so..! to recap !!!!
- we don't know why will was taken specifically
- hopper and joyce just happened to conveniently forget going to school with henry
- the painting lie hasn't been addressed
- we don't know why el recognized will in season 1 without having ever seen him before
- we don't know who opened the door the night will was taken
- mike and will's colors just HAPPEN to be blue and yellow and the cast, crew, and WRITERS THEMSELVES telling us to "pay attention to detail" was deadass just generational queerbait
- after everything, mike STILL couldn't say i love you to eleven
- patty newby is non-existent and creelby just happens to parallel byler for literally no reason 🩷
- will was about to FORGIVE henry.
- the duffers genuinely forgot their OWN MAIN CHARACTERS BIRTHDAY AND AGE MULTIPLE TIMES
- the russian involvement in s3 and s4 was never explained so it was prob just capitalist propaganda except they don't want us to realize that so they gave jonathan an entire anti-capitalist film storyline for the sake of "screwing conformity" i guess
- ohhh but! critiquing society???? fuck that! because they also didn't show us vickie in the epilogue at all, giving her and robin a completely ambiguous ending in which 90% of the fandom believe they broke up off-screen!!!!!!! A+ for representation !!!!!!
- not only that, but will doesn't even have a CONFIRMED epilogue boyfriend. that is full well a cute lil headcanon that MIKE has for him.
- terry ives, lonnie, enzo, max's mom, suzie, argyle, dr kay, the turnbow family, the school counselor with the clock necklace, and dr owens just vanished into thin air, ALONG WITH ALL THE DANGERS OF THE UPSIDE DOWN???? where were the demodogs, the demogorgons, the demobats????
- max's letters were just completely insignificant and had no reason to be mentioned again i guess
- november 6 just happened to be a funny coincidence
- they ALSO happened to forget that nancy had a vision of mike being killed by vecna in s4 bc that boy wasn't even remotely in danger at all while every other wheeler was put through hell
- dr brenner's obsession and fascination with the upside down and abyss stemming from how his father was involved in project rainbow was also not addressed
- not to mention that the dude is literally horrendous at drawing animals but when it comes to the flipping hexcore he's da vinci
- melvalds, the general store, just happens to sell milkshakes
- will adores getting lost in the woods because that's such a fun activity for him
- henry just gave holly her favorite song because he was feeling kind
- they never actually defeated the mind flayer !!!! which is wonderful
- we actually never find out whether or not will lost his powers
- el's water tank in the upside down being completely full although there has literally NEVER been water in the upside down before
- mike is somehow the only one who has ever understood el even though she was 10x happier with max. could they not have just admitted that they made the elmax reunion so incredibly lackluster because they refused to let ANY gay ships win regardless of how much chance they had of being canon?
- the 'lovebirds' parallel between jonathan + steve and mike + eleven??? what was that even for
- all the dick jokes, mike listening the a band called the BUTTHOLE SURFERS, the camera panning to mike 7000 times during will's coming out scene, mike not being able to touch will, all just happened to be fun coincidences
- not only that, but the mike-will-eleven and nancy-jonathan-steve love triangles were resolved by none of the couples working out! wow.
they really just made us wait 3 whole years for something BEYOND mid.
I understand that people have issues with ep 3, but I’m grateful for it bc it gave us the Scott/Shane fight and therefore all of these great posts on Tumblr.com
i genuinely need to know what the intended narrative function was here. why build an entire arc around will falling in love with mike if there was never going to be a payoff. why give them some of the most emotionally intimate conversations in the series. why the deliberate colour coding, the blocking that places them in mirrored positions, the framing that isolates them together, the cinematography that treats their scenes like romantic beats. why the shared looks, the lip glancing, the repeated visual language of longing.
and then, why have will explicitly ask about the signs that someone likes you, only for mike to immediately perform those exact behaviours back at him. these are not accidental choices. these are layered, intentional filmmaking decisions that communicate subtext whether the writers want to acknowledge it or not.
from a craft perspective, it’s incoherent. if this wasn’t meant to mean something, then the show is contradicting its own visual grammar. it’s messy, and not in a narratively productive way.
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.
heroes by david bowie in the end credits was the biggest slap in the face i could've ever gotten
did no one tell the duffers they can just queerbait the normal way? they didnt have to commit psychological warfare
I'm so worried about a lot of people right now.
Genuinely lives will be lost over this and this show went along with it. They did promo knowing this is what we had.
The only debunk we had was from Gaten who called byler "funny". That gaslighting and cruelty is unreal.
