Juliet might've lost a front tooth while hanging upside down on her favorite tree but all that means to her is she gets to trade it for a small gift left under her pillow!
i think tonight is a rewatch episode four and crack open a bottle of wine type of night.
"why" you ask? because...
BECAUSE my brain is fuzzy and is going a million miles a minute from watching this scene. it is a cinematic masterpiece and i need to cherish it again.
thinking about how argyle tells mike "surf's up, romeo" when he and el are trying to talk at surfer boy pizza and then there's also the stove behind mike during his monologue that has the name "montague" (romeo's last name) on it.
at first glance most people probably assume this detail is pro-milkvan because mike and el are being compared to romeo and juliet, a pair of star-crossed lovers who fell in love with each other at first sight. this is what romeo and juliet's relationship appears to be on the surface, but the whole play is actually making fun of teenagers who claim they're in love when they don't really know each other. (almost like how milkvans and general audiences tend to perceive the show versus fans that actually try to read into the deeper meanings).
something something "i've loved you since that moment i saw you in the woods" paralleling romeo when he first sees juliet and thinks he's in love with her. (this combined with mike actually not falling in love with el at first sight as he claimed during his monologue because in s1 he wants to send her back to a mental hospital so they can go back to finding will. and if we compare this to romeo thinking he's in love with a different girl and crying over her moments before he sees juliet and then decides he's actually in love with her instead, well, it doesn't take much to put two and two together)
anyway i just find it really interesting that mike is referred to as romeo both textually and visually moments before and during his i love you monologue to el. definitely coincidental of the writers and set designers and this surely doesn't mean anything
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What if This Storm Ends?, Snow Patrol // Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë // Sir Edward John Poynter, Orpheus and Eurydice // The Fragile Threads of Power, V.E. Schwab // Joseph Wright of Derby, Romeo and Juliet. The Tomb Scene // I Will Follow You into the Dark, Death Cab for Cutie // Home, Edith Whiskers