More Byler clues from Time article!
The recent Time article with the Duffers' "syllabus" of movies that inspired Season 5 and REASONS why they're relevant, has more juicy info especially for Bylers!
(This contains speculation that to some might feel like spoilers. You have been warned!)
They talk about Children of Men, a movie that uses a "oner," a single long shot that is logistically extremely challenging. (Think the raid on the Byers house in Lenora.) What they share supports the theory that the shots of Will, Mike, Joyce, and the kids in downtown Hawkins involve a big military battle and are in the pivotal episode 4 "Sorcerer." They say here they have a oner "midway through the Season 5" for a "major battle" between the "military and the creatures emerging from that parallel dimension. The sequence involves CGI Demogorgons, airborne stunt men, and nearly a hundred extras clad in military fatigues."
Remember the Duffers saying Episode 4 had the most insane logistical challenge they've ever done? Almost certainly this is why!
This is also the Miwi flashback episode, and the Vol. 1 finale and cliffihanger, which probably means big revelations. Why go back to his childhood memories with Mike and and Jonathan? =D And are they going to impact this big military battle? Is Will weak because he just used newly discovered powers? Perhaps using fire? Or disabling all the demogorgons with his connection to the Hive Mind?
Then they reference The Lost Boys:
That involved 2 boys living with their recently divorced mother (sound familiar?). "When one of the brothers comes under their influence, the other is determined to save him from a grim fate." So clear echoes of the Jonathan and Will. Also, two closely bonded people and one of them comes under the influence of evil? Can somebody say Mike and Will as well? Plus, the Miwi flashback has BOTH Jonathan and Mike...
In the movie, Michael is infected by vampirism, but he and his brother Sam fight evil while Michael fights off the vampire urges. If Mike and Will are almost certainly "a team" this season, very likely that Will will be fighting off being a villain this season. And given that Vecna feeds off of people's weaknesses, Will's feeling that his love for Mike is unrequited (and that he never will find love) will almost certainly be a key plot point.
And of course there's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:
In it, Joel (Jim Carrey) goes to a clinic to get his memories of his girlfriend erased after a bad break-up. But in the process he revisits those memories and realizes he doesn't want to forget them, the good and bad.
The idea of revisiting memories is almost certainly relevant to WILL, who'll be revisiting his time in the Upside Down and probably MORE memories that are key to the plot, just as El's memories in the lab were key to Season 4. And who else in this show besides Mike and Will have a long history of memories to revisit with possible romantic undertones? AND we know they cast an 8 year old Mike and Will?
If the Duffers do what is hinted at here, this (along with other flashbacks!) could be an effective way to bring to the surface what the audience kind of already knows -- that Mike and Will's relationship has always been different from what they have with their other friends -- and make them understand that Byler was meant to be all along.
-teambyler














