r/StrangerThings Apr 24 '26

Discussion Hi R/Animation! Eric Robles, showrunner of Stranger Things: Tales From 85, here. Ask Me Anything - Monday April 27th at 10am PT!

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r/StrangerThings Apr 23 '26

Discussion Tales from '85 - Episode Discussion Hub

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S01E01 - Welcome to Hawkins, New Kid

S01E02 - Bad Harvest

S01E03 - Evolution

S01E04 - The Confession

S01E05 - The Weekly Watcher

S01E06 - A Storm is Coming

S01E07 - Enter the Storm

S01E08 - The Party

S01E09 - The Suspect

S01E10 - Countdown

TALES FROM '85 SEASON 1 DISCUSSION

SEASON 2 TO BE RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 17.

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r/StrangerThings 4h ago

Fan Theory Guys I have some plot holes about STRANGER THINGS. Explain me if anyone of it is not a plot hole.

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#1 Where is Sam Owens ?

#2 They blew up the pregnant women in upside down?

#3 Where was vecna when Joyce and hopper rescued will is s1 because according to s5 vecna captured Will there.

#4 How did upside down became safe if they used special suits to go in upside down in S1 and Vecna's body was also deteriorated by staying there.

#5 Why don't Joyce remember Henry if they knew each other in first shadow play?

#6 Why there were earthquakes in upside down in S4 ?

#7 Why did Will say it(mindflayer) likes it cold in s2 if the Abyss is hot and deserted?

#8 Eleven didn't survive because of it was illusion it won't have stayed as the time bomb blasted in Lab first from where kali was using her powers(if she was alive), and the illusion would have broken even before the exotic matter vacuum kind of thing started.

#9 one more https://chatgpt.com/share/6a972961-df78-83e8-9686-59ae44d72732?ogimg=plain


r/StrangerThings 5h ago

Hand-painted Demogorgon diorama I made. What do you think?

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Hi everyone! Just wanted to share my latest work. Printed in resin and fully hand-painted (mostly airbrush and thin brush layers for the mouth details). Added Dustin's cap and the Christmas lights as a little easter egg on the base. Hope you guys like it!


r/StrangerThings 20h ago

Discussion Karen and Billy

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Karen doesn’t get enough crap for being near ready and willing to bang Billy in season three. Even looking past the fact that she was fucking married, she was in her forties and Billy was implicitly eighteen. If Karen were a forty-something year old man and Billy an eighteen year old girl, it would’ve been considered inappropriate as hell, but it’s apparently okay when a woman hits on a barely legal kid.

Ugh.


r/StrangerThings 1d ago

Is there any pill that can make me forget ST so I can experience it all over again? 😭

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Best show ever!


r/StrangerThings 16h ago

SPOILERS Bob Newby. Wtf. Spoiler

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Alright. I’m late to the game and this is my first time watching the show and let me tell ya, I’m peeved. Why tf did they kill off Bob. I loved this man so much. Why didn’t he keep running? Why didn’t hopper just switch that AR into full auto? This all could’ve been avoided 😖.

Not finishing this episode right now. Tv is off for the night. I’m done. Goodnight.


r/StrangerThings 23h ago

Discussion I have owned this shirt for years and have seen the entire series, yet no idea what it is supposed to be. What is this a reference to?

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r/StrangerThings 8h ago

Discussion Question sur la série

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There are a few plot-related questions I didn't quite grasp—mind you, I’m not saying there are inconsistencies; I might have just misunderstood something. If you have answers, please feel free to share.

1) Do we know why Kali’s blood doesn't work for creating the numbered children? Is Eleven, in a sense, "the Chosen One"—simply the most powerful—and the only one (besides Vecna) capable of doing it?

2) If Vecna ​​can use his powers through Will in Season 2 to shape the vines—while Will is connected and transmitting info about the town during his sleep—is he also capable of using those powers through a Demogorgon? After all, it was supposedly him, acting through a Demogorgon, who opened the door to Will’s house in Season 1. If the answer is yes, he could have been incredibly overpowered; for instance, if he had observed Derek being taken into the Abyss in Season 5, Episode 3, he could have retaliated against the group by using his powers through the Demogorgon.

3) How do they navigate the Abyss to reach the tree? They know the tree is likely at the base of the lab, but how do they find their way from the radio station to the lab while inside the Abyss? Do they simply reason that since the lab is further to the right in the real world and the Upside Down, they should just start walking to the right?

4) Why does the white door in Episode 5 specifically lead to Vecna’s memories of Holly rather than Derek? After all, Derek woke up in that field just like Holly did.

5) Sullivan saw Eleven’s letter to Mike in Season 4; doesn't he find it strange—considering Eleven allegedly tried to kill Karen and Ted (who are literally Mike’s parents)?

6) What did Nancy and Mike tell the doctor about what happened to their parents? Why didn't the military interrogate them? Especially since they know Eleven is acquainted with them.


r/StrangerThings 16h ago

Senior quote

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please, Help, I need a senior quote


r/StrangerThings 1d ago

Discussion Question: Why did none of the kids remember the Demogorgon attack, but Derek remembered what Mike and everyone told him about Mr Whatsit

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Did Vecna make the kids forget the Demogorgon attack or what. I can’t understand why they all forgot about it, but Derek was able to remember everything prior to it


r/StrangerThings 1d ago

Discussion How would the show have been different if there wasn't so long between later seasons?

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I'm just curious to know what y'all think about how things would have been different if they did a season every year.


r/StrangerThings 1d ago

Discussion Anyone else wish we saw Steve and Robin’s parents

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I know there wasn’t actually any need for them to be shown but I wish we could’ve seen them. The only time we saw Steve’s parents was his dad in a flashback to Henry’s time at school.


r/StrangerThings 1d ago

Fan Art Demogorgon VS Rumi 😂😤

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r/StrangerThings 5h ago

Joyce Irritates Me

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Am I the only one who finds her irritating? I get she went through hell and back when it come to Will, but in season 5 she irritated me so much. When she tells Will “we’re not risking your life” as if everyone on the team hasn’t risked their life for him multiple times throughout the seasons. She genuinely gives me the vibe that she ONLY cares about Will, not even Jonathan.


r/StrangerThings 1d ago

Fan Theory Stranger Things is so much more than a cute fantasy show for kids and teenagers

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Very few shows truly touch me, and Stranger Things managed to do that on an entirely different level.

Eleven is perhaps the most symbolic character in the entire series. Her story begins very differently from that of all the other children. She grows up without the warmth of a family, without friends, without protection, and without ever knowing what it feels like to live a “normal” life.

When she escapes the laboratory, she is so different from the other kids, yet at the same time, she is so much like them. Just like any child, she longs for love, companionship, friendship, and acceptance. She simply wants to be loved and accepted exactly as she is.

Throughout the series, Eleven is constantly forced to confront her trauma and come to terms with the fact that life has been deeply unfair to her. And yet, despite everything she has been through, she consciously chooses to do good. Even when she is hurting. Even when she is afraid. Even when life keeps putting obstacles in her way.

Despite all the pain, injustice, and everything that was taken away from her, she continues to choose love, friendship, compassion, and the protection of others.

And that, to me, is what makes her a true hero.


r/StrangerThings 2d ago

Discussion “That ending hit me harder than I expected”

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I just finished Stranger Things and I honestly don’t know what to do now

I don’t even know how to write this properly. I just finished Stranger Things Season 5 and I needed to get this out somewhere because I genuinely can’t get over the ending.

I really liked this season. Was it perfect? No. I honestly wasn’t a huge fan of the military/government stuff, but apart from that, I really enjoyed it. And the ending… man.

The part with Kali helping Eleven escape completely got me.

And knowing that Eleven actually escaped and is somewhere far away from humanity, living her own life and finally being safe from the military/government… I don’t know why, but that makes me really happy.

After everything she went through, I just wanted her to be free.

She spent so much of her life being treated like a weapon or something that belonged to other people. So seeing her finally disappear somewhere peaceful, where nobody can control her, felt right.

But what really hurts is that Mike still believes she’s alive.

He doesn’t forget her.

None of them do.

That honestly means so much to me. Even though they all eventually go their separate ways, what they had together doesn’t just disappear. Eleven is still a part of their lives and their memories.

And then that whole sequence showing where everyone ends up in the future…

I was already emotional, but then Mike closes the basement door.

And someone else comes in to play D&D.

That scene absolutely destroyed me.

Because suddenly you realize that the kids we watched grow up are no longer those kids. Life continued. New kids are going to play D&D in that same basement. They'll make their own stories and probably have no idea how much happened there.

And then seeing the main characters put their D&D books back on the shelf…

That was it for me.

That felt like saying goodbye.

D&D was there at the very beginning. It was how everything started. These kids were just sitting together, playing a game, and then their entire lives changed.

And now they're putting those books away.

Not because what happened didn't matter.

But because they've grown up.

And I think that's what hurts the most about this ending.

We spent years watching these characters become a family. We watched them fight monsters, lose people, save each other, grow up, fall apart and come back together.

And now we don't get to see what happens next.

There is no next season.

No next adventure.

No waiting for another trailer.

No theories about what Vecna is going to do.

It's just over.

And honestly, I'm going to miss them.

I know they're fictional characters, but after spending so much time with them, it doesn't really feel like that right now.

The ending wasn't necessarily the biggest or most insane ending they could have made.

It was just… goodbye.

And somehow that hurts more.

Stranger Things really ended.

I wasn't ready to say goodbye. 😭


r/StrangerThings 2d ago

Discussion I’m on, like, my fifth rewatch or something, and it still feels exciting every single time. Is it just me?

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There are only two TV shows that feel so special to me that every time I start a rewatch, it genuinely feels like I’m watching them for the first time again: Lost and Stranger Things.


r/StrangerThings 2d ago

Discussion Dimension X is not cold! Spoiler

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The color choices for the Dimension X—and certain elements of the scenes—didn't quite work to convey a cold atmosphere! Characters had sweaty skin and showed no reaction to the cold (we need to remember Will in Season 2, or Billy with his ice bath, which demonstrated the kind of cold the Mind Flayer is used to). Anyone entering a low-temperature environment would show physical reactions—like trying to warm up, crossing their arms, or showing discomfort—but that doesn't happen with any of the characters, not even the kids. I think that was a directing error. That’s my opinion!


r/StrangerThings 2d ago

Who can you call???

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r/StrangerThings 2d ago

Discussion Hopper's Recharger Cocktail at Halloween Horror Nights | $20 with souvenir cup

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r/StrangerThings 2d ago

Discussion Question about the Upside Down

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SPOILERS if you’ve never seen season 4!!!

I was rewatching season 4 recently and it made me think about something — obviously, we know the Upside Down is stuck on 6th November 1983, so when in season 4 they go into the Upside Down, how is Eddie’s guitar and all his cassettes and stuff from the current timeline in his trailer in the exact same place? At no point does anyone imply that the Upside Down is frozen 3 years earlier; it kinda feels like they forgot about that part. Or have I missed something?


r/StrangerThings 2d ago

SPOILERS Stranger Things Season 2 episode 7 "The Lost Sister" an underrated masterpiece.

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After my frist time watching the episode I tougth to myself "oh cool, but I need Mileven reunion", my second time was "What a cool episode now that I don't need to yearn for Mileven reunion I can just sit back and enjoy this underrated 5/10 episode" and like yesterday on my 2nd rewatch I was like "This episode is a cinematic masterpiece".

Eleven unlike many people claim (not even including this episode) has the best plotline this season with her and Mike missing each other and her argument with Hopper that is just brilliant added to that Mike's argument with Hopper and his experiance missing El and episode 7 this just creates the cinematic masterpiece that is this part of the season. But let's come back to episode 7.

The episode begins with El seeing Kali and when she exits her room to say that to Terry I think that was her name she finds her calling Hawkins police. Many people (including me before my 2nd rewatch) interpret this scene as Eleven wrongly assuming that Terry is calling CPS but the more logical and more in agreement with the central conflict of the episode is that she knows that Terry is calling Hopper but because she's mad at him she just escapes to go to her sister.

After the intro we see Eleven for the frist time experiacing a big city which is pretty cool but later the athmosphere changes to slums of the city and then she meets Kali's gang. After realising she has powers and that she was also in the lab Kali takes her to a roof. There she explains El that her powers are gifts which is already from Eleven's perspective a diffrent approach to Hopper and later even Mike, she makes her point by showing her a butterfly. She also seems very happy to find someone like her which rather depends on your intepratation on wether or not she tries to manipulate El in my opinion she doesn't.

While Eleven sleeps in her dream she sees Hopper's massege to her which begins to introduce internal conflict within her in wether or not it was good decision to leave and is Hopper really like Papa. Also we never really see her spying on people while asleep that's an intrensting ability that was never expored further. Unfortunetly not exploring ideas further is what the Duffers did after they freaked out from all the underserved hate this episode got/gets. But back to the anylysys; She is woken up by Kali which then introduces her to her team and they literaly call themselfs freaks. Now this is an obvious refrence to the fact that this show is literaly a show about freaks (outcasts (which is also the term they use to describe themselfs)). They are the party aka her family but figthing for justice and vengence against the ones that wronged them and Kali is alternative her which I will get to later.

Kali then teaches El on how to strengthen her powers and after I understood this scene on my 2nd rewatch that I understood this episode. Kali wants Eleven to relese her anger to that she kept for Max "taking" Mike away from her (in her view), Hopper for lying to her and locking her in their house and the lab people and Papa for experimenting on her. This isn't this sudden change in personality that some people like to pretend it is. We've seen her killing the military already, we've seen her pushing Max to the ground and acting agressivly torwards Hopper that want to use her powers to hurt those that have wronged her and wanted to experiment on her already existed within her and Kali is what El would become if she had chosen that path. Finaly we see her embracing that with changing her apperance symbolising her joining the rebelion.

Then we see how she uses her powers and acts up on her feelings until we get to killing that guy from the lab. While she chockes him she shows no remorse, no anything for this man, but when she sees that he has family she realises that by killing him she would essencialy do the same thing to them that he did to her and she would be the same monster as him. When Kali tells her to finish him and tries to convince her she doesn't listen and when she tries to do this herself she puahes her gun out of the way. He also tells them that Brenner is still alive which shows that they at least planned this from s2 onwards.

While they're coming back Kali tells Eleven that she can chose mercy but to never stand in the way of her choice, which will also come back later. But for now, Eleven, after coming back wacthes Hopper and Mike and sees they're in danger thus reinforcing her need to come back home to her old family.

Kali then gives Eleven a choice between staying with her or going back to Hawkins which connects to her previous sentence to El about chosing mercy. To convince her she also summons Brenner who tells her that there is something in her and it's going to destroy her and then Kali tells her that she also had a family that tried to take care of her but they couldn't and so she left. This is what I was previously talking about, Kali is Eleven but the one that chose violence and vengence over forgivness and mercy and her friends are El's friends just on the same spree as Kali.

And when it comes the time to chose, Eleven finally choses her old family, and forgivness which she is finally given by Owens.


r/StrangerThings 2d ago

S2E6 - The Spy is a phenomenal episode

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I’m just rewatching S2 as it’s one of my favorite seasons

I just have to praise how good S2E6 is.

So many things happen without breaking the flow, with a great pace, making sure rhe screenplay is very gripping and it’s an outright thriller episode

Major things that happen in the episode

  1. Dustin finds out Dart ate her cat
  2. Max’s tension with his brother, Lucas tells Max about S1 and eventually brings Max to the party
  3. Jonathan and Nancy are with Murray, figures out how to break the story by watering it down
  4. Will is the focus, draws the map of the underground tunnel
  5. Bob comes in as a great addition, helping to solve the map that Will drew
  6. Will being a spy, getting caught by Mike
  7. Dustin and Steve iconic rail road walking scene where Steve tells secret about his hair
  8. Dustin Steve Lucas Max fight

Demodog

  1. hoard while laying trap for Dart

  2. Will helps the Mindflayer by setting up a trap, sending men from the lab to get slaughtered by the Demodogs


r/StrangerThings 3d ago

Discussion Stranger Things: Return to Hawkins lagoon show preview, Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando [Video] Spoiler

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A snippet from the Stranger Things: Return to Hawkins lagoon show, happening multiple times per night now during Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida. THIS SHOW IS GREAT, especially if you love 80's music. The event also has a haunted house about the 5th season, which I didn't love, but this lagoon show felt like a fitting finale for this show.

My tip, stand at the very top. There is a grassy area up there to sit on while you wait.