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Idk if it’s been pointed out before, but this is from the bible of the show (written by the creators) and I thought the last sentence was interesting.

“If Mike is the Elliot of our show, Eleven is our “E.T.””

If you’ve seen the E.T. film, you’ll know that Elliot develops a deep friendship and special bond with E.T., but there’s never anything romantic between them.

Does Elliot still get a romantic love story?

Absolutely! With the blonde girl from his class (can’t remember her name), who he gets together with during the film.

I seriously fucking hope they don’t kill Joke, for three reasons:

1) This is a special episode. You don’t kill your main character in a special episode?? If you really want to do it, you do it in the series when you have enough time to show the aftermath of their death, how their loved ones grieve, you make it make sense with the rest of the story, you set up for it so it doesn’t come out of nowhere. But doing it in an isolated episode after the main conflict in the series was solved? Worst screenwriting move of modern history istg.

2) This episode is meant to heal us. So many people complained there wasn’t enough romance and happiness in the series, so this episode was supposed to give us exactly that: happiness and healing. You’re telling me they would take this happiness away from us with something that tragic? You’re telling me they would do the fans dirty like that on a random Saturday? Coooome oooon boys.

3) Killing Joke is literally homophobic idc what anyone says

So until the episode airs internationally and we actually know what’s going on I’ll gaslight myself into believing Joke faked his death (for the plot) and Jack thinks he’s dead but then they reunite and all is well. They keep running the school together, get married and adopt Toi Ting.

Honestly at first I burst out laughing when he showed up in a very public place with his face 100% exposed, held Po’s hand and declared his love to him, like bro have you not learnt your lesson after everything that happened with Pepper and Gam?

But I think he has very much learnt the lesson, and that’s precisely what’s driving me insane. Because this time, him not hiding his face wasn’t just carelessness: it was deliberate.

By doing this, he’s basically saying: “I’m ready to face the immense amount of hate that could come my way - because it’s nothing compared to the love I have for you”

The fact we didn’t get to see ThamePo’s first kiss.

Because let’s be real, that time when we see them kiss for the first time… How natural it feels? And the lack of surprise from Po even though Thame basically threw himself on him out of nowhere, as if he was expecting it? I feel like neither Thame nor Po could have waited that long before breaking the tension between them. I think they did it a loooong time ago, and this scene is just another day of them reuniting after being apart for a while.