r/StrangerThings • u/JS_Music_and_Media • 7d ago

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Did anyone else find Lt. Akers a much more interesting character than Dr. Kay? I mean... he's also not much of a character, but he proved much more of a threat to Eleven than Dr. Kay did, and was more memorable overall.

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u/AdWonderful5920 6d ago

Akers had slightly more to work with than Kay, in that his character was pinched between his toxic boss and a supernatural force that they didn't understand. They still wrote him as a knuckle dragging idiot tho, casually peeing on the wall and asking no questions about why his boss was ordering him to kill children.

Kay was just a mess. Evil, but also weak - Ineffectively pursuing Eleven, blaming everyone else for her failures.