the way the duffers wrote a scene between steve and jonathan to resolve their conflict – that, mind you, consisted on them fighting over a girl and that was already resolved given that said girl had stated that she didn’t want neither of them – but had to be asked by an actor to add a scene to give some sort of resolution to mike and will’s friendship by having mike apologize for being lowkey homophobic to his best friend throughtout seasons while also having will give him an easy way out by stating it was all necessary for him to accept himself!
it’s literally disgusting
i wasn’t manifesting anything, i was literally analysing the cinematography, the blocking, the colour theory, the narrative beats, all the stuff i was trained to look for during my TV degree. the signs were there because the show put them there.
the duffers absolutely queer baited the audience. everything I learned academically about visual storytelling was pointing toward a byler slow burn, and then they completely abandoned their own setup. we didn’t hallucinate subtext; we didn’t “make up” a ship. they built it, then pretended they didn’t, and the result reeks of homophobia.
they didn’t subvert expectations, they ignored their own narrative groundwork. that’s not clever writing, that’s just bad writing. they tore down a storyline they spent years constructing, and now the overall story makes zero sense.
I KNOW Yuna shot up in bed that night like “DAVID THE ELEVATOR. HE WAS IN THE FUCKING ELEVATOR.”
watched sirens of the deep and the season 1 nostalgia hit me like a train
aww he’s sending kisses 😚
