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talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip
you know what i would LOVE to see in season 5? that one scene that was deleted from season 1. the one where mike bikes all the way back home from the quarry unconsolably crying after seeing will's alleged dead body come out of the water. i would do anything to see it.
(This is paralleling season 2 btw!! But I’ll get to that later since It’s a central part of understanding this scene.)
(BOARD GAMES??? AS IN THIS WHOLE ASS SCENE??):
(That’s Bold duffers… Anyways let’s continuee!)
(KEEP IN MIND THAT IT SAYS CHANGING AND THE SCREEN IMMEDIATELY PANS TO MIKE!!)
I love how these scenes make you SEE that Mike also thinks he’s being left behind because he’s “different” from the rest of the crew. It's just from Will Byers' unreliable narrator perspective you can't tell what Mike REALLY feels.
THEN IT PANS TO WILL, LIKE- OKAY???
LITERALLY MIKE USING EL AS A BEARD IN S4!!! He’s trying not to change, trying not to be DIFFERENT! (different is gay btw)
OK THIS PART IS SUPER IMPORTANT!(OKAY ITS S2 PARALLEL TIME!! YAY!!)
In the season 1 clip, Mike finds out that Will died, It’s something will related, he’s dead and that means Mike will be separated From Will forever. This just proves that the season 3 scene is referring to Will.
NOW!! Here comes the interesting part. Look at the lyrics of the song in the background of the season 1 clip! (Heroes)
This is EXACTLY what the lyrics says EXACTLY in that clip about being separated by Will. Now, there were rumours going around hawking that Will got killed off for being queer, so that just gives the whole season one scene that has a whole different and deeper meaning. (ALSO look at how the lyrics continue!)
Ok Mike… He really just said beat the homophobes lol.
(Proof:)
Just look at stranger things season one episode three minute 49:14
I firmly believe we will not have a successful movie adaptation of It until the director accepts that the focus of the story is not horror.
The clown doesn’t fucking matter. It’s not about him. It’s about growing up in a shitty town with people who suck as much as you do. I don’t give a shit about mr clown and even less of a shit about that good for nothing turtle. The only clown I care about is Richie Tozier and he’s in thin ice for a completely separate reason.
Mike thinks Will is straight btw (and that he had a crush on a girl) so he wasn't rejecting Will he was convincing himself that he doesn't have any feelings for Will (he loves Will), it parallels the Jancy scene and the Jopper scene, and then "in the closet (at rink o mania)" started playing while the camera was on Mike and he started talking again, also Mike repeats himself when he's nervous
they said the rain fight wasn't about Will's sexuality, so it was about Mike being gay and having internalized homophobia (reminder that Mike doesn't know Will is gay), he was also projecting on Will because he was acting like he didn't care about dnd anymore and acting like he was all grown up and acting like a different person to be with El and then in s4 he joined a dnd club and told Lucas he didn't want to be popular
Jopper has the "it's just a dinner between 2 friends" line and they kissed in s4, Jancy has the "we're just friends" line and they kissed in s2, Lumax has the "she's not my girlfriend" line and they kissed in s2x, Byler has the "we're friends, we're friends" line and they'll kiss in s5, notice how they never used this trope on Dustin and Lucas (they don't have feelings for each other)
ok i really appreciatw the in-depth analysis bylers do but i need people to know that teal and orange is a VERY common colour combination and film, so sometimes the blue and yellow in stranger things is.. just that…
like in terms of costume and set choices i don’t think it’s delusional to read into the blue and yellow themes, but in this post-st4 draught i’ve been seeing some posts drawing attention to things that are definitely not intentional😭 it’s ok tho it’s not our fault we’re becoming delusional, we just need to be FED