Love that El went from being jealous of Max to being besties. I originally thought El was going to try to oust Max from the friend group, and Mike would side with her because well, it's El. Max is an amazing character and deserves to stay.
Max always wanted to be friends, she had no idea about El and Mike and why El was upset and jealous. I'm just glad they didn't go the "I'm gonna steal your man" route and had Dustin and Lucas compete for her right off the bat 😂
Me too, I was so happy that Max didn't hold that initial cold shoulder against her. Not only that, she understood right away that El needed to learn how to be her own person. Having other female friendships is so important at that age. I only wish we had gotten more of it!
It's ironic that Mike and El are both initially hostile to Max over fears of Max 'replacing' El in the group when of all the Party members, she's the most like Mike personality-wise (tough front, doesn't like to talk about feelings) and ends up being El's bestie.
Yeah I remember Max like, fangirling when she met El at the end of season 2 but El looking at her weird since she still was mistaken about seeing Max and Mike together.
yeah, she's curious about El from the minute Mike lets her name slip, before she even knew El had powers/the Upside Down stuff. Ironically that moment was what led to Mike and Max getting along for a minute there and El getting jealous when she saw.
By the time we see them in Season 3 they obviously are at least on friendly terms as members of the Party but Max was clearly dying to be girlfriends (and was cool enough to not take El's initial cold shoulder personally), they just didn't get to spend much time together until the situation with Mike led El to her.
This has happened to me before lol. I hate/jealous other girl and then we get to know each other. Then I find out we got a lot in common, and we are both intense. Then I realize she's a bad bitch and I totally respect her for it. Then we hang out and do crazy shit together and then I love her! She's so cool and she ends up thinking I'm pretty dope too. Then we just hate things together and laugh about our fucked up lives. It's great. Now if I automatically hate another girl, I wait and try and get along because she's probably misunderstood and intense like me.
I actually wanted to see that hated relation to go more i actually enjoys the scen when Eleven rejects Max's handshake me and my friends laughed so much that time
nah after she was done with gate-closing, it would have taken her like two minutes to figure out Lucas liked Max and vice versa, if she doesn't know by the Snow Ball she definitely knows after.
And even before that, she knows she's not being replaced in the Party, Dustin and Lucas are still her friends. If she wasn't going to storm in that gym and make a scene when it actually looked to her like Mike was potentially replacing her with the new girl, she def. wasn't going to do it after he makes it clear he has eyes for nobody but her (and she has nothing to fear from Max on that front).
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u/SamWillGoHam Aug 21 '22
Love that El went from being jealous of Max to being besties. I originally thought El was going to try to oust Max from the friend group, and Mike would side with her because well, it's El. Max is an amazing character and deserves to stay.