The Lost Sister

I think the lost sister was an amazing episode. One of the best of season 2. Many people disagree. My family says it promotes gang violence- its just a show. I'm not sure why people don't like the Lost Sister and I would love to know your thoughts. I also would love to know your thoughts on Kali and her gang. I love Kali. She's an amazing character I think. Though, I would love to see your thoughts and comments on Kali, Mick, Funshine, Axel, and Dottie. No hate in the comments please this is a debate post.

She is one of the most underrated and misunderstood characters in the franchise. She had one of the darkest childhoods in the show, in many ways worse than Eleven or Will. She was brought up in the lab, and then she found a family, only for them to betray her. Then she lived in the streets, alone, and she was exposed to toxic culture which turned her into what she is now. She has no parent figure, unlike Eleven and Will. And when she finally found her lost sister again, she was again betrayed. She lost her too. I don't blame her for hunting down and killing those lab people, and I don't get why some other people do, because Eleven's just as much of a murderer as she is. A justified murderer. Kali slays.

It's a very audacious move for screenwriters to switch out their entire set of characters, whether for good or just for an episode. "The Lost Sister" feels like it belongs in a spinoff series. It could've been what El was doing this entire time in between the S1 and S2 finale, but it wasn't. I know she needed screen time in S2 but like, was "The Lost Sister" really necessary?

Kali wasn't even acknowledged in the Hawkins Lab flashbacks in S4. That was a huge disappointment.

I think The Lost Sister is overhated, I think it was an amazing episode and one of the best episodes of Stranger Things. I know that the main reason people dislike it is because of the order of the episode and how it’s right in the middle of the season, but I don’t get how that takes away from the quality of the episode. If where the episode is placed is bad, then how does it make the episode itself bad? I can understand disliking the placing, but disliking the episode solely because of the placing is something I don’t get.

I think this episode was great, it had character development for El, we learned more about Project MKUltra and El’s past, it had an interesting theme about anger and revenge, Kali was an interesting and realistic character with flaws, and the plot overall was 9/10 for me. I like how The Lost Sister deviated from the other Stranger Things episodes and how the only main character was Eleven, I think having episodes focusing solely on one character is good for character development and learning more about the character’s past. Not every episode has to focus on the Hawkins plotline, and I think having episodes that expands on the characters is good. With all the other ST episodes there’s at least 8 main characters, and while that’s good for moving the plot forward, it leaves less time to focus on characterization and character development.

This is just my opinion, and I’m wondering what other reasons there are that people dislike The Lost Sister, besides the placing.

It’s no debate that the Lost Sister episode is easily the worst episode in the series, and it complicates the lore so much farther, so I’ve been trying to figure it out.

So the main thing that ppl say is “How is Kali alive if 001 killed everyone?” It’s likely that he just wiped out the telekinesis kids first and hadn’t gotten to the entire lab before El sent him to the upside down.

The rainbow room is what confuses me the most. First off, the room that we see in S4 isn’t the rainbow room. When we see the rainbow room in S2, it’s a smaller room with a rainbow painted on/near the entrance to the room, and is, again, NOT the S4 room. The most confusing part is when we see Kali and El as kids in the rainbow room. Why were they together? It seems clear that they separate the kids based on their abilities, so had they just not figured out what Kali and El’s powers were? And why was Kali in normal clothes and not a hospital gown? And her head wasn’t her head shaved?

And there was the entire line where Kali was like “one day I went to the rainbow room and you weren’t there” or something like that. When was that? When 001 killed all those kids or when El escaped? And she had her head shaved and abilities figured out by then, so what was the point of the rainbow room?! For Kali and El to socialize? It doesn’t make sense

Moving past that, why hasn’t Kali helped out at all since she was discovered? I get maybe her powers wouldn’t be the most useful in a fight against Vecna or the mind flayer but she definitely could help against the government.

There also has to be other escaped kids, so how has no one tried to find them.

Anyways idk if anyone read this far lol but that episode is genuinely confusing

I just rewatched the ENTIRE SHOW in 4 days, and Eleven used to be my 4th favorite character (behind Max, Robin, and Erica) but now, I honestly cannot stand her for a few reasons:

-She was selfish and essentially asked Billy to die for her.

-She's boring. Just her personality isn't memorable because people control her and she lets them.

-She acts more important than others, and this really annoys me due to how overrated she is. So many people get hurt overtime, yet she expects Mike and Max to help her walk, and in other circumstances gets taken care of at a higher rate than the others.

-She values her opinion over others. This is proven in 2.7 when she gets the gun out of Kali's hand and didn't agree not to later.

-She doesn't try that hard to learn. I'm 100% sure Hopper would've gotten her necessary supplies if she asked to learn, then she acts like an idiot (the Illinois thing)

-Lets be honest, she wouldn't be anything memorable without powers, that's literally why Dustin accepted her. This proves her character quality is weak.

-She pushed Max's skateboard back, after seeing maybe 10 seconds. She judges by first impressions, then later doesn't give Max a chance and walked past her.

-She only noticed what she wanted to. Again with the Illinois thing, she noticed Hopper and 'Will's mom' yet completely ignored that Alexei was there, she could've added that there was 'a man'

There's more proof, but I'm gonna leave it at this cuz of the length of this post

S1:

Favorite: The Flea and the Acrobat

Least favorite: The Weirdo on Maple Street

S2:

Favorite: The Spy

Least favorite: The Lost Sister

S3:

Favorite: The Sauna Test

Least favorite: E Pluribus Unum

I changed things up for S3, because I realized just how boring S3E6 actually is.

Season two chapter six (The Spy), focuses on the people in Hawkins, while chapter seven (The Lost Sister) focuses on Eleven with her sister. In one of the scenes in the lost sister, Eleven is in the void while sleeping. In the void she sees the end of chapter six, with mike trying to warn the scientists that it’s a trap and hopper looking at a monitor.

TL;DR Eleven wasn’t in The Spy but mike and hopper were in The Lost Sister

I know the episode ‘The Lost Sister’ has a lot of mixed reviews and opinions (if IMDB is any indication), but I really liked Kali, her and El really saved the episode for me. I personally would love to see Kali return in a future season.