Yet again, the false Hydra
So I don't know shit about Dnd but I wanted to read something about false hydras and uh, I found this reddit post here:
First off, the false hydra fits conformitygate really well. If conformitygate is real, what the DB are doing right now is exactly what the false hydra does: - Memory manipulation (Mike = Tammy, Mike = the only one who understood El, Jancy breakup, Dustin and the girl from S2) - Gaslighting (Demo fatigue, "We didn't even want to write!", documentary, everyone satisfied with the ending) - People disappearing (Suzie, Vickie) - Personality changes (Steve & Jonathan all season, Mike the not so Brave, Joyce's overall weird behaviour, El turning suicidal, Hopper being cool with El's suicide) - only reveals itself through minute details (dial colour change, watzit boardgames, leaves changing colour) There are also plenty of conformitygate posts elaborating on the false Hydra I've seen on tumblr from people who actually know this stuff (I could only find this but there's definitely more!)
But regardless of these already uncanny similarities, I find it crazy that I stumble upon a Reddit post from January 4 that talks about the fallacies of using the false Hydra in DnD games and it fits exactly what's happening rn with ST5: (these are quotes from the post):
"if you aren't a good storyteller the narrative will quickly fall apart and play like shit" (self-explanatory)
"False Hydra rely on metagame knowledge and continuity to even be scary at all" (that's us, it's scary for us because we're figuiring it out and going crazy; it's not scary for the GA)
"Just like a False Hydra sings you into a fake interpretation of reality, I think D&D is overloaded with false representations of what D&D actually is" (the show being far more popular than it should have been, GA members making out a huge proportion of the fandom and frankly not getting the point of the show)
=> Furthermore the thing about using the False Hydra is that you can only do it once: Everyone who's run into the False Hydra once will never be surprised by it again - and will afterwards suspect it with everything that's off ==> which means they had to wait for S5 to pull it off. Now, the thessalhydra is NOT the false Hydra. The false hydra was first mentioned in 2014 but let's be real for a second: If you wanted to do this thing and wanted to foreshadow it, you'd use something with a similar name. And let's just assume that the false hydra is a variant of the thessalhydra: That would mean that the DB teased the show's ending in S1E8 already: THE ENDING THEY ALWAYS WANTED, THAT THEY KNEW FROM THE START: It ends with the Thessalhydra. It starts with the demagorgon and ends with the Thessalhydra.
Btw., in the S1 episode finale, the thessalhydra is defeated by Will ("The Show has always been about Will, it is going to end with Will" "Full Circle" back to Season 1).
And one more thing: The painting. Let's not forget they officially reminded us of the painting in the S5 promo. We got the funko pop. We got the "it will pay-off". We got the whole thing about this being the first case of the Cyrano trope not working out.
And what's on the painting? A dragon, sure. I mean, they couldn't completely give it away, could they? The DB said they thought about what to put on the painting for a very long time. In the end, they fight a multi-headed monster: Mike the heart, Will casting a spell, and Lucas looking like a knight (Idk what Dustin's doing).
I feel like I cooked but I probably just reheated some nachos : D
Shoutout to Delicious_Dream4510 on reddit for inspiring me.
