Okay but honestly the thing I think about the most is how they REALLY didn’t need to make Will in love /w Mike to show the audience that he is gay??? Like i get that in real life it happens a lot, hell I was in love with my straight best friend, but this is a TV show… YOU LITERALLY COULD HAVE JUST BROUGHT IN A LOVE INTEREST FOR HIM JUST LIKE YOU DID ROBIN??
It just doesn’t make sense why you would do that and make Byler not happen 🫣
You know Mike is gonna say some dumb shit when he puts on the yellow button-up
i’m being fueled by delusion at this point
No apologies for the person I'll become when we see Mike's pov
I still need this to happen
the thought of everyone trying to save will from vecna with the wrong song will be my hope /every/ single time. its such a great idea and perfect symbolism to how distant hes become to everyone. the idea that instead of all the good memories he has with his friends, it just plays all the /bad/ ones over a song hes grown out of. over should i stay or should i go. the song that, yes, helped him through the upside down but in the grand scheme of things now, is just the anthem of his sorrow and trauma.
another thought being that jonathan angrily puts boys dont cry into the walkman, noticing how little his best friends actually know about him. jonathan possibly even making a comment directly to mike about how hes needed him all this time and how he failed him. how jonathan had to go out of his way to tell will to “have fun” at the roller rink bc he knew how badly he was being left out. just jonathan best big brother, essentially.
“No, I won’t. I don’t get scared like that anymore.”
WILL BYERS (Stranger Things | The Vanishing of Will Byers 1.1)
y'all what are we gonna do when this is all over
none of my other fandoms will understand what we went through with this script
nothing will ever be the same
i know it's been said before but destiel being the perfect reflection of romeo and juliet is top tier writing and execution
I know it's not the popular theory but I'm still convinced that I'm right and that Mike did not understand that Will was talking about himself in the van, he maybe suspected it was weird but dismissed it, BUT those words made him feel in love for the first time and he thought that that feeling was for El so he tries to tell El in the Pizza place but the words don't come out initially, he's so nervous and he's asking himself why can't he just say it again and then Argyle interrupts them and everything happens and then WILL TELLS HIM TO TELL HER and he watches Will and he remembers that feeling and he just spits it out! but it's not genuine! it doesn't feel right!!! she knows it too and she loses because it's not the truth!
Mike doesn't understand himself.