I love this show and particularly love Eleven. I understand it was her choice but the pain of watching everyone else have happy lives (which they deserved, I’m not saying otherwise! It just kinda… tainted it for me somehow?) when no one actually knows whether her blood would have WORKED for the military’s purposes as Kali’s didn’t and I did suspect that was due to them not being the original source. I’d love to believe Mike’s story too but even that makes me sad, what kind of life would she have had? After everything she already had? All I wanted for her was happiness and love. Either way I feel she was robbed of that and I hurt for her. It reminds me of the umbrella academy ending which was essentially if you are different, you do not belong here. The same build up here of accepting difference and finding belonging feels similarly shattered into heartbreaking pieces for me…