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I felt kind of guilty sitting on this information, but if anyone cares, here are the official maps of both the Rainbow Room and the Creel House, released by the production designer Chris Trujillo a few years ago - I'm mainly sharing this in case it helps anyone to decode the Rainbow Room cipher, but I've kind of lost hope in that stupid puzzle, not gonna lie.
I don't feel like analysing this in detail, but just pushing this out there in case someone smart ones to do something with this.
Stranger Things Coke commercial!
OK, I did say I was going to take a break, but just briefly, here's a ST-themed Coke commercial for the World Cup that released about a month ago, but I'm guessing people only found now because of the New Coke timeline.
Full ad can be found here.
Another ad with a similar-ish void scene with a clock ticking in the background was also released for the World Cup:
I guess not many of us actively watch football haha!
also i'm going to step back from CG for a while because that official making of book has me gripped in an unhealthy chokehold - too many clues, and i just can't seem to get through all of them.
i think i just felt compelled to keep looking, since i saw very few people on here dissect everything, because there is just so freaking much! but alas, i don't believe in anything coming in July, so i have a few more months until November to clue hunt :)
it's also quite funny that things are so inconsistent in some places, but entirely accurate in others.
for example, the Starcourt Mall map of all the shops is correct - if you compare the layout of all the shops in the show and the map, you'll see that everything matches perfectly, so that map of Hawkins being the way it is...it's something i'll tell ya!
i think me spending the whole afternoon looking at the test subjects kids faces left me feeling a bit crazy, but at least i got confirmation that 12/15 test subjects in the book are inconsistent with the show.
please keep digging for clues in that book, if you have a copy! i just need a break for now :)
The test subjects in the book don't match the ones in the show!
Thank you @erikiara80 for pointing out that there are two sets of Rainbow Room subjects - some appear during 'actual' scenes where they're training with Brenner, and some get swapped out during the Nina Project time loop.
Further to my post that the actor playing Young Will in season 5, Luke Kokotek, is shown as one of the Rainbow Room test subjects, I realised that almost every single test subject that we see in the book is the 'wrong' one, and not who we see in the show! CRAZY STUFF!
These are the 'canonical' actors for each of the test subjects (according to IMDb and the Wiki fanon site). As you can see, there numbers only go up to 18, so if you subtract, El, Henry and Kali, you are left with 15 additional subjects.
That matches with the show, and the spread in the book also has 15 test subjects, so these numbers are correct!
See how below, we also have 15 pictures (these are numbered simply to quantify the total - the numbers do not correspond with the actual number the test subjects get assigned):
There are 15 test subjects in the show, and there are 15 photos, but somehow, only numbers 2, 16, and 17 match the test subjects we see in the show.
None of the other test subjects are featured in the book spread!
These are the only ones that match:
The other numbers we see in the book are all wrong!
Even ones that looked somewhat similar to me, I compared these, and still came to the conclusions that they are different actors!
For example for 3, I thought it could be this guy from the book. But when you compare the two, you see that, aside from being the same race, these are different actors!
Or this girl - she's not a number but she is featured in the book - you can see her in BTS scenes that were shared with me again by @erikiara80:
This girl, again, is not listed as a test subject, but suddenly takes the place of 002 during the Nina Project loop, can be seen in BTS scenes, and is also featured in the book:
Again - how does one make a huge two-page spread for the Rainbow Room test subjects, has the correct number of subjects (15), and 'accidentally' gets almost every single one of them wrong.
Two is correct, which makes sense, as he's the most prominent one of the bunch as he is the main antagonist to El, so people would be able to tell immediately if his one was incorrect.
It's also interesting that the only other correct subjects are the twins, numbers 16 and 17. @erikiara80 pointed that this might be a hint towards there being two timelines, and with all the twins discourse we've been having over the past few months, it wouldn't surprise me.
So, not only do we have Young Will in the Rainbow Room, we have almost every other test subjects be listed incorrectly! I repeat again - these things don't happen in error.
@erikiara80 noticed previously that they had swapped around test subjects in season 4, but by repeating that same 'mistake' again in the book, they are trying to make this obvious to a wider audience, to those who don't pay as much attention to detail when watching the show (but would notice the inconsistencies if it were laid out to them on paper).
We are being thrown hints over and over again in this book - and hopefully, the message will land!
Also everyone placing their binders at the end wasn't written into the script, and Max wasn't supposed to have a binder either.
Also - weirdly - of the entire episode 8 script, the epilogue has the least amount of omitted scenes.
69 of the 70 omitted scenes were all pre-epilogue!
Even purple rain wasn't written into the script 😭 WHAT
But Landslide by Fleetwood Mac was?
Purple rain is used later and is written in the script, the song that was used for the ride is "when doves cry", I think they wanted to have a song with the duration that woud end by the time Mike enters El's void for the "purple rain" to start
I just checked the leaked version vs the official script, and you're right that they did write purple rain! It means that the script leaked in May was actually a draft script of the finale - nice.
It just means they wrote every other song into the script before Purple Rain, which is interesting...
Even purple rain wasn't written into the script 😭 WHAT
But Landslide by Fleetwood Mac was?
and Here Comes Your Man?
Knowing that Derek obviously has a crush on Mike and that this is a line from the actual script does make me giggle just a tad😭
It's like that Best Friends line is haunting Mike as well lmao
Stop the script doom!
Does nobody realise that the void scene from the official ST5 book matching the leaked finale script from May means that the May script, with all those omitted scenes was A) stemming from an official source and B) planted, in line with their entire marketing campaign (i.e. to make fun of notoriously bad finales).
We know that the One Last Adventure documentary was intended to mock the GoT post-finale documentary.
Similarly, the leaked script from May, which referenced all the omitted scenes, was a mockery of the Supernatural leaked scripts with all the cut scenes as well.
I completely disregarded the May finale script as being fake news and somebody just trying to start a stupid rumour, so I'm actually kind of shocked that the official script book and the leaked May script match each other.
Do you understand that this means that someone who had access to the official script knowingly created a version with a bunch of omitted scenes and planted this to stir up conversation (it was up for over 24 hours from what I remember - definitely not a 'mistake' - they wanted people to notice!).
And before people come at me saying that the May script was on the official Netflix website (for the Emmy's, if I recall correctly?) - I remember checking that link (before the 24 hours were up), and I didn't see any scripts on the official website, nor did anyone provide any screenshots of them accessing the document from the official website, which is why I didn't believe the authenticity of the so-called finale script.
I recall seeing a rumour that the leaked script actually came from @BradleysBigBuy on Twitter (and I remember early days plant posts from @whispering-goat that they've previously had access to official leaks from TF85, for example).
But now we know that the May stuff must have originated from someone who had access to the episode 8 source material!
So why would they stir up all of this drama 5 months after the finale, to get people to revive cutgate again for some reason... hm...
Evidence of Young Will in the Rainbow Room!
Curse my facial recognition skills, but I saw these pictures of the kids in the rainbow room, and almost instantly, this particular face stood out to me:
Firstly - I don't remember seeing this kid in the season 4 rainbow room scenes.
Secondly - I almost immediately recognised that this actor was Luke Kokotek, the actor that played Young Will in the first flashback scene of season 5:
As you can see - same face shape, slope of eyebrows, eye shape, and eyelid fold.
To double check I wasn't actually going insane, I sense checked against another picture of the actor:
The resolution of the photo I took of the book is really low, but you can see at least two moles on the neck of both the actor and the picture in the book. Aside from that, the shape of their ears match up too - the left one is rounder and the right one is slightly pointier, in both pictures.
The funny thing is - it's clearly a younger version of Luke Kokotek playing a test subject in the Rainbow Room. However, on IMDb, he only has season 5 credits on his profile and his name is not mentioned in any of the season 4 credits, so he clearly doesn't feature in the show - so why include a still of him in the official book?
Either they cut all of his scenes in season 4 for some reason (but released BTS footage of him to the author of this book?)... Or...
There might be footage of a Young Will in the Rainbow Room that we haven't seen yet...
This map has become my new hyperfixation...
For somebody who is as directionally challenged as me, this is truly miraculous. God, the clues just don't fucking stop!
I went back to rewatch The Crawl to see if the street names from the map given to us in the book matches with the ones we show in-show, and I'm pleased to report that every single road/street in the show match the ones in the book, and they do - perfectly. Again - further confirmation that this wasn't simple sloppiness, since they made sure that every detail matched with what was shown to us in S501:
Even the maps we've previously seen in the show (not from like extra material), so below is Hopper's map from season 2, Bob's map from season 2, and the map in season 3, although these don't line up perfectly, they all share similarities in terms of, for example, the placement of Lover's Lake in the bottom left, (this would be around Zone A6 in the season 5 map), and not top right (Zone H1 in the season 5 map). Lover's Lake is literally all the way on the opposite side of town to where it's been shown to us in previous seasons:
Ross hints that Lover's Lake is not supposed to be there in the most obvious manner as well:
They even foreshadow the Chevron G1 (in the book) being Vecna Gone in the most obvious possible manner in the show itself:
What this means is that they were already looking at a made-up map in episode 1, meaning that all of season 5 (at least!) is either not fully real, or completely illusionary (shocker of a theory - I KNOW! I just feel happy that we're now getting more confirmation via the book!)
I was trying to map out all of the street names from the book into zones, to try and understand if the zone name combined with the street name could provide a hint, and I found that the Henderson House (which should be on Cornwallis Street, not Tulip Tree), was in the same zone as the street called Henry - this was zone C4:
First and foremost, Dustin and Henry both being in Zone C4 is a further hint that Dustin is dying (again! shocking theory, I KNOW! I'm not proclaiming all of this is new stuff, I'm just providing evidence that this is further confirmed again in the Making Of book).
With the amount of times they talk about blowing Vecna up, specifically using C4, Henry being in Zone C4 makes sense. But also - Dustin is here as well...
Dustin is listed as living on Tulip Tree, right next to Hillcrest (Hillcrest meaning at the top of the hill). Surrounding him, we have Henry, as well as 'Yale', 'Harvard', 'Princeton', 'Stanford', and 'Trinity' - all academic institutions we would associate with Dustin, especially given the epilogue:
Dustin will go down with the (metaphorical) C-4 that is used to take down Henry/Vecna, sadly.
The fact that his house is listed as being on Tulip Tree, surrounded by Hillcrest (resting place on the top of a hill?), as well as full of streets of prestigious academic institutions that Mike had hoped he would pursue....
The choice of tulip tree is also interesting, as, historically, Tulip Trees have been both symbols of colonisation, as well as liberty:
In Zone C4, a few streets away from Tulip Tree, we have 'Liberty'. We also have 'Colony' and 'Dominion' on the map as well.
I'm guessing that the gang will find liberty once they use the C4 (or that's my guess, based on Tulip Tree and Liberty being so close together).
Perhaps it might be Dustin's knowledge that saves them and brings them liberty, while simultaneously having to sacrifice himself...
Also firstly - the designation of Wall 1, Wall 2, and Wall 3 don't line up - you can't draw a curve that goes through all 3 points, because the point marked as 'Wall 2' goes slightly inwards, compared to Wall 1 and Wall 3. Regardless, I've tried drawing a tentative 'Wall' on this map, and it turns out that three of the four gates that opened up in season 4 are outside of the wall. This wall cannot exist - the wormhole theory falls apart even more with each day.
Chrissy's gate (Gate 1) opens up in the Forest Hills Trailer Park (remember, in 5X4 they say the wall is at Roane Hill Cemetery, and the map points out that the trailer park is beyond the cemetery) - placed outside the wall.
Fred's gate (Gate 2) is on a road outside of Hawkins, a bit further from Forest Hills Trailer Park (he starts out at the trailer park, and then walks over to a highway - I couldn't pinpoint an exact road, but it looks like the road that has the 'Leaving Hawkins, Come Again Soon!' sign) - placed outside the wall.
Patrick's gate Gate 3 is in Lover's Lake - also outside the wall.
The only gate that is inside the wall, would be Max' gate in the Creel House. But weirdly, the map designated Max' 'gate to the Upside Down' with the letter 'S', right next to the trailer park, and nowhere near the Creel House.
Again - the inconsistencies are almost as purposeful as they can get. And for those having doubt about whether these are slip-ups caused by AI or human negligence - keep in mind that this book was purposefully marketed as a puzzle with clues, with readers being told to pay attention to the details to crack and unlock a secret code:
Again, AI allegations or not, this is an internal inconsistency that is found on the same page. Even if someone knew absolutely nothing about the show itself, just one single proof read would be sufficient to spot this.
Lucas Sinclair paves the way to victory, huh? The text around the photo doesn't mention Lucas a single time though!
The text keeps telling us that it's Jason who led the Hawkins' Tigers to victory.
And they keep hammering home that it's an away game, when the season 4 game took place at Hawkins High.
I was rewatching scenes from season 4, and I found it very fascinating that the basketball game was timed at the exact same time as Vecna's campaign. They lost once, but then they pulled through.
hm...
Vortex hints!
Remember this post? 6th November 1959 and 6th November 1983 both being one end of a time tunnel - the two moments in time tethered to one another by a 24-year biorhythm? Following the same time loop plot/structure of the Montauk Project, the primary source of inspiration behind ST as a whole?
I was rewatching the show properly for the first time in a while last night, and there are direct hints to this being the case, that I can't believe I didn't see before!
I can't believe the time loop between these two points is referenced so explicitly!
I KEEP FINDING MORE, I KEEP WINNING, CONFORMITY GATE KEEPS BEING REALER AND REALER THE MORE I READ THIS BOOK!!!!!
OK - to set the scene - Hawkins played the Wolves of Christian Academy on 20th March 1986, where Jason gave a motivational speech to lead the team to victory.
On 21st March 1986, that's when Lucas one the game that we saw on screen against the Falcons from Jordan High.
This is what we see in the book:
Firstly, the newspaper is dated 21st March 1986, which can't be right, since they only won the game, that night. That means that this would've been reported in the newspaper on 22nd March 1986, not 21st March 1986.
Moreover, Lucas' graduation year is listed as being '87, not '89. Weird right? Which game are they referencing Lucas making the big win? Against Christian Academy in West Hawkins! But Lucas didn't win that game - the game was against the Falcons, and it took place at Hawkins High, not Christian Academy, West Hawkins!
The date, the location, the team - everything about that excerpt in the Hawkins High school paper is incorrect. This is in addition to Chrissy Cunningham being called Chrissy Carpenter (her name is included incorrectly TWICE, on the SAME page), and in that newspaper, Eddie is listed as being 18, while also being referred to as 17 on the next page.
Even more bizarre, is that Lucas is said to be graduating in Class of '87, which is not right, since we KNOW he is class of '89! You know why? That shot was supposed to be for Jason, not for Lucas!
In the book it says "Lucas Sinclair ('87) paves the way to victory in last night's win against Christian Academy". In the show, they state that ""Jason Carver ('87) paves the way to victory in last night's win against Jordan High".
The thing is - both newspaper excerpts are incorrect (both in-show, and in the book). Jason and Lucas have effectively been swapped around.
That book excerpt about Lucas, class of '87, winning against Christian Academy published on 21st March, at a match that's not in Hawkins High, but on 'stranger's' turf? That should be with Jason's photo and reference Jason's win at Christian Academy!
The in-show excerpt should be about Lucas, '89, paving the way to victory against the Falcons taking place within Hawkins High, not Jason! The in-show newspaper clip lists both the player and the location incorrectly too!
Again, guys - these things do not happen as casual mistakes (if you come at me with AI allegations, again, because AI would NOT do this!). It takes detail to swap around every detail of the story, and they didn't do a simple cut-and-paste job. They specifically mention that the Christian Academy game took place at Christian Academy, not Hawkins High! Again, the book newspaper excerpts, (reminder: it has a big headliner saying Easter Egg Hunt Next Saturday) has been giving us clue, after clue after clue...
Truly, a book that just keeps giving - maybe this book alone can occupy me until November!
