Why byler is important-
This scene makes me SOB every time because it’s just genuinely SO RELATABLE. Every single queer person has experienced this moment and know how soul-crushingly DEVASTATING it is.
The way her face fades between each clip is honestly so sad like she looked SO HAPPY AND SO HOPEFUL when she first saw Vickie. Robin looks so catastrophically in love, she looks at Vickie like she’s an angel who snuck onto earth- it’s such a beautifully PURE look of love.
And then in the next clip, we can physically SEE her heart shatter. The look of utter disappointment is so devastating because-like I said, every single queer person knows how genuinely awful and suffocating this experience is.
And then the clip where Robin is framed by Vickie and her boyfriend is SUCH GOOD CINEMATOGRAPHY because she looks so NUMB- and we can physically see why, her expression of pure emptiness is quite literally framed.
And then we see THIS scene.
Just purely based off cinematography alone, this scene is genuinely so hopeful. The sunlight in the background, the SCORE like this scene is GORGEOUS.
Both of them are looking at each other with the same amount of pure, hopeful love- just like Robin was looking at Vickie.
Instead of the audience feeling devastated, the audience is left feeling uplifted and, yet again, HOPEFUL.
The young queer audience watching stranger things will see this scene and have HOPE and that is genuinely such an important and beautiful thing. Because there isn’t enough hopeful queer representation with current media, and this single scene alone is more joyful than most ‘queer’ shows I’ve watched.
Byler is so important BECAUSE it symbolises hope and pure, utter LOVE. It would single handily help a whole community of queer people connect and most importantly HOPE and I cannot stress how genuinely important that is.
