When Blue Meets Yellow

:') This is a sideblog!

[cucurb]

Something something about how stranger things began as a highly rejected passion project, a unique and distinctive show inspired by indie horror films, fantasy gameplay subcultures, and with themes of nonconformity and individuality. Then the duffer brothers relied on ai to write the final season, and the show ended with a finale that was widely interpreted as feeling flat, lifeless, unoriginal, not making sense in the story's context, and not aligning with the original core values of the show-- to the extent that the most popular interpretation of the finale was that the ending was a fake-out. That the main villain created a soulless conformist society designed to keep the characters subdued and ignorant, much like how ai does... there's something there but I don't know how to describe it

[fresh-and-funky]

Joyce and Karen picking up the kids from the first day of kindergarten after worrying that their autistic sons wouldn't make any friends

[recreational-word-sayer]

Literally the Cali plot:

Will: you know, even tho I'm in love with Mike, I'm not going to do anything about it because he's with El, and I want both of them to be happy :)

Mike: *death gripping Will's shoulders* PLEASE JUST TELL ME TO BREAK UP WITH HER PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[pendragonstarz]

Teacher mike writing on the board and getting hit in the head with a paper plane and he turns around asking who did it and it's teacher will resting on the doorframe asking if he took his lunch accidentally in the morning (yes he did)

[nakamurafiver]

imagine loving someone so intensely that you absolutely cannot accept their death so you make their heart beat again using the memories you share. they were the true purple rain. I'll never be able to get over them.

[kokica1]

Does anyone else feel like Seasons 1 and 2 of Stranger Things are completely separate from 3, 4, and especially 5? They feel like different shows. And it's not just because everyone aged up. It's the plot, the vibe, the lighting, the characterizations, the acting, the sets, the dialogue, the cast, the messages, the themes...

It's all different.

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

Season 3 is where the Duffers went from trying to make good, compelling TV to making a big spectacle of a franchise. We were just all fooled into thinking it was all heading towards a grand finale.

[whylee-wheeler]

Season 1 mike: "El, I miss Will. El go get Will back"

Season 2 mike: "Will, I miss El. But I'm not gonna look for her even tho I literally have seen her alive, I'm just gonna take care of you instead"

Season 3 mike: "Will, I miss El but- wait no don't leave let me bike across town and apologize to you in the pouring rain in the dark"

Season 4 mike: "Will, I miss El but I'm gonna stare at your lips about a thousand times while we look for her"

Season 5 mike: "El, I miss Will. El go get Will back"

[queen-of-hawkins-why-ler]

They couldn’t even commit to killing Jane is the sad part. She didn’t get a proper commemorative send off. She’s halfway dead and will remain so until Stranger Things either dies off and no one remembers it or it gets resurrected for the inevitable reunion/reboot show that will occur in ten years when the D*ffers are jobless and need the cash lol. Schrödinger’s El. She’s dead until we need to resurrect her for the sequel.

[hellfirehoe]

[bunny-peony]

[moonywheeler]

oh to love stranger things (the concept) but to hate Stranger Things™

[surferboymike]

still a firm believer that mike wished he himself was a girl rather than wishing will was a girl

[surferboymike]

this cannot be hidden in the replies

[inconsisstent]

"He was quiet today" "He's always quiet"

[callingfromtheotherside]

HOW DOES IT KEEP GETTING WORSE, WHAT THE FUCK

So now we're retconning Mike being the only person who didn't treat Will like he was going to break. And reheating the "not letting Max into the party" nachos from season 2 except this time Mike is mad at Will, too...? I guess bro

[thebrokengate]

Oh. OH. OHHHH. Oh.

Oh oh oh oh.

OH I have not been this blood-boilingly angry since the finale. Oh my fucking god I KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO PULL THAT SHIT AND NOW THEY HAVE DONE IT. THE SECOND - THE FUCKING SECOND - THAT I SAW THIS ENTIRE SHOW IN THE TRAILER WAS MILEVEN PROPAGANDA, I KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO START RETCONNING BYLER.

I was never going to watch this show knowing that, and I'm still not going to watch it now, but holy fucking jumping shit balls. They not only queerbaited us with the main show - and YES they fucking queerbaited us, I don't want to hear anyone say they didn't when they had that goddamn scene with Robin telling the viewers outright what to look for "a brush of the knee, a bump of the elbow, a shared look" only to have Mike bumping into Will one episode later and that line for that reason was SPECIFICALLY TARGETED to the people who WERE paying attention to this shit - and they managed to write a Dhar Mann video level of a coming out scene that became the unfortunate laughing stock of all coming out scenes, but now they're putting their foot right back on the throats of queer people with this slop by retconning the relationship queer shippers are holding onto to try and force het propaganda down their throats and the throats of every other viewer who tunes in.

Do not give these fucking people money. Don't watch this show. They don't give a fuck about you, they don't care about you, they don't give a fuck about you AT ALL.

[warmglowhc]

Just a dog and his bowl…

[shardlily]

And like was no one concerned that there were girls missing?

Why did they shoot her? Weren’t they supposed to catch her for their experiments?

The military plot is so unserious from start to end 😭

[chr0n1c4l-n3rd]

Okay we all agree that we wont watch tales of ‘85 bc its complete bullshit

But also it would be so fun if it flopped just bc the whole byler community boycotted it collectively

Like

“Block out the ‘noise’” and then were the reason it completely fails

And they have to like

Cancel events or whatever

Do you see it

[keykey613]

Yeah I totally see it and we should actually make that happen. We should even do an event on the same day, like a Byler/ Will Byers appreciation day or smth and post fanart and writing etc..