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we've always done episode titles predictions for each new season but now that we can't really do that anymore, what would you rename the episode titles for each episode and season that's already out ?

Interesting question, I've never really thought about doing something like that before.

The thing is that Stranger Things has quite a lot of good episode titles and ones that I would even consider impossible to change like "The Vanishing Of Will Byers" for example given how fitting it is as a title for that episode. But it's a challenge so I'll try my best.

Season 1:

Episode 1: November 6th, 1983

(It's the closest to the original one, it needs to be about Will's dissapearance & it sets the time period for the show.)

Episode 2: Eleven

(Because duh, it's when the boys meet El for the first time and we get the name that's gonna plague our ears for 10 years out of Mike's mouth. :D)

Episode 3: Christmas Lights

(It's one of the most iconic moments of Stranger Things so it makes sense to have it as a title.)

Episode 4: Searching

(The best I could find given it's an episode about the characters that are, well, searching for something whether it's someone or answers.)

Episode 5: Doorway

(The closest to "The Flea & The Acrobat" since it is what Mr. Clarke names the gate after finishing his explanation about how someone could enter the Upside Down or how an entrance could be made.)

Episode 6: Contact

(Subtle but fitting, it's what Brenner to El before he forces to use her powers which will lead her to open the UD gate unwillingly. Plus I think that moment is more important than we think but shhh... 🤫 not for today!)

Episode 7: All Friends Welcome

(It is what's written on Castle Byers which is where El finds Will.)

Episode 8: The Vale of Shadows

(Pretty straight-forward.)

Season 2:

Episode 1: The Storm

(The Storm of the Mind Flayer.)

Episode 2: Caught Between Two Slides

(How Will describes what he is experiencing to Mike during the Crazy Together scene.)

Episode 3: Mr. Baldo

(The story Bob describes to Will to try and help him fight what he is experiencing but will lead him to get flayed.)

Episode 4: Spreading

(The Mind Flayer spreading into Will and taking more & more control of him while also spreading under Hawkins through tunnels and vines.)

Episode 5: Vines

(The vines and tunnels growing deep under Hawkins and the characters trying to find a way to get to Hopper who realised that it was vines that were spreading all along.)

Episode 6: Hive Mind

(How the Mind Flayer is able to spy through Will and use the Demodogs.)

Episode 7: Kali

(Don't need to explain that one.)

Episode 8: Superhero

(R.I.P Bob Newby and El making a come-back to save the day like a superhero.)

Episode 9: The Host

(Will being the host to the Mind Flayer and needed to be saved via getting the piece of the Mind Flayer out of him.)

Season 3:

Episode 1: Summertime in Hawkins, Indiana

(Simple one, this episode is quite all over the place so hard to find something that can stick the landing.)

Episode 2: The Code

(The Russian Code of course!)

Episode 3: Disappeared

(Heather being missing.)

Episode 4: A New Host

(Billy and the episode that centers largely into trying to save and take care of him.)

Episode 5: Tracking

(The adults being tracked by Grigori, the kids + Nancy & Jonathan tracking the Flayed, you get the gist)

Episode 6: Building

(The Mind Flayer + The Flayed building a physical avatar for itself/the Mind Flayer.)

Episode 7: Fun Fair

(This one's obvious.)

Episode 8: Heroes

(I had to pick something and honestly it fits, it's both a glorious finale and a bittersweet one much like the song. Plus it's the one finale where everyone was really fighting at the same time.)

Season 4:

Episode 1: Don't Be Afraid...

(What Vecna or the MF says before killing them which will tie with the last episode. Also ironic from the season that's supposed to be the most terrifying one yet.)

Episode 2: From Russia with Love

(The episode where we learn Hopper is alive and is trying to contact Joyce.)

Episode 3: A Deal With God

(With the ending of the episode tying directly into the next one via Max, El and her discussion with Owen and the one she had before with Mike and how it relates to the song, Hopper trying to find ways to get out of Russia, it just felt fitting to me.)

Episode 4: Running Up That Hill

(Obvious, don't have to explain that one.)

Episode 5: Quand Le Bien-Aimé Reviendra

(The song from the play "Nina, or The Woman Crazed with Love" written by Nicolas Dalayrac that Brenner explains to El during their NINA Project sessions that is surely not full of foreshadowing whatsoever.)

Episode 6: Under The Surface

(The gate underwater, El trying to look deeper into her memories, you get the gist as well.)

Episode 7: September 8th, 1979

(The day of the Massacre at Hawkins Lab.)

Episode 8: The Assault

(The military attacking the Nevada base.)

Episode 9: ...It'll Be Over Soon.

(Again, what Vecna or the MF says before killing his/it's victims with obviously a foreboding element to it about the literal end of Stranger Things plus the "bad ending" they have this season.)

There you go, ironically it felt like the season I like the least had the better choices by me which you know, seems awfully on brand. X)

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"if tumblr dies you can find me on bluesky" "if tumblr dies you can find me on Instagram" if tumblr dies you cannot find me. It's over. I'm free.

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I just want to know the Stranger Things 5 soundtrack. I don't even care if we get any trailers.

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The desperation. X) Now you all know what it feels like to be a Beyoncé stan.

I just want to know the Stranger Things 5 soundtrack. I don't even care if we get any trailers.

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THE LAST OF US SEASON 2 Premiering April 13 on HBO Max

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The Last Of Us Season 2 April 2025

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Not so long ago, for the few that knows about it, I created an alternate account where I could do a more review type of blog but I realised that given my already difficult time of taking care of this one blog, I deleted it completely. I thought it would be better to do so since A. I haven't written anything on it and B. It was highly unlikely that I was going to anyway since my IRL life is far from stable right now and I already have multiple posts to finish on this blog alone.

I may recreate it one day if I feel motivated by the concept of it again and when my life is more stable but as of now, it's gone.

But don't worry, this one stays even if it's been incredibly difficult to keep it alive. It has emotional value so until Tumblr dissapears one day, it'll remain here forever.

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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT GAME THIS IS?

IM LOSING MY FREAKING MIND I THINK I FIGURED SOMETHING OUT BUT I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THIS GAME IS ANYONE PLEASE SAVE ME

LIKE THE FIRST ONE i see what looks like ... a dragon? a bird????? im losing it omfg

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I'm very sad to hear that Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales got shut down, really enjoyed that game and outside content it could give us about ST. Maybe possibly hints about the story, who knows ?

Hope that maybe it'll come back in a new form once ST5 releases!

We still have ST 1984 & ST3: The Game so we still have some video game content to dig into!

By the way, ST Fandom, make sure to remember to check these games before ST5 releases because last time ST4 released, they added new elements to those games such as objects and outfits. Make sure to check it out before the final season is released, who knows, maybe we will find something there.

Still hoping for my ST open world video game in the future though! 🤞

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Aaah Stranger Things comics.

The best thing about this franchise to me!

🥰🥰🥰

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The source (of the trauma?)

Maybe

"It burns! Oh, it burns!" "Mom, I can't breathe. I'm suffocating!"

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What really happened to Will when he vanished...

I don't have all the details here but... a lot of this is starting to connect.

Will enters the U.S. Department of Energy.

He falls off his bike. Wheel stops turning (indicating time coming to a halt).

He rushes through a spooky forest (creepy trees... I'll touch on that topic later) into his home. Mom and Jonathan aren't there. He tries to call the police but the Demogorgon scares him into doing so.

He rushes toward the shed.

(The association between a shed and a bomb for context).

This "Little Boy" loads a gun.

Little Boy was a gun-type atomic bomb that was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare.

He comes face to face with a light (the truth). It begins shining brighter and brighter...

Likely an explosion occurred right at that moment.

As Will is compared to "Little Boy" here... there's a nuclear fission reaction. This means splitting in two.

Kind of like...

A boy being split into two. Two what you say? Two... personalities?

Perhaps this little girl appeared to take over. To help protect Little Boy from his trauma. She came into the light while he vanished into the darkness. She's the gatekeeper alter (an actual DID alter term...). The one who controls the gate and access to memories...

Thus, he remains in the dark with only "vague" memories.

This bomb going off caused time to stop at exactly 8:15, just like "Little Boy" the atomic bomb did. That atomic bomb caused time pieces to be stuck at 8:15 essentially leaving the city of Hiroshima frozen in time.

It's no wonder Brenner and co wear hazmat suits when investigating the shed. Nuclear fission leaves behind toxic nuclear waste, after all.

More on this topic...

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What was the first moment or scene that made you suspect or realize Will can alter reality? 🙋🏾‍♂️

Hi, anon. :) I think it wasn’t 1 thing in particular but an amalgamation of things. S3 was probably what made everything ‘click’ in my mind. But there were A LOT of things in prior seasons that made me scratch my head - such as the connection/parallels of certain human/nonhuman characters to Will. And I was trying to figure out-what the narrative explanation was for all of this.

But I think what made me think of Will altering reality ...was  mostly how the media Will consumed affected the supernatural plot specifically .  And how the mf was connected to Will’s emotional state and “Will the wise”.Of course this is all unconscious on Will’s part-and he’s unaware. I won’t mention outside film inspos just what’s in the show- for this post.

s1: the demogorgans are connected to Will playing the game.Like how rolling the 7 in d&d caused him to be captured by the demogorgan in the game and real life. And how in the game the demogorgan is attracted to blood so it is irl. The weakness of the demogorgan being fire. And in a s1flashback- Will mentions Will the wise using fire powers against the bad guys. Duffers (in interviews) and Nancy saying the demogrogan was like a shark- and Will has a Jaws poster in his room. And in s1, Will watches poltergeist and is thrust into the same scenario as the little girl (being trapped in another dimension- where the mothers can only hear their voices and communicate to them through electronics ). The fact Will can mess with electronics similar to other psychics, and the monsters.In s1 Mr clarke describes the vale of shadows (later the upsidedown) as being created by “necrotic” (’dead’-zombie boy) and “shadow” (shadow monster/mf) magic.  

s2/3: Mike says he was Venkman. And Will is thrust into the same scenario as Venkman’s love interest.Dana finds a demon-dog in her fridge, and hires the ghost busters. And right before Venkman goes on a date with her she is possessed by the big-bad, Zuul, and is transformed into the gate-keeper (who controls demo(n)-dogs). Venkman proceeded to try to talk to the real Dana , ignoring her possessed form and eventually realizes how serious her condition is, is forced to sedate her. Eventually with the help of his team, Venkman closes the gate to Zuul’s dimension, rescuing Dana in the process. 

-In s2 Will also plays dig dug which is about underground mazes- so the supernatural underground caves are made in s2. And it’s a callback to the s1 d&d game with “troglodytes “ (cave men). And in s3 the Russians had the underground lab too - sort of being the troglodytes in a way.

-Will is called ‘zombie boy’ and in s3 when Will watches a zombie movie and writes a d&d story about juju zombies- the mf creates zombies and creates a monster resembling the thing (because when Will was writing his d&d story he was next to the ‘the thing’ poster in s3). When Mike hijacks Will’s d&d story saying ‘they’ll torch the chambers, sacrificing themselves killing the juju ’. Will gets angry and yells “Fine, you win.” And then Joyce and Hopper do just that- when they pull the lever, and Hopper ‘dies’ sacrificing himself, and the Russians literally are eviscerated.

-Will says ‘will the wise’ is a wizard ( writing on a music tape in s3 “will the wise-wizard mix’ and having his password for castle byers be ‘rhadaghast’- a lotr wizard.) In d&d Mindflayers are created by inserting a slug in a humanoid (like Will at the end of s1). And similar to Will’s s3 d&d story-Will says in s2 the mf drawing was for a story he was writing (which isn’t exactly the truth, but close to what is happening).The way they describe d&d Wizards matches Will/mf perfectly “Wizards are adepts and magicians . wizards are able to create spells of explosive fire, sparking lightning, subtle deception, and gross mind control. Their magic summons monsters from other planes of existence, predicts the future, and turns defeated enemies into zombies. Their most powerful spells can transform one substance into another, summon meteors from the sky, and open portals to other worlds”. Dustin says the mf uses it’s “highly developed psyionic powers for mindcontrol.” Nancy in s2 says: “So this thing is like a brain that’s controlling everything.” And accidentally calls the mind-flayer the mind-flamer ( WW had fire power).Hopper then says “So how do we kill this thing shoot it with fireballs?”And Dustin says “ No, No, fireballs you summon an undead army.”Referencing Will (fire)and foreshadowing of the zombie-esque people Will caused in s3.But Mike actually nails it on the head when he says, “If the brain dies the body dies … closing the gate will kill him(referring to Will).Because it’s not the mindflayers’ brain - it’s Will’s brain- that both Will and the mf share! 

Joyce  describes the tunnels Will draws as “like lightning” (a power Will the wise was shown to have in s1  and mf has in s2).And note in s1 we are told Lonnie taught Will baseball (and this was when Jon told Will not to mimic him)- and suspiciously there is a baseball and baseball-mitt next to the ‘shadow monster’ (mf) drawing in s2, and a bat (next to the ww drawing in castle byers in s3). Cause mf= ww.  Will lies and says the mf is just a sketch for a story he’s writing- but even if that’s not exactly true. The mf is still something he unconsciously created. And the mf comes in s2 during Will’s PTSD “anniversary effect” and in s3 everytime Will is thinking of his romantic feelings for Mike (why the mf shows up in the summer despite light being his weakness). 1st time it’s on one of their ‘movie dates’, 2nd time when Will is sad when Mike and El walk off together down the hill to make-out, , 3rd time right after he smashed castle byers after Mike says “it’s not my fault you don’t like girls”, 4th time (after the fight with Mike) when Billy is yelling to open the door (a trigger) and confides in Mike, 5th time when Mike asks him to go away so he can talk to El in the hospital waiting area, and 6th time when Mike says he loves El. 

-Susie in s3 references the ‘A wizard of Eathsea’ -it’s about a male wizard Ged (Will) who casts a powerful spell, but the spell goes awry and instead he releases a shadow creature! The new Archmage, Gensher, describes the shadow as an ancient evil that wishes to possess Ged. But the ‘shadow’ turns out  to be a representation of the darkest aspects of his personality. And the only way for the chaos to stop is for ged and the shadow to merge.

-‘the dark crystal’ movie poster in Mike’s room is about a race called urSkeks who inadvertently divided themselves into two separate beings; the violent, materialistic Skeksis, and the gentle, contemplative urRu. It was only when they merged back together as one could harmony and peace be restored to the world.

- Montauk Project’- The original title for Stranger things was “Montauk”- in reference to the Montauk Project. Where Duncan could “open portals to other dimensions-  and lets loose a monster from his subconscious.”

- In s1 Hopper says he likes the book cujo , that one of the guards is reading, and at the end of the book they replace the dog Cujo with a dog named Willie. A ref to Will creating the demo-dogs. The fact in s2 Chester (Will’s dog) died at the same time the demo-dogs appeared is probably not a coincidence.

- Susie has a wizard of oz poster & in s2 when murray mentions the supernatural he references the movie.He references Wizard of Oz by saying “people don’t like looking behind the curtain” (in the movie what was behind the curtain was a wizard-Will).

-in s3 Will & El parallel (sebastian & Atreyu from neverending story). Which Dustin references in s3.“Atreyu (who was deemed the ‘chosen one) is thrown  into the sea of possibilities (beach in cali). There he wakes on the shore of abandoned ruins (junkyard for El). There Gmork (The Mindflayer) reveals himself, having been lying in wait.He explains that Fantasia represents humanity’s imagination and is thus without boundaries, while the Nothing is a manifestation of the loss of hopes and dreams. And then latches his jaws onto Atreyu’s leg (like what happened to El).The Empress in the story later tells Atreyu, that despite being told he was the chosen one (he never was). And that it was always Bastian (Will) who was the chosen one -that could save them, all along! And that Atreyu’s (El’s) story, and “others” (the rest of the st cast) are following Bastian’s (Will’s) story all along, making them all part of his neverending story. The Empress tells Bastian that he has the power to save them using his imagination.”*Bastian has a bowl cut, appears to be a normal human, and from a single parent house hold. Bastian even temporarily goes evil after he loses his memories (just like Will).

IT ALL CONNECTS BACK TO WIIL!

* There’s also A LOT more evidence - like the many other correlations/parallels/eastereggs to Will and other human characters (El, Kali, Terry, Brenner, Max, Billy, Hopper, Alexi, Etc) who I believe Will created. As well as the parallels to Lonnie and the demogrogan(which in d&d is called “the deep father”).  I recommend reading my THEORY HERE for all that other evidence. It also includes the cited inspos  for the show there too (which i didn’t mention in this post). It’s a very long post-but I believe worth reading.

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This would probably explain why Argyle is not in Season 5.

It's 5:30 in the morning and I'm finally writing my thoughts (while listening the Twin Peaks theme on repeat) about Stranger Things again which hasn't happened in weeks and I look like this:

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It's 5:30 in the morning and I'm finally writing my thoughts (while listening to the Twin Peaks theme on repeat) about Stranger Things again, with no signs of being tired, which hasn't happened in weeks and I look like this:

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Will Can’t Remember His Childhood Very Well

This is something I’ve been theorizing for a while, but I didn’t realize until upon rewatch that they tell us this in the show. It’s been there in plain sight the whole time and I’ve picked up on it until now.

It happens during the Jonathan and Will talk in Surfer Boy Pizza:

Jonathan is sharing the story about Larry the Lego man and Will can’t remember. Or he does, but it’s just vaguely.

They then emphasize that Jonathan does remember it very well.

And yeah okay, not many people can remember their childhoods very well, but this is also a television show where things that are written often have deeper meanings and dual purposes.

Will doesn’t ever have a moment where he says “Oh yeah, I remember now.” Instead he actually claims that Jonathan is just speaking bullshit.

Yes I know that this scene wasn’t orginally in the script and was added later, but that isn’t a valid argument to disuade it’s importance because the fact of the matter is, it’s still a scene in the show. The creative process is interesting that way. Things can change every step of the way. It doesn’t make it any less intentional.

And then you combine this with NINA, the importance of memories in the last season, birthdaygate, twelvegate, Henry’s connection to Will, it’s safe to say that Will’s foggy memory of his childhood is written in for a reason, and this will be crucial in season 5.