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Anyone else find Will's attitude about not wanting to grow up ridiculous?

posted 5 years ago by Mister Babadook (2685)
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I mean he was acting so butt hurt because his friends was getting older and thinking about girls instead of playing Dungeons and Dragons, dude went out into the woods during a storm crying and destroying his fort with a bat. Yeah newsflash Will, you have to grow up, thats what happens, you can't stay kids forever.

What Mike said was perfect "Did you think we was just gonna sit in my basement playing games the rest of our lifes?" and Will actually replied with "Yeah" as if thats what he really thought. Will was just acting a bit ridiculous imo.

[–] exatera (3959) 5 years ago

I thought the real reason for his behavior was that Will is gay and in love with Mike - he just doesn't realize it yet.

[–] Alex (1504) 5 years ago

It's highly likely.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77571) 5 years ago

No, some kids are just late bloomers

[–] ridah (290) 5 years ago

THIS!

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77571) 5 years ago

Pleased to meet you ridah👍
I hope to see you around a bunch more

Yeah, I remember being that age and not caring about girls...I liked my Huffy with the mag tires and my DnD games...dating and kissing seemed pretty gross to me when I was 13...really gross!

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7188) 5 years ago

Actually, it makes so much sense it hurts. Will has spent the last two seasons missing out on his childhood because of literal monsters trying to inhabit his body - and succeeding. Now that he's finally regained a sense of normalcy, all his friends have surpassed him in countless ways and are leaving him behind. Plus, he knows he's moving and is being forced to leave them, too. The fact that he clings specifically to D&D above anything else speaks volumes, as it's the last normal thing he had before the whole season one debacle.

Also, it's really refreshing to see a show that conveys how not all kids are eager to grow up.

[–] ComputerBlue (326) 5 years ago

Well said.

[–] Mister Babadook (2685) 5 years ago

Yeah that makes sense i guess, i didn't think about it like that.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Ummmm...this is the internet. You're not supposed to re-evaluate and adjust your position based on a well thought out post by another person. You're supposed to double down on your original post and tell anyone who disagrees why they're an idiot.

Lol and yeah I'm kidding if it wasn't obvious. Although I didn't think it was that unrealistic for Will to want to stay a kid a bit longer (kids progress differently and I remember still playing with action figures after some of my classmates had moved on), Wint's post made me see it a different way as well.

[–] Bolchevik (377) 5 years ago

Well the explanation was just too good.

[–] Boricanator (1443) 5 years ago

Exactly. Lot’s of kids act like Will does. Some kids take longer to grow out of it.

How many kids had friends that stop being friends because they became the cool guys? It’s normal.

And what you said gives it another angle I hadn’t thought of. Will was partly deprived of his childhood and he’s leaving town. That has a strong impact on anyone, especially at that age.

[–] Alex (1504) 5 years ago

That and he's totally gay. Mike even mentions "how it's not his fault that Will doesn't like girls"

[–] chrisjdel (2714) 5 years ago

Will knows he sounds ridiculous. As the youngest member of their circle of friends he's a little behind the curve. The four boys used to be together every waking moment, one for all and all for one, now that's changing. This happens all the time. Not everything about growing up is easy. There's a part of you that wishes you didn't have to.

The trauma these kids have experienced only adds to it. Even Hopper said he almost shot some woman's dog when it ran toward him because for a moment he thought it was one of those creatures. Eleven and Will especially have been through a lot of bad ѕhit no adult should ever experience. You think it's a coincidence he directed his rage at that fort - remember what happened there in season 1? It was a place he felt afraid and helpless. Even now he can't escape the Mind Flayer's influence, he feels weak and scared whenever any part of it comes near him. He's tired of being afraid. He's tired of his life being hijacked, he wants to go back to some kind of normal, and it makes him angry that he can't seem to do that. He'll get things sorted out eventually. Imagine a real 13-year-old being subjected to what happened to Will in season 2. I think he can be forgiven for having a hard time.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 5 years ago

not really. most nerds don't start getting girlfriends until college.

[–] sled1025 (4) 5 years ago

This actually felt like the most "real" moment in all of season 3 to me. I could totally relate to what Will was feeling. As an adult and a lifelong bachelor I still experience that very same feeling of abandonment when I know I will always rate below my friends' girlfriends or wives or whatever.

[–] Lord Rake (4469) 5 years ago

I think they might be setting him up to be confused or a tranny in a later season. I hope not, but that seems to be the trend these days.

[–] Cranmer (139) 4 years ago

I think it's almost inevitable that there will be gayness in S4. Trans might be a little way out for Indiana in the 1980s, but they managed to get it into 'Billy Elliot' so who knows...?

[–] Nauru-1 (14) 4 years ago

I'm okay with him feeling that way. I'm not okay with him getting a pass for being a dismissive friend and not really having to address anything. Whereas Lucas and Mike apologize almost instantly when Will gets upset, Will seems like he doesn't care about his friends' perspective in all this from beginning to end.