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gayofthefae · 3 months ago

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"How will they convince people of Mike's feelings" my guy literally all they have to do is have them have a normal conversation then linger looking at each other for just a little too long afterwards.

[elaboration but you can stop here if you should be asleep right now. Yes, you. I caught you. Go to bed.]

It's platonic to look at your friends, and even look at them when they aren't looking, but it is notoriously not platonic for a TV show to SHOW us.

That is literally ALL they did in season 4 with Will btw and you believe him. He literally just looked at Mike. He said a couple of coded things but I would argue still quite deniable until that talk in the junkyard got more specific. The bulk of the weight being pulled was - not even lingering looks, just lingering ON looks. Lingering the shot.

In the sweetest way - and including myself - audiences are dumb. We don't need much, really. Boy look at boy too long when he not looking equal romance. Telling love stories actually is not complicated AT ALL.

#byler #stranger things #ga byler #just looking at somebody isn't romantic!#yeah if they were people but they arenct they're characters #and tv and movies have shorthand over realism #eye contact equal going to kiss #conveying absolutely undeniable feelings with no alternate explanations is like force spoonfeeding the audience #it's annoying distracting and anti climactic #and IT is what ACTUALLY Makes things feel forced and out of the blue #people think the show will tell them mike likes wjll because PEOPLE are telling them #but the only reason we're telling is because as not-the-Duffers we don't HAVE the ability to show #you may not trust me and you may not trust the writers but you don't have to #you just need to trust yourself. you know what onscreen pining looks like. you wouldn't think that's what this was if it wasn't. but you #will becuase it'll Look like it #the only reason you don't now is because they haven't actually done it yet #they've hinted at it but you were not supposed to have seen it #it would be very odd to keep us out of the loop on the whole why mike can say ily now and how he got there thing if we were supposed to be #fully informed

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