Like. Will was so right in saying 'you're just like me' because Henry is. He was, like Will, a child in the wrong place at the wrong time who had something else go into him and decide to manipulate and use him. With Will and Henry its another take of the cyclical nature of abuse, one where there is survival instead of death, and while I absolutely do hate that the end choice was 'yeah El should die to stop all of this from happening again' (and yes I do fully believe she is actually dead and the scenes at the end with Mike DM narrating was a bunch of severe cope) the point is that there are multiple ways to deal with the cycle of trauma, but people REALLY fixate HARD on 'oh so I, a trauma victim, should just DIE to stop the cycle of violence???' rather than actually thinking about Anyone else involved in this show.

Like No, I don't think it was a good thing, but also the way every single person is acting like it's a personal attack on them is kinda wild.

Anyway the writing this season was inexcusably bad, there were so many holes and lack of follow through on SO many things, they fumbled hard with Byler and like. I wasn't even mad about it not being canon but I despised the way they pushed Mileven so hard at the end when like. Mike and El have had negative chemistry since the intro to season 3 when they were making out. It felt so awful and fake lmfao

*facedown sobbing*