#mirrorgate

Next is the Magic Mirror Gate…

Confronted with their trueselves…

most men run away screaming.

So is it just me or what? (btw, 💚Green Day =💛💙 day)

and I’m sorry but

not just Holly is Alice in Wonderland. it’s Mike who’s Alice in Mirrorland!

Also a fact I found but mb a reach: there was a musician Mike Starr who performed in the band Alice in Chains. ⛓️ Mike Starr was addicted to drugs. Mike in Manhattan?

and well, speaking of mirrors, vamp!Mike kinda reveals an additional subtext?

and let’s say, he’s not capable of seeing himself in the mirror: he can’t be reflected there as he doesn’t live his life, and there’s nothing to reflect OR he’s just afraid to look into it, fearing of the truth he can see. (Or both, both is good)

Henry + unproposal + basing on songs included (better if a song has a word Gate in it)

Plus Vecna’s SA subtext and “queer”:

I knew there was something about Max’s top!!

(and I still want to know more about the pendant, and the pic on her back is disturbing)

so something about Max being a white rabbit for Holly-Alice, or something about Max being led by evil someone who’s also a white rabbit (obsessed with clocks and having a pocket watch, leading everyone in his lair) or being an alter-ego of this someone summing up them both as white rabbits as they are pretty much one entity (and once again something about doppelgängers)

(but choose your fighter)

these two references just blew my mind 😭

There’s no possible scenario where I wouldn’t recognise the OST from the movie of David Fincher, The Game (1997) (but there was a scenario where I didn’t make a big deal of it before, and I should’ve!)

🐇 Jefferson Airplane — White Rabbit

Yes, you read it right. Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit. Yes, in the very first episode of Stranger Things!

Does anyone still have any questions whether the Duffer Brothers did plan all these Alice’s mirror twists for the ending of their show?

And if you do, I’ll add a bunch more words about the movie mentioned above. (And Istg it is one of the biggest conformitygate proofs for me atm!)

⚠️ Spoilers for “The Game” (1997), a movie I’d definitely recommend to watch first, it’s amazing!

Mirrorgate, Ozgate, Fairytalegate, all in one and more! (based on the 1st movie)

So, ST quoted Alice and quoted the Matrix, while the Matrix quoted Alice. And both, ST and the Matrix quoted Oz.

Changing of clothes and hairstyles in the simulation? (clothesgate) Bonus: the reference for depicting void in ST.

Time and compasses (timegate)

Blue meets yellow in the west? Time being a geographical area, where you can travel? Idk, something about these symbols attracts my attention (I mean the clock’s resemblance of a compass)

Another brick in the wall 🥁 (wallgate)

I must say it’s wild that the epilogue literally starts with this wall. I saw that some people recognised the wall as a pattern on Mike’s sweater. And what a coincidence: the Matrix characters discover themselves being trapped the exactly same way.

The Matrix code (here’s more)

Truth serum?

(Which questions should we ask? Do we ask the right questions now?) (truthgate)

Smellgate

Love beats death

And tell me it’s not the scene that we’re awaiting from the finale where someone will crash out and because of his love will return his beloved from the dead?

Revelation

So technically I added two different themes here (bc of the image limits and bc they kinda match).

1) Embracing the truth about yourself

First two picture lines are directly paralleled, which makes Neo and Will powerful (left corner) and realising they are both “the chosen ones”.

2) Energy of love

Mike and the kiss scene are paralleled for me bc of the light which goes wild in the Matrix, when Neo returns back to life through the power of love + Mike is saved bc of the power of love. And both scenes are strongly energised, culminating. So these two are examples of a revelation about yourself and — literally about feelings and truth (in the Matrix it’s a revelation about Neo being the One, or about Trinity’s feelings, about their reciprocated love; in ST it’s Mike’s emotions going wild, his adoration and admiration).