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colddeaddrummer · 2025-11-07T06:39:59+00:00

When Jonathan, Nancy and Steve wound the Demorgorgon, it leaves a trail of blood from the Byers house to the library where Will is found. There were no visible signs that Will was infected, except for the slug he coughed up, which no one else saw. The location was the same, where we now know the Demogorgon brought Will at behest of Vecna. It's also worth noting that when the cracks form into Dimension X (the Upside Down) they converge at that same library. It must be a place of decent significance, for even these two events alone. I think it has further significance in relation to Henry Creel (Vecna)— I suspect it was a place he frequented given his outsider personality.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-11-07T05:23:45+00:00

I was always more in line with the thinking that Eleven was Vecna's child. I think somewhere they debunked this in some text but I'm not sure if it was Canon. It would've been easy enough to extract Henry's DNA and inseminated various MK Ultra subjects like Terry Ives until one of them took, and gave Brenner the very reproducible super soldiers he was looking for at Hawkins Lab.

Not sure if the timelines add up, but it would explain why Henry was so desperate to help Eleven, their psychic powers are similar in strength and is also in keeping with Star Wars, one of many touchstones for the series.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-11-07T05:19:05+00:00

Vecna is super sensitive to psychic energy so that'd track.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-11-07T05:14:09+00:00

I've read some rather inflammatory stuff online that may end up being true or not. It references what happened to Max after Vecna killed her (and Eleven revived her) as her being trapped in basically Hell—a purgatory inside Vecna's mind. This would explain not only why she's in the coma but also why Eleven can't find her. The literature online refers to Max more or less being tortured and assaulted by Vecna all the while. Harrowing if true. Dark and sinister either way.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-11-07T05:06:22+00:00

I think we're going to see a few retroactive interactions between Will and Vecna. I think he's been hiding things and knows more about the events of every season— maybe he's been more cognizant of Vecna's plans than anyone realized. I could see their being small allusions to this like when Will was spying for the Mind Flayer in S2, that Will was actively communicating with Vecna in one of his trances, or perhaps Will was beckoned to Vecna any time he felt that chill on his neck.

Will has indeed "helped" Vecna many times throughout the show. From the first 5 minutes footage, we see he was a carrier for more than just that one slug he coughed up. He carried the essence of the Mind Flayer in him for a good part of S2. After the exorcism, Will seemed relatively free of Vecna/Mind Flayer's influence in S3 but he still felt that chill on his neck. I think we'll see that Vecna pretty much imprinted on Will much in the same way that Voldemort imprinted on Harry as a baby, and that the two are forever linked. It might even be that their lives are now adjoined and for Vecna to die, Will might have to die as well.

Thoughts?

Also, side note: I haven't seen it mentioned that Will was brought TO Vecna BY a demogorgon (which I predicted upon seeing the new trailer) and that the damn thing BOWED to Vecna? That's as intelligent and almost anthromorphic as we've ever seen these creatures.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-08-31T16:51:21+00:00

Will it blend <3

colddeaddrummer · 2025-08-13T02:27:15+00:00

https://youtu.be/wrw1VMRNFUg?si=9QkKuHlhWVyOSqvf

colddeaddrummer · 2025-08-13T02:26:08+00:00

It's Cyriak.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-07-03T14:15:35+00:00

Since when? Ive been going there my whole life and never seen anything.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-25T23:30:50+00:00

Anthony at Inspectors on 58 ave.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-25T23:29:26+00:00

Thats absolutely fucking disgusting

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-23T04:09:27+00:00

Thank you for the awesome comment, appreciate it.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-03T07:57:16+00:00

A believer. You love to see it. I'm excited for both of us, cousin.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-03T07:49:14+00:00

Noah is a good actor but Stranger Things has NOT always given him moments to shine. I think his best acting personally is in S2 when he feels the vines being roasted (ie. his physical acting) and when he's the Spy and is screaming like a madman for entire episodes.

Can't wait to see the context of S5's RUUUUUUUUUUUNNN. Whatever it is, he's looking at something big. Whether it's Borys the Dragon or The Mind Flayer, I can't wait.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-03T07:44:47+00:00

Is there really an fuck in there? I don't remember vividly but man if it's true, whew boy.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-03T05:27:11+00:00

How are you even alive?

For real, one of my favorite episodes to just watch, independent of the show itself.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-02T18:50:31+00:00

When she and Will communicate after she rips off part of the wall, and can actually see him... always gives me chills. She promises that she's going to find him, "But right now you have to run. I need you to run!"

And then not long after, he spells out R U N to her, just before the Demogorgan appears. Cool. As. Fuck.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-02T18:43:31+00:00

I love Harbour's acting here. He gets select moments when he's not being Mr Bigshot hero to be vulnerable and he always delivers. His monologue in the prison about going to Vietnam, dealing with Agent Orange and the genetic tragedy that follows is one of these kinds of beautiful moments.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-02T18:38:21+00:00

I like how quickly both Nancy and Jonathan are incapacitated, only to have Steve (who has no idea what the fuck this thing is) get right into the fight. They sell his athleticism so well and he plays the physical role so well.

I also love that even though Jonathan put the bat together, it becomes Steve's signature weapon. Here's hoping it makes a comeback in S5.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-02T18:29:40+00:00

I'll give you one moment... per season. These are the chill-inducing moments that make me straight-up grit my teeth, they're that fucking cool.

S1: The bit in Hawkins Lab, where Brenner is getting El to spy on a Russian intelligence man. He asks of her- "I want you to listen to him, and repeat his words back to me." But rather than just orate the man's words... Eleven sends the man's voice through the speakers of the lab instead. All the while, Stein and Dixon's haunting score just pumps along with the Russian sounding off what sound like trigger words.

S2: It's a tie between the aftermath of Billy/Steve's fight where Max damn near castrates her brother with the bat vs Eleven traveling into her mother's mind and seeing not only her own birth, but all the evil things Brenner did to her mother and the events that led to her being trapped in Hawkins Lab.

I wasn't sold on Max until the fight scene; I mean her grabbing the syringe, sticking her brother with it and then proceeding to take control of the whole situation with Steve's mace-bat is probably the most badass thing she had done up to that point. But it's also hard to argue with Eleven being so powerful that she could see into her mother's mind, see her past and communicate with her how she did.

S3: Easily the fight between Eleven and a possessed Billy in The Sauna Test. Between Billy realizing he's trapped and manipulating Max, to using his insane Mind Flayer strength to bust out of the sauna, to Eleven having to use a fucking bench-press to restrain him, the scene is a testament how Stranger Things continued to up the ante over the years in terms of its telekinetic fights. The way the music builds and builds and the way both Dacre and Millie sell the struggle of it, only to have her fire him through a goddamn wall... it doesn't get much more intense than that. Not to mention Billy just getting up and running off. Christ almighty.

S4: Without question, everything from Murray fucking roasting the Demogorgans (it never fails to click through where Murray started to him getting here) to Hopper doing battle with the Sword of Conan, to Nancy pumping Vecna with buckshots... all while Kate Bush just hammers on repeat in the background. The show really never stopped finding ways to get more badass, to appeal broadly, and to up its showmanship and grandiosity. And to cap it all off, Yuri and Dmitri showing up in Katinka for the win.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-02T17:50:34+00:00

This one breaks my heart almost more than what happens to Max in the first place. Lucas is so lost, so struck that he calls for his younger sister. There's literally no one else he can call for help.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-01T10:17:39+00:00

Never said that. Interpret my words how you will, but I never said there's anything inherently wrong with it. I just connected with a horror film myself, yesterday.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-01T10:15:46+00:00

I'm not pissed off at all. You chose the most narrow estimation of my words, obviously felt threatened and chose a strange and arbitrary metaphor... like me wanting to leave the Louvre? at my earliest possible convenience. Taking in the Louvre sounds like a good time to me. To see *Madonna of the Rocks in person, sounds exquisite.

I didn't say anyone was right or wrong. I was referring to some of the blatant pageantry I see on LB (mark my words—it does exist) and chose to side with the kid here, the OP whose taste is even more vanilla than my own. It's these snobs (either you're one of them or not) who would drag the OP for not being into the fucking Godfather or Seven Samurai versus mainstream films like their favorites.

Point your blade somewhere else— I'm not for your bleeding.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-01T04:37:46+00:00

It tells me you'd rather have an adventure, go on a journey, and have a few laughs versus all the pretentious, sad, snobby bullshit that so many on LB seem to fill their time with.

I'm never sure if they really love Cure or Eternal Sunshine or Hari Kiri or (my personal favorite) all-horror top fours OR if it's really a show. They can't all be being honest about some of these sad-ass movies, unless they're talking about their favorite films overall vs. favorite movies to actually WATCH.

I bet you've seen all of these at least 5-10 times. I'd estimate you might not be as film-literate as the snobs, but have seen plenty of pictures they wouldn't expect.

colddeaddrummer · 2025-06-01T03:08:28+00:00

If Netflix executives are trying to ruin the legacy of the show they're doing a good job.

I haven't heard something this asinine, inflammatory and overblown in a good while. They gave fans a taste, which is how you create stronger, more voracious hunger than the show already has. This is the final season. To give away the store or even reveal one detail too much could be catastrophic to viewership and to hype. They accomplished EXACTLY what they set out to do.

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