Where’s Will, corruptiongate (2x04) — and 3 Musketeers
three friends biking to school
Will comes out of nowhere, looks like he’s not with them at all, placed in the very corner
the previous shot we have is Will at home
and the next scene after ‘the ghostbusters core 4’ is also at home, preparing for trick or treating, where on the left we see X is a lie and on the right butterflygate (yes, it’s those butterflies they have in Cali in s4, and the same Anna Baxter has in Tales!)
I’ve told you already what they’re planning to do with VHS: my suspicion of that was evoked by exactly such framing. I found unexpected things, examining Will’s locations in the shots, although I was thinking that the duffs were separating Will just visually and ‘psychologically’, but then I saw their vhs ratio and it clicked.
but they will not just crop Will out of the corners!
Will has always been erased visually from the narrative!
❗️It happens in the scenes from different POVs (which makes it possible for him personally communicate with his family or with Mike, but he doesn’t communicate with anyone anymore at all)
Even when Will participates, it’s done the way you can cut him out, and nothing changes: look, Mike doesn’t call him by his name:
this line has always felt like no one heard Will, and now I understand why: bc no one did.
Then the duffs hide Will behind the core 3:
Then we move to school, and there we see only Lucas and Dustin interested in Max
After school it’s again three of them on the bikes (We’re still playing, btw! Where’s Will?)
Like I said, after the morning scene, next time we see Will is again at home, and then Jonathan takes him to the guys, we can hear Dustin calling “Will!” from the distance, but we do not see Will’s friends acknowledging him personally. Only Mike. We’re gonna see not fully direct communication with Will’s other friends, and I believe, how we see him depends on the POVs.
Here’s Will’s POV, Mike’s there:
Dustin addresses Mike
Mike says “I am”, again without mentioning Will (like when he said who’s Will without calling him Will in the morning)
And again no name
More visual erasure:
👇And my absolute favourite one !!! 👇
I have NEVER understood why no one notices that the only thing wrong about 3 Musketeers is that there are 4 Musketeers! And obviously this is built around the task to make us question that.
But there are 3 Musketeers, bc Will is not there.
(add also three blocks of light behind them)
I wanted to include this into another big theory post, but it’ll take eternity to finish that one (especially with this amount of screenshots per episode, and I’ve collected a bunch by this point), and I was dying to share it asap :)
I know, you’re wondering what’s up with Crazy together, and surely it bothers me no less; I keep examining the story that couldn’t be told and have assumptions about what is going on, which I will share in the next posts!
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chat, watching vhs version, can I ask you to pay attention to the right and left edges of the shots?
@acecreamsandwich posted these:
and it made me think of this:
we don’t have s2 yet, but as soon as we do, pls check how they crop such shots! ‘such’ as in: having Will in the border
Jesus, I’m so sure there’s no way to crop it with no consequences and that’s gonna be the hype of s2
my pulse is racing again… like I was wondering exactly about this kind of framing with Will today, not even thinking about vhs ratio… chat, you see that this might be huge, right? 🫠
they can crop out Dustin ofc, but smth tells me they will not
