Stranger Things (Netflix) TV Show • Page 84

Cary Elwes is a gem

 

Yeah, the marketing team chalked up the whole season being released on the 4th because of this huge fair, but it hardly was a plot point.

 

PATRIOTISM certainly was though.

 

That stupid bear pendant would cost like $750 today.

 

I forgot to mention that I absolutely loved the use of Peter Gabriel's cover of "Heroes" in this.

 

I called that it would be $300 exactly and I was so proud of that useless moment.

 

This part is what got to me, for personal reasons. It was the song I wanted to be our first dance (we picked STD instead), so being recently divorced, and with everyone moving on and packing up, it hit the feels.

 

Wait...what? How do those two characters even have anything to do with one another?

 

She wouldn't give Dustin the code until he sang the song with her, delaying Hopper and Joyce from getting the keys.

 

There have been countless people saying that if she had given the number immediately they would have closed the gate earlier, and they have also taken to saying absolutely vile things about her as a character and person because they’ve focused all their anger on a literal child. It’s unfathomably gross.

 

Sorry if this has been discussed already, but when Mike says that Will isn't interested in girls, does that mean Will is gay or that he just isn't at that stage of life yet where he wants to date girls?

 

The latter most likely

 

Oh. I kinda took it as he couldn’t be a good character because she exists. That sounds like some stupid argument someone would make on the internet

 

Lol I don't understand how people could reach that hard to blame Suzie when Hopper could have just not done an insanely slow 3 count... Or maybe not done a count at all haha like just turn the keys man

 

I'd imagine it's deliberately ambiguous, though the way Wolfhard and Schnapp played that scene definitely felt like it was about slightly more than Will just not liking girls yet to me. (Joyce also mentions in S1E1 that her piece-of-shit husband used to pick on Will because he thought he was gay). I definitely got the vibe from the way that Mike/Will scene was directed that Mike stumbled into saying an open secret with their group that Will hasn't openly acknowledged yet and they both got embarrassed - but I could be just reading into it

 

the way will seems super focused on D&D and his missing an entire year of hanging out with his friends leads me to believe it’s more than he hasn’t started to think about dating regardless of sexuality yet

 

If you call Murrays number it leaves a little easter egg for S4

 

Ohhh, what number is it again?

 

618-625-8313

 

Lol it didn't even occur to me they used a real phone number that's cool

 

No joke, my therapist looks just like Murray. It cracks me up.

 

I noticed that it didn’t have the classic 555 or something so I figured it had to be real. Haven’t tried calling it myself though.

Also Mr. Clarke has a lot of really pointed dialogue with Joyce that could work in the context of Hopper’s story.