tashi’s character is seriously so layered… like the way she is literally the game changer. when she met patrick and art, and then made them make out and stuff… she changed the entire way they play tennis; they end up playing for her & become competitive with each other in a way they never were before & then whole plot ends up revolving around and going back to the way tashi changed their dynamic.?!,&/&7,9
he ate the bagel so fast cause he was hungry and it was there… (tashi) but the banana? he was savoring that shit and staring at art… like patrick the closet is GLASS and you KNOW it 😭😭
why would the duffers write will as gay, make his & mikes relationship more intimate than the one mike has with eleven AND let noah confirm that will likes mike romantically if their relationship isn’t supposed to be the most INSANE brainrot slow burn in modern cinema????? LIKE THEY WOULDN’T… RIGHT 😭
in the first episode of season four when mike and dustin are like. arguing about who has the better girlfriend, mike says “you know el saved the world twice, right?” BUT then in episode five mike says “suzie saved the world last year, maybe she can do it again.”
sooo he admits that suzie saved the world too… which makes me think that the fact that el saved the world at all, isn’t that important to him? like it’s a cop-out defense for sure, he just didn’t know what to say 😭
nvm the constant “you’re my superhero” shit he says, like they barely know eachother i feel like… cause why can’t he think of anything else to say? also in season three when lucas literally had to explain to him the olive branch thing…
idk after two season of him being stupid with el, yet constantly taking accountability with will, apologizing to him, reassuring him & actually listening to what he has to say.. it feels so obvious that he just doesn’t care about el romantically?!
like he’s got to be being oblivious on purpose atp?? maybe cause he doesn’t actually want things to go further but he doesn’t want to lose her as a friend either? i feel like it’s pretty clear too that he thinks el is the only thing that makes him interesting/special as a person so.. that might be another part of it
(in my byler/mike apologist era again pls excuse me being DELUSIONAL!!! but seriously, i relate to mike sm & even i’m not that bad with ppl i like romantically 😭)
thinking about the end of season 3 when el is reading hopper’s letter & then when he says “changing, that’s what scares me.” the camera flips to mike…. like ok we get it boy!! u are GAY!
** NEVERMIND the fact that this happens right after el says she loves him & he pulls a weird face as she walks away!!!