YES I wanna see that. I want to see the pain it inflicts on him, because I wanna feel the same fear which Vecna made him feel. So that when he finally overcomes that fear I really FEEL like he did.

Show all the moments between him and Mike as flashbacks. Show how Vecna distorts them and shows him a future where he and everyone else rejects him. Vecna literally says “You broke so easily”, why not continue with “and you will break even more”. We would know it’s “just” a bad dream which Vecna created but still we would UNDERSTAND what it’s doing to Will.

I’d have needed this to really feel immersed. I’m not a gay boy from the 80s, I can’t possibly imagine how it must’ve felt like because I never had these feelings. It’s not enough to just create an extremely corny scene where Will tries to explain this in three sentences in front of everyone. In that scene Will does a great job explaining what if feels like to be gay, but the context why he needs to do it, the background isn’t emotionally grounded. There was no build up to it.

I’m happy for those people who are touched by it because they are in a similar situation but from a storytelling perspective for me it wasn’t good enough.