s3 / s4 mike wheeler analysis

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last modified: 16 sep, 2023 ----------------------------------------------------------------- yall know what's up. rip mike wheeler you could've been the most well-written queer character in history. ----------------------------------------------------------------- okok sO i find mike's behavior in s3 a little curious and suspicious. i mean as always hes trying to deny some things or his behavior in this season, and it has importance in the next season. illl try to make my thoughts make sense because i don't know how to explain myself most of the time ghfdsjkfush giggle so,,, throughout the third season we see how mike doesnt want to play dnd with will or how he says that games are for children, and that they're not kids anymore (bro mike you are literally a 13 yr old boy sit down), that they have grown up, and how mike focuses more on my girl here, el, because she is his girlfriend. even will points this out in the rain fight. that will thought yes that they were always going to play together, but mike answers that no, that they are not kids anymore (which is ironic because later in s4 it is seen that mike wanted to play dnd,, and that's why he ends up joining the hellfire club with dustin, and since at the end of s3 he doesn't want will to put the game in the donation box) to sum it up, he believes that since he's older, it is normal for you to stop liking games, and to behave less like a child. but mike is still desperate to play dnd again, to be with will and other games, and he shows it at the end of the season,,, both in hopper's dialogue and in the last scene they have together this season. in the last episode of s3, moikol shows his concern about losing will, thinking will will join another party, or not playing with will again (although he has previously shown that he was not interested in playing with him) and its a curious contrast, how with will he's not afraid to show that he wants to continue playing with him, and he is afraid of losing him (even if he doesn't say it, we can see it) and how with el he has to pretend and remember himself 'that made me sound like a seven yr old' although he doesn't think that and he's really excited to be able to play because you can tell he says it with some enthusiasm, but he ends up retracting it, and saying that it sounds like a kid, which is he's been saying all season. and it's not until she says 'i like presents, too' that Mike says 'yeah i like- i like presents too' and i dunno it just seems to me that mike is trying to behave in a way that is not him, when he is with el (beyond the most obvious) since all the times that mike has tried to be funnier she didn't like it, like in episode 1 when mike's singing and el tries to silence him, or in episode 4 when mike takes the mannequin to try to make a joke and eleven makes a bad face, but anygays mike is afraid of losing will, he is AFRAID that things will change between them, and hops dialogue (which is very important here!!) is VERY them, and is made to show the emotions of will and mike, but above all mike, perfectly reflecting mike's feelings throughout this season and next, and, mayhaps explaining his behavior this season ex: [as the van is pulling away] 'but lately i guess ive been feeling... distant from you' [close-up shot on mike] 'like you're pulling away from me or something' in this scene the focus is on mike, the camera focuses on mike, because they are mike's feelings towards will and in the painting scene will says 'or she [i] seemed like she [i] was pushing you away is because she's [i] scared of losing you, like you're scared of losing her' they both feel like they're pulling away from each other CUT TO: [cool/cool scene in wills room] 'and i feel like i was worrying too much about el, and,, i don't know, maybe i feel like i lost you or something' 'i was worrying too much about el' this is what will what he said to mike in the rain fight and mike admits it he was worrying a lot about el, and he was leaving his friends aside, a parallel to nancy, in s1 that when she was dating steve, she left barb alone. 'i feel i lost you or something' moikol felt like he was losing will, who is also named in hops dialogue, taking into account that during those 6 months they spend apart, mike calls will, but will almost never answered. and the whole s3 theme, mike worrying a lot about el, and feeling like he was losing him tbh in their heart to heart there are many references to hops dialogue, and they are always referring to pulling away from the other, feeling lost, or losing the other. continuing with hops dialogue, just after saying 'youre pulling me away or something' he says 'i miss playing board games every night.' as we know dnd is a board game, and in s1, you can see that the party played at night, but they don't play as much as before, because they have grown up, and mike misses that just like many other things