffered through SG's TWD reign, my eye twitched a little at reading "so, no, we are not going to cravenly service the wish list of fans", among other comments along the same lines, though I do fully agree re: Barbara. Hopefully, buried somewhere in there is still primary consideration dedicated to the entertainment, if nothing else, of the audience, not just self-indulgence and hubris on the part of the writers. There's middle ground between indulging specific viewer wish lists and the latter. Hopefully, Stranger Things inhabits it. I really don't want another go round of theoretically recognizing the (self-perceived) brilliance of someone's story *eventually*.

(In fairness to those who think someone with a snake coming out of her mouth could have survived, especially given Will's survival and the particular breed of science fiction that is Stranger Things in general, the notion isn't nearly as ridiculous as believing someone shot at close range in the head and carried out of a hospital, clearly beyond help, with all character reactions' pointing to death and subsequent inclusion with *other* undeniably dead characters in another character's death sequence, could be alive.)