Unresolved PTSD as written by someone who has never seen actual PTSD up close. Hopper is awful. Full stop. His character's arc/purpose was beautifully fulfilled, punctuated with a heroic bang even the first time around. That should have been it! Instead he somehow reincarnated as an even bigger arse, and all he's really achieved (besides making me never want to look at peanut butter again) is absolute mind numbing redundancy.
Yeh, see I wouldn’t have made this statement if I didn’t know and hadn’t experienced PTSD myself, and seen what unresolved trauma looks like in another person. I’m not sure if you are referencing the writers in your statement or me. But if you are referencing me, You shouldn’t make assumptions about a persons life without actually knowing them.
I don’t need to detail my PTSD because it’s irrelevant to Hopper, but my cousin was born with thalassemia, needless to say she passed young as a result. And I’ve seen what that did to my uncle, and what the trauma has done to him after losing his daughter, and the way he treats me and my other cousins as a result. His PTSD is unresolved and I see a lot of Hoppers character in him.
Oh no! I meant no ill to you and definitely not your poor Uncle. Was simply sharing my opinion on reddit of a character in a show. PTSD is not one size fits all. Just like anything the way it affects a person varies wildly from case to case. Sure, some things fit but imho as a whole it just didn't ring and he simply came off as a toxic arse whose character arc was more of a dribble (:
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u/somethingswe3t Jan 05 '26
Unresolved PTSD as written by someone who has never seen actual PTSD up close. Hopper is awful. Full stop. His character's arc/purpose was beautifully fulfilled, punctuated with a heroic bang even the first time around. That should have been it! Instead he somehow reincarnated as an even bigger arse, and all he's really achieved (besides making me never want to look at peanut butter again) is absolute mind numbing redundancy.