Smallbites

The day is young;

The sun is long;

Peace settles in me like a bird in wait of spring

and honeydew, and citrus fruit, and

Robin said the “Snowballs turn into an avalanche”

Hmm. Avalanche like… The avalanches? The band?

Whose song called “A Different Feeling” has only these lyrics?

Interesting….

Well if Mike is Tammy…. Then…

Edit:

What started as Joyce Byers level conviction is now just confusion- huh? What? Why! These things don’t make sense! If they are doing all this for nothing I genuinely can’t comprehend why!

Morse code. Spectrogram. Plot-hole officially licensed merch. Incomplete episode licensing. Self-ridiculing documentary. Contradicting pre-& post- season interviews. Now google removing season 5 from their search.

I just need a straightforward statement at this point with no qualifiers. Not “there’s no episode 9” not “there aren’t multiple endings” i need a firm “that was the whole show, we dont have anything else coming except for the spinoffs”

The listen live started at 11PM EST. GlobalPlayer uses UTC/GMT.

That means the broadcast started an hour late- at 4am instead of 3.

What timezone would the broadcast have to be in for it to have been on time? Well there are 3 options: AZOST (Azores Standard Time), CVT (Cape Verde Time) and EGT (Eastern Greenland Time)

That last one sticks out to me a bit. Because as we have (kinda) confirmed, we see Eleven go to Iceland. Near Greenland, but obviously not the same as Greenland.

Except, Iceland’s timezone is kinda interesting.

It goes by UTC (-0) because of the political similarities with Western Europe, but the geographic region Iceland is in when put on a timezone map is very clearly (-1).

Second- i keep thinking about how strange the WSQK radio was being in the lead-up to the documentary. New times listed for it to go live…and then nothing? The GlobalPlayer saying that the broadcast for the 11th had gone live but then nothing happening, a period where the title should be? New dates AND A NEW DESCRIPTION being made for airings the (Fri) 16th and (Sat) 17th but the next day seeing ALL EVIDENCE OF THE WSQK ERASED from GlobalPlayer?

On the one hand, it felt like we had simply been baited again. Radio dangled, pulled away at the last second.

On the other hand, I wondered if someone had managed to go rogue with the WSQK and they (netflix or the st people or whomever) had only been able to stop these ppl from baiting the community by getting rid of the whole thing.

Then again there’s the chance that maybe we weren’t supposed to be watching that closely.

But… haven’t we been talking about signals being so important this whole time? Wasn’t the WSQK one of the first places where we saw a real breaking the 4th wall moment talking about everyone being connected? Don’t the characters all communicate via radio? Everyone anticipating something to happen on the 11th and nothing seeming to come through??

Maybe a signal sent…but unable to be properly received.

Which in this show? Nobody is a stranger to.

So what stops a signal? Proximity or interference.

This might be where I’m going off the deep end-

Because another thing strange about the WSQK radio show… why was it being run by the villains of the series?? I mean, Mindy Flare and Vance Goodman are pretty on the nose. But isn’t it odd that the official broadcast that we associate with our heroes- the place that acts as their unofficial team base at this point-is being run by the villains? Even before the advent of s5?

Sure, it could just be to make the radio show a bit more interesting, but really any characters or stand-ins could have been chosen. We could have had subtle references to Robin and Steve instead of Vecna and the Mindflayer and it would have been just as exciting for hyping up season 5.

But we didn’t. s5 comes around and-

Oh would you look at that radio tower!! The MindFlayer particles seem to really like it. (Big shoutout to those who are speculating from this scene and the WSQK broadcast ending that the MindFlayer had taken over the tower and was using it to boost the signal across Hawkins)

But the questions that leaves us with when thinking about our own WSQK’s signal issues are: 1) Who is (was) trying to send a message? 2) Who (or what) was preventing it?

If this really does go super meta with the idea of realities combining and blurring then we’re faced with another two options: MF sending to infect us, someone preventing it to protect; someone sending for help, MF preventing it;

Or a third: the signal can’t get through because we simply aren’t close enough yet.

SOMEONE SEE IF THEY CAN TUNE INTO THE BROADCAST- ITS NOT LETTING ME PLAY IT

Edit: HERE IS THE LINK

https://share-gp.globalplayer.com/live/wsqk/uk/

https://share-gp.globalplayer.com/live/wsqk/uk/

1) Where is the SQWK?? The station updated to include new shows with dates, but so far the one that passed (scheduled for early this morning) never got realized. What’s up with that? Are the others coming, or are they just changing the dates for no reason?

2) I really don’t think we’re getting a ninth episode, specifically because of the statements made on Netflix and the interview questions. I’ve noticed that all the questions surrounding conformitygate have been “Are there alternate endings” and “Is there a 9th episode” which both received nos in response. But we have over and over failed to see the question “Is Stranger Things over?” Or “Is all of the content for the main show now released?” Or even a more straightforward “Is there any weight to conformitygate?” asked.

As it stands now what we can conclude is that there aren’t more EPISODES—but that doesn’t mean the episodes can’t be changed, that the documentary movie can’t be more content.