#like substracting 8:15 from the lenghts was so hard

[bylrndgm]

eight-fifteen screencaps (S1 and S2)

Premises: I'm completely unhinged (🤡) and I have time to waste, therefore, I decided to give my contribution to the whole 8:15 gate.

No, for real: in this post I will put the screencaps of what happens at 8:15 and -8:15 of each episode (probably gonna reget it halfway through it lol).

In this first post I will go through S1 and S2.

Long post -> keep reading under the cut.

Pictures on the left: 8:15

Pictures on the right: - 8:15

Season 1

Chapter one: The vanishing of Will Byers.

Chapter two: The weirdo on Maple Street

Note: at 46:51, the lights flicker.

Chapter three: Holly, jolly

Chapter four: The body

Note: at 8:15 there are the title credits playing.

Chapter five: The flea and the acrobat

Note: at 8:15 there are the title credits playing.

Chapter six: The monster

Chapter seven: The bathtub

Note: seconds prior 8:15, Karen finds out some blonde hair (that probably came off El's wig)

Chapter eight: The upside-down

THOUGHTS: What is absolutely feral about this, is that S01E01's 8:15 matches with S01E08's -8:15 -> in both cases Will is leaving (the shed/Mike's basement).

And while the 8:15s seem a little disconnected from one another, the -8:15s kinda have a recurring theme:

El is trying to escape from the bad men

Joyce is crying after the line dropped (after she heard Will breathing)

Hop leaves the library to get to the quarry where he will find the fake body

Joyce breaks her house's wall trying to reach Will, who moments prior was "in the walls"

Lucas goes away after El used his powers against him

Dustin is assaulted by Troy, who threatens him to remove his teeth. Moments later, Mike will jump off the cliff

El finds out that Barb is dead

Will goes home

They're all about "going away/dying/leaving/escaping".

Season two

Chapter one: Madmax

Chapter two: Trick or treat, freak

Chapter three: The pollywog

Chapter four: Will the wise

Chapter five: Dig dug

Chapter six: The spy

Note: The Duffer Brothers are unhinged as hell, like, what does it mean that these two 8:15s are connected? The first lie: Jonathan and Nancy don't feel anything for eachother, they're just friends, which Murray debunks. And the lie was said because there was Steve in the middle of them (aka Nancy had still to sort out her feelings).

Chapter seven: The lost sister

Chapter eight: The mind flayer

Chapter nine: The gate

Note: the poster on the image on the left, shows a woman who's being chocked by some dark, monster-like hands -> the exact same thing that will happen to Joyce later on

THOUGHTS: What I noticed, is that the 8:15s are about learning, discovering and understanding because:

Keith is discussing about acne, teaching them it's not contagious + Will is having his first "now memory" of the UD

Hop tells El why she can't go trick or treating + teches her a new word: compromise

Dustin borrows five books from the library to understand more about Dart

Self-explainatory: "do you know what this word means?"

Jonathan had just learnt from Nancy that she waited him a month before getting back with Steve

Murray understands Jonathan and Nancy are lying to him

El is about to reunite with Kali

Billy's dad talks to him about "respect and responsibility" and he asks him if he understood

Joyce clicks on how to free Will from the Mind flayer.

That is pretty much it. Probably I will post pt. 2 tomorrow and let me know your thoughts.

I will leave the posts that inspired this madness raptus below, so that if you want to understand more, you'll be able to.

this by @aemiron-main

this by @byler-4-life