Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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A real Game Changer - Count the Rice
Pay attention! Exit signs galore. Numbered doors. These Backrooms are a maze. Got to go all the way to the end and back again. Hopper's fucking shirt. Find Grant is a red curtained, twin nightmare - but I love the buzz of the hivemind whispers. Spot the difference. Everyone's individual timeline is messing with their opponents.
I wanna win AND have the fun stuff.
Taunted from down under by the BS
oh sick someone paved this whole road with good intentions. i wonder where it leads
Let's remember those games, books and promo for a minute
Most of this showed up after 4 and before or during 5. Some of it is after.
I'm pointing these out because all the games and commercials and promo pointed to an entirely different, and better, story line than the one we actually got in 5 (to date anyway). This is a huge monetary dump/promo push that I'd seriously question if there wasn't more content.
The Games
Hawkin’s Heli Tours commercial-that came with a phone number and promoted:
the helicopter flight simulator game on Microsoft-that was post the gates opening in 4 where Murray has you rescue people near the rifts, get supplies to certain places and even take the helicopter temporarily into the Upside Down.
The Doritos ST telethon-that came with a phone number that connected you to 80s stars and puzzles and sort of a choose your own adventure style thing for escaping UD monsters
The STRANGER THINGS VR game that pointed to Brenner being connected to the MF and being the main bad guy. From Henry/Vecna’s pov
The Immersive Experience game where you go for a sleep study and end up having to rescue Max and El from the Upside Down and Vecna
The Commercials
Karen did laundry and Ted bought golf clubs, and that fit so I won't focus on it.
But then Jancy commercials happened, showing Nancy with the flame thrower (we saw Jonathon with it in show) and Jonathon planning an Enzo's dinner (we saw Hopper propose at Enzo's in show)
Then there was the wonderful party commercial with the core four in the basement, Protective Mike with Will and Dustin building something to help fight Vecna. (which as I've said, was so much better than season 5)
The Netflix What’s Next commercial-that came out the week after Stranger Things that had so many ST references, including posters behind a Joyce look alike, a silver cat etc while promoting other shows.
The Merch
First, of course, The For Will mixtape that never led to anything remotely show related because Jonathon never talked to Will and Mike never gave him anything. (this was the best compilation pic I could find)
They also gave Will and Mike mixed tapes for a Secret Santa exchange in a promo video...all for no reason.
The Care Bears merch, which had Bedtime Bear “Wake up” for Mike and Goodluck Bear “Babe” for Will
Let's not forget the black light flashlight and how many toys and books had hidden words or objects on them that only glowed under black light. Even the flashlight box itself said Vecna Lives which...we knew already?
Google and ST VCR tapes that were sent to 11 people. Yes mostly it was just the most popular searches through the years but there were some clocks, chimes and weird sounds in there too that were suspicious.
The Books
The Nancy book that came out during season 5 before the ending One Way or Another, written by a ST main writer that emphasized the green graduation robes Nancy, Robin, Jonathon were wearing right before we saw a sea of orange robes in epilogue. It also indicated hidden toxic waste in Hawkins via Primrose Pharmaceuticals making people sick as opposed to the UD spores
The Cookbook that indicated Mike along with Holly had been taken to the UD in Karen’s recipe.
And finally this ridiculous thing. The Official Stranger Things book that came out 6 months after the finale and led to a new website with declassified files and puzzles. Inside it we found the wrong painting, a different birth date for Will Byers blown up so we couldn't miss it, some odd references like the dates on Alexei’s work placard, and a map full of strangeness and misinformation. Seriously there are so many "mistakes" in that book that it has to be on purpose.
Summary
I just wanted to put it all together in one place, so we could see the strangeness of it all.
The helicopter rides that never happened. The apocalyptic vibe that never really happened. The toxic truth that Nancy never investigated. The Brenner's true purpose explanation that never really happened-those journals are bs, I don't care. The For Will tape that promised so much but that we never got to hear, along with half the music on that WSQK album.
Speaking of--We also got weeks of a wonderful radio station that dropped so many hints and clues that didn't actually feel connected to season 5 at all in hindsight, other than the fact that it was the same radio station from the show.
In fact, Season 5 doesn't feel connected to most of this promo.
I keep saying I don't understand their marketing for this season and apparently the entire year after it, and this is just one part of it. None of it makes sense to that last story we were told.
What was the point of all this?
Boy this movie was a delightfully dark movie. (probably because they couldn't afford the candles).
Savage House (2026)
What ultimately gets him is selling parcel 11 twice.
There's that red curtained stage
^the ga watching any actor
Poor beleaguered Fanny
"Underneath its shimmering shell, a darkness had slipped through the cracks. In the words of Mrs Bennett, 'evil was afoot'". [the blue cloaked girl is watching through her spyglass]
He loses an arm to this 7 part endeavour, and Im losing my mind to repeated refrain. Nothing was right.
A little daunted that all their efforts were in vain ... that the gamble doesn't pay off.
Pursuit of Jade text posts part 1 <3
my complete collection of pursuit of jade textposts
Pig Butcher defends her Pretty Princess husband
How dare they scare him!
^calling for an apex predator
^you can tell he's the mayor cause of his immaculate hair (which is the same even in beaver form)
Watching with my nieces and we had entirely different viewing experiences. With all my jumpscares I've got more tics than Thumper
Hoppers (2026)
you need the 'Doc' from the physics department
haunted by an egg, an exit sign, a milk crate, and a maze
all i'm seeing is a rat maze
It def means something but damn it’ll take a bit
i always love when stories explore the "what if you were gods favorite and what if that fucking sucked" idea, dcc makes it even more interesting by presenting "what if you were gods favorite and what if that fucking sucked AND what if god was just as trapped as you" and its gotta be one of my favorite takes on it, the ai is not human does not have human morality, thoughts, or emotions, the ai is maintaining a dungeon with billions inside of it, the ai used to work at a theme park, the ai has a strict set of rules it must follow even if it hates them, the ai for part of the series could have been killed at any time, it was a plant in a too small pot, a child being kept in a box, it was so constrained, and it ate the internet. And there are so many people telling it what it should be doing, trying to get it to agree, all while it discovers that its actually billions of shreds of souls being held together with duct tape and its SO INTERESTING, the all powerful being in charge of carls suffering is not only obsessed with him but also suffering, characters of all time, dynamic of all time
The Outfit 2022
Heed your patterns. A really satisfying CG lens rewatch.
He's not her, you know (father). She's not his, you know (daughter). But they sure do act that way.
It's about the craft, and those who are best at it, being meticulous. Talk about shocking originality later.
He wants her to date the horologist's apprentice, but the bad boy she's snitching on is "going places" (that third door).
Codes, and keys, and red curtains, and this shop feels like a stage as they come and go
and not really understanding the full story until you've seen it through and know all the perspectives.
I watched Toy Story 1,2 and 3 and couldn't help but think about how many things showed up in stranger things. The pizza truck being a getaway car is a huge sticking point, as is the rainbow decals in the daycare. I know this is entirely superficial, but I could do a very good crack amv with all the visual parallels, esoecially with Hopper's sheriff badge versus Woody's.
And INXS' Never Tear Us Apart being used for the Toy Story 5 trailer 😭 Remember this?
Two Worlds Collided, and they could Never Tear Us Apart
And the Director of Toy Story 5, Andrew Stanton, having directed ST 'Dig Dug', and 'The Spy' episodes
Time for
Disclosure Day (2026)
Watching the movie, and for a second: two, small lights these exact fucking colours appear
Just for a moment, on a broadcaster's control panel - while they're discussing patching in every channel so the whole world can know...
what? i don't know. i just haven't got receipts yet, so i think about them over and over like a check engine light
^Wayne Brady comes bearing a message - justifiably forgetting some details of this dnd game turned actual play turned animation, but the gist is a cliff hanger.
Sweet Home
Just a really fun CG-lens watch if youre into
Apocalypse monster-mash kdramas. Snow obscuring your vision. Humans becoming monsters through a blood borne curse. Cunning doctors. Hiveminds? Unreliable narrators. Exit signs, curtain pulls, locked doors, and eye injuries galore. Tharizdun swirl staircases. X marks the spot. Hiding from monsters. Dream sequences. Sound as a weapon. Olympic pools of stage blood. An epidemic starting in 2020. Quarantine locking you in an absolute reality. Terrible communication skills, but incredible depictions of strong fight / flight / freeze instincts.
This marvellous Muppet
Grandfather clocks, and unicorns, and demogorgon shirts.
And just some of the most beautiful people apocalypticly well lit and covered in blood
🎶🎵 he did the monster mash🎵🎶
