~Spoilers for ST season 4 (vol 1 &2)~
//rant//
Wth was that. There’s no way Mike didn’t know the painting was for him at the airport after El’s letter. Even less of a chance he believed what Will said about El asking him to paint it. Mike knows she literally hasn’t seen it.
Also Will and the show itself was working too darn hard to save that broken relationship. Let them breakup. At least for a little so they can grow separately as people.
Can’t forget Mike’s monologue. At this point, the writers have forgotten everything they’ve written or Mike’s a manipulative jerk. The whole “my life started the day I met you”... Like you found out your best friend was missing that day. If my best friend went missing and I met the “love of my life”, that day would still be the day my life ended, not started. Idc who I met, if my best friend disappeared, so would a part of me. It’d be the worst day of my life. As it should’ve been (and seemed like it was) for Mike. He said befriending Will was the best thing he’s ever done (logically losing him would be the worst), yet all of a sudden meeting El was? One of them has to be a lie. Or maybe both? Maybe he just says whatever will get the person to do what he needs them to and never means it. The last episode for Mike literally made no narrative sense and went against everything his character had been in the other seasons.
TL;DR: F*ck the writers, I’m mad.