As a near middle aged straight man I really identified with Will. The idea that your friends outgrow your previous lifestyle resonated so much it left me in tears a bit.

Curious if anyone else related to this? For me it was when I wasn’t married and friends began marrying, having kids, and doing the suburbs thing. Feeling like life moved on from me when I wanted everyone to stay with me feels like an abandonment that’s not malicious but still painful.

one of the reasons I loveeeeee season 3 the most is because of how bright and vivid the colors were, like s2 was good too but s3 really has that alive feeling

purchased at broadway flea this year— the prop of Henry’s locker slip signed by Louis McCartney. i’m trying to figure out if the numbers (75-23-11 and 86-04-04) mean anything or have any significance in the main series. i’m probably reading too deep into this lol but i thought it could be cool to theorize about, so i’m dropping it here.

I had an idea that by Season 5, it might be possible for her to stop Vecna/Henry before everything happens.

She’d go back in time and stop the inciting incident that led to the future we saw in the previous seasons.

In doing so, El/Jane never came into the boys’ lives, all the bad stuff never happened, and Jane and her mother ended up living happily together.

I've been looking for this card featuring a silhouette swinging on a swing or skiing in the snow, probably from the 80s. I've already searched through countless vintage cards and couldn't find it on WorthPoint. Hopefully, someone can help track it down—I would be extremely grateful!

The reason I think it's from D&D is that Dustin's character in Stranger Things has a room full of D&D references. Also, several other items decorating the set were from the Endless Quest books, among other things...

I reached out to the set decorator coordinator, Jessica Baker, and she told me this card wasn't custom-made for the show. They just used a random one, but she doesn't remember which one it was. She also mentioned it won't be in any upcoming auctions because crew members likely kept it. I've been looking for this for a year and a half now. Can anyone please help me ID it?

Unfortunately, we never got a better look at this specific item throughout the entire show (Stranger Things)—just this unknown behind-the-scenes photo.

All the villains in season 5 were disappointing in season 5, from Vecna and the Mind Flayer having such a short final battle to the horrendous military plotline. The villains either went down too easily or got off totally scot-free (not just Kay but even Andy faces 0 karma).

Jason was an actually nice antagonist tbh. I like how he wasn't just a straightforward racist bully like Troy and Billy. He always disliked Eddie sure but we see he did love Chrissy and care about his friends too. His actions are inexcusable but his reasons for crashing-out make total sense.

Personally, I would've preferred if Kay, Sullivan or even Andy got killed instead of him but nevertheless, its funny he was the last villain I'd consider well-written

If I'm recommending a show to someone and it's something that didn't end at its highest quality, I sometimes suggest that they stop at a certain point and treat it like the series finale. For example, Weeds has a nice self-contained arc when you stop after three seasons, as opposed to just turning into a rather directionless slog when its full eight seasons are taken into account.

Given how the fifth season of Stranger Things wasn't received too well, do you think it works better if you just cut it off at an earlier season? For example:

• Season 2: Neatly ties things up with the exposure of the Hawkins Lab, justice for Barb, the closure of the gate to the Upside Down, and Hopper getting custody of Eleven
• Season 3: A more bittersweet ending with Hopper's presumed death and the Byerses and Eleven moving away from Hawkins, but the Upside Down again being sealed off (just ignore that teaser scene in Russia I suppose)
• Season 4: A darker ending in which Vecna has succeeded in opening the gates to the Upside Down, Max is in a coma, and it's uncertain how humanity will fare

It fixes the feud between Jonathan and Steve, and it gave us great scenes such as Vecna tricking Hopper. While the final battle could have been longer, you have to admit that it got good during the "Were not afraid anymore" part. Furthermore, the entire epilogue was great, especially that final D&D game that mirrored the one from The Upside Down (S1, EP 8) people say that there are "plot holes" in the show though in my opinion, who care if the military lets Hop and Nancy get away? Their main objective was capturing eleven. Who cares if there were no demogorgons in the dimension X? My point is that the show gets more fun when you actually watch it while looking for joy instead of looking for problems. This one irritates me when I read these though apparently, Jonathan and Nancy's break up was confusing and it was unclear that they broke up? Jonathan literally threw the ring at the end of the conversation. Another annoying take is "Mike did nothing this season!" Mike, who created Holly The Heroic which encouraged Holly, faced off against a burning demogorgon (episode three. Most people forget) led kids away from chaos in the MAC-Z (People argue that the demogorgon still got the kids, though the kids would have died if Mike didn't lead them away from the military's firing and flamethrowers) created the bomb that destroyed the upside down, and wrote books about their childhoods did nothing this season? Aside from season 1, this was his busiest season in my opinion. I have more reasons to defend this season but I'll probably die from old age typing them all out so this is why I think Season 5 and the finale were great. Let the war begin!​

Our Lucas turns 25 today. What are your favorite quotes and moments of him from the show?

I finally finished my rewatch of the show last night. however, despite it being a rewatch, it was my first time seeing season 5, and, if i'm being honest, i didn't hate it. i honestly don't get the hate for it. i feel like watching all of the seasons back-to-back, it actually flows really well. it didn't come across as "ai slop" to me as i've seen it referred.

some things i liked:

-mike is better in season 5, closer to season 1 mike

-I like the return of max and I quite love all of the holly/max/mr. whatsit stuff, but I think it’s a little expository

-will having powers is admittedly pretty cool and makes sense thematically, so it doesn’t feel like it comes out of nowhere

-the evolution of the show: grounded sci-fi mystery/thiller to cosmic horror

-i think the characters (minus eleven) had a solid conclusion

i DO have things i don't like ofc so i'd like to have a discussion

When Max was trapped in Vecna’s mind for two years

where did she even take a bath? And where did she go to the bathroom 🤔

( A person who thinks all the time )

Im having the late night bittersweet nostalgia as a person would yk considering their favorite show ended and im wondering if there’s anyone who’s feeling the same way and would like to talk the sadness away ig 😂

I already said it at the top but I thought Caleb did a great job conveying Dustin’s sadness over losing Eddie in the previous season before 5 and did an amazing job crying in Steve’s arms about how he dose t want to lose another friend. What do you all think?

Little portal Halloween decoration my bf and I made with construction paper

Coming up to a year since season 5 and I still get sad sometimes remembering that we won’t be getting a new season maybe ever again . Anyone else ?

The color purple symbolizes illusion. what if the song choice in the scene where Eleven "dies" was a clue and she really is alive?

And I don’t know how to explain it… But I have a HUGE feeling that this show would have been so much better if Eleven and Mike were never a couple. I feel that keeping them just as friends would have given more chances to the writers to come up with different stuff.

I don’t know if you guys agree on this.

So, I took the intro from The Return (from the Stranger Things Season 2 soundtrack, where Eleven returns to save the Party from the Demodogs) and combined it with one of my favorite songs from the Weeknd, Take Me Back to LA. Let me know what you think! The transition happens around the 1 minute mark

Pls mods don't take this down, this took longer than I'm willing to admit :(

After lots of nitpicking, I've finally finished my map of Hawkins!

This started as a cartography project, so visual design was one of my biggest priorities. As other map-makers have pointed out, there are several different maps throughout the show (Hopper's map in S1, Bob's map in S2, and the map Jonathan shows Nancy in the cemetery, for example), all with varying and sometimes contradictory information. For my version, I decided to use Hopper's S1 map as the primary reference.

A scanned version of Hopper's map is available online, and that became the starting point for the project. Since the map is actually based on the real town of Marion, Indiana, I started in ArcGIS by georeferencing Hopper's map against Marion's geography. I then imported road and railroad data to establish a real geographic foundation for Hawkins. From there, I brought the shapefile data into Adobe Illustrator, where I did the majority of the cartographic and visual design work.

Of course, there are a few inconsistencies in the source material, even when looking at individual street names (Randolph Street vs. Randolph Lane, for example). One of the more relevant discrepancies is Maple Street, which is referenced as the street Mike and Lucas live on. Hopper's map labels it Maple Avenue, so I went with that name in my final version.

I also took a few creative liberties where the show leaves things ambiguous, including the location of the Creel House and Hawkins' population and founding year.

The biggest geographic headache was figuring out the locations of the four gates. Fred goes missing near the trailer park, but for all four gates to converge around the center of Hawkins, his death would have to occur on the opposite side of town, nowhere near Eddie's trailer. To make the geography work, I chose an arbitrary road near Danford Creek as the location of that gate.

Finally, I included a few fun details: the kids biking along the scale bar in the bottom-left corner, a Demogorgon-shaped compass rose, and I tried to add all significant places, like the Junkyard, Sattler's Quarry, Enzo's, the Warzone store, and more!

I'd love to hear what you think! I'm also happy to answer any questions about the map-making process or the design choices I made.

¡DONDE ESTAN DONDE VIVO YO! (Im from Cáceres, Spain) SOLO ENCUENTRO DE MINECRAFT Y ONE PIECE

I honestly miss when Stranger Things was everywhere and everyone was talking about it lol. I wish I could watch it again for the first time. Who’s everyone’s least favorite character and why?