#st5 finale

[as-intimidating-as-a-butterfly]

“I mean what did you think, really? That a show about nerds and outcasts was gonna have a well-written queer romance? That, in the end, queer love could help save the world?”

Yeah I guess I did. I really did.

[narrativelogicofbyler]

i wasn’t manifesting anything, i was literally analysing the cinematography, the blocking, the colour theory, the narrative beats, all the stuff i was trained to look for during my TV degree. the signs were there because the show put them there.

the duffers absolutely queer baited the audience. everything I learned academically about visual storytelling was pointing toward a byler slow burn, and then they completely abandoned their own setup. we didn’t hallucinate subtext; we didn’t “make up” a ship. they built it, then pretended they didn’t, and the result reeks of homophobia.

they didn’t subvert expectations, they ignored their own narrative groundwork. that’s not clever writing, that’s just bad writing. they tore down a storyline they spent years constructing, and now the overall story makes zero sense.

[miwibrainrot]

jim "died in a mall fire four years ago" hopper strollen around town like it's nothing

[feraljax]

reminder that queer friendship saved the world btw

[sugarcubetikki]

The finale was so bad that Byler not being endgame is not even what pisses me off the most. In fact, I was prepared for there being a chance that Byler wouldn’t be endgame. I was prepared.

I wasn’t prepared for the finale as a whole to be this bad. It was dry, basic and boring. I was watching the final battle and I was so so bored. After it was over, I skim watched the Mlvn scene and epilogue because I couldn’t sit through that shit anymore. I was too mad.

I don’t really know how they fumbled the bag this badly. All the fan theories I’ve seen are better than this ending. Honestly, this ending was a nothingburger. It doesn’t even feel real because it was that bad.

[clericscauldron]

and they say wills dog disappeared after s1

[ruminaly]

A concept of Mike fully understanding that Will has a crush on him during the coming-out scene, and blaming himself for making Will Byers GAY—through his impulses and mixed signals that he fails to control all the time. Because there's no way pure, almost saintly Will Byers is gay. Mike is the sinful one, the filthy one—the one who corrupts.

[liminalgayhorror]

look at what we built together bylers. Look at the AMAZING shit we made. We’re artists. Keep going, make something better. Make beautiful, queer stories. Don’t forget the shit they pulled. Make something better.