Yeah, I've been silent for a while now, but that doesn't mean, that I ditched the project. I've been veeeeeery productive the whole time.

So, to explain what I've done exactly, let me show it to you, using the first scene:

As you see, it's a Scene on Scene Sync, showing two timelines at the same time. The fun part? They're both Season 5 and the whole thing is 9 ½ hours long.

Yes, it works. Not every single scene of course, but many do and I've got crazy bits of information out of them and made completely new connections.

I know, it can be overwhelming at first, so let's take a look on the first scene together.

▶ Death & the Wormhole

The timeline on top shows us Season 5 as we know it, start to end. We begin with the flashback of November 12th, 1983, seeing what happened to Will in the Upside Down on that day.

In the timeline below we start during "Chapter Six: Escape from Camazotz" (~ 1:30min). We see Mr Clarke getting woken up by Erica and Murray, followed by the collapsing of the Upside Down (after Nancy shot the orb).

The first thing I caught was how similar Will and Mr Clarke are dressed. Their expression as Will notices he's in danger and Mr Clarke hears that Dustin is in danger are almost identical.

Will shot the Demo attacking him. Shortly after Dustin says: "Nancy just shot it (the orb)," actively pointing at Will!

Right afterwards Will looks down at Nancy and Jonathan, lying knocked out on the floor. Both scenes are having red light(n)ing.

Will's fall from the tree gets stopped by his backpack and El asks: "Why'd it stop?" And as Will actually crashes to the ground Dustin's answering the question what's on the other side of the wall. "Death." (In case you don't remember, Hopper had to give Will CPR after finding him in the Upside Down, so yeah, he probably actually died here.)

Right after Will gets dragged away, just as the gravestones are blown away, both happening in the Upside Down. Vecna appears as a gate opens for El, Kali and Hopper.

The next sequence actually gave me the goosies. It shows the vine connected to Will and the wormhole from the outside - and they look identical.

Afterwards we get the opening in both timelines.

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Season 5 is a time loop

During this version we see every episode happen twice: once in the timeline above and once in the timeline below, giving us a different context each time.

But there's one exception and that's episode 6. The episode Shawn Levy said about that it would be impossible to direct. We see scenes from it at 3 different times: the beginning, the middle part and the ending. It's split, connecting the beginning to the ending and making a gigantic time loop out of it - a cycle.

In case you wonder - 'why would anyone actually get the idea to connect this?' - Max told us to.

She gave us the instructions: Max followed her memories backwards, leading to new memories, until she reached the memory of the day that she died.

That's what I did. I started with the last episode, syncing the season backwards, unlocking new contexts and information and ended right at the beginning: the day that Will died. (Actually I did this by accident, but that sounds far less interesting, so who cares.)

And now I have this giant, 9 ½ hours long maze of memories, that I'm discovering right now.

Next post I'll start right with the good part: the Byler storyline. After hours of analyzing I can read Mike's mind by now, for real. And let me give you one hint: Byler kiss belongs to the less crazy half of evidence I've got. (〜￣▽￣)〜

And I have more interesting finds, such as Creelby lettergate or Max as the monster.

But - it's a lot. It will cost me ages to analyze everything, I won't be able to do that alone. So if you are interested, feel free to take a look into the Sync yourself, you can find it here ↩

i realize how crazy and far fetched this sounds, but i beg you to hear me out. this sync has made it impossible for me to ignore the stranger things-taylor tether, so i’d like to walk you all through how i got here.

i understand it’s hard to believe in the involvement of outside artists, and i also understand that a lot of people don’t like taylor as a person or a musician. if any of that if the case for you and i’d appreciate if you please don’t interact with this theory! we’re all just here to have a good time 🫶🏻

that said! the first thing i want to present to you are the lyrics that play over the opening credits, when the screen says ‘STRANGER THINGS 5’, because that’s what i can’t get out of my head as i’m investigating this sync.

You're in self-sabotage mode, throwing spikes down on the road

But I've seen this episode and still loved the show

Who else decodes you?

self sabotage, like making a fake ending? spikes on the road like when they’re caught by the military at the end of the episode? she mentions an episode of a show as the title card is on the screen? and finally, we are literally decoding the entire show right now! there are actually sister lyrics that bookend these with the closing credits, but you’ll have to read more to see those:)

the last thing i’ll give you before i make you dig under the cut is my favorite sync of the episode. i implore you to watch it, and if it compels you, to look below for more of my thought processes, clips & a link to the full sync for you to check out yourself!