could it maybe be a trick photography thing? i don’t know shit about how cameras work but ya know how some cameras flip left and right? maybe either the camera the pap was using or the cameras they’re filming with do that??? or smth like that i don’t know ?? it would be extremely unlike them to make that mistake given how meticulous the makeup department is with everything so i do doubt it’s a mistake but still as long as we’re assuming that’s el which i do think it is idk what the deal could be

ugh i’m concerned that it has smth to do with the pennhurst plotline bc i don’t even have a clue how she would fit in there..... mostly in a very literal sense since pennhurst is only a county over from hawkins and all the latest theories have el and the byers in california. but yeah if she’s there with the peter ballard character (which i mean ofc doesn’t necessarily mean they’re filming Together but just seeing them together and seeing how their costumes could potentially fit for the same scene has me Hm) but yeah i’m rambling idk what i’m saying but i don’t have a clue where el could fit into the pennhurst plotline unless she’s going undercover or smth in which case .... why and how would that happen

idk maybe it’s just a trick of light but it really does look like there’s a scar there so why WOULD there be one if it’s not that scar .... i mean my thoughts are either it’s a mistake and they fucked up which leg it is, or it’s not actually el but we all from what i’ve seemed seem p confident it’s her

did season 3 not make me cry enough? i thought this season was supposed to put together the pieces of my heart that the s3 finale shattered

yeah i’m back!! to be honest i rlly don’t know how active i’m gonna be on here but at the present moment i’m here. there’s a lot of stuff i don’t miss about tumblr and i rlly don’t see myself being super active with fandom stuff again, but i def miss talking to ppl so i’ll be online to answer messages and asks and stuff whenever i can :)

Also Ive never heard your idea before about the keys being repurposed weapons but i DEFINITELY love that!!!

But some runner-ups would be: End of 1x03 when they find Will’s body, Hopper resuscitating Will at the end of season 1 combined with flashbacks of Sara dying (a scene that honestly did not hit as hard until recently I think in the past I was too emotional over the Goodbye Mike scene to get upset during the resuscitating Will scene, but now that so many years have gone by and Goodbye Mike isn’t really all that sad anymore, seeing Joyce and Hopper crying during that scene HITS sm more now than it did 4 years ago for me), the scene when El is at Kali’s and she’s thinking back to old memories then looks for Mike & Hopper in the void, Hop apologizing to El over the radio in s2, Robin’s coming out scene, the scene of Nancy and Karen in s3, EL’S REACTION TO HOP NOT COMING OUT OF THE MALL (!!!!), aaaaand to throw in a couple happy-emotional moments, the scene of the rest of the party pranking Dustin at the beginning of s3 & blank makes you crazy are some happy-emotional faves

Remember PregNancy? How could I forget the scene where Nancy graphically gave birth in the mall? And Jonathan cut the umbilical cord with the same knife that had been inside El’s leg? And Steve wrapped his newborn daughter in a signature Scoops Ahoy© beach towel, now for sale for $19.99 at Target? Best scene in the show. I will say, though, seeing Mike faint while watching Nancy in labor was disappointing. I would have liked him to meet his baby niece before she was flayed

However, there is an interesting question I think where even though they probably didn’t come to Hawkins until after the events of s2, were their plans to come to Hawkins existing pre-s2? Alexei said that they decided on Hawkins because the gate had been opened there before, which subtly implies that the Russians didn’t decide to come to Hawkins until after Eleven closed the gate, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were already considering it beforehand anyway. Maybe even before the events of s2 the Russians started making some initial plans (like some of the farmland purchases) just in case they decided going to Hawkins was their next course of action 

I love that Karen’s reaction to everything in s1 was to just Check Out emotionally as opposed to like, idk, start keeping a closer eye on her kids, since one of them was allegedly harboring a Russian spy 

5. From what VERY little info we have so far, it seems like there’s a chance Nancy and Robin could be teamed up, so them with Murray could be Something

I don’t know?? I feel like it’s gotta be the same way the Russians escaped at the end of s3, but I don’t have a clue for that. I mean they definitely didn’t just escape their lab then board some planes to Russia, they must have had some escape path ready, but at the same time I kinda doubt it was via the Upside Down just because....... how if the gate was closed? Also they had just opened the gate a few days prior and clearly were there for some time already so they couldn’t have been reliant on it? Maybe they have another gate open in Russia, and they were somehow able to use that to get to and from Hawkins even without the Hawkins gate being open yet? But that wouldn’t make sense bc they were only in Hawkins because they couldn’t open one in Russia? Idk I’m sure they have an explanation for it, and I do think however they escaped is gonna be the same way Hopper comes back. Plus, a gate is open SOMEWHERE. The Russians have a living Demogorgon, and unless the show wants to go back on all of the science of the Upside Down they’ve given us the last two seasons (which honestly, they could do, bc they have been adamant in s2 and s3 that “brain dies, body dies” is just their theory) then the gate must be open or else the Demogorgon would be dead. That could also be another reason they had for making El and the Byers move. I mean, without El and Will in Hawkins, the gate could be open for god knows how long without anyone noticing. And without Hopper there as chief, then any suspicious incidents reported to the police won’t make it back to the main characters at all. I think that’s a really interesting route the show could take for s4, where maybe the gate has been open and bad stuff has been happening for weeks or even months maybe without anyone knowing. That could also give it time for the gate to get much much bigger and spread a lot, to a point where maybe El can’t even close it easily like she did before. If they chose to go that route, I’d also be interested in how they do inevitably realize it’s open again. Maybe another missing person, which could be a sweet callback to s1? Idk! I’m rambling and have gotten completely off topic! But yes I can’t wait to see how the Russians escaped and how Hopper will too, and any of the effects of that stuff. But in the meantime I’m just gonna hold onto fluffy hc’s of the party busting him out and then Hopper’s gotta babysit the six of them on the like 10+ hour plane ride :)

It also makes me wonder how they covered up the deaths. Brenner said 6 people had been taken, so in order I believe that’s the elevator scientist, Will, Barb, Shepard, and then the two guys who went hunting whose names are escaping me right now? We know they staged it so Barb had run away, and I’m sure the two scientists had NDAs and stuff in place already if they died on the job, but I’m really curious to know what they said about the hunters? 

And we know he went back on it LMAO so how did this even go? I mean, we also don’t even know exactly what his job is too. We know he works sales and makes 6 figures (which would be like 250,000+ today) so like he MUST have some sort of management position right? So did this go down like the episode of The Office where Michael wants to bond with the office so he tells everyone about Stanley’s affair then tries to backtrack on it LMAO? Like did Ted think telling this story would make people see him as something other than that boring manager, but then he instantly remembered this was supposed to be confidential