#ted wheeler

[will80sbyers]

[reo-bylerwagon]

[lavenderstobins]

stranger tweets part 7

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[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.

[uhgo6d]

since everyone has the headcanon that ted is homophobic and an abuser, I’d like to talk about MY headcanon that ted actually likes will, and tells mike, "I like this byers kid," so mike knows that he supports and approves of his bf 😌

[gayofthefae]

Hot take Ted Wheeler wouldn't be homophobic he would just be the guy who needs to constantly be reminded by Karen not to passive aggressively call Will Mike's "friend".

[michaelwheelerdefiodental]

Henry really has a beef with a family that consist of a gay boy loser with some savior complex, a Nancy Drew with guilty all over her veins, a dumbass child that is always almost getting killed by a demogorgon, a repressed wife that wants to live her life at fullest, and a dad that peaked on high school and don't care about anything anymore, he just wants to sleep. Like, just go get a life dude, it isn't that deep, i promise you 😭.

[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

[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.......?

[reo-bylerwagon]

Dustin and his ongoing beef with Ted Wheeler

[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!!

[stranger-theory]

Stranger Theories by my mom, part 1:

Holly's gonna go missing and the reason is because it's gonna draw the Wheelers into focus again.

Karen's child just went missing and she has no idea what's going on. She's terrified that her daughter is dead and she has no idea what she's gonna do about it. She feels like she's going crazy. Who else had this storyline? Joyce. Karen isn't going to be alone because Joyce understands. Karen won't be clueless because Joyce understands.

Nancy and Mike get to spend time with each other more and actually talk about the things they said they would back in s1. "No more secrets" never really came to fruition. This gives HUGE leeway for the audience to actually, finally, understand what's going on inside that bigass head of his. We could also see what Nancy thinks about the whole Steve vs Jonathan thing.

We get to see how all of this affects Ted Wheeler and actually understand who he is as a person, give him some flavor. Does he actually care about his family? I don't know but s5 can answer that now. Maybe he ends up leaving Hawkins, who knows. The point is that we have a definite answer now.

Holly is the catalyst for clearing the air in the Wheeler family. She can answer so many questions we as the audience have and I'm thankful for that.

My mom also made a great point that the town will respond incredibly different to Holly's disappearance. Will Byers is known as "the queer" who has a crazy mom and comes from a low class family. Yes, there were absolutely search parties out for Will, but we still saw so much bullying from people, too. People like Troy and Tommy H. are actually going to care about her because she's a pretty blond girl from a middle class family.

I'm very curious as to what the characters reactions of this are gonna be. Is Will gonna be sad that he didn't have this much attention on him? Is Mike gonna be sad? Is anybody going to notice at all?

I suppose I'll just stay on the edge of my seat for now.

(everybody thank my mom for this)

[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