#eightfifteen gate

[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

[stranger-chichka]

That time fuckery in 3x03 noticed by the anon and @aemiron-main the day the Byler fight happened and the day Robin cracked the blue meets yellow in the west code made me check out what happened in 8:15 and -8:15 in that episode. Here you can read what I've discovered because now I want to focus on the song that plays in the Holloway's house when El & Max enter the house. It's called "Is It a Sin" by Al Hazan.

Now, with Will's "That is not music. That...is the sound of destiny! I have seen into the future, and I've seen that today is a new day...a day free of girls!" in mind and to him turning on the music is paralleled to the music played during Holloway's dinner, read the lyrics (by the way, the cover of the song is green).

And a few facts from the singer's biography. He also specialized in couples therapy and wrote his first book about love relationships entitled Blissful Fusion - The Seven Stages of a Successful Love Relationship. A year later he followed up with a novel entitled The Will to Love. 

They're having the dinner around the time Will's destroying the Castle Byers because as soon as Max & El leave, possessed Billy/the Mind Flayer recognises El, Will feels him and the next scene we see is Billy and Heather knocking out her parents while "American Pie" is playing.

[byler-is-endgame7]

so i was rewatching s2 and i noticed this weird difference in the clips from when will went to see owens:

actual clip from s2ep1:

will: there was this storm. 

owens: okay. so how did you feel when you saw the storm?

will: i felt frozen. 

owens: heart racing? 

will: just, frozen. 

owens: like frozen, cold frozen? frozen to the touch?

will: no, like how you feel when you’re scared and you can’t breathe or talk or do anything. i felt, i felt this evil-

and then in s2ep2 doctor owens plays the clip back and we get a recording of that scene:

recording in s2ep2:

will: there was this storm. 

owens: okay. so how did you feel when you saw the storm?

will: i felt frozen. 

owens: actually frozen? cold?

will: no, like how you feel when you’re scared and you can’t breathe or talk or do anything. i felt, i felt this evil-

so why is there a difference in clips? well, it could just be a production mistake, but come on this is the DUFFERS we’re talking about here. everything onscreen matters. but then why did they take out clips? theres something funky going on with season two.

[aemiron-main]

You are my go to person for numbers so wanted to send you these finds from when I was working on a post just now!

I don't think I've heard of 50 being a number in any theories but it's so... right there that I wanted to put it out there.

Not an 8:15, but an I-15

And this one was a bit more on the money I think, those are probably specials boards, and there's a 14 and a 16 but the 15 is missing.

None of these are quite 8:15 but 🤷

AHHHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I’m going to add these to my collection,,,,,,, I’m not sure about the meaning yet, but I’m slowly piecing things together 💗💕💗💕

[bylrndgm]

let's brainstorm together -> will and the number 15. (episode one)

currently on my billionth rewatch of S2 and i am watching episode 1 and there is DEFINITELY something about 15 and Will.

first off:

the nurse doing 15 pumps (yeah, counted more than once to be sure).

then,

1511. not really sure about this, but why there is written 1511? could it be Nov. 15th? according to the stranger things wiki nothing happened on Nov. 15th. i find it peculiar that they chose the number 15. lol. (we also have a closer shot of it later on lmao) -> if you have some theories please tell me HAHAH... maybe something will happen in S5 that will be dated Nov. 15th?

reminder for myself mainly: episode 15 is 2x07, episode 11 is 2x03; episode 4 is either 1x04 (the body) or 2x04 (will the wise); episode 26 is 4x01 ARE ANY OF THESE CONNECTED ????

something about 2x07 being set on the day Will/Mind Flayer kills all the people at the lab 🥹

always during this sequence there is a code on Will's ECG's trace (bottom left corner):

3-A615. FIFTEEN. again.

and... what about the clock before Will had his episode?

my bad, the screenshot is pretty awful but, you can check it yourself: it's 8:10 with the seconds' clock hand moving to 15 seconds.

add all of this to el's shot where she says: "it's 8-1-5" and the whole eight-fifteen gate...

there is definitely something. probably keeping this series of posts updated lol.

[aemiron-main]

Omg never mind, I take it back, I just got back to watching that scene and immediately saw that they're just even numbers, not as suspicious now with just the 15 missing

So sorry hahaha 🙈

AAAAAA UR ALL GOOD THERES NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE!! This is still very helpful into to have!! 💗💕💗

[aemiron-main]

i need to do an analysis on this official ST playlist because it’s making me think a lot of thoughts esp since eight fifteen is the last track on it