naughtynn
5d ago
think it was the trauma from the retcon that did it,
Thats what I mean. In Season 5 they show a tube being shoved down Will's throat and Vecna talking to him about how week Children are and how they will do what he wants.
naughtynn
5d ago
I concede that you are right. Equally in Episode 1 of Season 2 when Max joins the class and sits down, Luca, Dustin, Mike AND Will turn around to check out where she sits.
Doesn't exactly demonstrate that someone has been gay since Season 1
naughtynn
6d ago
This is a good example of why all human rights lawyers should get the rope
naughtynn
6d ago
No she didn't. She said he was a sensitive child. Some of the bullies said he was a fairy, and that he was off with the fairies. That was the extent of it.
Bullies calling someone gay <> someone being gay. A sensitive kid, who is into art <> gay.
I'm sorry, but Season 5 was garbage. Okay, maybe that is too strong. it's the Big Mac of television. It felt okay watching while watching it but is ultimately empty, devoid of meaning. They did the same trick as Episode 9 of Star Wars, except better. Think about any aspect of the plot and it all collapses into a pile of questions and contradictions.
Also, no one said shared trauma in the 1980s, which they explicitly did in Vol 2. In Season 1 the kids acted like kids, teenagers like teenagers all from 80s movies. In this season, they don't act like 80s people.
Will being gay is because the actor is gay and wanted Will to be gay. This was their Emmy scene that they thought would get them recognition. It took them too long and the wheel has turned. It's 2025, nobody needs a fucking coming out scene anymore. People are sick of gay shit and diversity being shoved into everything. It didn't add anything to the show, the character, or the scene. Would the season have been any worse if that scene was cut? No!. It's purely there for pandering. Thats what woke bullshit is pandering.
I think the bigger thing is how anti-woke the show actually is. Is Vecna as a metaphor for pedophilla? He grooms the kids. Convinces them he is their friend, before Shoving tubes and fluids into their mouths. Traumatising him. Leading to the obvious question, was this trauma what made Will gay? This has long been an argument levelled at gays, that their debouched nature lead to them grooming kids to become gay. This season is the literal embodiment of that.
As someone who recently went on a date to a burlesque circus, burlesque is now mostly queer coded. It was an excuse for mainly gay buff acrobatic men to get nude-ish and then some women in skin-tight gymnast like clothing to do acrobatic stunts.
This discrepancy in nudity between the sexes was startling. It was not designed for the hetro male gaze. It was designed for the queer gaze. If it was designed for the hetero gaze, more men would attend.
There is a French restaurant near me that did burlesque and dinner, and that was much more hetero coded, and equally the audience was more normal (in that it didn't skew queer or gay or woman). It was also more enjoyable, at least for me FWIW.
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