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stranger-chichka · 2 years
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Nintendo theory 2.0: how Mike & Will's lie about Nina Project being a video game console aka America's answer to Nintendo aka Americantendo is a coded Byler foreshadowing
We know that the games are Mike and Will's thing. DnD is their love language (credits to @howtobecomeadragon). But Nintendo also represents their relationships (read my and @nadia-zahra's Nintendo theory to understand this post better). While visiting Suzie so she could help the boys in finding the location of Nina Project they lie to her by telling they're actually looking for the location of a new video game console.
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We see Mike & Will consoling Lucas, but Nintendo (well, Americantendo) is a gift for Dustin's birthday and we don't have any interactions with Mike, Will and Dustin this season at all. I suppose in s5 El focuses on Max and is going to spend more time with Lucas while Will & Mike focus on Dustin and his trauma after Eddie's death + we are oblivious to how it affected Mike, but they'll definitely are going to deal with it together, and Will is gonna console them.
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America = Mike in this context, because patriotism is associated with the Wheelers. "We're all patriots in this house."
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2 days. Each day 10 bucks. Another week = 7 days. 3 000 miles = +-46 (4+6 = 10) hours or 2 days. Spring break (which lasts one week = 7 days).
Goddamn Nintendo and Duck Hunt (is it a reference to Alexei?) A new video game console.
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Burn in hell -> Hellfire -> DnD -> games -> Byler
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Stupid = love, because " Only love makes you that crazy, sweetheart. And that damn stupid" and "Hey, Will. If we go crazy, we go crazy together, right?"
"love" is "evol" backwards. Almost "evil". Hellfire and other DnD clubs are compared to evil by Jason. But also evol is commonly used as an abbreviation for "evolution" (the gradual development of something). Mike and Will's relationships evolve throughout seasons from friends to...lovers in s5?
" - What if you wanna join another party? - Not possible."
"It's 16-bit." 1+6=7.
Is it Mike's response to Will's "It was a 7" coded love confession? 7 is L turned upside down. L in "The First I love You" is not capitalised when it plays during Milkvan scene in s3. "It's basically America's answer to Nintendo," right????? + Erica tells capitalism is the thing she loves the most in America. Capitalised and capitalism. I guess it's called wordplay, but I may be wrong. That's what Dusting likes to do. Demogods. Watergate. Bat-tle. Again, It's about Mike and his feelings, where L is capitalised. He didn't sign none letter for El with "Love, Mike" but maybe that's how he signed the one for Will? Love with capital L.
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"It's top secret" (Mike about his feelings toward Will) and "Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds." It's Suzie who was singing these lines in that exact room our Cali gang is with Dustin on the hill they're standing in at the end of s4. And someone mentioned that "Without heart, we'd all fall apart" rhymes.
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And Dustin already knows the location. He 1) is a compass genius; 2) wears a "KNOW WHERE" cap for almost the whole s3 + the shirt with a compass and a t-shirt that says "don't bug me, I'm reading" where reading = understanding (credits to @bylrndgm); 3) a "THINKING CAP" with 2 lightning bolts (=electricity=love) in s4. Mike says they are looking for the location of the console to give it to Dustin on his birthday. Dustin's birthday is May 29, 1971 -> 05/29/1971 -> 5+2+9+1+9+7+1 = 34 -> 3+4 = 7.
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+ this scene with Erica and the Scoop Troop asking her helping to open the door (Mike being in the closet symbolism) is worth your attention if you haven’t seen it.
+ her calling the operation COKE which ties up with my other post.
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doriandrifting · 1 year
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El at Surfer Boy be like:
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lordystrange · 1 year
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I didn’t even realise until now that the scene in Suzie’s room is so gay byler!
Like the point of Will joining Mike when he makes up the story about ’Americantendo’ is to show the viewer how ’in sync’ those two are. It’s like they share a brain! (And usually Will has it but in they may have forgot it in Suzie’s house because after that scene they are both kinda dumb *affectionate*)
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(That quote is about byler btw)
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eddiemunsongf · 2 years
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argyle peaked when he made eye contact with mike and monotoned “ive heard a lot about your sister” while jonathan quietly choked beside him
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Argyle = the love of my life
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girls-are-weird · 2 years
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vaguetweeting stranger things 4 ep 6: "the dive"
(originally at my twitter @girls_are_weird)
christ, jace. there's no remedy for you, is there?
omg they have like seventeen kids. this is some TLC shit. 🤣
okay, when do we get to the part where jason is gruesomely killed?
AMERICANTENDO. 🤣🤣🤣
compasses and electromagnetic fields. feels like coming home. 😊
watergate? russiagate? i raise you a snack-size gate. 😉
"what is mordor?" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
give the man an oscar, lol
"what's the internet?" OH MY GOD 🤣🤣🤣
that... is not how IP addresses work but okaaaayyyy
where's this callahan been all my life?
BLESS YOU, DUSTIN, THAT WATERGATE JOKE NEEDED TO BE MADE
STEVE WHAT THE FUCK--
okay, i... have no idea how they're going to wrap this up in three episodes. i guess that's why they needed those three episodes to be, like, extra long? 🤔
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stranger-chichka · 1 year
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Americantendo?👀For Dustin’s birthday?👀
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