Just finished watching Fear Street: 1978 for the first time since watching the full trilogy (and immediately after re-watching 1994) and there are a few things that I noticed this time through that I either didn’t or couldn’t have noticed the first time through.
1) I only noticed this because I had seen so many people questioning it and I kept my eyes open. So many people were wondering if we were ever going to find out why C. Berman had so many clocks and on second viewing it was made pretty clear; there are little labels next to every clock with an action that she is supposed to take. It actually makes perfect sense for someone who has suffered such a huge trauma that they never really recovered from to crave some order and regularity from their day and also some trouble keeping up the ability to keep it themselves, so keeping such a regimented schedule makes perfect sense.
2) The first time through I thought that the dead people that Alice saw after she stumbled away from the living cave (after she saw Cindy as dead) were just random dead people. Maybe previous victims, but not really anyone specific, but this time it was obvious that they were specifically victims of Pastor Cyrus Miller. I’m not sure who they were all supposed to be, but I’m pretty sure that the first one was supposed to be Constance (Berman?).
3) I didn’t notice this the first time because there was a week between seeing 1994 and seeing 1978 and 1994 wasn’t as fresh in my mind, but Cindy’s explanation to Alice about why she started pushing her away (sans the specifics of snitching her out) is not just reminiscent of but almost word for word what Sam said in 1994 about leaving Deena behind and getting out of Shadyside. The way that they talked about each other before the event that drove them apart was so very specific and (I know the actors and some of behind the scenes people basically confirmed it, but) it is basically text in the movie that they were in love when they were like twelve. The only thing that speaks against it is them talking about their boyfriends being the only people they ever loved and even that is almost immediately put to the side when you realize how much rage there was in Cindy’s voice when DeadandPossessed!Tommy killed Alice and Cindy was shouting in his face “Why won’t you just die!”
4) I had repeatedly put forward the theory that the steep wall in the caverns was near the rock where Sarah Fier was buried because those were the only places where we saw the red moss, but this time I realized that her hand was in the steep wall room and then there was red moss under the tree when they dug the hand out in the mall, so really anywhere that a part of Sarah’s body was had the moss and thus we still don’t know where the steep wall would have let out in 1666 or 1994, but it probably wasn’t next to Sarah and Hannah’s sex rock like I had originally thought.
