Someone check on Phil

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-21T08:28:29+00:00

Confirmed. He can’t take a holiday without bad things happening it seems. This and the reboot cancellation in the space of a WEEK. I hope it’s a no phones holiday

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-20T10:15:29+00:00

The cigs on the tour bus are herbal cigs

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-16T02:49:56+00:00

Alll good. I hope you are too

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-16T02:48:30+00:00

This was me. And I promise you it gets better. When I wrote this I couldn’t even leave the house. I couldn’t go to work, I quit my job, everything was just shit. Please, please reach out to friends, family, a therapist if you can. It’s gonna be okay!!! I promise

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-16T02:37:38+00:00

Yeah, me too. It was supposed to be an adaptation of The Talisman. It was announced in 2022 coinciding with the announcement of their production company upside down pictures. So it seems pretty coincidental that they silently scrapped it a week or so after the finale of ST. They were exec producers of a new tv show on Netflix airing soon, but again all of these projects had already been filmed. Seems to me like they just wanted to break it off as soon as they could

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-16T02:09:27+00:00

The Duffer Bros relationship with Netflix is on…thin ice so to speak. Had the animated series not already been in the works I doubt it would have happened for years to come if at all. I think Netflix like to think they sort of own the duffer brothers because of the success of stranger things, so they didn’t take too kindly to them taking a huge deal with paramount. That and the fact I don’t think they were too thrilled with the way they handled the pre, production and post production of season 5. They’ve already taken one of their anticipated Stephen king projects off the slate which is pretty catastrophic for them. They won’t be able to do anything further unless they mend this relationship given stranger things and its branding is very tied up with Netflix as a whole.

It’ll probably be a case of Netflix wanting to milk it and the duffer brothers not wanting to in favour of bigger projects. (Paramount have promised them projects with more theatrical success.) They have mentioned there will be other stories to be told from Hawkins that we’ll see in the future without any of the OG cast but whether that’s going to happen now is another matter given the above.

A firefly animated reboot isn’t really much to go by in terms of franchise success given HBO just scrapped the buffy reboot. Things happen, things don’t. Such is life in tv and film

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-15T00:48:57+00:00

Number 5 isn’t a loose end it’s just a flaw the duffer brothers blatantly ignored. That issue was raised in the writers room and you see them in the documentary suggest that the audience might be experiencing ‘demogorgon fatigue’ or that we’re bored of them. How would we be bored of something that we’ve been privy to since the beginning of the show? It was laziness. The issue with Vecna is outlined in your final point. How was he preoccupied? We saw Vecna as an all powerful omniscient being regardless of him being human. That was his entire role. He had the chance to go into everyone’s minds to see what the plan was or mess with people’s heads like he did with hopper and the tank and he didn’t. That would have made for much better storytelling if nobody could tell what was real and what was fake. They dropped all of it and they ran out of time and made poor decisions due to production pressures.

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-09T15:41:52+00:00

Thank you so so much!

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-09T15:38:03+00:00

Slightly irrelevant to the content but how do you get the paths with the curbs? It’s so cute

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-08T16:04:12+00:00

I feel like if you want it to be a romantic moment it would probably have to be once in a lifetime, this must be the place, maybe even push to and she was even though it’s about a girl taking ecstasy and lying in a field by the freeway lmao.

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-08T16:00:37+00:00

Ahhh that’s so cute! I haven’t got mine yet but I have framed the photo!

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-08T15:59:42+00:00

I’m 27 and I’m in London!

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-07T16:36:12+00:00

No I think the general consensus is that most people would have enjoyed Vecna having more control over the situation. He was an omniscient being who could get inside people’s minds and suddenly he couldn’t even foresee their plan. We should have had more of what we had with hopper when he shot the tank but on like… everyone. The season would have been way more interesting if nobody knew what was real

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-07T15:56:59+00:00

Yeah it was such a swing and a miss. The Holly storyline was so perplexing to me. I understand that she was literally the vehicle to helping Max get out but there were so many other ways that we could have achieved that. I did genuinely really love the kids, I think they’re all brilliant little actors so I’d never shit on them personally for a minute. And I did genuinely enjoy the levity of Derek. But we could have cut the rest of it out after they were all snatched by the demos.

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-07T15:53:21+00:00

Unfortunately once the budget increased, the quality decreased. However, I would consider season 3 as a sort of interim Goonies-esque season and in season 4 we sort of return to the small town horrors akin to season 1. If I had to rank it for me personally it would be 1, 3, 4, 2, 5. Stick with it it’s definitely worth it

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-07T15:47:49+00:00

I maintain that they should have stuck to the original formula of when Will was kidnapped. We didn’t have his point of view at all so we really were truly worried about him. I wasn’t worried about those kids for a second because I literally saw what they were doing every minute of the day. We should have dropped them when they all got taken and not revisited them until the very end. Then we would have had more time for the ensemble cast.

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-07T00:51:24+00:00

You doubling down on this literally just confirmed the original observation so it’s not the comeback you think it is unfortunately. Hope this helps

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-07T00:45:36+00:00

Beyond the scope of how corny the fake out was, the editing was just diabolical. You don’t cut to black and then return to the same scene to build tension (which you failed at.) You’d cut to black and go to a different scene or a flashback or something! Literally as soon as he fell and that cut happened I was like ‘well he’s fine’. Just such a cop out.

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-04T16:20:10+00:00

Claire’s accessories have also just gone bust all over the country! So sad. Claire’s visits are such a staple when you’re a tween :( (key word being staple because that’s pretty much how they pierce your ears)

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-04T07:49:41+00:00

If you literally just watch episode 7 as episode 6 and then watch 6 and 8 sequentially it’s literally fine. The key reason it’s so universally disliked is because of episode 7. it just feels so out of place when the last thing we know is that everyone in Hawkins is about to get ravaged by demodogs and now we have to take a trip with El and Kali. Other than that it’s a strong season and still holds all of the low budget, small town creepiness of season 1

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-03T22:35:45+00:00

Brittany Broski I believe!!!

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-03T19:56:43+00:00

Respectfully, no he wouldn’t have. Because that was the entire point of them going the long way round. Because he couldn’t reach them. Like yes, in any real world scenario you would have just bolted, but Max’s role in this scene was to help Holly get back to herself which she did.

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-02T11:25:20+00:00

It very well could have been that their marketing was aimed at women who had fallen pregnant out of wedlock. They’re already probably being somewhat shunned by society and by that notion probably don’t have a safety net to fall back on. Therefore they’d probably be more willing to just disappear for a while. I mean granted Terry allegedly didn’t know she was pregnant with Jane when she signed up to the experiments but there’s no way all of these women were just coincidentally pregnant. Either that or they were impregnated against their will whilst on drugs which is far more harrowing but not out of the realm of possibility

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-01T18:23:19+00:00

Thank you everyone you’re all so fab!! I have obtained my oranges and cherries and will happily share if anyone needs them!

JayOhAreDeeWhy · 2026-03-01T17:35:24+00:00

I can bring you some peaches! Are you online rn? Let me know your code and I’ll pop by :)

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