El & Will's resolutions
I feel, El should've been written to explain herself to everyone she called family and not just mike where she'd firmly and intimately bid a teary goodbye to them in the mindscape...while Will who had to bring himself to his most sensitive and vulnerable and open up to ALL these people, really should've been spared the stress and talked to Joyce, Jonathan & Mike ONLY.
What makes these two events clash in my mind is the intentional staging of it.
It's the way Eleven's choice is staged to be an intimate affair for her and Mike while Will's PAIN is out in the open and he can't even admit that Mike was part of it.
It's the way El's last moments were spent with her partner(who always understood her? Hello S4?) but Will's feelings for Mike & Mike's history with Will are reduced to that of Robin & Tammy Thompson's. You wanna say that again after seeing this gif!
It's the way a straight relationship takes precedence over friendship & family while a queer one is concluded as an unrequited crush?! FRIENDS? BEST FRIENDS? You remain a part of Will's pain & strength Michael. You are part of the memory that made him do this!
Do the actors sell it? They try and I appreciate that. But the vibes and chemistry are off in both scenes and this only adds up.
To me it reflects a painfully unsophisticated and borderline problematic understanding of the characters & audience's interests.
