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opening the show with them calling the audience a slur was crazy

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aside from my personal stakes in the matter (ie my coming out to my parents went so fucking bad, jesus christ so bad i should've never done it) so i'm already traumatized due to outside forces, two things bothered me about the coming out scene:

it was badly placed. if it needed to happen at all, it was a bad idea to put it right before The most important mission of their lives, right when everyone was saying "okay, we gotta leave in 5!!" it easily could've been somewhere after he woke up from the trance. it completely killed the action momentum and also felt like an afterthought of "oh shit!! will needs to come out, where can we put it?" "eh idk right before Plot hits the fan and emotional monologues can't be squished in"

why was everyone there?? 😭😭😭 god i can't. this had to be mike alone (with will mentioning the love part, but at the same time acknowledging that he's working on getting over it and they're great as friends, since they decided on the no byler route), OR joyce+jonathan (as a sweet "we've always known it and have always loved you" family moment, even though it'd be a kind of repeat from the scene with jonathan in s4, but it could've been framed as jonathan helping will push through it to tell joyce), OR mike+joyce+jonathan+lucas+dustin (in the way it was done in the show, that's fine). i'm sorry but those people who have barely or never interacted with will shouldn't get to be a part of this intimate moment oh my god??

i Understand the plot justification of "vecna can't get to will with his deepest darkest secret if everyone already knows" but then also that's absolutely all that scene ends up boiling down to, a plot device. and i'm 😐. what happened to the writing that gave us robin's coming out to steve??? or the one just 3 episodes before of robin talking with will??? i'm all for people exploring situations removed from their own, but um. who let these straight men pen this moment? jail.