#heartgate

"Without heart, we'd all fall apart."

and coca-cola once again makes an appearance… interesting how there’s only one coke can and it’s on will’s tray but technically it’s also right in between mike and will. and it looks like dustin has a juice or milk carton and i’m assuming the drink lucas has is a dr. pepper

holly’s walls decorated in flowers, meanwhile mike gave el flowers that she’s actually disappointed about because it says “from:mike” and season 4 ends with el touching the same type of flowers but they’re dead. not to mention, in el’s letter to mike she mentions that she likes the flowers in california, but she returns to hawkins and now the flowers there are dead.

also flowers have been used as easter eggs before. look at how the flowers look like demogorgons from these stills

and as you see there’s a rainbow in erica’s room just like holly has rainbows in her room and in the still of lucas, mike, and el there’s a rainbow heart all the way to the far left on the wall lol… like do we even need to go into details about the symbolism of rainbows?? they’re EVERYWHERE in stranger things. i swear i wrote a post about the usage of rainbows and what they symbolize to el, but i can’t find it. but basically what i said in it was how it’s interesting el would put a rainbow on the letter to mike or have rainbows in her room when technically rainbows have a negative connotation for her because of the rainbow room at the lab. this is the only post of mine i can find where i talk about rainbows. but let’s look at the fact BOTH el and holly have multicolored hearts in their rooms. (also!! el has little pink flowers on her shirt)

heart on Mike's yellow shirt and on his throat

a continuation of heartgate? I may look into this later but I am also very lazy so if someone else wants to look into it, please do!

I was looking at this scene closely for a different post I'm working on and noticed a heart reflected (from the disco ball?) on Will's face??? while he looks at Mike????

I thiiiink I saw hearts reflect on both Will and Mike in this scene and not much reflected on El at due to the angle or something.

idk I'm feeling way too lazy to see if this is like a thing or if it's just a tiny flash of light that just happens once but maybe someday I'll look more into it!

HEARTGATE