Mike’s whole arc revolving around his dead gf when he could’ve been the deepest, most well written queer character in filmography is a loss I’ll always mourn
when ur worst fear is being misunderstood, perceived incorrectly, locking up feelings for years. when your own personality is based on helping others and being needed
and ur favourite character which you deeply relate to is also being misunderstood and perceived incorrectly by his own writers and the fans and made to lock up his feelings for years 😍 and just wants to be needed but will never ever know that he was needed. at some point he was needed so much.
i'll never forget what they could have done with you mike
I'm so fascinated by people who seem to believe that analyzing media is somehow taking the joy out of it. Like. Do you not enjoy thinking? Does taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works not give you a hit of dopamine? And you get mad when you see people having fun in this way? What a sad, miserable way to engage with the world.
"I'm looking respectfully" well can you look at me like you're dying of a fever. like you're delirious and it hurts. like you're fighting desperately for your life.
Bro what even was the fucking point
subtle but deliberate choices that have no purpose if mike is straight
The legacy of stranger things that the duffers did not plan for
i want the world to stop for like 1 year so i can rest
dude.
Any writer will tell you that characters have a mind of their own. Half the time, you can't really control what they do because whatever they do needs to make sense for them and if you try too hard to pull them back in another direction like tugging on the reins of a really stubborn horse, the entire story is gonna feel forced, stiff and messy.
Anyway this is about stranger things
