one thing I’m not seeing anybody talking about is that there was literally no payoff for will’s coming out scene. like it didn’t help him in the final battle, it didn’t explicitly make him stronger, and vecna didn’t even try to use his queerness against him so like…why did the duffers make him come out in the first place if there was gonna be no payoff? kinda feels weird and homophobic and like they were just trying to please bylers so they put together a shitty impersonal coming out scene and said “here damn”

Oh, no, I hear you on this. They deliberately framed it as something Will needed to say in order to take away the only weapon Vecna had to break his mind. It makes no sense that it wouldn't come back up. The Duffers even said in an interview that Will that that to keep himself safe "or, at least, that's the hope" or something like that.

Then they just do nothing with it. Will basically walks in and takes over the hivemind again.

It's just another suspicious thing about season 5, particularly the finale. Something just doesn't add up here.

Something really weird as well is that in the documentary trailer (I think?) there's a writer's board on which they wrote a confrontation between the MindFlayer and Will that did not happen...???

I don't understand. I really don't...??? What is going on...