Proof of the Boroughs/Stranger Things connection
I know everyone has moved on, and I've tried to make this post multiple times, but after watching it again, I keep finding similarities and little Easter eggs that are just insane. These two shows should not be THIS similar. The characters, should not have THIS MUCH in common unless it's on purpose. The fact that I can find a comparison to almost every ST character with almost every TB character is... well, let's just say that is one hell of a coincidence.
Edited to add: They keep talking about supporting original stories but it really feels like they keep supporting/telling the same story so that's a little confusing unless cg and the meta theories are real.
Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched The Boroughs
Sam keeps reliving the last moments of his wife’s life where she died surrounded by puzzle pieces with The Boss playing in the background.
Mike keeps reliving the last moments before El died while Prince played in the background, and there were several visual and verbal references to puzzle pieces in season 5.
Judy is an investigative journalist who owns a gun and loves 2 men. After the death of one, she’s all in on finding the monster and killing it.
Nancy wants to be an investigative journalist, is great with guns and stuck between two men. After the death of her bff while sleeping with one, she’s all in on finding the monster and killing it.
Art is smoking weed all the time, talking to a psycho pomp crow like he was his therapist and worried his relationship with Judy might be over. He’s lying about where he goes every day. He talks about playing golf and lives in the desert. He even mentions Brooksy is looking out for his mushrooms.
Jonathon in 4 was smoking all the time, talking to Argyle like he was his therapist and worried about his relationship with Nancy. He’s lying about why he isn’t visiting her and doesn’t want to go to Emerson. There is an actual scene of him hitting golf balls in the desert. At the end Argyle is looking for mushrooms.
They said “Everybody loves/loved Jack” at least 5 times, which tells me that Jack the weatherman is Steve the Hair Harrington. (Steve even mentions or implies Nancy is "special" in every season, which Jack says to Sam about Judy "She's special")
Renee Joyce finds her missing quartz suspicious even though nobody else does, gets in a relationship with a “cop”, has a horrible ex who is sue-happy, finds proof in a video, loves Wally enough to torture an old lady if it will save him.
Joyce finds her missing son/the magnets suspicious even though nobody else does, gets in a relationship with a cop, has a horrible ex who wants to sue Sattlers Quarry, finds proof of the MF on a video, loves Will enough to do anything to save him. Exorcisms, kidnappings, entering the UD etc.
The Mother connects to Sam. She projects herself as his wife to communicate. She’s been used for so long but now it’s time for her to die and she needs his help. She has an ET dress up moment to hide in plain sight. She brings Judy back to life against all odds. Sam is the last person she talks to before she dies.
El connects to Mike and she needs his help. She’s been used by the lab for years. Brings Max back against all odds. Has an ET dress up moment. Mike is the last person she talks to before she dies.
Blaine and his wife run a business that is basically a cult for the employees. It’s centered around Mother and her children and it has to do with her blood. And immortality.
To keep her, they monitor their closed neighborhood of seniors with seraphim and send the children to collect cerebral spinal fluid to feed her.
Brenner runs a lab that is basically a cult centered around El who is a child (and possibly other children) and it has to do with her/their blood. And time?
To keep El they monitor Hawkins with bugs and a faux energy company.
(I would like to say I also saw a lot of potentially Vance Goodman and Mindy Flare (and maybe Henry and Patty?) in that couple. She was desperate to live and violent and he was all about trying to keep her alive.)
Wally is gay and he’s dying of a terminal cancer. He was also a doctor working on a cure for AIDS in the 80s. To save his friends he agrees to help them heal mother while his friends pretend everything is back to normal.
Will is gay in the 80s. To save his friends he might have given in to the MF and given his friends a world in which everything seemed to have gone back to normal.
Hank had a child and worked as a warden, but he did bad things-and to be fair-enjoyed them. He was given a job opportunity that would let him live forever if he aided and abetted Blaine and his wife and "the children" People thought he died but he didn't.
Hopper had a child and worked as a cop, but his guilt over his past hindered him. He agreed to keep what was going on at the lab quiet in return for helping Joyce save Will. People thought he died but he didn't. (Basically Hank is Evil Hopper)
There are elements of Dustin in Sam-the inventor, tinkerer and all those tvs reminded me of Dustin's creation in that one commercial.
There are elements of Max in both Judy and Renee. Renee is a sassy badass and Judy is brought back to life.
I didn't see Robin or Lucas in anyone necessarily. But Paz was kind of an Eddie/Billy/Bob combo. A musician who was sweet and also into older women. :)
Sam watching the OG Little Shop of Horrors
The Little Shop of Horrors poster on Will's wall
The "children" being in cages at The Manor
The children being locked up at Hawkins lab
Art calls himself an Eagle Scout and Erica tells Judy that Sam is a Boy Scout.
Henry being a Boy Scout is fairly important to the show.
TB starts with ET mom actress running from a monster and that monster dragging her back inside and carrying her away.
ST starts with a scientist running from a monster and that monster dragging and carrying him away.
Only one monster gets a name "Scar"
Only one monster gets a name "Dart"
Sneaking into a morgue to do an informal autopsy to find the truth.
Sneaking into a morgue to do an informal autopsy to find the truth.
The microscope in Wally's box
The microscope in Castle Byers
Blood giving super powers
Wally picking out a coffin and laying in a closed one to hide.
Jonathon picking out Will's coffin and them having a funeral for him even though he wasn't dead.
Renee and Paz walking after a car goes off a cliff
Joyce and Hopper walking after the truck explodes
A famous David Bowie song on soundtrack -Golden Years
A famous David Bowie song on soundtrack- Heroes
When the children's blue blood combines with the Mother's gold blood, a cure is created.
"When blue and yellow meet in the West." (the west in that case being New Mexico, considered part of the American West) *also byler*
Edited to add: "Take the deal. Take a class. Play pickle ball." When Wally tells them to take the deal or end up in the bad guy's hands.
"Study for that test, enjoy that tv dinner, go on that date" When Robin is telling her audience to ignore the military quarantine that's kept them all locked up for 18 months.
Edited to add: Someone in the comments just mentioned something I forgot!
The children feed by sending tendrils into people's mouths.
The MF and Vecna put vines in children's mouths (the difference is they're putting something in instead of taking it out)
An old man named Mike is waiting for his best friend at a fake bus stop every day.
A younger woman named Erica helps Judy investigate Sam
Renee's last name is Joyce
Judy and Art's last name is Daniels -Daniel was the name of the bad guy in Tales from 85
Wally's last name is Baker which is synonymous with Baxter, as in Nikki Baxter and Mrs. Baxter who teaches evolution...oh and Sam's middle name is Darwin-a guy who wrote the book on evolution.
Edward (Eddie) says the owl is in the walls. He has Maxwell's disease.
Hank Williams and Jack Willard are both characters in the show with Will-centric last names.
Ella/El is the name of Sam's granddaughter
A blonde named Terri gets up to sing at Jack's funeral because they used to have a thing and its'...not great. Which reminded me of Tammy.
Is that a lot? It feels like a lot.
