starman, waiting in the sky

bylerlumax picnic double date (summer of ‘94)

a lot of people online alongside me have been suspecting that the documentary may be a bigger deal than netflix is leading on, and that what is released will mirror what wes craven did with new nightmare, with freddy kreuger infiltrating the "real world" and targeting the actors and those involved in the franchise becoming targets. freddy's goal is to reach the audience. is this what they're planning with the documentary?

in an interview, millie was asked to choose one word to describe the series finale and she said "meta". the finale we got isn't something i would describe as meta though, but most definitely would support this theory.

i know that it was originally suspected that there would be an entirely new episode released on january 7th, on orthodox christmas. the duffer brothers had alluded to a dark christmas, but what if by dark christmas they meant literally leaving us in the dark? leaving us hanging. dropping clues and hints and playing it all up only to go radio silent.

here's what i think is going to happen - the documentary will begin as a normal documentary. some behind the scenes footage, the making of, all that shit. but then something will shift, vecna will break through - into the real world. he will target the cast and crew, then he will get you too. meta.

the only way to save the world will be to go back as the characters, to remove the illusion that vecna has them tricked by. how will they do this? why, i'll tell you - there were runtimes released for volumes 2 and 3 that were not accurate to the actual show. but what if, once the veil is dropped, all of that cut footage will be edited into the show?

at the end of the finale, derek was playing a game calles ghosts n' goblins, a game notoriously known for having a false ending in which the player beats the game only for it to be revealed that everything was an illusion and that you have to restart from the beginning now at a higher difficulty level.

but i’ve posted here before about how in will’s coming out scene, he mentions “watching The Grail” I believe this is in reference to the 1975 movie lMonty Python and The Holy Grail. The reason I believe this is because of the main characters names.

I could never work out how the show connected to this, the story didn’t align until i saw this tweet mentioning the trojan horse as I also found it on the wiki for this movie!!

So let’s get into this theory — the movie is based off of king arthur going on a quest. there has been many references to king arthur this season, such as the game derek played and the film Holly’s friend was watching.

Monty Python and The Holy Grail breaks the fourth wall by having a MODERN DAY DOCUMENTARY apart of its plot!! and the knights are all arrested at the end. imprisoned, even.