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After everything they'd gone through together, all their history, their love spanning 6000 years, they literally vanished into dust.

Their "human versions" are not them. They met each other in their 50s? 60s? and will get like 30 or so years together.

No sticking together for centuries despite being from opposite factions in an eternal conflict, no developing their rivalry, friendship, and eventually love throughout the ages, no having each other's back despite the dangers of doing so, no bickering, no rescuing each other, no "you go too fast for me, Crowley", no 'our' Bentley, no "angel" as a pet name, NO THEM. At all.

Yes, he should embrace that part of himself that he used to be ashamed of, but holy shit. Nothing to do with his art? His paintings?

- Why was Will taken

- Why is the Upside Down stuck in Nov.6, 1983

- How was Will able to communicate to Joyce through the lights/phone

- Who opened the lock to the Byers house when Will went missing, cause demogorgans can't

- Where did Dr. Owens go

- Where did Suzie go, did she and Dustin break up

- What happened to the pregnant women in Hawkins Lab

- What was the stone Henry found in the cave

- Where was Patty

- Who was the guy with the stone that shot Henry

- Why did nobody talk about how Joyce knew Henry in highschool

- What happened to Terry Ives

- Why were they able to go into the Upside Down after everything was getting sucked unto the abyss

- What was that white melty stuff at Hawkins Lab

- Why did they put focus on the dial changing colours

- How come Vecna needed 12 kids

- How come the kids just woke up after the tubes were pulled out of their mouths, in s1 Will died and needed cpr

- What happened to the mindflayer dust that came out of the kids mouths when the tubes were removed, isnt that the same stuff that got Billy flayed cause it was left out in the open

- What happened to the demogorgans and demodogs once Vecna was defeated

- What happened in Wills visions that made him come out to everyone, literally went against show don't tell

- Why did they forget Wills birthday in s4 and why did Joyce say Will was 11 when he was taken (he was 12) is birthdaygate just forgotten

- Who was the traitor of the season that the cast was talking about

- Nancys s4 vision wasnt fulfilled, Her mum, dad, and sister were hurt but Mike was fine

- Why did they advertise the rubber chicken so much

- Why did they advertise the "For Will x" mixtape if it didn't exist

- Why is Max fine with Hopper being alive

- How did Hopper become chief of police again and be allowed back in society when he's meant to be dead

- What "dinner plans" was Finn alluding to

- Why is the school ok with Hellfire now when they still think its a sacrificial cult

- Does Hawkins know the real truth because that hasn't been explained

- Why has there been no confirmation to whether Mike knows about Will's feelings for him or not

- What on earth happened to the rest of the Turnbow family

- Why was the painting not adressed at all when Finn said it would pay off and it has become s5 merch. They did not forget about it because it was literally on Mike's wall.

- Why did Robin and Wills "signals" conversation amount to nothing. Where is the avalanche.

- Why did Will think he had a chance with Mike in vol 1

- Why did they parallel Mileven to a Stonathan (a crack ship)

- Why did Mike tell El: "friends dont lie", and focus on him saying that, if they were still a couple

- Why and when tf did Robin and Vickie break up

- Why did they pick and choose when Will felt pain through the hivemind

- How did El get to Iceland ffs

- How did Kali use her powers to help El. she was dead. (this is just mikes wishful thinking i fear)

Mike Wheeler enters the room.

Will Byers:

• idgaf about the kid plot. We don’t know these characters and they are eating up entirely too much screentime

• idgaf about Kali

• why is Mike a fucking idiot character. How has bro not figured out that Will is in love with him after all this time? Bro literally has the letter El wrote saying he made that fuckass painting for someone he liked and Mike still hasn’t realized that 2+2=4. Dumbass

• how the hell is Karen walking around and speaking full sentences when she had her whole ass neck sliced tf open like 1 day ago

• is Ted even alive wtf

• are Jancy even together anymore? It was very unclear and I don’t get why they dragged the Stancy/Jancy love triangle out for so long. Pointless

• what the hell is even going on with Mileven atp? Are they even together? Are they not? Who the hell knows. They’re keeping shit so intentionally ambiguous to bait us or rush byler at the very end. Schrödinger’s relationship ahh

• what the fuck was that coming out scene

• “he’s my Tammy” stfu dawg

• “I had a crush” no tf you don’t

• “Waterfalls” oh brother

• where the fuck is Mike’s pov? Why is he such a nothingburger character lmfao

• why could I genuinely feel the script keeping Will and Mike from interacting in this vol? It’s nutty

• they still haven’t explained fuck all about the UD btw lmao. How the hell was it created? How is it frozen on the day Will was taken? How does it perfectly replicate Hawkins? If El made it, how? She had no idea what Hawkins even looked like. Makes no goddamn sense

• they haven’t explained any of the shit we saw happen in s1. Will controlling the lights, Will turning the radio on to play his favorite song, Will making numerous phone calls to Joyce, Will opening a portal in the wall etc

• why is the writing legitimately bad… they just keep repeating the same shit over and over and it’s so expository for what

• why did Finn and Noah say they filmed almost entirely with each other and then we got no Mike and Will scenes? wtf lol

This vol was a disappointment. Not even just in terms of byler, but like *gestures vaguely at the whole thing* every goddamn plot point, character, etc. They still answered practically nothing and resolved even less. The jancy scene was like deadass one of the only good parts. The fumble and downgrade in writing quality from s1 and s2 to this genuinely needs to be studied bc how.. lmfao