15 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Stranger Things

So you've reached Season 3 now in your Stranger Things rewatch and, by now, you probably can't help but notice how the tide has turned in the most unexpected of ways.

Will Byers, though not fully free of his connection to the Upside Down, is no longer at the mercy of the sadistic Shadow Monster and the dark dimension that once controlled him. However, because of the fact that he's managing to reclaim some normality in life, he's completely overlooked by his friends who haven't had to deal with the extent of trauma that he suffered over the past two seasons. They fail to acknowledge that his disrupted childhood has left him wanting to hang onto it that little bit longer and inadvertently end up forgetting about him.

There's a strange irony that Will is right in front of his friends and is more invisible than he was when he was trapped in the Upside Down. Yes, back in the first season, his friends did whatever it took to locate and rescue him from the Demogorgon, but in the third, he was right under their noses and they just didn't see him.

It felt like the writers were going somewhere with this, but once the supernatural mumbo jumbo took over, Will was then overlooked by the show itself. That said, the creative team deserve some major credit here for literally turning the first season's character-driven storylines upside down here. Let's just hope that this arc produces some more meaningful stuff in the fourth season.