#I was literally watching and heard the music only so SCREAM like??!?! THEY DO MLVN SO FUCKING DIRTY IN THE PARALLELS MUSIC LMAOOO

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So I’m rewatching S4 and...lmao. I’ve just come to the absolutely mf insane revelation that the theme from “You’re the Heart” that plays during Mike's monologue also plays another time—

—in S04E07, when Hopper is telling Dimitri that 1) he was just getting in El's way the last time he tried to help (!!!), 2) that it’s hardwired for people to reject their fathers and 3) he hopes that El is coming into her own. Literally.

This...combined with how Hopper says its natural to worry about our sons and daughters? Hopper talking about GROWING and MOVING ON?! The emphasis we see in El's revival of Max focused on "Not Hopper, Not Mike—You?" El's refusal to come out of the void when Mike asks her to, and the way she seems disinterested in the romantic and "I need you" sentiments of everything Mike says to her?

The independent El subtext (and just text, really) grows stronger with every passing moment. Anyway: feel free to listen for yourself!

#THEY'RE OVER AND ITS SO FAMILIAL CODED I CANT EVEN BREATHE #I was literally watching and heard the music only so SCREAM like??!?! THEY DO MLVN SO FUCKING DIRTY IN THE PARALLELS MUSIC LMAOOO #the fact that they show JONATHAN and WILL when this is happening makes so much more sense now because F A M I L Y CODING holy fuck #anti mlvn #st parallels #mike wheeler #el hopper #jim hopper #stranger thingas #my st commentary #my s4 rewatch #parentified mike