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wheelercore · 1 year ago

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Bringing back this post because I was thinking about "normal is just a raging psychopath", Henry describing conformity as a distraction from reality, and how the wheelers are the shows Normal Main Family (tm) that has yet to have done anything despite all the weird subtext *cough cough* references to the creel home before the creels moved in *cough cough*. Also thinking about how since Mike and Nancy began to find their own way and develop individuality, Karen, Holly, and Ted became the new Unit as of S3, with Nancy throwing out her little toy rabbit in the end of s4 while we see Holly with her new lite brite toy in the wheeler den constantly in the same season (and also sporting the pink-white color scheme + rose (?) design on her shirts). Anyways invest in rosegate right now for bountiful rewards in s5 (wheeler sweep!!!!).

Not to be overdramatic but the wheeler family being implied indirectly to be a "play"/performance" or a "lie" keeps me up at night

Like what did they mean by this shot

#look i am not making sense but. thinking about 'let him go' thinking about some really insane stuff all my rosegate girlies stand up #i have a nuclear take about why ted lets his kids go when they get older ans how that connects with the wheeler oppulence and why we see #holly SO MUCH in s3/s4 compared to earlier seasons and why she has a new toy with so much emphasis also #and why nancy talks so much about having to remove the outdated stuff from her room and why mike has SO many toys #its about growing up. its about the wheeler sibs growing up and becoming individuals #hopper saying kids will always eventually reject their fathers. because eventually they wont need their fathers anymore #in the traditional nuclear family set up the fathers are the providers and the protectors #but when your kids dont need you to provide and protect them anymore? when just simple toys arent enough to make them happy and fulfill #that 'distraction'? that 'silly little play'? when your children grow up and actually need emotional support and mature emotional connection #when they reject you as all teenagers do and simple toys and gifts arent enough to get emotional validation you crave because [REDACTED]#[REDACTED] being rosemary. holly in rosemary colors with her toy. holly playing with it with the urn in the ba #-ckground. ted calling mikes toys 'husks of junk' (?) in s2. 'let him go' nobody gets this like i do fuck #devaluing the love he gave him bc now mike is growing up and 'rejecting' him. its all mental illness? always has been #holly is the new source of the distraction. the new source of validation. thats why karen holly and ted are the new unit. bc they grew up #and rejected him and holly is still young and plays along in this 'silly little play' anyways! rosegate be upon ye #keeping the wheelers in a jar and shaking them shaking them shaking them shaking them

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