topsy-turvey

early aughts baby

[basilosu]

college byler

[exywhat]

hey mike what's on your mind right now buddy

[sweetsweetbbyboy]

tgc bylerq

[atzxpz]

byers brothers :3

[karust]

[kidovna]

stranger things, first show in history to introduce the cyrano trope and shoot cyrano right in the head with chekhov’s gun

[kidovna]

right, i forgot that if they fired the gun, we would’ve actually gotten some payoff.

[august-shops]

Now, it gets to a point…

[strangeronance]

anyway it's crazy how stranger things got discontinued after s2 that's unfortunate

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

I wasn't even half-satisfied, let alone hap-satisfied.

They actually went with my greatest fear and had Will with an implied epilogue boyfriend (for all of 4 seconds), and Mike and Will never had any real talk besides a brief "sorry I never noticed" conversation early into the episode.

And did Robin and Vickie break up? She was nowhere to be seen in the ending.

What amazing representation, Duffers.

[birdfulchaos]

''i want to be your mike''

[corgicrafter]

I have many thoughts

[jackiesheartnecklace]

I really just miss the simplicity of s1 I think. I miss when Hawkins really did feel like a close-knit town, I miss when characters weren't all over the place, and there was just some type of grain in the film, even if it was filmed in 2015. I also miss the character building. Jim was a divorced alcoholic. Jonathan was a 'creep' and had a rough upbringing. Nancy was your typical popular, pretty schoolgirl, but she was in love with the so-called creep and could handle a gun. And Joyce was just a single mother, being driven to the brink of insanity. I just feel like nowadays, there's no time for character development, or no thought put behind it at all.

I really miss when stranger things did feel like an eighties, small town, cop sci-fi thriller with horror elements. Now it just feels like a long, drawn out season of some shitty marvel cash grab show.

[queerxqueen]

season 2 mike wheeler i know you're in there SPEAK TO ME

[miwiheroes]

the fact the writing was so bad this volume that no one could tell if the jancy scene was a breakup or an engagement

[lesbianfanfictionenthusiast]

getting war flashbacks to july 1st 2022

[bylerswheel]

I've analyzed this show since 2021 and they put so much effort into byler subtext and queer coding Mike. I don't believe that they would put so much effort and time into queerbaiting. because that's some cartoon villain stuff.

I think they're knocking our hopes down so that the "plot twist" hits harder. we're watching things from Will's point of view, and he is an unreliable narrator. how we feel right now? that's how Will feels. but we still have zero confirmation on Mike's side. zero. they're saving it for the last episode because they don't want to lose viewership.

[finalgirlwillbyers]

Merry Christmas to all Willstans!