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I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun
its so wild talking to straight people about byler. i told my brother all about mike and how nothing about him makes sense if hes not gay and once i got to “its not my fault you dont like girls” being projecting he was like WAAAAAIIIIIIT I NEEVR THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THAT girl what other way is there to interpret it
Speaking of Mike and Eddie I am still deeply confused about the fever scene from season 4 if Mike is intended to be straight?? Like you have a scene where Mike and Dustin are smiling at Eddie while he’s singing/dancing to as song that is very blatantly romantic and then they move Dustin out of focus so it’s just Mike we’re meant to be paying attention to??
If that’s not implying Mike has a teeny crush on Eddie I am baffled because Mike doesn’t interact with Eddie after that episode. The part of me that has some knowledge of film cannot make sense of what the hell they were thinking if it’s not gay Mike evidence??As much as you have to jump through hoops to explain away a lot of choices the show makes with Mike if he’s straight I just cannot figure out what other meaning this could possibly have
RIGHT!!!!!!! i think mike always loved will but he didnt realize it until he met eddie. i think eddie might have been the person who made him realize hes gay, not will. and i always thought there was a part of mike that believed eddie could be queer too, or at the very least, that he would be completely accepting of anybody who was. and because of this, mike would have grieved him so much and so differently than dustin. the first person mike ever believed could be like him or accept him died.
i always imagined once mike and will had already kissed and established their feelings, mike would have a long talk to him about how hard its been for him and how eddie dying just felt like a sick joke. he couldve told will about how accepting he was of everyone and how unashamed he was in who he is. mike saw eddie and saw what he could be. its why he cut his hair long like him, its why he got back into dnd. losing him felt like losing a potential future version of himself. a version whos happy and not deeply ashamed of who he is.
mike could have realized that eddie could have been his robin. in a byler endgame universe, i think mike wouldve seen robin and will bonding over their queerness and it would only remind him of what he and eddie couldve been and it wouldve been all the more heartbreaking for him and for US as the audience. this would have been so interesting. what a fucking waste of potential.
youre right. i think he did have a little crush on eddie and i really really love that concept. i wouldve loved them to explore what eddie meant to him. that scene is just another one of the millions of reasons i think byler and gay mike was originally supposed to happen.
Hawkins should've turned more cold, seasons ceasing to change, only ice and snow blanketing the town. Vines should've grown from where the 4 gates opened, aid camps should've been set up, army should've shut down places. Conspiracy theories should've been shown, power outranges should've taken place, demogorgons should've roamed the streets of Hawkins.
The lost wasted potential makes me cry.
also why was will so important that the lab made a fake body of him to keep him in the upside down!! they didnt do that for barb or the other people who went missing!! WHY WAS WILL SO IMPORTANT TO NOT BE FOUND?? WHY WAS WILL THE FIRST VICTIM?HOW DO YOU CREATE AN ENTIRE STORY ABOUT THIS AND NEVER ANSWER THIS QUESTION???
Hiiiii no worries if not but maybe could you tag your season 5 posts with something more specific than “stranger things”? I’m still trying to avoid spoilers since I haven’t had the chance to watch it yet 😅😭
aah shit my bad!! i stopped getting in the habit of tagging spoilers. my tag to filter out is #st5 spoilers.
i dont understand people who never reread a book or rewatch a movie or series. the best art will always improve upon being revisited. girl. let it reveal more of itself to you.
i say this with so much love for both of these characters, it would have been better writing if nancy and jonathan died in that melting room.
i feel like ive genuinely been going crazy since the finale. im normal a lot of the time its not like im hallowed up in my room upset about it 24/7. i do things. i work. i make meals. i water my plants. but then one fucking thing will make me think about mike or bylers wasted potential and i just wanna cry.
so turns out rewatching dark as a coping mechanism for how bad the stranger things finale was actually just makes you notice even more plot holes because of how well dark explains wormholes.
