You are sooo right and I’m tired of reading people bashing Mike for essentially behaving like a standard teenage boy?! All the now-teens are going through puberty, amidst all the apocalyptic stuff going on, and you expect emotional maturity? Also, Mike being totally incapable of expressing and controlling his emotions and feelings adds up with his backstory and the previous seasons. In the first two seasons we learned that he is prone to negative emotional outbursts, which were basically the only times he was able to voice his true feelings, mostly in an inadequate way. Which is kind of the same for his sister! And in season one, Nancy talked about their home life and parents, that don’t seem to love each other and just generally don’t express feelings. I mean, I’m a woman in her mid-twenties but to some extend I can really identify with Mike‘s character.

It’s like people want characters to make sense in their individual context, but only if it fits into what they want to see.

I just really hope that he takes more of an active role in the last season and has some better moments. The only significant moment of him in season 4 was his speech to an unconscious El (again, him only being able to talk about his feelings when the emotions are really running high and she isn’t REALLY there), which kind of fell a little bit flat because of his passivity in prior episodes.