#I leaked the linda hamilton casting

[chirpsythismorning]

Nah bc why do I feel like Netflix and the st writers are beefing so hard rn bc of the strike that someone from the production leaked the casting for Linda Hamilton so that the reveal on Tudum would be super anticlimactic…

I also thought Chase Stokes was sort of random for a host, but considering OBX 4 literally just started filming days ago, it’s almost like they’re rewarding those that are being most loyal to Netflix 👀

[smalltownrobin]

Robin Buckley in ST5 - what we know so far

Decided to make a comprehensive post of everything we know about Robin in s5!! A little for my own benefit but I'm sure something like this won't be unappreciated? I have checked with others for details I've missed or gotten wrong and all seems to be correct, but if anyone thinks I have missed anything please feel free to let me know!! (this well ofc be added to if we get more info over the rest of production)

POSSIBLE S5 SPOILERS BELOW (OFC)

Confirmed details:

“more involved than ever” (Maya quote)

Makes friends with characters she hasn’t interacted with yet (confirmed by Maya)

Loads or unloads groceries from Bradley’s out of a lorry with Steve, Nancy, Jonathan and Murray (paparazzi)

Has a kiss scene (most likely with Vickie) (confirmed by Maya as a “spoiler”, further hinted at by Amybeth)

There is a shot where Robin is stood in a line with Nancy, Joyce, El and Will (El says “there’s too many”, Will looks nervous) (ST staff)

Is in the centre of a birdseye shot with the whole group lying down next to Will (Vickie is also possibly there next to her) (ST staff)

Acts as a mentor figure for one or more of the party (most likely Will, also possibly Mike) (confirmed by Maya)

Shares scenes with Will and Mike (could be separately and together) and Joyce (ST staff)

There is a small painted figurine prop possibly related to Robin that Maya wants to keep after filming (confirmed by Maya)

Has a scene helping someone called Debbie (presumably a child) out of or into a tunnel (Debbie asks if she works for someone, Robin lies she is “one of his elves”) (script page leaked by Maya)

Has a scene inspecting a fuse box with Joyce (ST staff)

Has a scene with Mike by (or even possibly in) the WSQK van and a car covered in upside down vines (paparazzi)

Has filmed on a blue screen set with Mike (ST staff)

Gains bruises/marks on her face (unknown how) (ST staff, paparazzi)

Drives Joyce's car with Lucas to the hospital and runs inside before the military storms (paparazzi)

Runs down the hospital corridor with "another character" (seemingly Vickie) while the lights are flashing multicoloured (paparazzi)

Filmed at the hospital in a room with a monitor screen with military soldiers (paparazzi)

Rides in the Bradley's lorry with Murray driving through downtown Hawkins (ST staff)

Rides in the Bradley's lorry on a separate occasion with Steve driving through downtown Hawkins, this time wearing a military vest (possibly before bullet holes appear in the window) (paparazzi)

Confirmed filming locations:

WSQK radio station (exterior) with Steve, Nancy, Jonathan, and Murray (paparazzi)

a separate instance with Mike (ST staff)

WSQK radio station (interior) with Joyce, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, Nancy, Jonathan and Steve (ST staff)

Hawkins Memorial Hospital (interior, specifically a patient room, possibly also the waiting room) with Vickie (ST staff/Amybeth)

a separate instance in the corridors with Vickie (paparazzi)

Hawkins Memorial Hospital (exterior) with Lucas (paparazzi)

McCorkle Farm (presumably) with the whole cast (Will, Mike, Erica and a new character confirmed) (ST staff)

Hawkins National Lab (exterior) with Mike (paparazzi)

Hawkins National Lab (interior) with Mike, Lucas, Hopper, Max, Murray, Erica, Vickie + unspecified cast (ST staff)

a separate instance at the WSQK radio station with Joyce, Will, Mike, Lucas, and Vickie + military (and possibly Linda Hamilton's character) (paparazzi, confirmed by Maya and Amybeth)

Downtown Hawkins (in the Bradley's lorry) with Steve (paparazzi)

Outfits:

(a long blue coat on top of what looks like a plaid shirt and black trousers) (the pattern/mark on her shoulder is interesting... all I will say)

This outfit is seemingly from the first episode, and she has worn it at both the radio station and the hospital sets!

(a blue jumper possibly with a white graphic or pattern on the front and black trousers with a black watch)

I believe this outfit is from the second episode! So far we've only seen it at the radio station set, there's a chance she also wore it at the hospital set (instead of the first outfit) but it's so difficult to tell since they're similar colours.

(a white graphic t-shirt over a purple jumper, with light blue jeans and a belt, black converse and a mid length black leather jacket which she removes, with her hair half up with a blue bow, silver rings, a black watch and a silver chain necklace)

I believe this outfit appears in either the third and fourth episodes and onwards until idk, which she has worn at both the radio station and farm sets! The image on her t-shirt is of Tom Waits:

He's a musician mostly known for folk music in the 70s and 80s. This photo specifically was taken in 1983 and was printed in russian and dutch magazines. (a side note: Maya Hawke loves folk music and is most likely a fan of his, and Winona Ryder owns and has famously worn a Tom Waits shirt over the years!)

(camo green looking trousers and a matching vest) (coat is not part of the outfit! she also still has her purple jumper/white t-shirt combo on underneath which I know for a fact but cannot show)

Believe this is her final battle/finale fit!! Incredibly similar to her battle outfit from the end of s4 only without the hat, especially since she seems to change into it straight from the previous outfit. It's really hard to see it properly since we've only gotten incredibly blurry far away pics of it, but as far as I can tell and based on what other people have said, it's some kind of impromptu military-esque look, whether it's the exact same as what she wore the end of s4 I don't know, could be, could not be.

(there is another photo of Maya in the Robin wig wearing a triumph motorcycles t-shirt, but as far as I know that t-shirt is Maya's own, so I'm assuming she is not in full costume in that photo!)

I also wanted to point out the marks on her face that she seems to have for a lot of filming:

It looks like it's on both sides of her face; the left side of her face has a very big and definite bruise, while the right has a slight reddish mark. It's difficult to see in a lot of photos (since they're seemingly hiding the bruised side of her face and the mark is much less noticeable?), the paparazzi photos from outside the hospital showed it best, but you can somewhat see the red mark in some photos if you look hard enough. As I said earlier, it's unknown how she gains these marks, however it seems to correlate with when Mike and Will also gain red marks on their face (and not with Dustin, who seemingly gets beat up by the jocks in the first episode, the others' show up after), so whether it's upside down related, military related, or possibly even homophobia related, isn't certain.

And that's everything!! There is of course supposed leaks floating around, but for the moment I'm not including them as most of them appear to be fake so would be a little pointless? There also just hasn't been that many for Robin so this seems to be it for now!

[hawkinshistoricalsociety]

ST5 Approximate Timeline - part 2!

See part 1 here!

Once again, if you're avoiding spoilers do not read any further. Go in peace!

(ep 7 / 8 after this point, probably. since it's all Duffers directing and we have much less from official channels here, pinpointing which ep gets much harder/impossible. also naturally we just currently have seen a lot less from this point on)

Lab

Vickie, Erica, Robin, Murray, Mike, Lucas, Max, Hopper, “cast,” “cast”, pink chair we can’t read (El or Holly?) are at the Lab (either in the UD or Right-Side Up but viney bc the UD is "bleeding into" regular Hawkins atp). Maybe daytime (Netflix Stranger Things Day BTS photo)

*This has me totally confused. Hopper seems to join up with most of the farm group while Will, Joyce, and possibly El (*unless the pink chair that we can’t read is hers, IDK) are absent. Plus Max’s presence - maybe she is Mindscaping in, I just can’t imagine she wakes up from her coma and is ready for action. It does make sense she would spend some time at the Lab in the Mindscape for Vecna flashbacks Also don’t get where the Steve car group is at this point. They may not leave the UD Church with El and Hopper even if they do indeed meet up there. So I don’t really know where to place this, I think it has to be after ep 6 if Hopper is there at the same time as so many of the Mike Robin Lucas etc group but ?????? Final speculative thought: maybe Steve's car group is in the UD Lab UD WHILE this group is topside? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Could be the place our two UD expeditions cross back into regular Hawkins, maybe Hopper makes the jump and El stays behind initially. That also might place this in ep 6, which could make some sense...for various reasons I've been wanting to put the UD Church after the Lab but this grouping has prevented me from doing so. Anyways now I'm just writing fanfic but basically this one is a puzzle

During the day, Robin and Mike are outside the Lab (covered by vines - so same deal), looking worse for wear. Will and El also reported at this set, but we don't have pics. Cars present: WSQK van (no antenna), Joyce’s car, and a hearse (pap photos, pap video)

Downtown Hawkins

Vecna walks out of the gate in the downtown Hawkins military compound, appears to wreak some soldier carnage, things are on fire (leaked set photos)

Mayhem at the downtown Hawkins military compound at night. Lights are flashing (Ross Instagram weeks 25-27), Will filmed at this set (Noah Instagram story)

Linda Hamilton + the military drive towards the WSQK van at Hawkins Presbyterian at night (pap photos/video)

Steve and Robin, in new military-style outfits, drive the Bradley’s truck downtown at night. There is a bullet hole in the windshield (pap photos/reports)

At night, Murray drives the stolen military humvee, Hopper is maybe with him. (pap reports)

Derek is with the kids in downtown Hawkins, Will (outfit #3), and El (maybe finally outfit #2 for her because she never seems to change this season, looks like it could be a wetsuit) (pap photos)

More filming at the downtown Hawkins military compound: Joyce (outfit #3), Robin (outfit #3), Will (outfit #3), Dustin (outfit #2), Nancy (outfit #2), Jonathan (outfit #3?), Mike (outfit unclear to me? looks #2ish), maybe Lucas in a totally new outfit but IDK if that's him (pap photos). Notable that Dustin and Nancy (and maybe Mike, I really don't know about him) do not seem to have final outfit changes when everyone else does.

Mindscape

Holly + kids at the Creel House

A large number of kids play on the fully intact Creel House playground (pap photos)

Holly, in her outfit #1) takes a purple box with 80s-esque branding (a toy?) out of the mailbox in front of the freshly painted, in good repair Creel House. She talks to Henry in human form wearing period clothing and does not seem afraid (pap photos)

Holly wears an Alice in Wonderland-esque outfit (pap photos)

Other Mindscape (Max + Vecna?)

We return to Vecna’s lair in ep 6 (Shawn Levy Instagram)

We flashback to the Massacre at Hawkins Lab at some point, based on a “blood references” image for the Rainbow Room on set (Ross Instagram)

When? (Haven't managed to place these)

El uses her powers in the UD forest (July BTS video)

Vecna walks toward camera through UD forest (July BTS video)

In the UD near the Turnbow Realty billboard, a soldier is flung through the air (July BTS video)

At an unidentified location, a map of Hawkins marks “H” with an index card north of Lover’s Lake (Ross Instagram)

There’s a teacher at the downtown Hawkins military compound with the kids (extras casting call)

A nurse or nurses perform someone/someone’s bloodwork (extra casting calls)

Day: Bradley’s truck tips over in a field near the military checkpoint, there are scratches and a hole in the top (no bullet hole in the windshield yet) (pap photos)

Will gets completely drenched (Noah Instagram)

Mike and Lucas ride their bikes at night, probably in their second outfits (pap photo)

Wheeler station wagon, Bradley’s truck (scratched up), and WSQK van at vine-covered Radio Station (pap photos)

Steve is outside the Radio Station in his first outfit at night, the WSQK van has an antenna. Maybe early and late season scenes were both being filmed? (Ross Instagram)

El is at the lab (?) at night (?), maybe in her wetsuit (Ross Instagram)

Flyer for “Jimmy Fasthands” Lee’s show on WSQK pinned to a bulletin board (Ross Instagram)

Dustin sits in the WSQK van passenger seat, and a yellow WSQK T-shirt is stretched across the back (Ross Instagram Weeks 28-30)

Linda Hamilton + the military drives to Radio Station at dusk, meets maybe Vickie (candy striper outfit) (pap video), how many times does the military show up at the Radio Station my god. maybe this happens while the crew is at the Mansion? but IDK, that doesn't really add up for me

Derek is downtown standing next to maybe Holly in a flannel (too blurry to be conclusive imo. but I hope so since it means she is alive, involved, and gets some clean clothes) (pap photos)

*I'm not bothering with the epilogue bc focusing on the "main" season plot is long enough. also I find it so hard to pay attention to the military and Murray but I'm doing my best 🫡

[fireballwill]

I know this sounds like a reach but

In light of the Linda Hamilton casting being leaked in advance and the writer’s strike…EYE personally think that makes it a lot more likely that we’ve gotten at least *some* real plot leaks. Not to mention it’s the final season and GOT’s final season had an enormous amount of leaks that got out in advance. Feel free to not believe them but I think it’s very likely considering Bigscreenleaks already got some a month ago from a reliable source.