#stranger things documentary

so this is the tweet

in every other scene we saw finn's/mike's hands, it was always him in the details/close ups, like with the dnd minis, the map, etc-

but only the close ups in the epilogue look soo different - and again there were lot of close ups on other minis during the s5, like above, so why couldnt they do that with Finn too?

especially this one is obvious it's not him, being that in the same scene:

and this is the something i've noticed in the mockumentary - there were doubles for the dnd scene before the main actors started shooting that scene. they probably wanted for finn's "last scene" (however true or not that was) to be the acting going up the stairs and not small re-shoots of close up of dnd minis, so it makes sense they shot it beforehand with other people..

but i'm just wondering why they made sure it's noticable it was someone else than mike..

The final edited run-time was 10.33 hours.

Footage used vs Footage shot =1:65

On a typical show it’s 1:10 -1:15

Intentional hint IMO through the doc!

I don’t care how many people tell me they were just wasteful with the cast/ crews time and they fumbled. No way!

The math isn’t mathing. The script for season 5 comes out July 14th 2026, which is HUGELY DELAYED compared to previous seasons.

Conformity Gate will be real to me until July 11th.

And anyone is welcome to call me nuts.

Also mike, def explored let’s be real. And technically, it did happen offscreen. For now.

“you will be deceived and you will like it.”

my favourite the duffers’ t-shirt (they wear a ton of t-shirts with movie names) (and I was thinking to post the whole collection, but mockumentary is not my fave part of cg, so i doubt that I’ll rewatch it just for this, but anyways — )

Die Hard 2.

I don’t see Bruce Willis. I see:

They couldn't kill Mike (who did almost nothing this season btw) because it would be depressing and there should be repercussions

But they were totally fine with killing El, the girl who had less than a year to experience what it's like to live without having to hide from the government (And I didn't even have a good time because she was being bullied). The girl who barely got to experience having a real family

The repercussions of her death were not even remotely proportional to her impact as a character. Yes, we saw Mike in the negotiation stage of the grief and the others crying for about 10 minutes, but nothing more. After her death, the first thing we see is El's family smiling, that's fuck up!

They were so blinded by making their self-interest (Mike) the protagonist that they forgot about the characters that THEY made truly interesting

El and Kali weren't important for them, they were just tools for them. The pregnant women were just a shock value.

And I can't help but remember the moment in the documentary when the costume designer approached one of them to talk about Kali's clothes and what it said about the character, and he interrupted her and said "Kali is going to die".

Here’s what I found interesting. They were filming s5 during the whole year (Jan-Dec) and, as many of us know, they claimed the ep8 wasn’t finished on time(?). We don’t know for sure how true/false this statement is, but I want to drag your attention to the seasons of the year: here’s 👆👇summer.

And here’s a scene (pic 1) they shot in that period, according to the doc’s narrative. This scene indeed exists in 5x08 closer to the end of the main plot (mid of ep). What does it tell us?

That they considered seasons of the year filming. They needed green and sunny time for summer Camazotz. And filming parts of 5x08 in summer stresses that they did shoot inconsistently, which is understandable bc of outside locations.

⚠️ Red sheets in summer (pic 1) and in December (last pic)

Now that’s 👆 how Atlanta looks in December when presumably they had the last day and shot the basement scene. The trees on the shots: dead/green/orange. Atlanta’s weather Dec 2024:

72°F (Fahrenheit) is 22.222°C (Celsius). 22°F (Fahrenheit) is -5.556°C (Celsius).

So ig it was our common misinterpretation that they didn’t finish 5x08 chronologically. But if they didn’t have the plot for e8 finished, it was around the middle of the year. Could it be unfinished by that time? Maybe. However, we also know that they’ve started working on s5 during s4. Which makes the whole preparation process longer than those ≈3 years of working exclusively just on s5.