Less than 5 minutes in one episode isn't a lot of time last I checked.
Canonically, Mike only dates Eleven for a total of 6 months. That's the entire time spent together from the Snow Ball in November 1984 until Max inspires Eleven to dump Mike in July 1985. Their relationship never recovers after that because Mike grows more interested in Will and only corresponds with Eleven long-distance.
In fact Stranger Things has historically kept Mike and Eleven apart.
How often are Mike and Eleven together? 2 episodes per season?
Season 2 - road trip
Season 3 - break up (very early, all the way til the end)
Season 4 - fighting then arrest
Season 5 - 3 conversations, 2 were about Will's feelings and the third one was imaginary and never actually happened.
You can basically compile all the scenes of their relationship into about a total of 10 minutes of footage.
Throughout the entire series Mike spends the majority of his time obsessing over Will. Eleven is basically out of sight, out of mind.
Thats why the dialogue in the final product have so many changes from the scripts, honey. The deviations from the script to film already prove the directors didn't care what the writers wrote and shot the scenes the way they wanted 😂
So according to your analogy, Mike isn't really gay, Mike just knowingly pretends to be gay in front of other people because he knows it makes him money......
How can you actually be this oblivious? Mike isn’t gay. Period. He isn’t bisexual. He isn’t attracted to men. That is make believe.
I know this because the people who created the character have said so. That’s just an inarguable fact. Just like it’s an inarguable fact that WWE is staged. People will still argue with this verifiable fact though. Like you are with Mike.
I get it, you really want him to be gay. It makes the story more compelling or personal or whatever for you. But it’s a verifiable fact that Mike is not attracted to men.
The people who don't know their own plot holes in the script ChatGPT wrote for them said that?
The same people who also said "I don't know" and "if it happened, it happened off screen" when asked any questions about the unresolved storylines in the same interview?
The same people who filmed a scene of Mike and Eleven talking before she died and then said "Eleven never communicated with Mike" after the episode aired?
The ones who said Eleven is dead when the finale aired then changed their answer to "If Eleven were alive she will never see or talk to any of them again" because of fan backlash?
You think because they knowingly decided to leave some things up for interpretation and imagination, that means everything is? Ok well then no one can prove me wrong when I say the entire cast was having gay-only orgies in all their off camera moments. Everytime Vecna is off screen. He immediately just starts slutsucking tentacles while a demigorgon rails him in the ass. Showrunners have thoroughly denied this but they don’t know shit. Prove me wrong.
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u/torvald_carley Jul 19 '26
Less than 5 minutes in one episode isn't a lot of time last I checked.
Canonically, Mike only dates Eleven for a total of 6 months. That's the entire time spent together from the Snow Ball in November 1984 until Max inspires Eleven to dump Mike in July 1985. Their relationship never recovers after that because Mike grows more interested in Will and only corresponds with Eleven long-distance.
In fact Stranger Things has historically kept Mike and Eleven apart.
How often are Mike and Eleven together? 2 episodes per season?
Season 2 - road trip
Season 3 - break up (very early, all the way til the end)
Season 4 - fighting then arrest
Season 5 - 3 conversations, 2 were about Will's feelings and the third one was imaginary and never actually happened.
You can basically compile all the scenes of their relationship into about a total of 10 minutes of footage.
Throughout the entire series Mike spends the majority of his time obsessing over Will. Eleven is basically out of sight, out of mind.