anyway this blog will become inactive 'cause looking at the byler tag makes me phisically gag, the amount of people spreading israeli propaganda and crying bout noah and the show boo ooh, fuck this. you're ignoring real, actual people, CHILDREN being killed over fictional characters?? A FUCKING TV SERIES???? i cannot in good coscience say i'm a byler or that i support this show anymore. the duffers, levy, noah all of them can rot. i'm out
Stranger Things is green-lit for its final season. It's not getting renewed anyway. Refusing to watch a show that's already being made does nothing of importance, just like how watching movies already being released did nothing to harm the WGA/SAG strike.
If you want to do something that will actually make some kind of difference you can:
Cancel your Netflix subscription and actually stop giving money.
Don't buy any Stranger Things merch going forward.
Boycott the companies that Palestinians are ASKING you to boycott. Boycott McDonalds, Starbucks, Disney+, and all the other companies on the list they GAVE you. Targeted boycotting is more effective, and these companies are directly supporting Israel.
Keep talking about Palestine more than you talk about Noah/Stranger Things. Keep the focus on Palestinians!
Click daily to donate! It's that easy!
I understand not wanting to look at Noah's face, because I'm right there with you. I don't want to see him either. But let's do things that really help.
imo the most homophobic take reddit milkvans have is that mike being gay would mean that he's intentionally using el as a beard and maliciously lying to her.
that viewpoint is so callous and harmful, because a lot of gay people (myself included!) do have straight relationships in their past, especially in their teenage years!
and usually the closeted person isn't just pretending to not be gay, they're trying to be straight. sometimes you're not even aware that you're pretending at first. you just think that if you try hard enough, you can escape the thing that's 'wrong' with you
mike does care about el, he says it himself. it's likely he genuinely thought he did have a crush on her when they met, due to pressure and the general confusion of being literally 12 when they got together. but as time went on, it became apparent that his feelings for el weren't like the feelings he had for will.
him realizing he's gay while in a relationship with el doesn't suddenly mean he led her on, or used her, or intentionally lied to her.
like gay people aren't boogeymen that go around ruining the lives of straight people. we're children and teenagers too at some point, just figuring ourselves out
as we know, Mike arrived at California on March 22, 1986. As it was mentioned in season 2, this date is supposed to be Will's birthday.
People pointed this out, saying that Will was mad at the Rink O' Mania because everyone forgot about his birthday. But the Duffers denied it and said it was a production mistake and that it would be fixed. (They forgot, but not the characters)
but some days after that, via twitter, the stranger writers account said that no scenes have been and would ever be edited on the show.
Plus, they have already made some references to forgotten birthdays before...
like, the duffers were insane for this one
-> early birthday reference robin & vickie
so, a very popular theory (which I agree with) says that, Vecna took away this memory from Will (his birthday date, which Joyce has mentioned), and all the other memories that were mentioned to him during his posession (rainbow ship, mike talking about the first day they met, etc).
It would make so much sense knowing that Will is the key of everything this next season. He's the main target now. Vecna wants him.
Check -> will byers has powers theory
Even if that's not the case, there's something we know for sure. Will's birthday day is coming back in season 5!
As we know, there's a great possibility that Will is going to relive the Rink O'Mania events in the first episode of season 5.
He may probably be in a trance or a vision where he is trapped again in a bad memory. In this case, the Rink O' Mania one. We know this because Noah recorded some scenes there using his finale outfit.
the first one is his finale outfit and the second one is his March 22nd's one. We haven't seen him at the Roller Rink with any other outfit than his blue shirt.
But he was there with his final outfit!
"but actors were still spending time in other sets even if they were not in those scenes". Yeah, that's a good point, but not this time. The Roller Rink has been rented for over a month for this.
You would not rent the place so much time just to film 10 minutes of the show there.
We also had this spoiler! (noah's typical behavior)
He was wearing a harness under his finale outfit, but we haven't seen any scene that requires one (yet).
Still hesitating about Will having a vision? Then what was Lonnie's actor doing in season 4's production BTS? (i'm afraid this bit*h is also part of Will's bad memories :c)
Finally, the final scene script also revealed that s5 continues right where season 4 has been left. Something will interrupt the scene and I may have and idea of what is...
-> another theory related to this, is Mike's unsent letter about Will's birthday?
When they made Mike refuse to hug Will after showing them hug twice during the moving scene and then show him realising ™ they did that for me actually 🙏 repressed teenage gays living in a pride-and-prejudice-hand-flex-after-touching kind of way...The awareness required to consciously refuse yourself the comfort of the person you love 💯✅👏Trying to deny your obvious feelings by avoiding anything that forces you to confront them in a subconscious level >>>>> Mike died for our sins (people who were the opposite of cool beans about their gay homosexual gayness in high school)
hello?? mike makes ONE mistake, one little lie that was influenced by hopper btw and that’s the end of midlevens dating lmao
fast forward to s4, el lies to mike about everything and somehow the conversation turns into how mike doesn’t love el when that isn’t what they were fighting about in the first place
their relationship is so primary school and people think its true love, no it isn’t 🫢