Captain's Log

I love Star Trek TOS and DS9 but like autistically. I am glued to my seat on the conformitygate bus

[forever-hyperfixating]

This blog is currently hyperfixating on…

Byler

We anticipate a return to our regularly scheduled startrek-posting after the real Stranger Things Finale!

[nanas-basement]

Dustin has no idea that the other kids are missing, yet… why does he?

dustin has been in the UD since Ep 3. We find out that other kids are missing in Ep.4.

So…

Continuity error

[theskyissosad]

user @/sixxynikki333 on twt pointed this out and its actually really cool, cause Will's video is from 25 oct 2017 If I'm not mistaken

[nightnut]

Dr Owens and distant mind manipulations

he doesn’t check on Will, he checks on results of the experiments they’re doing on him

he doesn’t assume, he promises

1+5+1+1 =8, a number of an illusion being cooked

the end of 2x03 after Will was in the lab:

later the phone rings, no one picks up

but what if it was important? and the call was from the Lab to warn them?

that something in the Lab went wrong?

leading to another ‘episode’ in the distance when Will is at home bc they injected something in his arm? (the hand hints to injecting, the nurse doesn’t hold the syringe as if she was taking his blood for analysis)

so that after Will had a cozy evening with his family we end up in the surreal distant visual manipulation translated into his mind?

it probably wasn’t done on purpose this time bc if the Lab wanted to manipulate Will’s mind in distance before, they could’ve done it a million times (could his episodes be caused by it?); however, the scientist is shocked that the machine goes crazy, and that is shown right after the call to the Byers, and right before Will’s vision when he’s alone again and in the UD.

we have also the close up on the clock face (is it 01:05? 1x05?), and the word ‘united’ is important for some reason. Will’s realities were united (Hawkins and the UD)? Or what was?

[acecreamsandwich]

WAIT did anyone else ever point this out???

In both the standard original and VHS editions, in EP 1 Will's front house has no number, then in Ep 8 it magically does:

Episode 1 - Front of Will's house:

Episode 8 - Front of Will's house:

If someone pointed this out long ago then my bad but I just noticed it lmao

[acecreamsandwich]

Shout out to @lavenderlatte222 because her originally noticing the changes to the way the Demo enters the Byer's home in Ep 8 made me go on a search for other alterations to Demogorgans specifically in the VHS Edition and uh, yeah they did!

Notice how this shot from the VHS edition is blurry a bit on the demo's face? that's because they, for some reason, cut this clip short and quickly switch to Mike's reaction.

But in the original version, the camera lingers on the demo longer enough to get a full look without a blurry cut away:

Actually, it was long enough I was able to take a 2nd screenshot this time and the Demo actually tilts its head a little in the original before they cut to mike???

Also notice how the lighting is different in the original, because this version is longer, the lighting that flashes on the Demo happens earlier before the it opens it's mouth as opposed to how it does in the VHS Edition.

[acecreamsandwich]

So, I had no idea how to show this properly through just screenshots, so I made a quick edit.

They completely altered the scene where Dr. Brenner gets attacked too😭

I made an edit where I play each version separate and then play them in sync with one another, and then again in slow-mo. The VHS Edition actually prolonged the scene and I had to cut part of it in the beginning to make it sync up properly‼ Just FYI.

Please note The 1st/top clip is always the standard/original version and the 2nd/bottom clip is always the VHS Edition version. I had to put the video in 2:3 Portrait mode to fit the clips properly.

(I tried to lower the volume on the clips since Tumblr loves to jump scare you with loud audio)

but please watch this and tell me what you see. Because I see a difference in both versions. In the original release, the demo moves in to the frame slanted and it's back is completely curved & it also moves more quickly.

In the VHS Edition, it moves in straight-forward with a straightened back and just lunges forward, and also more slowly, which actually made the clip a tad longer than the other so I had to shorten the beginning of it so that they sync up properly sound-wise.

[gritstartar]

OKAY it’s actually weird to me that we are told El created the Upside Down. And also this sequence is also weird to me right now.

So, we are shown that El ‘created’ the Upside Down, but the Upside Down is the name that the kids give it because she flips the board literally upside down. *hold this thought*

If the Upside Down is meant to be a reflection of Hawkins, how did El like make it? From what we know, she has only ever been inside of the lab.

Which is very stark white, colorless, etc.

So if the Upside Down is like the mirror of the world, or the opposite, or the just general other side… we have all of this harsh white lighting.

So the Upside Down, if El created it in her mind, would likely be the opposite of what she knows.

WHY IS HER VOID JUST THE ABSENCE OF ALL COLOR 😭😭 like I know it’s *technically her mind-space* BUT WHY IS HER MIND SPACE ACTUALLY JUST A VACUUM/VOID

So I ask you again, when she tells them where Will is and it is:

With even the little reflection of his character *how does she know that’s his character*

We also do not see El until Will has gone missing, we do not see El until after we see the Demogorgon. We do not see El again until she is in the same place that Will went missing.

She says that he is hiding. Does she flip the board over because she is trying to explain the fact that he is in the Upside Down?

Or does she flip it over to show that he is in the void?!

Also, this shit is giving me the heebie jeebies rn. Because… whut

The letter they posted about Season 4

This is the end of the story of Eleven (maybe not the end of the story of Jane or whoever).

I hate this shit because I don’t wanna be anti El because of Byler but like SHE’S SO SUS SOMETIMES!!!!!

[lavenderlatte222]

Demogorgon Difference

S1E8 (timestamp 15:48)

Regular version vs. VHS special edition:

Regular version: The demogorgon puts its arm on whatever's on the ground there and opens its mouth.

VHS version: The demogorgon just stands up and stands there.

The audio seems to be the same in both versions.

Another difference.

Regular version vs. VHS special edition:

Regular version: It looks like there's UD membrane, and the ceiling is cracking.

VHS version: It looks like the ceiling itself is more membrane-like.

There's also a white line on the screen right before this all happens.

[lilialunaa]

interesting interesting interesting…

[whynotimtired]

For the "Will is El" theory 😭

[gritstartar]

Sorry you mean to tell me there is a musician named Ronald Hawkins. Whose nicknames include “Rockin’ Ronnie” and “the Hawk”

So we have… Lonnie “the Hawk” Hawkins

AND Ronnie “the Hawk” Hawkins

And… we have a Rockin’ Ronnie (Ronnie Hawkins)

and a Rockin’ Robin (Maya Hawke)

What the fuck is going on LOL

Oh and a song named Susie Q I must say, I have no idea what’s going on here but like what the hell 😭

[gritstartar]

VHS TAPEGATE!!

OKAY Y’ALL!!!!!

My first ~major~ find on the VHS Season

I know everyone is talking about the white lines, but LOOK HOW MUCH OF THE DEMOGORGON you can see in the background in this shot! That’s CRAZY! I’m going to reblog with the original clip just for comparison!

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JK it won’t let me repost with it!

Electromagneticgate we are so here! I don’t know what it means at all yet, but it’s so interesting because I wonder how this will work when we get to the actual clip of the Shadow Monster on the VHS-C but we’re watching it on VHS or on VHS-C (because VHS-C was out in 1984). Will it disappear…? Are the true monsters, more visible on VHS?

I mean, they are shown to interact with tapes, and now we are getting the VHS tapes. VHS tapes work by having analog signals (different from like radio signals but still signals) encoded onto them, and then the VCR basically decodes them into a format that is visible on your screen.

Even the damn NOISE from a VHS tape looks like the starry sky backgrounds in the show…

Remind you of anything…?

Lastly, putting the date on a VHS is a manual recording option… Will, you smart boy!

Worth noting, this DATED tape is also the one the lab confiscated… 🤨🧐

Some of the ones Brenner has are dated, some are not.

Removing height would also likely, get rid of these dates! *we need more height!*

This is making me wonder about these end shots again, the black and white.

Lastly, the consumer … VHS (video home system) is a consumer-level analog tape recording 👀

WHAT does that mean hehehehe in this context ANYWAYS why is Brenner using consumer level taping for the lab what a weirdo, like ur with the government you have access to higher technology id assume

[thebyleritgotme]

But.... but I thought.... okay whatever who even cares anymore

[amvthea]

WSQK Sync - Part 3

Part 2

Vance: "Code Red. A serious emergency (= Hopper is recaptured; Joyce and Murray are roofied). I'm out of coffee (= the one that Joyce spilled a couple of seconds earlier)."

Part 4

[amvthea]

WSQK Sync - Part 4

Part 3

Mindy: "Close the gate (= the gate is being opened)!"

The slow motion corresponds with the glitches in the broadcast. The lyrics are golden too!

"Turning and RETURNING to some secret place inside Watching in SLOW MOTION as you turn around and say"

Part 5

[amvthea]

WSQK Sync - Part 6

Part 5

I do NOT believe in coincidences...

Part 7