Random Thoughts

Lesbian She/they Acting+Directing Student 19 :)

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Possibly controversial Stranger Things take:

Mike was actually super in character in Season 5. Wanting to take care of everyone, making El feel better with his stories, being a little whiney, and absolutely glazing Will. If anything his out character aspect of Season 5 was him not playing a central role in the plot, which was unfortunate. The reason his arc felt so frustrating in season 5 was because in Season 3 and 4 he was so violently out of character and then just randomly went back to normal in Season 5. There were obvious changes in his character during those middle seasons (in both normal teenager ways and ways that seemed to go beyond natural development) that were just never explained. It seemed like they were going to make him complex and multifaceted by straying from his original character, but then, by Season 5, he was just Mike again without any interesting reveal or change. It was just that his arc returning him to exactly where he started combined with him playing no important role in the story made him fall exponentially flat.

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People are being uncomfortably parasocial with the Stranger Things cast post SNL the same way they were with Paige and Azzi post All Star Weekend.

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That’s a that’s that’s a

Thats a what, Finn.

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Finn Wolfhard writing Chris for himself is actually one of the funniest things ever.

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Teenage Ned Banks from Ghost Whisperer was Jonathan Byers before Jonathan Byers was Jonathan Byers.

And furthermore Wallace Fennel from Veronica Mars was Lucas Sinclair before Lucas Sinclair was Lucas Sinclair.

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Sub Mike Wheeler Supremacy

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The Jancy and Jopper chemistry in Season 1 was off the fucking charts.

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My Patroclus and Achilles

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Comment Finn Wolfhard fic requests I want to write for him but I have no ideas

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Can someone make an edit to Georgia by Phoebe Bridgers about Mike Wheeler from Will’s perspective 🙏🙏🙏

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Pushing it down and Praying about Carlton and Mike from Will’s perspective

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RIP Mike Wheeler you were one of my favorite characters in media history.

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Stranger things season 1 was so peak FUUUUUCKKK

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Stranger Things finale pissed me off so bad I spent the day applying for film development positions so I can make sure this shit doesn’t go down in media forever.

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I see so much of myself in Mike Wheeler that it will be so genuinely upsetting to me if he isn’t queer.

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I feel like we’re being harsh on wills choice to come out in front of everyone and in a really drawn out way. Like I think as 2025 gays we forget how stifling and terrifying this has to be for him and by extension how terrified he might be that Vecna will flip the one stone unturned (the one person in the group he doesn’t tell ect.) I’m hoping the writing of the finale gives him a better full circle than just needing to come out of fear but as a narrative choice with the intent of continuation, I think it worked.

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Mike lowkey looked uncomfortable at the the points in Wills coming out that could force Mikes to confront Wills feelings for him (ie:possibly his own queerness)