Fishy Geek Blog

I don't like girls.

I mean, I do.

Just not like you guys do.

And, I had this crush on someone, even though, I know, they're not like me.

But then I realized he was just my Tammy.

And by Tammy, I mean.

It was never about him.

It was about me.

But then today Vecna showed me what would happen if I did this, if I told you guys the truth.

He showed me a future and in this future.

Some of you are just worried for me, worried that that things will be harder for me, and it just makes me feel like something's wrong with me.

Mike Wheeler was Vecna'd.

Sometime, in between the Snowball and the beginning of season 3. The truth he wanted to hide was...

He is not Will's Tammy. He is his soulmate. But he hides the truth inborder to protect his friends. Will included. The Paladin and the Sorcerer were made for each other. One side needs to accept this to break the spell.

Starting with this Superman/Lois reminder:

Just watched an episode of Smallville that had the Snow Ball all over it. Let me show you with parallels:

A few seasons back at the Prom - Clark is with Lana, his first love. Just like how Mike is with El 👀

At the Prom, Clark has hints that his friendship is different with Lois. At the Snow Ball, Mike has hints that his friendship is different with Will 👀

A few Seasons later:

Lana is out of the picture. Eleven is out of the picture (temporarily). Clark and Lois attempt to have their dance at their high school reunion (to the same song from Prom years prior) but get interrupted (the interruption trope is HUGE with them too 😭)

Clark recreates Homecoming in his barn. The disco-ball is a callback to both dances:

This is also the moment they confess they love eachother for the first time 💀 And as a direct result Clark finally starts to fly (they begin floating together, he’s never flown before). Made me think of all the talk about flying in S5 😭

In Stranger Things we’re at the Snow Ball in S2, we get recurring imagery at Rink o’ Mania and the memory Max hides in 🪩

How can we not go back?

I mean even the recurring red, blue and yellow throughout the show is so Superman and Lois coded 😭:

@itswhatyougive pointed out an incredible observation when i asked if fans expected s5 to be the last season. a huge indication for why s5 would be the last chapter of the series was because of how s4 used the main theme in the final scenes of the season. i had never considered this before!

i talked about this a while ago but usually st uses the main theme for the credits in the season's final episode. the series has 100% used pre-existing songs in the credits for other episodes during the season. like "hazy shade of winter" in 1x02 or "we'll meet again" in 3x04. stuff like that. but the s4 finale is the only season that doesn't play the main theme during the credits. it was a very strange creative decision.

i said that "spellbound" was the song hanging in between s4&5. as in it could have been foreshadowing.

but also it was like basically my song before going into s5 lol. i listened to it for months before the season, so i looked for any easter eggs about it. i was so happy that they were spinning will around in the trailers 😆 imagine how i felt when he also heard laughter while he was spinning

right after s5 ended, i was pretty mad that they "didn't follow through" on that. but i'm pretty sure they did now. now i interpret that to have been foreshadowing lol.

but it's so cool to look at how music was used in s4. they played the main theme in the finale just like any other season. but it wasn't during the credits, it was over the last few scenes.

reality definitely ended here ↓

and then this is how we went into s5 ↓

I got chills when the ACTUAL SHOW THEME started playing in the s4 finale. It was so incredibly meta (Will and I both got goosies at the same time). It felt like "Oh shit, it's all been building up to this moment!!"

So when S5 started like no big deal, uncanny valley sitcom shenanigans, I was very confused.

But ☝️there's one more piece to back up your theory!!

I was so impressed by that finale moment, not just because of the meta, but the way they had created an extended version with a swelling orchestra that added to the tension of those last moments in a way that didn't even need words.

I kept hoping they would release this version on the soundtrack, and they finally did release it after S5 as part of a collection called Stranger Things- The Orchestral Cues (but still only digital!! why do they hate money!!!) Beautiful works, highly recommend.

But I only found the track by accident, because it was actually named something else:

INVERTED 👀👀👀👀

i said that what's going on in s5 is like a view master caught between two slides. that the characters are in the real world but also the upside down in some way.

i think the finale of s4 is a big clue for when this happens and how it works. the smoke from the curse gates (which is a lot like the mind flayer) rose up into the clouds and then the spores started falling like snow. it's a lot like what happens to will at the end of s1 and into s2. he's both in the real world and the upside down. i don't think it's a situation like his true sight but maybe that's a clue for us to see what's happening in s5

edit: aha i found it 😆 i said it here "It’s still unclear to me how Camazotz got blended with the real world enough that Max's second escape seemed to work, but I have an idea that season 5 doesn’t take place entirely within a false reality. The characters were only partially in a dreamworld like a Viewmaster caught between two slides. Camazotz might be the first representation of this underlying narrative. The dreamworld comes in waves. The portal out of Camazotz is real one moment and fake the next. Some events happened while others were completely imagined. Maybe one day it’ll click and I can write a real theory on that, but for now, that’s all I have."

Like, first, Erica!!!! She got a NOTHING ending!! She was a part of the team. A part of their DnD group! She fucking helped them win that game at hellfire club. She's come with ideas and helped them achieve things for their plans. She's Lucas' freaking little sister!! She deserves a proper ending!!

And don't get me started on Lucas. I understand that if CG is real, then that was the point of his "happy ending" being that way in the epilogue, because he will hopefully get a better, more fulfilling ending, and also possibly because Max may be dead 😬 But still. If you know about the storyline for the VR game that Paul Ditcher oversaw, they tell you Lucas has a fear of not being known for anything other than his relationship and not for any of his own accomplishments. And then that's what they fucking did. A young black man only having a "He settled down with his gorgeous white girlfriend and lived happily in this small racist town for the rest of their lives 🥰" storyline. That is a HORRIBLE ending!!! He deserved way more too. At least for Dustin he got to go to a prestigious school in his "ending".

Like, I get this is possibly the entire point, that none of it was real and this was the fake ending where their fears do basically come true to an extent but in a way that is disguised as happy. But the fact that they are possibly making people wait a year or longer (if CG is real!! cause I obv get doubt from time to time though i still very much believe in it) to see what really happened. Like, regardless what they did was cruel to an extent and poorly thought out IMO. What they did basically mainly affected multiple minority characters/groups in the end and then just left it. I do not think this is genius commentary or anything because we never get TRUE real hints that anyone can see, that it is not over and that there is more coming.

Like I get that is practical advice, but people should not have to fucking do that. They should not have to train themselves around not sounding like AI, when AI only sounds like that BECAUSE it was trained on them.