#montauk

[justlikeheavenbyers]

Byler in my S5-Rewrite..

[dearest-loveliest-elizabeth]

Season 1, come home… come home, season 1…

[twixnmix]

Keith Haring photographed by Andy Warhol at Warhol's estate Eothen in Montauk, New York, 1984.

[amaywe]

Philadelphia Experiment

The original title of Stranger Things was the "Montauk Project." The Montauk Project(s) are a set conspiracies that a government lab was kidnapping and experimenting on young boys to give them psychic abilities. The only remaining outpost of the lab is a guarded building and a large radio antenna. Stranger Things took a huge amount of inspiration/basically stole the plot of the Montauk conspiracies to make season one.

Before the Montauk Project, though, their was the Philadelphia Experiment, also known as Project Rainbow.

The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged test conducted by the U.S. Navy on October 28th, 1953 that attempted to make one of the naval ships---the USS Eldridge---invisible through electromagnetic fields and various other science stuff. The ship did disappear---through time. Witnesses alleged the ship traveled ten minutes back in time to a port in Norfolk, Virginia, before coming back to the port in Philadelphia. Now, this is not new to Stranger Things lore. "The First Shadow" is actually based off of this.

The first ten minutes of the play basically recount the Philadelphia project. It's 1943, their trying to disguise the ship, it goes wrong---except, instead of traveling back in time to Virginia they travel to the abyss. The captain of the ship, Captain Brenner, Dr. Brenners father, is the only to survive the encounter, but he was driven mad. Several things are alleged to have happened to the crew on the ship in the Philedalphia experiemnt. They were either driven mad, killed, or melted into the ship.

Where have we seen that before?

Ohhhh thats right

In the lab in the upside down, never to be explained. And those soldiers---their uniforms look pretty old school don't they?

ALMOST LIKE WWII NAVY UNIFORMS!

Those soldiers in the melted lab are not soldiers from the modern army, they're soldiers from Captain Brenner's ship from 1943. The Philadelphia experiment/project rainbow shot them through time and space to end up in Hawkins Lab in 1983, where their bodies have been rotting ever since.

Now I have multiple ideas on how this may have happened, but all of them are pretty shaky as of now, so I'll focus on just pointing out facts from the show.

Even more---the older fours ending conversation.

This lines pretty weird, right? It does make sense in context I guess---Nancy just said she dropped out of college, and Robin is making fun of how badass Nancy is in combat situations. But why a Navy SEAL? Why that line specifically?

Furthermore, and this is the line I noticed before I even did any research into this, this exchange:

Philly. Philadelphia. The Philadelphia experiment.

Hopper says he has a job offer in Montauk, and the four of them agree to meet up in Philly.

What is going on.

[yesimtrashforit]

I read the original pilot script for Stranger Things, called Montauk and HOLY SHIT things were so different!

Here's some really interesting differences I noticed:

1. The show is set in Montauk, New York, obviously, and it is a beachside town.

2. It is set on October 5, 1980.

3. The opening scene is much gorier and graphic than the final cut. More scientists die. Their skin melts off and burns. Everything is on fire.

4. Mike has a birthmark on his left cheek.

5. Lucas' last name is Conley, instead of Sinclair. He is also noted as being fairly small.

6. Dustin has glasses and is described as overweight.

7. Lucas has a crush on Nancy, and is the one to go to her door instead of Dustin.

8. The "it's a seven" interaction is not present.

9. Will asks for X-men uncanny 269

10. Joyce is from Long Island, wears a lot of makeup. She's more aggressive and demeaning towards Jonathan. She is also a waitress.

11. In general, the characters curse much more, with lots of f-bombs.

12. Mike is implied to have a crush on Jennifer Hayes (the girl who cries at Will's funeral in the final version of the show)

13. Troy and James pick only on Mike.

14. Barb has braces.

15. Steve is implied to be an alcoholic.

16. Steve invites Nancy to a bonfire at the beach.

17. Terry Ives is male, is still mentally intact and lives in Hawkins. Flo mentions that Terry called the police station talking about the Camp Hero experiments.

18. Lonnie is mentioned to be living in Philadelphia.

19. Instead of an owl attacking Eleanor Gillespie's head, it was a seagull.

20. Benny has a dog, a Rottweiler, who is also killed by the lab people.

21. Instead of fries, El eats fish.

22. Mr. Clarke is ogled by students and is apparently a very attractive teacher.

23. Benny's restaurant is called Benny's fish and fry.

24. Benny's name is Benny Henderson, instead of Hammond. (related to Dustin originally??)

25. Joyce calls Cynthia a "teenage whore" lol

26. As Mike leaves to meet Lucas, he sees Nancy sneaking out to the bonfire, instead of Steve sneaking in to study with Nancy.

27. Benny has tattoos, specifically of his exes' names. But he also has his little brother's name. Eleven somehow knows this before Benny says it. So El is implied to be able to mind-read or something.

28. Benny's death is much more graphic.

29. El injures a couple of the agents, at Benny's.

30. El takes a moment to cry when she sees Benny's dead body.

31. Nancy and Barb attend the bonfire. (Very reminiscent of the opening scene of Jaws, which is about a party of teenagers at a bonfire. In the film, a girl pulls a boy aside to skinny dip and she ends up being eaten by the shark.)

32. Steve pulls Nancy aside and SAs her.

33. Barb leaves out of frustration and is taken from her car.

34. Jonathan rides a moped!

35. Barb in the upside down is killed by a horde of demogorgans, instead of a singular one.

36. There is no rainstorm.

37. The final scene is of Joyce, Jonathan, and Hopper seeing flickering lights where they are, assumingly Barb being taken makes them flicker.

[johnnodwarf]

Tell me.

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Sonya Olson by Michael Dweck

- Montauk, 2002

[allworldscreations]

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