The Best Is Yet to Come

(The Duffers might be attempting damage control, and this is an article exclusive to Collider, so comments on it might be heard. I am sharing mine!)

Wait, so we're supposed to take your word for it Duffers, that Byler was never planned and simply an "external pressure" from fans that you treated as "noise" to block out?

The way Finn took your word for it when you told him that the van scene and the Painting Lie would pay off?

And did you just call the fans to whom this queer ship and Mike's internalized homophobia in particular was important to their own coming-out journeys "noise"?

Proves Mike WAS your self-insert, the way you're trying (but failing) to GASLIGHT the fandom.

Did Netflix pressure you to back down? Some of us are actually giving you CREDIT Duffers, thinking you weren't simply evil and cruel for ten whole years, and that you intended Byler but chickened out due to pressures. So now you're just their mouthpiece covering their ass?

How dare you play "Heroes" during the credits while being COWARDS yourselves.

And what you now claim actually makes you look MORE malicious, almost comically evil. Because if you knew it was never going to happen 10 years ago then why did you fail to rule it out, which even the creators of Supernatural and Sherlock had the courtesy of doing. Add to that trying to gaslight the fandom for thinking that you wouldn't queerbait them worse than those shows did.

Two best guy friends playfighting. Sure nothing can possibly go wrong with this concept.

Could it be related to THE power outage fic ?

Maaaaybe

“Not emotion”

“Instinct.”

"A tribe of villagers are under threat from an evil force."