#fourthgate

Guys, i really hate to feel like i am being delusional but PLEASE WALK WITH ME.

In episode 7 Will says about drink milk shake at Melvad's and then in the next episode at 0:00:43 we see Dr Kay walking with soldiers right in front at the Melvad's GENERAL STORE. The camera pans and it looks very purposeful so it can show us it is a GENERAL STORE and not a regular diner with milk shake or whatever. Show this place right in the begin of the episode looks a lot like A REMINDER!

Also, i was looking for correspondencies for Kay + D&D (unfortunately is not a subject i have knowledge so i had to look it up at wiki) and the closest thing i saw was a type of elf called: Shadar Kai - sha(d)a(r) (kai). And this is their description:

I remember watching the first volume and my mom who was a fan of Linda Hamilton was like "wow, has been a time since i saw her, she looks very wrinkled" (very rude comentary but i swear it clicked something in my brain). So, at first i thought that was just a natural feature of the actress (which is) but thinking now maybe getting her in the show was a delibarate choice so she could match the traits of a shadar-kai: she's shown several times being the shorter in the room (like elves) and has grey hair.

Besides, look like shadar-kai elves used to serve a goddess called Raven Queen who apparently is fascinated with the past and "sits in her fortress, amidst all the MEMORIES of the world"

Memories are very important this season, but if we think that what characters are telling is right in the universe, so The Duffers are the ones who seems to be forgetting a lot of details?

Vecna is not only messing up with our heroes memories, hes also erasing and probably did that to their parents before (whom are shown to known henry creel from high school).

So its very weird for me that the show would end without AT LEAST adress Joyce and Hopper's moment of realization.

PLUS: For some reason, Duffers are always telling things took 12 hours to film:

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/noah-schnapp-will-gay-stranger-things-5-1236612777/

https://x.com/i/status/1965462105437733272

And on this video they break down the scene where Holly is kidnapped and they say this about Ted Wheeler going through the wall take:

timestamp: 8:37

It reminds me of Vecna's CLEAR obsession with clocks and the number 12 (as in kidnapping 12 kids and kidnapping Will Byers when he was 12 years old). And also the time jump in both the begin of the season 5 and the Vol3 are of 18 months (basically: 12+6 months)