#ted wheeler

[gayofthefae]

Thinking about "our son? With a girl?"

'Ted's just calling his son a loser'

That might be why the person said it. It's not why the writers said it.

(Not to mention, we already received that same information in much clearer exposition: "you're just glad 'cause a girl's not grossed out by you". THIS ONE was queercoding. This wasn't telling us a situation we already knew 8 episodes in. This was queercoding)

[t3ll4xd]

ironically, karen and ted were probably the first ones to clock mike

"our son? with a girl?

then karens heart to heart

karen wheeler clocked mike’s shit so hard in season one and that will never not be brilliant to me.

[lavenderstobins]

stranger tweets part 7

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[will80sbyers]

Cara posted this lol I think it's probably in her home unless it's something she stole from set but... Could this confirm that they are all alive in '89.......?

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

If Will is really living with the Wheelers, I want to see Ted Wheeler be an unwitting instigator of drama.

I want Karen to be ready for a fight when she brings up the idea of Will staying with them to Ted, only for him to be all for it because they're better together.

I want him to have a soft spot for Will since he's the quietest and most polite of Mike's friends.

I want him to comment that to Will that he's glad he's s back because Mike has been unbearable in his absence.

I want him to mention that he's glad Mike isn't adding daily long distance charges to the phone bill. (IIRC, long distance phone rates applied even if nobody answered.)

I want him to make a joking-but-not-really comment at Mike being happier with his sweetie pie back that confuses Will because he doesn't think Ted knows about El.

Maybe this is just me being tired of fans assuming he'd not like Will for being gay or being against their relationship. I dunno. I just like the idea of Ted appreciating Will because of the positive impact he has on his son, leading to him being all for them being together.

[conflictofthemind]

Thoughts on "Escape from Camazotz"

Oppressive Suburbia, Conformity, and Season 5 Themes

I've long thought that a major focus of Season 5 will be the contrast between the families of The Wheelers and The Byers, and exploring how non-traditional family environments can be freeing vs the oppressive structure of the nuclear family.

In a Wrinkle In Time, Camazotz is a planet controlled by the big bad of the book, the "IT", who forces the citizens into a conformity that resembles American suburbia. All of the houses the same, the citizens the same, doing the same things at the same time without individual identity. Without anything different. Different means a lot of things, but with Stranger Things dropping different in reference to Will's identity and the presumable themes of this season, it will heavily codify as queerness and how it threatens the cisheterosexual family model.

Henry was raised in the 1950s, a decade still revered by conservatives for it's traditional family dynamics that supposedly were the peak of culture and happiness for all. That was all a lie, of course, and Henry knew so as he shows to Nancy and Eleven during his monologue. The second most conservative decade aside from the 1950s in American society is widely considered to be the 1980s.

The Creels will serve in parallel to The Wheelers; the worst example of what they could become and the damage that this type of family could do to a child that is different in any way. Notice how Vecna selectively shows Nancy visions of The Wheelers dying, but not anyone else she may consider family or friends (like Jonathan).

That is; unless they change their ways and come together as a healthy functioning family facing their traumas, The Wheelers will be toast.

Karen has been moved up to a main character role this season. Ted's actor says the father starts to show up more for Holly (hold that) and realizes he wants to act differently. Holly has been recast. Finn has said Mike goes on a much more personal journey this season, and steps up as a leader.

Oh, also: the catalyst for all of this is that Holly goes missing. The contrast will help show how the Byers (including El and Hopper here) were able to pull together and help solve Will's disappearance, versus how the Wheelers as a closed off nuclear family grapple with Holly's vanishing.

Each of the Byers is in some kind of a non-1950s conformist relationship, but particularly Will (not in one now but we all know he will be). I think El might represent, after she breaks up with Mike, the fear of the unmarried woman being satisfied without a husband. The above shot really emphasizes my point.

I predict that Will will end up coming out to his family rather early on, and we will see all of them immediately accept him with little surprise or push-back. Will is a visible gay man who comes from an open minded non traditional family (divorced, non-married, adoptive) that is willing to have honest conversations.

But this theme will place the most focus on the Wheelers. Mike is the main character of said family and this will particularly focus on his arc, and his acceptance of his queerness in the midst of suburban conformity.

He is not visible, he comes from a Reagan-supporting family who don't communicate with each other. He is not particularly close with his family like Will is. He pushes his feelings down and tries his damn hardest to be normal despite it all. His trauma hasn't really been addressed at all. He is falling back into his usual habits - the one thing he dared to do different (grow his hair long) has gone back to how it was.

It's not all doom and gloom though. This season above all will be a redemption arc of the American nuclear family, how they choose to escape their conformity and learn to be there for each other, thus overpowering Vecna. Not that the Wheelers are going to end this personally.

"Great, more hysteria. Just what we need". "It's the news, now indistinguishable from the tabloids".

[galactiicpup]

reasons i think that "the vanishing of ***** wheeler" is holly —

biggest reason: holly was recast for the final season, meaning she'll probably bave a bigger role than before

we know holly has a tendency to wander, obv she was very little in season one but still it could be a habit she never grew out of!

what we've seen of st5 so far, there's a clip, blink and you'll miss it, of holly screaming

in season one, the only two people other than will (that we know of) who attracted the demogorgon without blood were joyce and holly. the demogorgon wanted holly like it wanted will for no real reason!

holly has a tendency to notice upside down related things, like in season one when she wandered into will's room, season three when she sees the mind flayer in the trees, season four when she calls out "look mom it's snowing!" after the upside down starts to leak through

the wheelers have to have some weird connection to the upside down the same way the byers do, even if karen isn't alice creel, something is just very off when it comes to the wheelers and the upside down

[katimanki]

From Hate When I Sin by @foodiewithdahoodie 💖🫶🏻

When I started this fic and read the first scene, I had to put my phone down, grab my iPad and sketch it out immediately!!

[dia-depeche]

“Pack it up skittles squad”

- Ted Wheeler 1987

[samgelina-jolie]

Stranger things + headlines (6/?)

[trvbblemaker]

can’t wait until “our son with a girl?” becomes “our son with a boy???”

[noihavenosanitythanksforasking]

1x07 ted wheeler really said

and i quote

"our son with a girl?" and then has the audacity to shake his head in disbelief

[evilbookworm]

[will80sbyers]

If they make out at the start of the season, it means the relationship is not compatible enough/superficial/not endgame.

[jujuprincesinhasofia]

ted's arc is abt byler lol

im so sure ted already thinks byler is a thing. everyone will be like kinda shocked (its the 80s) and he's like weren't they together already who were those letters from

like think from this guy's pov

"im the only one who cares abt will" his kid, who he doesn't imagine with a girl, says that then proceeds to escape during the night to find his best friend

then dustin asks where's mike and ted finds out mike's at will's, and apparently that's where he is all the time. possibly only with will too, since dustin doesn't seem to know abt it

then mike goes somewhere every day for like six months, where is mike going?

then the byers leave and mike's receiving letters all the time and trying to call will. mike literally travels across the country to visit them and ted mentions his "sweetie pie"?

but what if mike told them that hopper adopted a girl and joyce took her in, well wouldn't karen at least look at el then once mike got back and wonder if that's the girl since she's with will and jonathan? and try to talk to her son's possible girlfriend who seems to look weirdly alike the girl suspected to be hiding at her house?

they can't know she exists, they don't know mike's with her. the only thing i can't explain is why mike would believe karen called hopper

[brujadejunio]

El paralelo de Ted y Mike cuando hay desinterés... 🤷🏻‍♀️