Oops

were all the writers just totally lacking in self-awareness regarding the scenes they were writing??? like, how do they step back and see these scenes next to each other and not have the realisation that mike and will have been written to have a more intimate bond than mike and the rest of the party? will was literally just dizzy in the scene where mike came flying over to him, but dustin had his face all beat to hell and lucas had a huge bleeding cut from a fucking demogorgon on his chest and mike barely shows fear/worry. the writers did nothing to show that mike interacts with lucas and dustin the same way he does with will - in fact, we get shown the exact opposite where will is treated with a tenderness and concern that mike reserves for him

in my mind, mike actually knows will better than anyone else alive, and i’m really not exaggerating. better than jon, than joyce, than literally will himself. whenever anyone is getting gifts for will, and when they don’t know what to get, they go straight to mike. he knows what will wants pretty much every time all the time. will will walk into the room, look around for a moment and go, “what did i come in here for..?” and mike, not looking up from what his book, goes, “pencils. you accidentally grabbed the other ones that you don’t like and you needed the sage green from the crayons set you like.” “right. how did you— never mind.”

Mulder and Scully will be confronted with any situation at all and be like ‘what if we put our faces really really close together about this’