Stranger Things spin off but it's just the Party finally hanging out together instead of implied off screen. Needed more of the boys' dynamic from the Halloween snippet we got, should've had a montage of byler/lumax movie dates, the lack of Dustin with his Party needs to be corrected, expanding on Max and El's need for female companionship, just one old school 90s/early 2000s feel good ep where they get to do goofy kid things
Elumax where max wears Lucas’s letterman jacket and El wears his big comfy tshirts and the girls share all their clothes and in the summer they give Lucas old tshirts to wear as crop tops,,,,, yeah
i love you independent el. i love you bi el. i love you pan el. i love you lesbian el. i love you ace el. i love you elmax. i love you henderhop. i love you hopclair. ….midleven….. i love you aroace el. i love you platonic elmike. i love you willel. i love you jonel. i love you el hopper!!!!!! <3
PLEASE! BEGGING! el and lucas' bond is about more than their love for max.
it's a deep understanding of each other that can remain unspoken but because they've seen the darker parts of each other right off the bat they can trust its authenticity. it's el hearing "i'm sorry" for the first time in her life. it's lucas seeing more than the black and white rules of childhood.
it's an undercurrent of support. it's lucas going, "no, actually, just because el is powerful doesn't mean we can't do everything we can to fight alongside with her." it's him following through on that, proving to himself and to el that they're good by way of action. it's the implicit team work that comes out of that.
it's two kids, changing each other, shaping world views and having a dynamic that - though underexplored in the show - is soso integral to their characters.