No one is in their final place yet. This was a season of transition, not of resolution. I think it sets up a final season really well.

One thing I'd like to see is the characters the acknowledge that they're not okay and finally come to terms with it. Like obviously El reading Hopper's letter helped her come to terms with losing him, but she's still haunted by Brenner and her upbringing and the thought that she needs to be a fighter and losing Hopper and her powers is only going to make that worse, and I want to see her go through it. I want to see Max struggle with losing Billy and the complicated relationship she had with him, not just a brief scene of crying over him but really struggling. And Will finally got to be a character this season, but the fact that he's still connected to the mind flayer was more of a plot device whereas I'd like to see it as something for him to grapple with and overcome. We got Hopper and Joyce acknowledging the ways they're still haunted but what they've been through, we got them talking through the difficulties of moving on. I want the kids to do that too.

I want a fourth season because I want the last ten minutes or whatever of this finale but more. I want closure. I want to know that the upside down can never be opened again. That the mind flayer is gone. Not just gone from our world, but gone. I want El and Will to finally be really free from their chains to the upside down. I want Nancy to get the respect she deserves, and Jonathan the security, and the Steve the success. I want everyone to be able to acknowledge what they've been through, and accept it, but move on, and get the ending they deserve.b