I'm... so confused?

What was the purpose of the scene about queer signals, if Will was never going to receive queer signals? Why was the question concerned with the obviousness of signals, and not the mere presence of them? Why use the term "shared looks" when that was a known call and response on set for Noah and Finn?

What was the meaning of the snowball and avalanche metaphor? Why include that scene at all? Where was the payoff?

You're going to write an entire meta scene on queer signals of attraction, include examples that we have already observed, indicate an eventual pay off... and not let it pay off? Why? To be malicious?

You tell the audience through Will that Mike was just his Tammy this entire time and expect us to believe it? Was Tammy in Robin's video tape? Did Robin know Tammy since she was five? Did Tammy run after her in the rain or recognize her breathing over the radio?

And Will Byers never got kissed. Will Byers witnessed queer love, queer joy, and queer intimacy through a kiss at the beginning of the season, wanting that for himself because he's a romantic... and never even got kissed. Not even by his epilogue boyfriend.

if will gets taken again we're going to see mike go absolutely batshit insane about it. screaming at people. sobbing. breaking down. having flashbacks. maybe even ending up back at the quarry.

the audience is going to be reminded of how mike acted when he lost will in s1. the audience is going to be reminded that he's loved will from the beginning.

and it will be gut wrenching.

what is taking me out is the duffers claiming no one predicted the ending but it was the most obvious ending in existence that has been the most talked about, like that could’ve been an email I fear.

What the fuck do you mean mike still has will's painting in his room what do you mean "One day, he hopes" why would you show this? What do you mean mike never finds out about the painting lie?

the worst thing ever about byler not happening is that this just means will was used to prop up milevens heterosexual relationship and that all this really was was him slowly watching his best friend morph into an asshole who didn’t have time for him anymore when they grew up

“I think you guys are better writers than the duffers”

“Because they put a lot of stuff in their show that…doesn’t really make any sense but-”

“There was a scene in episode 8 that I asked them to write in because I felt that storyline wasn’t really told that well”

“I was like…errrm is that gonna work ?”

GUYS HES BEEN WARNING US THIS ENTIRE TIME😭 WE WERE JUST TOO BLIND

can we talk about how the epilogue boyfriend is not even a boyfriend bro they couldn't even have will dancing with him and give him a romantic scene lmaoooooooo im so fucking pissed right now i could kill the duffer brothers with my MIND if i think hard enough

so i guess they really did save the world with the power of rejection and suicide

mike not saying i love you back to el when she's DYING proves to me that the subtext was on purpose. but why they didn't pay it off i have no fucking clue

I seriously need the duffers to explain why on earth Mike couldn’t hug Will in the airport but still managed to clock every single move he did and also told him that he canonically feels that Will is different from all his other friends and that Hawkins is not the same without him.

so mike wheeler was just canonically being homophobic when he wouldn't hug will at the airport or said it wasn't his fault will didn't like girls or pushed him to dance with the girl at the snowball. cool cool cool cool.

so i guess the sapphic couple was only there to make the gay kid feel even more lonely and sad huh because what do you mean vickie simply disappeared?!?!?!? okay then fuck this shit

"don't worry, it'll pay off in the end" well i declare bankruptcy

MIKE DIDN'T EVEN TELL HER I LOVE YOU TO HER FACE I AM CRYING LAUGHING THIS IS A JOKE

even when saying goodbye and knowing he would never see her again mike couldn’t say “i love you” back to his girlfriend and also chooses to keep the painting his “best friend” gave when confessing his love to him up on his bedroom wall… ok

Mike sad as shit and still closeted, El has died or become Dora the explorer... meanwhile he's happy and thriving in the queer clubs and has new friends ❤️