thinking about how lucas said he doesn't need a letter from max (what he needs is her presence with him), and how mike was implied to have reached out to will via phone calls because he wanted to hear his voice (but was blocked because of joyce's telemarketing job) i am on my goddamn knees i can't do this anymore
Thinking about how both Mike and Max observe their other half from a far and come to mistakenly believe that they’re doing fine without them as a result of what a third party says. Both El and the radio announcer were wrong though. Lucas wasn’t feeling on top of the world and there was never a girl that Will was painting for. In reality, Will and Lucas were busy thinking about and missing them just as much as they were.
hi this is your friendly reminder that all of the endgame ships (jancy, lumax, byler, jopper) have a very clear parallel between all of them that mlvn very clearly does not have.
in s1, nancy gets stuck in the ud, calls out for jonathan, and is pulled out and into jonathan’s arms.
in s2, will is stuck in one of his ud episodes, calls out for mike, and is pulled out and into mike’s arms.
in s2, hopper is stuck in the ud tunnels, and inevitably gets saved by joyce (who had been calling out his name)
in s4, max is in a trance, calls out for lucas first, and gets pulled out by lucas’s knowledge of what her favorite song is and falls into his arms.
and in s1…el is stuck in the ud, calls out for mike, and gets out completely on her own.
Not just the blocking of this scene but the shots of it. They totally could have just made it a back and forth between Lucas and Mike. Max and Will don't contribute, afterall. But nope. They wanted to remind you: this is about couples.