@ The Arby's in Camazotz

I remember noticing this distinct scene in episode 6 of season 3 of euphoria (see further below), but I IGNORED IT, I thought METAGATE WAS SILLY, I did NOT want to read into, and I did NOT want to believe in metagate, but it's relevant now that we know how the finale ends!!!!

Remember - Mike and Lexie? Our storytellers? Who are both depicted as feeling guilt/regret for not having said 'I love you', in the series finales of their respective shows?

You know our theories that Mike was the storyteller and made up El's death, and felt so much guilt over the fact that he could say I love you back?

Lexie adopts the same fucking role in the series finale of Euphoria. This is a 4th wall break scene from episode 6 of season 3, that I chose to IGNORE on first watch, yet it lingered at the back of my mind!!! It's Lexie describing how she'll write her episode of LA Nights (where she's been hired as screenwriter):

'Why don't you just kill her character?'

'Cause I'm supposed to build her up'

'If someone doesn't die periodically, people get bored'

How are more people not catching on that episode 8 of euphoria might just be Lexie's narrative/screenplay? The same Lexie who staged a fake version of Oklahoma, to cover up the nitty, true play that she decided to put on... Where have I head that before...

This specific line below is FISHY AS HELLLLLLL!!!!! I THINK I'VE HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE!!!

'OK, so, build up to kill her'

'The whole episode is building towards "Eleven is going to kill herself"'

Lexie is literally describing that she's writing a story where the story builds up to the main female protagonist getting killed...

One thing that Sam Levinson cannot do is subtlety, which is why this feels so much more blatant and less hard to believe than conformitygate in and of itself...

Why is no one talking about this? Or are people talking about this? Am I going crazy?

I didn't even intend to watch Euphoria under the guise that it was possibly metagate, because that felt SO SILLY, but that finale????

So -

I was not a Euphoria head, but caught Finn’s SNL appearance and didn’t think about this skit again until APRIL - when one of the resident brains at the CG SubReddit brought THIS PART up while posting the names of the upcoming S3 episodes:

I cleared my throat and started watching that shit from the beginning!

Awww. This was from S1E5!

YES, 🎶SMALLTOWN BOY IN S1E6

Ok ok be cool ok. It is a GREAT song!

Speaking of great songs that remind us of Mike,

Yes. So good!

And AGREED, the WOW is the OKLAHOMA FAKEOUT in S2.

ALSO in Euphoria S2: A special flashback episode, featuring best friends with mad sexual tension. They are lively, they have sex with their girlfriends; when they graduate high school they go out to celebrate by themselves and uhhhhh

bbs got their Snowball!

!!!!!!!

And this is all before the PALADIN episode! Paladin was a bird (may he rest). Huh. BUT THEN!!!!!

I was going into Euphoria S3 late to the party, and ST was my car service, and thank goodness because of these handy suggestions in the cupholders:

Pro Tip#1: When barreling towards the conclusion, it is totally fine to spend less time with Jules and more quality time with these druglords and their staff!

The show stars are also movie stars and they get tied up! 🍿 (Sam could tell you!)

Pro Tip#2: Nothing says Finale like a Let’s kill a vajay monster in a popcorn movie-style and then close out in the coziest setting we’ve ever shown you!

"Try Before You Deny" Argyle had Pepsi around him in S4 a lot. I'm not sure if it was more popular in CA in the 80s, could've been, however…

I'm sure the Duffers are referencing the "Cola Wars," as they are inspired by the Cold War. Marketing is like propaganda, once you delve into brand psychology and emotional manipulation, and this particular one was a "blood feud."

Plus, the founder of coke, invented cola as an alternative to his morphine addiction, the drug name deriving from Morpheus, the Greek god of sleep. We associate coke with HNL, government experiments testing drugs on children (this happens today, but with energy drinks).

Pepsi was from NC, Duffers' home town, interestingly enough—not saying they should have allegiance, but I tend to route for the home team. Mike does:

He's not even into coke, associated with IT, El, and heteronormativity (They Live is a sequel to The Thing). Even if it is repackaged as Robin, coke is a lie. In this analogy, he accidentally outs himself as queer.

To the Duffers: "Don't fck with me fellas!"

"This ain't my first time at the rodeo…" 👏🏻

A new LOTR film is being written by STEPHEN COLBERT and PETER JACKSON?!?!

AND

SAMFRO MAY BE CANONIZED ONSCREEN

“Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo- Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began.”

😄😄😄

its called the shadow of the past

and what is this long buried secret?

😀

In Tolkien's unpublished epilogue for LOTR Elanor asks her dad if he'll ever find his lost treasure, and he says someday

We're in so deep y'all

cuz he eventually does

when he joins Frodo in the Grey Havens--greeting him on his birthday 💕

😀

And what did Peter Jackson's trilogy do? Mess with the timeline. In the books there is a time gap between Bilbo/Frodo's birthday, and the beginning of Frodo's quest. In Jackson's Fellowship, it is a muuch shorter time gap, he cuts Frodo's birthday out, removes the violent Scouring of the Shire (soo... they get comfort and happiness?)

He might do some timey wimey stuff again

And we might

see Frodo and Sam's reunion onscreen

remember what Sean Astin said