"Oh thank god Blumhouse didn't make the purple guy sexy" fucking dumbass Matthew Lillard is hot, what you mean to say is "Oh thank god Blumhouse made the purple guy look like an actual dad from the 80's instead of an anime soft boy twink straight out of genshin impact or gacha life."
I think an insanely overlooked byler proof is
"Listen, the truth is, the last year has been weird, you know? And I mean, you know, Max and Lucas and Dustin, they're... they're great. They're great. It's just... It's Hawkins. It's not the same without you."
this feels straight out of a fanfic. it's so simple but it still manages to single out Mike and Wills relationship completely, that what they have is different and special. if the writers wanted us to view Mike as a completely unreciprocating straight best friend, they wouldn't throw this line in. that Mike is the one who views their relationship as something beyond his other friendships.
oh my god even their fucking dnd characters line up, i knew they reminded me of someone. THEY BETTER NOT END UP LIKE THEM.
no bc all these people saying to give will a break or to leave him alone… literally the only way he is going to get any screen time is if he is in mortal danger. i am THROWING that boy into the upside down at this point
Will at the airport : artist gay, painting in hand, flannel clad, heart eyes looking lovestruck etc etc
The object of his desires:
bbc merlin but everytime arthur insinuates merlin can't keep a secret merlin looks into the camera like he's on the office
Hot take: but Merlin did fail.
At the end of the last episode Kilgarrah tells Merlin that he hasn't failed and magic will come back to Camelot (on a side note that seems not true at all, as it all seems so rushed and we never see any reason that would happen. It is acknowledged that Gwen knows it was Merlin as the wizard, but he doesn't save Arthur which wouldn't give magic any points and it's unlikely Camelot would just welcome magic like that.)
But Merlin could have at multiple times chosen better options and saved other lives - speaking specially about Morgana and his lack of helping her with her magic.
I know for the story, she had to be the main villain and not like Merlin, but it all seems untrue to his character and wasn't very wise.
But by having Merlin "fail" ( or not as apparently he didn't), to me it makes the story more real and grounded. It isn't as if all these bad things happened for a fairy tale ending, but bad things happened and he still failed.