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i am very excited that Jonathan Byers left Hawkins tk attend school at NYU and is shown to have friendships (even if they are long distance) at the end.

LMAOOOOOO tell them

It’s frustrating to see people/the writers/etc. act like the disappointment with Byler is a shipping thing. This isn’t about just wanting two boys to kiss. This is about Mike Wheeler, who has been sidelined all of season 5, lacking a real arc and meaningful personal journey. This is about his poor treatment of his friends in seasons 3 and 4 never being adequately explained or resolved. This is about his personal struggles remaining ambiguous and denying him the opportunity to process his feelings in the story in a meaningful way. This is about Will Byers, a character who never thought he would fall in love, learning that if he does, he’ll get over it. This is about a character who has spent the whole show having what he wants taken from him, willingly giving up the thing he wants most. This is about a character who was shown to fall in love slowly over the course of 4 years with his best friend, the person he is closest to and most similar to, only to decide it was just a crush.

I think this cut gate stuff is showing that bylers genuinely are a little delusional. not that our entire belief in byler endgame is/was delusional. the facts supported it. but we are easily prone to suggestibility and cultlike group thinking for sure. it’s less about one individual person randomly having delusions, and more so about widespread confirmation bias and consensus and collective analysis becoming The Truth

okay but honestly i think the whole direction of s5 was lackluster to begin with it had so sooo much potential and my sister and i were just talking about how if they had a done an apocalyptic hawkins the season would have much better tension and the stakes would actually feel high. right now it just feel like they threw together some storyline so they could rush to the finale.

Is there a reason people are assuming the OST track title leak is real? AFAIK, no source was provided. Someone simply posted a bunch of track titles on a forum. Is there more to this than I'm aware of?