Stranger Things: Does Mike Wheeler think he’s Noah Calhoun or what?

Look, Stranger Things 2 is amazing. But does Mike Wheeler suddenly think that he’s some romantic character from a Nicholas Sparks novel?

You might not have caught The Notebook moment that Mike Wheeler and Eleven shared in Stranger Things 2. Or you probably did because it was the most weirdly romantic and out of place moment in the season.

Not out of place in a bad way, out of place in the sense that a small child was straight up channeling Ryan Gosling in The Notebook and trying to be romantic. Mike and Eleven shared their first kiss with each other at the end of season one.

Then she killed a Demogorgon and no one knew what happened to her. But every night, Mike Wheeler tried to reach her. He did so for a year. You know who also wrote someone for a year? Noah Calhoun.

It was just funny because out of the entire show and everything being so 80s, this was very much taken right out of a Nicholas Sparks book. And the fact that it was Mike saying and not like Steve or someone older makes it funnier.

Then again, all these boys are overly dramatic, which is why I, personally, love them so much. They just are thrust into this insane situation and then it, in turn, makes them outrageously dramatic about literally everything.

Especially with things like this. Eleven returns and Mike could have hugged her, told her he missed her and called it a day. Instead, he blurts out that he tried to call her on a walkie-talkie for a year straight.

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To what end? Who knows but that’s why these silly kids are our favorites. We just want them to be happy and to succeed against whatever comes out of the Upside Down next. And if this season was any indication, probably some kind of Demogorgon cat or something.