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Stranger Things 4 teaser (with slightly minor spoiler)

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I think one of the many reasons I've liked this season so much is because it's left with us with a very Empire Strikes Back vibe. They split up the crew, El went off to do her training a la Luke, there was a massive twist/reveal, and now I can only assume that El is about to go and try and save her friends in "Cloud City" (even though, yes, the big reveal in that movie came after Luke left to go save his friends).

Also, these final two episodes/four+ hours just became my most anticipated content this summer, only behind Top Gun: Maverick. It's going to be such an event.
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Stive said:

If 11 created the upside down, how did the Russians find out about it so quickly? Within months (or not many years) they're trying to travel through it to Indiana with a portal on the other side?

I think that there is no portal to Russia through a gate - Hopper was there all the time and then flown back to Russia with the Russians... right?
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

They keep hinting at time travel. Don't be surprised if she commits suicide in the past to prevent everything.


It might not be time travel, but that the upside down was created at that moment El banished 001. It's basically a carbon copy, or a snapshot. They didn't travel back to 1983, time is still moving forward in the upside down, it's just not getting updated.

Another theory could be that opening the first gate "froze" the upside down, but that seems to make less sense to me than the creation.
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aTmAg said:

I wonder how Hopper and Wynonna are going to get back to the US. Seems like a hard challenge.


Actually, it'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience....
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redline248 said:

Didn't the characters say the things in the upside down are a collective? What one knows, they all know? So any old demigorgan is and isn't vecna, simultaneously?


Yes, as they are riding bikes to the trailer park, one of the bat things on a lamp post spots them, then it jumps to vecna tilting his head. He then geolocates Nance and puts her in a trance.
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TexasAggie_02 said:

Brian Earl Spilner said:

They keep hinting at time travel. Don't be surprised if she commits suicide in the past to prevent everything.


It might not be time travel, but that the upside down was created at that moment El banished 001. It's basically a carbon copy, or a snapshot. They didn't travel back to 1983, time is still moving forward in the upside down, it's just not getting updated.

Another theory could be that opening the first gate "froze" the upside down, but that seems to make less sense to me than the creation.


Expect El banished 001 in 1979 not 1983.
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ah, so something caused the upside down to freeze.

I wonder how the upside worked before getting stuck? Like, if you picked something up in the real world, did it seem to float around in the upside down? when nancy wrote in her journal, did words just magically appear in the upside down?
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My understanding is the upside down was created the night El made contact with the Demigorgon and it entered our world. (Same night she escaped and Will disappeared). It was an exact replica, but the atmosphere of the upside down has been breaking it down ever since.
Thanks and gig'em
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Brian Earl Spilner said:


So wait.. was that the actors real voice in the show (the low one)?
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Yeah, that blew my mind too.
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TexasAggie_02 said:

Brian Earl Spilner said:

They keep hinting at time travel. Don't be surprised if she commits suicide in the past to prevent everything.


It might not be time travel, but that the upside down was created at that moment El banished 001. It's basically a carbon copy, or a snapshot. They didn't travel back to 1983, time is still moving forward in the upside down, it's just not getting updated.

Another theory could be that opening the first gate "froze" the upside down, but that seems to make less sense to me than the creation.


Or it could be what the past is, like in the Langoliers.
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TexasAggie_02 said:

ah, so something caused the upside down to freeze.



Not necessarily. I've mentioned this a couple of times, but when you see 001 banished, it seems like he's going somewhere else. Notice that he's going into a red world, whereas the upside down is dark and grey. The only red is when then they're in Vecna's mind or around the mind flayer, which leads me to believe they're different places.

Also notice that the gates all open to their doppelgangers in the upside down. The gate El banished 001 through obviously didn't open to a reflection of Hawkins Labs.
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What if it's "The Nothing"?
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

What if it's "The Nothing"?
Only if Dustin and his girl can sing the song again...
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

What if it's "The Nothing"?


I kind of like the Langoliers angle. IIRC, the Duffer brothers pitched the series as if Spielberg directed a movie from a Stephen King novel.
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When El sent 001 into the upside down it seemed very primordial..... Volcanic, lightning, brimstone, etc. An evil alternative universe stuck in the time of early earth. It didn't look like the upside down we've known as a copy of our 1980s world. Maybe it changed 001 to Vecna and gave him additional powers as a new being in the upside down. He is then able to shape it, create creatures as pets (his obsession with spiders as a kid).

Then when El opened the gate or when will is taken it does another snapshot in time and alters itself. This whole time Vecna is experimenting with creatures, reaching between dimensions, etc. Maybe he sees will as a broken kid like himself and takes him first then realizes how these psychic connections open gates between.

I don't knowml, just thoughts on how it all works. Show is great.

Eddie reminds wife and I of a mix of Eddie Van Halen and Paulie Shore based on his look and mannerisms.

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Did the brothers just blow off the story line with that other super-kid? The one who makes people see illusions? Her super powers were totally different than moving stuff with your brain, which is what everybody else was doing. I don't remember her being in the group sessions or anything. Are they hoping we all just forget that part?
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Right now, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt that it will get tied up next season or in the next few episodes this season. We will see. That whole episode is still a complete oddity.
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Did the brothers just blow off the story line with that other super-kid? The one who makes people see illusions? Her super powers were totally different than moving stuff with your brain, which is what everybody else was doing. I don't remember her being in the group sessions or anything. Are they hoping we all just forget that part?
Whoa. I just realized I forgot all about her. She came and went so fast, it does seem like they gave up on her.
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So jacked for the end of this season

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HouseDivided06 said:

So jacked for the end of this season


Looks dope AF.

Love how they wove Running Up That Hill into the trailer. You know they absolutely did it after the fact when they made the song a massive hit 30 years after its release. Also looked like Eddie is going to shred on a guitar in the upside down.
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If Vecna was the first person in the "Upside Down", does that mean he created the Demogorgons? Are they a part of him? Just a random thought...
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Currently avoiding all trailers for both of the upcoming Stranger Things and BCS parts.

Doing the same for the final trailer for Nope, and hoping to avoid all Halloween Ends trailers entirely. (Hoping I can manage to avoid them in the theaters as well.)

I'm gonna try to do this more often as I think trailers are giving away more and more as of late. I like that all the Obi-Wan trailers were mostly from the first episode.
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

Currently avoiding all trailers for both of the upcoming Stranger Things and BCS parts.

Doing the same for the final trailer for Nope, and hoping to avoid all Halloween Ends trailers entirely. (Hoping I can manage to avoid them in the theaters as well.)

I'm gonna try to do this more often as I think trailers are giving away more and more as of late. I like that all the Obi-Wan trailers were mostly from the first episode.
100% agree. That video will remain unwatched.
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HouseDivided06 said:

So jacked for the end of this season



Such a great trailer. Wow. This looks like an insane final couple of episodes, and by the sound of things, I'm afraid someone is going to have to die, heading into the final season.
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tylercsbn9 said:

HouseDivided06 said:

So jacked for the end of this season


Looks dope AF.

Love how they wove Running Up That Hill into the trailer. You know they absolutely did it after the fact when they made the song a massive hit 30 years after its release. Also looked like Eddie is going to shred on a guitar in the upside down.

Not watching part 2 trailer, but Eddie and his guitar were in part 1 trailer. I'm very curious to see the context for that. I'm also worried about his future....
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Yeah, I kept expecting Eddie to play the guitar in the upside down this last episode. I'm assuming it has something to do with the way the Walkman works, but maybe amplified?
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HouseDivided06 said:

So jacked for the end of this season


Hype! Love everything about this trailer, this season, this show!

Big time Empire Strikes Back vibe to this season and it's been done really well.

And yeah, the whole "Running Up That Hill" story is really cool. Glad to see they're leaning into it.
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TCTTS said:

HouseDivided06 said:

So jacked for the end of this season



Such a great trailer. Wow. This looks like an insane final couple of episodes, and by the sound of things, I'm afraid someone is going to have to die, heading into the final season.
I will willingly sacrifice Mike, Will, and Jonathan so the rest may live.
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I think I'm with you.
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Someone we love will die, whether it's Steve, Hopper, Joyce, Robin, or maybe Eddie.
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Brian Earl Spilner said:

Someone we love will die, whether it's Steve, Hopper, Joyce, Robin, or maybe Eddie.
It's going to be Dustin since they've built him up to be a bit of a leader and have a stronger emotional connection with Steve.
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Kate Bush making some BANK off the success.

While many have heard about the pittance that artists receive from Spotify, Bush actually owns the rights to this songit's currently held by her own company, Noble & Bright, which means that she's making roughly $250,000 a week on streaming success alone.
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Not to mention whatever royalty Netflix pays her.
 
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