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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mikeandwillel
mikeandwillel

You don’t understand, Mike’s happy ending is also getting with Will.

Why would he end up in a relationship that makes him so insecure that he feels like a random nerd?

Why would he end up in a relationship that makes him ditch his friends and leave his interests behind?

Why wouldn’t he end up with the boy who loves him for exactly who he is, the one who told him that he’s the heart, the leader, the one who inspires them?

Why wouldn’t he end up with the boy who wants the same thing as him, play games for the rest of their lives?

byler-4-life
byler-4-life

Yeah there's something really weird with the timing in the last few scenes of S2E1. This might be nothing, but it's just strange how they laid these scenes out. I'm gonna start with this scene of Mike trying to contact El.

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It says here it's 7:40pm. At the end of this scene, Mike thinks he hears El, but it's actually Lucas and Dustin contacting him on the radio about figuring out who Mad Max is. Mike isn't interested and cuts them off. Lucas and Dustin then part ways, and the very next scene is:

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Bob recording Joyce on camera as she makes popcorn for the Byers movie night. And yeah, it says 6:10 before changing quickly to 6:11. That's a little odd considering Mike said it was 7:40 in the previous scene, no?

Now, it might be that the scenes weren't meant to be consecutive timewise. That they showed what was happening with Mike at 7:40 before going an hour and a half earlier back to the Byers house. Sure, that's a possibility, but it's a weird directing choice kind of.

Anyways, we then have the scene with Jonathan and Will in Will's bedroom about 'being a freak is the best', followed by Bob, Joyce, Jonathan, and Will all sitting on the couch and watching Mr. Mom.

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Here's where things get weird. Mr. Mom has a run time of 1 hour 31 minutes. As I stated above, Joyce is making the popcorn at 6:10. If we assume the convo with Will/Jonathan, plus allowing everyone to get situated on the couch and ready to watch the movie took a minimum of 10 minutes, they likely started the movie around 6:20, best case. Which would put the end of the movie around 7:50pm. Keep this in mind, because I'm really puzzled about the next scene.

There's a VERY brief scene right after the movie scene above at the lab, showing the sensory equipment going crazy.

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And then it cuts RIGHT BACK to the Byers house where it shows us this clock saying it's 8:06ish:

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and Will walking through a seemingly empty, yet well-lit Byers house to use the restroom:

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Let's remember, the movie didn't end until 7:50. Everyone was there, and Will was fully dressed in his clothes he went to school in. Now it's 8:06, Will is in his pajamas, and EVERYONE is GONE except for him? All that happened in the span of fifteen minutes? Possible? Sure, I guess so. Everyone could've went directly to their bedrooms at 8pm. Or Bob, Joyce, and Jonathan could've all left the house and left Will alone? I don't know.

But this was the direct lead-in to Will's Upside Down experience where the door opened and he saw the Mind Flayer. And it just so happened to be right after some curious time inconsistencies. That just so happened to be right around 8:15.