You’re telling me, you sidelined the heart of the group after building him up to be since season 1 as the person who connects these characters together?? You sidelined Mike and El the two leads as almost background characters and gave them the most heartbreaking ending, when they deserved their happiness the most?
No. No…..
Give me a season 5 that focuses on the core group again, this time the heart is missing.
Give me Vecna realizing Mike is El, Will, and Nancy’s weakness.
Give me him using Holly against Mike, so he tries to save them at his house and is taken with her. While Nancy and El arrive to find Karen and Ted again.
Give me Nancy and the Party’s freak out over what happened.
Give me Henry telling Holly he saved Mike but he needs to rest in the bedrooms and not to disturb him or go into the woods.
Give me Holly meeting Max and realizing she needs to wake up Mike to get out of there.
Give me a Mike and Max team up to get out of there.
Give me Max watching Mike and Holly interacting and being like ‘HOLY SHIT SHES A MINI YOU LIKE WHY DO I HAVE TO DEAL WITH 2 OF YOU?!’. While Mike and Holly give her the signature Wheeler unimpressed/judgy looks.
Give me the the group losing their minds and realizing Mike’s plans are always better than what they could come up with because he tries to see the bigger picture. (Maybe finding a book with a bunch of plans and back up plans he’s come up with and they try these to help save the kids)
Give me more Erica Sinclair stepping up and being a leader like Mike because they’re similar in their battle plans. (Maybe her and Mike came up with some of the backup plans together??)
ALSO give me Jonathan having time with his family or even just going off on people for treating him as a spare compared to his brother.
Give me El finding Kali but she refuses that they have to sacrifice themselves because she’s so much more determined to have that happy ending with Mike.
Give me Kali only getting grazed and being there to use her powers to trick people to already think she’s dead so she can get away.
Give me a longer deadlier battle against Vecna.
Give me them saving the pregnant women with Kalis powers hiding them from the government.
Give me Mike hearing their escape plan to leave through the big gate again and be like ‘WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU the military is going to be waiting?! Let’s have El, Kali, and the moms go through one of the other gates and just blow up and close the gate so they think they died in there while we had to leave through the normal gate??’
Give me actual reasons for Jonathan and Nancy to break up if they’re going to, but if your not let them be together because they are way more than trauma bonded.
Give me Mike and El still somehow sensing each other but not as strong because of the block, but giving them a focus because they’re out there looking for each other. (Omg maybe this is how he wakes up and breaks out of Vecnas sleep on him and Holly finds him when it happens)
Give me Max having vision problems as she heals, let her have glasses!
Give me Mike and Holly team up to save the kids but Mike being pissed and berating them for listening to essentially a stranger instead of ‘their best friend since kindergarten’ and attacking her.
Give me injured Mike because he protects the kids but most importantly he’s protecting his baby sister, because FUCK OFF HENRY YOURE NOT HURTING ANOTHER PERSON I LOVE.
Give me the Will and Robin storyline still but realizing his feelings aren’t about Mike by NOT trying to flirt with his sisters boyfriend.
Give me Will and El comforting each other because their person thats supported and fought for them through everything that’s so important to them is gone and they need to be the ones looking for and saving him this time.
Give me Will, El, Nancy, Lucas & Dustin working together because they’re so desperate to save Mike and Holly.
Give me Dustin breaking down with Lucas over another friend vanishing like how it all started and being so scared it’s not going to work out this time.
Give me Steve comforting them while Robin and Jonathan are trying to put plans together and make sure their people are going to be safe.
Give me Nancy and the group seeing Barb’s body in the upside down instead of whatever the fuck the random dead soldiers were.
Give me answers to about 25,000 open ended questions they created but NEVER answered.
GIVE ME FREAKING DEMODOGS, DEMOBATS, & DEMOGORGANS LIKE WHERE THE HELL WERE THEY???
GIVE ME MIKE & EL HAVING THEIR HAPPY ENDING WHILE HIDING BUT GIVING THEIR LOVED ONES CLUES THEYRE OUT THERE.
UGH. so many thoughts going around and this is just some of them. Someone wanna write a fix it with this?? 😩😤🫠😭