As long as the music plays, we dance.

Stranger Things epilogue tweak - Mike the Wise

bonus below

Bonus: Mike without the hat :>

Also I have a bunch of close ups under the cut <33

Part I

And I'm sure you know what, "laying pipe" means. Mike explicitly saying "sorry we're having a bit of a plumbing problem", while the pipe that they're clutching is actively spraying/leaking is extremely blatant.

Furthermore, all the dick jokes in season 4 were funny and it was there to serve that specific purpose.

they put Dick in the washroom.

pipe- symbol for a phallic object

Who's in the washroom?

And I don't mean it just because byler didn't happen. But because nothing about Henry was explained, how he reached in that cave, what he was doing, who was that man with the briefcase. Like they said they would explain Henry, his memories and his past but I didn't realise it was gonna be just a single scene in the finale? And where were the demogorgons and demobats and demodogs in the finale fight? Was this a joke?

What was the point of military and lockdown and strict government action? Where did Sam Owens go btw while we are at it? No seriously there was no plot point for the military at all. They captured Kali and then they killed her. That was their arc. I'm crying at how badly handled this all was. Kali's death did not serve a purpose either. She wasn't killed for freedom or martyrdom, she was killed because the writers didn't know how to handle her potential and neither did they know how to close the military arc. She would've been family to Eleven for god's sake.

Eleven's decision was also one of the worst ones. She told Hopper to trust her to make the right choice and then she- What was the point, no seriously what was the point of Hopper and Mike's speech if the mistreated, abused girl couldn't even get her happy ending? At the end of the day you took the marginalised community and dragged her down with hate, internal conflict and ended her making a victim to the abuse she was never able to move on from. And even if she did survive, she's alone and isolated from the people who love and care about her. She's forced to be alone so as not to harm anyone. What type of message for abused victims is this anyway?

Will's connection was never mentioned again. Even if it did die with the mindflayer, the thing is how did he get them in the first place and why exactly was that the other kids couldn't duplicate them? Why did Vecna take Will anyway? Why not any other kid? Why was Hawkins stuck in the past? And omg what was the purpose of the kids? Why did they never explain how the kids are helping Henry channel his energy? They just shoved the idea in your head but never explained how the mechanism actually works? What was the point of Barbara's death?

The queerbaiting was one of the bad parts. But my goodness the assassination of Mike Wheeler was worse. You couldn't explain his behaviour in s3 and s4 until you literally unlocked his internalised homophobia-

God whatever the fact that Murray played a bigger role than Kali tells you everything you need to know.

Also Mike has the fucking painting in his bedroom wall and yet the lie was never fucking addressed?? Guess he was just a Tammy till the end, who failed to believe Will was dead, who recognised his breathing through the walkie talkie, who hurt his best friend and then further acted weird with him but yet was always very on point to his emotions and expressions in his observation.

I genuinely don't care about actors and their real life. But Finn man you've got some explaining to do with those lip glances and those triple takes and that soft voice reserved for Will.

And if mileven were really endgame why the fuck did he refer her as friends and why were they paired so less? In all honesty they weren't paired together at all.

they really just forgot Will’s birthday, THE ONLY birthday in the show that had a plot focus

all these detail changes and strange dialogues and lines in vol2 was something random

they wrote M11 relationship BAD just for the queerbait

Will got over Mike in one day (??)

the last fight looked like a copy paste of the last fight of the 3rd season

Will and his potential epilogue boyfriend with no name and lines and we didn’t even see the signs, which Robin described (what was the purpose of this “signals” scene then)

the painting plot was never addressed (💀)

why do Will and Henry share the same birthday date?

Mike STILL couldn’t say ILY to El at the end

Why did Will have to be in love with MIKE specifically

Mike never had his personal character arc, so that it would at least explain his behavior the last 3 seasons towards both El and Will?

if you don’t accept it as such, you are either ignorant or completely blind. this was all done on purpose, because coincidences? i don’t believe in coincidences anymore.

the colors blue and yellow? bait.

the painting? bait.

the way too intimate looks and dialogues? bait.

the soundtrack? bait.

the parallels to robin and vickie (not tammy — vickie)? bait.

never denying that byler would become canon? bait.

el and mike having seemingly broken up? bait.

the eye contact during the coming-out-scene? bait.

the conversation at the radio tower? bait.

every other small detail that could have been part of an insane slowburn romance? BAIT!