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(498) In a 2017 Stranger Things video game, Max has telekinetic powers. This led to a few fan conspiracy theories but - thus far - Max has shown no evidence of having telekinetic abilities in the television show.
(499) In the first episode of Stranger Things, Hopper tells Joyce that Hawkins a place where nothing happens and that the biggest crisis in recent years came when a bird landed on Eleanor Gillespie's head. Eleanor is the name of a minor character in the Silent Hill franchise while Alessa Gillespie is a major character in Silent Hill.
(500) Linnea Berthelse had only appeared in short films when she was cast as Kali.
(501) Technology buffs think that Hopper's season one Motorola walkie-talkie is not period accurate.
(502) The scenes where Eleven is in the lab's sensory deprivation water chamber in season one are clearly very inspired by Anna Torv's character entering a sensory deprivation water tank for scientists in the Fox TV show Fringe.
(503) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is sometimes cited as an influence on the Upside Down in that it featured murky textures and dust like snow. The murky areas of Metroid Prime 2 were also judged an influence on the Upside Down by some gamers.
(504) The dummy of Will Byers in season one was by Justin Raleigh. Raleigh is an expert in prosthetics and has supplied realistic dummies to hospitals for surgeon training.
(505) The titles for Stranger Things are heavily inspired by the title sequence for The Terminator.
(506) The Duffers played a prank on Noah Schnapp's mother with Justin Raleigh's Will Byers dummy. Luckily, she saw the funny side.
(507) The release date for the first season was a close run thing because the digital special effects were only completed with days to spare.
(508) The Duffers naturally spent a lot of time watching and thinking about their favourite movie sequels in preparation for writing Stranger Things 2.
(509) The first scene ever shot for Stranger Things was the first scene you see in the show - the Dungeons & Dragons game in Mike's basement.
(510) There is a biology goof in season two that you would have to be very smart to notice. Dustin thinks Dart might be a frog and, after some research, suggests Indirana semipalmata. However, this genus of frogs was only discovered in 1986.
(511) In the first episode of Stranger Things you see a bus that was only introduced in the 1990s. You'd have to be a keen bus spotter to spot that mistake.
(512) When Stranger Things 2 was gearing up for production, the Duffers were constantly asked if Barb Holland would be making a return to the show. Although it would probably have been possible to find some science fiction way to resurrect Barb in the writer's room, the Duffers and Shawn Levy were never seriously tempted to do this.
(513) The yet to be discovered elements in the school's periodic table you see in season two are Ununtrium (Uut), Darmstadtium (Ds), Roentgenium (Rg), Copernicium (Cn), Flerovium (Fl), Ununpentium (Uup), Livermorium (Lv), Ununseptium (Uus) and Ununoctium (Uuo).
(514) In Stranger Things 2, Dustin wears a t-shirt with periodic elements. In contrast to the periodic table in the school classroom, Dustin's t-shirt is period accurate and contains elements that were all known in 1984.
(515) The CPR Hopper performs on Will in the season one finale was, according to medical experts, not especially accurate.
(516) Steve Harrington seems to take at least one pounding in each season. In season one he was beaten up by Jonathan, in season two he was beaten up by Billy, and in season three he is beaten up by the Russians.
(517) There was a lot of speculation that Bob Newby was going to be a villain in Stranger Things 2. This obviously wasn't the case though.
(518) The swoosh of the titles at the end of the Stranger Things title sequence was inspired by the film Bullit.
(519) The Stranger Things theme may have been partly inspired by the second song on the Tron: Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk.
(520) There was a slight battle between Netflix and the Duffers on Stranger Things 2 when it came to swearing. Netflix wanted to do alternative takes of the scenes where the kids swear so that bad language was very minimal. The kids in the cast hated this idea because they thought scenes were much funnier with a few stray cuss words by their characters. The Duffers also preferred the takes with the odd cuss word so in the end Netflix conceded.
(521) The Duffers say the young cast members in Stranger Things swear much more away from the camera than they do on the show.
(522) Joe Keery said that before Stranger Things he clocked up at least one hundred rejected auditions in his attempts to find work as an actor.
(523) The character of Kali in Stranger Things 2 was initially going to be a thirtysomething man named Roman.
(524) Millie Bobby Brown said her dream role would be a young Princess Leia.
(525) The Palace Arcade was a renovated laundromat located on 6500 Church Street in Douglasville, Georgia.
(526) The police cars at the start of Stranger Things 2 have 1987 headlights.
(527) Hopper wears the headband of his late daughter Sarah on his wrist in seasons one and two. At the end of season two we see that Eleven now wears Sarah's headband on her wrist.
(528) The (tongue-in-cheek) Justice for Barb movement derived from the perception that while everyone in Hawkins seemed to be searching for Will Byers, no one seemed to be searching for Barb - except for Nancy. The Duffers explained this contrast by reminding fans that, in the time span of Stranger Things, Barb hadn't been missing for very long at all and she was also a teenager. A teenager spending a night or two away from home would probably not create as much panic as a small child who had been missing for longer.
(529) One of the many films which influenced Stranger Things was Altered States. This is a 1980 film starring William Hurt as a scientist who subjects himself to sensory deprivation experiments.
(530) It was Shawn Levy's idea to use Peter Gabriel's cover of David Bowie's Heroes in Holly Jolly.
(531) Millie Bobby Brown said she would seek sanctuary in Winona Ryder's trailer when the boys got too annoying during the production of season one.
(532) Asked to name the scene they love the most in season one, the Duffers chose the opening to the start of The Flea and the Acrobat.
(533) When they pitched their concept for the show, the Duffers edited a fake trailer composed of classic movies. "To test-drive the concept, we threw together a quick mock-trailer for the show, editing together clips from more than 25 classic films. We then scored this fake trailer with John Carpenter music, using some of our favourite songs from The Fog to Escape From New York. As soon as we heard John Carpenter’s eerie synth drones play over shots from E.T., we got major goosebumps. It worked, big time."
(534) David Harbour didn't like the ending of The Body having Hopper about to cut into the fence to break into the lab. He thought this made for a lame cliff-hanger. The Duffers told him though that with music and sound effects it would be a very dramatic ending.
(535) The Duffers were full of praise for Millie Bobby Brown after her performance in season one. "Millie’s something special, alright, with a downright spooky preternatural talent. She inhabits every moment so intensely, with some alchemy of intelligence, preparation, and instinct. By the end of production, we found ourselves listening to Millie as if she were one of our most seasoned adult actors."
(536) The 1987 Clive Barker movie Hellraiser was a big influence on the Duffers because it showed how atmospheric and effective practical effects could be. Barker's horror fiction was an influence too.
(537) The season one Demogorgon was constructed by Spectral Motion. Spectral Motion did monster designs on Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy films.
(538) In the season one finale, Eleven is exhausted after dispatching the agents in the corridor and has to be carried by Dustin. In the script it is Mike who carries Eleven but Finn Wolfhard found it too difficult to run and carry Millie Bobby Brown at the same time. Gaten Matarazzo had no such trouble.
(539) The bicycle chase scene in season one reveals that Hawkins has an Elm Street.
(540) Dustin has a certificate of Anti-Paranormal Proficiency in season two. He is plainly a member of the Ghostbusters fan club.
(541) When the soldiers venture into the Upside Down tunnel in season two, one of them says 'stay frosty'. This is a line Michael Biehn has as Corporal Hicks in Aliens.
(542) Millie Bobby Brown said she had to do several auditions before she got the part of Eleven.
(543) The Duffers said they enjoy making Stranger Things in Georgia because many areas remind them of North Carolina - where they grew up.
(544) There was a deleted scene in season one where Eleven, while exploring the Wheeler house, reads some of Nancy's diary.
(545) In response to the fairly critical reception to The Lost Sister in season two, Matt Duffer said - "It’s important for Ross and I to try stuff and not feel like we’re doing the same thing over and over again. It’s almost like doing a whole little other pilot episode in the middle of your season, which is kind of a crazy thing to do. But it was really fun to write and cast and work on."
(546) In the season two episode The Lost Sister there are is an article pinned on a wall concerning Ray Carroll (the former lab employee targeted by Kali). The actual text of the article reads - 'Long standing employee Ray Carroll spent his last few hours at Hawkins National Labs strolling the hallways and saying his goodbyes. Ray started as an orderly in the hospital wing of Hawkins back in 1969. He was honourably discharged from the Army Medical Corp after three years in Vietnam working in the MASH units. Ray took the night school degree courses offered by the DOE so he could advance thru the Hawkins System. He finished up as a fully qualified ECT Therapist, working in the Pediatric Unit of the Hawkins Research Hospital. Ray worked closely with several of Hawkins research doctors in the Parapsychology Department.'
(547) Steve in the tunnels with the children in season two allows the Duffers to pay ample homage to The Goonies.
(548) The stunt in season one where Eleven flips the lab van up in the air was achieved by nitrogen cannons (which fired a high-density plastic slug).
(549) The building used for the Palace Arcade was filthy when the production team found it. The crew had to do a big clean-up job and put a lot of work into making it look like an eighties arcade.
(550) David Harbour said he liked the fact that there was some ambiguity about Hopper when we first meet him. In the first episode of Stranger Things, Hopper is almost introduced as if he might be a villain.
(551) Gaten Matarazzo's voice changed so much that he wasn't allowed to dub any of Dustin Henderson's dialogue during the ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) process on season one. ADR is when actors go back to re-voice some lines that were not picked up very well on audio.
(552) The wounded deer that Jonathan and Nancy find in the woods in season one was an animatronic puppet and obviously not real. This scene was inspired by a near identical scene in the survival horror video game Until Dawn.
(553) Because season two was a trifle vague on the background of Max and Billy, there was some fan speculation that they might be the children of Soviet spies living in America. This speculation obviously didn't turn out to be true.
(554) Arcade historians thought that the most unrealistic thing about the Palace Arcade was how clean and bright it looked. A busy eighties arcade, with a high turnover of children and teenagers, would almost certainly have been more grubby and arcades didn't tend to waste too much money on décor or lighting. You could explain away the Palace Arcade appearing so pristine and bright by the fact that it seems to be a relatively new business in Hawkins.
(555) The game of Dungeons & Dragons the boys play at the start of season one foreshadows the story to come.
(556) David Harbour said that on season one he tried to avoid the kids on the set at first so that he could get into the detached and cynical headspace of Hopper.
(557) Joyce Byers was more aggressive in the pilot script and swore like a trooper. The casting of Winona Ryder softened the part somewhat.
(558) It was David Harbour's suggestion for Hopper to dance to Jim Croce in season two. "I remember talking to Shawn Levy and they had this other song for it," said Harbour. "But I love Jim Croce and I thought Hopper would to."
(559) Although the renovations and machines were removed after shooting on Stranger Things 2 ended, the Palace Arcade stripes painted on the side of the building are still there. This has made the building a popular place for Stranger Things fans to have their photograph taken.
(560) Most of the cast for Stranger Things was assembled when the show was still called Montauk.
(561) In season two, Will Byers tells Joyce that he feels the presence of the Mind Flayer everywhere. Shawn Levy suggested that Noah Schnapp deliver the word 'everywhere' sotto voce to make it more sinister.
(562) In the original plan for season two, a number of subplots which would lead into season three were planned. The Duffers decided not to do this in the end for fear of constricting themselves to story threads that they might later have change their mind about embarking upon.
(563) The song 'Every Breath You Take' is heard at the end of season two. This is a twisted love song about stalking.
(564) Millie Bobby Brown had to play scenes with various boys who were in contention to play Mike Wheeler during the casting process. When she played a scene with Finn Wolfard and had excellent chemistry with him the casting department knew they had found their Mike Wheeler.
(565) Dungeons & Dragons was subject to legal action from the Tolkien estate for its similarities to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
(566) Although she made it look easy, Millie Bobby Brown said it was no picnic having to play a character who doesn't speak very much. "I find it more difficult than actually having [a lot of] dialogue. Because if I have dialogue, I’m more focused on the dialogue. But with my actions, you know, I have to cry sometimes, and even if I don’t have to cry, I well up because she’s so emotional."
(567) Steve's awful friend Tommy in season one is played by Chester Rushing. Rushing is - happily - a really nice person in real life. He has campaigned against bullying and worked with children who have special needs.
(568) Randall Havens said that when he shot his contribution to the scene in season one where the boys smuggle their 'Swedish cousin' Eleven into the AV room at school, Millie Bobby Brown was a little under the weather and not on the set that day.
(569) Gaten Matarazzo said that he shares many qualities with Dustin - including a love of science.
(570) The Duffers Brothers had always wanted to invent a famous movie monster so designing the Demogorgon was a lot of fun for them.
(571) Of the mysterious Demogorgon egg in season one, design artist Aaron Sims said - "Little was made of the hollowed-out egg that Hopper seemed to find in the finale’s Upside Down search for Will, leading many to speculate the creature might somehow have reproduced in time for season two. As it turns out – we’ve actually seen that egg before without realizing: The egg was a design for something you actually see a couple times in the show, whether you recognize it or not. There are a couple encounters where we see the Demogorgon hunkered over, eating something - when Nancy goes into the Upside-Down through the tree, and when Eleven finds the creature in her vision, it’s hunkered over this egg, feeding off of it. It’s not clear whether or not this is the creature’s offspring - we don’t even know if it’s the same species. The only info we have is that the creature is feeding off this egg somehow."
(572) The song playing when Nancy and Jonathan have breakfast in The Spy is Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison.
(573) Guillermo del Toro was a big inspiration for the Duffers so it was great moment for them when he praised the show - "Stranger Things may be a lot of things: King, Spielberg, 80’s, myself, but what it is, above all, is good!!"
(574) Joyce asks Will if he is afraid of clowns in season one and we JUST know she means Pennywise.
(575) Randy Havens said he approached playing Mr Clarke in the following way - "The important thing for me as an actor was to find the emotional truth of a character like Mr Clarke, since I knew there was no way that I was gonna become as smart as he is. So I focused on the thing that I could understand: that Mr Clarke identified with Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will because he was like them when he was young. Maybe he felt like an outcast or was bullied and he wanted to create a safe place where his students felt they belonged."
(576) David Harbour said that cutting into the realistic Will Byers dummy in the morgue in season one was quite difficult and not especially pleasant.
(577) Priah Ferguson said that her casting as Erica Sinclair in season two happened very quickly - much to her delight. "My agents at People Store send over audition requests called a breakdown. Most times a breakdown will give you a lot of information about the character, but it only described Erica as “Lucas’ little sister. She thinks he and his friends are nerds.” That gave me some room to explore the character, plus I like to improv. When I read the script, I loved the character, the writing, and I had heard great things about the show. I really just wanted to show my best work. The audition tape was due within two days but I submitted it in twenty-four hours, I wanted to get it in early. Two weeks later, my agent called to let me know I booked it! My mom and I started screaming and jumping around. Although it was a minor role, just to be chosen to work on Stranger Things felt like a dream. It still feels like a dream."
(578) Millie Bobby Brown had no idea that Eleven was going to have special powers when she did her auditions.
(579) Many of the seventies and eighties films produced by Steven Spielberg had a classic suburban backdrop because suburbia was all that Spielberg experienced while growing up. This element gives Stranger Things another connection (not that it was short of them anyway) to the cinema of Spielberg.
(580) Linnea Berthelsen said that when she auditioned for Stranger Things the casting department were rather vague about who she was supposed to be testing to play. "There wasn’t really a character that I was auditioning [for]. It was more like they wanted to create a character based on a few things and had a vague idea about where they wanted it to go, but they didn’t really have a clear image of what they wanted to do—at least that’s how I felt about it. [I auditioned with] three different scenes and tried to figure it out, like ‘How can I create something based on the first season and the dynamic?’ I had to create the background story, kind of fill in the gaps. I had no idea it was going to be Eleven’s sister, and I had no idea she was going to have superpowers. No one confirmed it until the screen test."
(581) Glennellen Anderson tested to play Barbara Holland. In the end she was assigned the part of Nicole.
(582) Catherine Dyer has a small part in season one as the murderous lab agent Connie Frazier. Dyer said she loved being a part of Stranger Things. "I've seen the whole series & loved every minute of it...even if I hadn't been in it! I loved the shock of Connie shooting Benny - I feel that scene really set the tone for the show. No one knew what to expect. And yes, every time Connie came to the door you didn't know what to expect! I loved the first scene where Connie shoots Benny. As an actor it was a tad unsettling aiming a gun at a person especially someone as nice as Chris Sullivan (Benny)."
(583) The production designer Aaron Sims said the early designs for the lab portal to the Upside Down were abandoned because they were too clean and futuristic. They wanted the portal to look more like some sort of biological organism.
(584) The Bangles song Hazy Shade of Winter features in season one. The use of this song is a little anachronistic because it's from 1987. In mitigation though it isn't used as source music (as if a character is playing it on a radio).
(585) Priah Ferguson said she was given some licence to improvise by the Duffer Brothers in season two. "While filming, sometimes they would come up with a new idea for Erica. They would share it with me and just let me go with it. When I’m working, or in the zone, I’ll improv or ad lib just here and there. It’s not always on purpose or planned, but if it feels right I’ll go for it. I appreciate them for giving me space to do that, especially as a child actor."
(586) A monster in the Silent Hill franchise known as Pyramid Head was an influence on the design of the Demogorgon.
(587) The arcade machines at the Palace Arcade in season two include Dig Dug, Asteroids, Galaga, Centipede and Pac-Man.
(588) Linnea Berthelsen had never watched Stranger Things when she got an audition to appear in the show. Berthelsen said she stayed up all night viewing the first season so she would be up to speed in case they required her to have any knowledge about Stranger Things.
(589) Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts have likened the Mind Flayer to an aboleth. Aboleths feed on microscopic organisms. They are big tentacled monsters with psychic powers.
(590) The baroque paintings of Zdzislaw Beksinski were one of the many inspirations for the design of how the Upside Down should look in Stranger Things.
(591) There is a small goof in season one that only those who know a lot about firearms would notice. The M9s used by the Hawkins Lab were not a standard issue military weapon in 1983.
(592) Stranger Things was a genuine word of mouth phenomenon. The first season did not have a huge amount of publicity or promotion but positive reviews encouraged viewers to seek it out.
(593) Millie Bobby Brown said she had no idea Eleven was going to be such a major character in the show. Millie thought she was auditioning for a minor supporting role.
(594) One of the keys to the success of Stranger Things is that it appeals to people of all ages.
(595) Dee Wallace, who played the mother in Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, praised Stranger Things for capturing the spirit of eighties family movies.
(596) When we see the dead body of Barb Holland in the Upside Down in season one, the original design was much more graphic and gruesome. Barb's ribs were going to be exposed as if she had been partially eaten. This concept design was not used in the end because they wanted Barb to be more 'intact' so that the audience would recognise her more easily. "Based on our original discussion with the Duffers on this design, we wanted to go really graphic with it to highlight the horrific aspects of Barb being eaten, and something then growing on top of her - thus, the ribs poking out of her stomach in the first shot," said the production designer Aaron Sims. "In the final design, they ended up veering away from that because it became too unrecognizable. It was difficult to tell exactly what had happened to her; it wasn't an issue of it being too graphic, but rather, that the viewer needed to see something that was very recognizably dead."
(597) When Stranger Things began production, there wasn't much buzz about the show in the online trade entertainment publications. What few reports there were tended to refer to it as the 'new Winona Ryder show'.
(598) We see that Will, Eleven, and Sarah all seem to have the same Lion animal toy at different points of Stranger Things. The wider meaning of this is still vague.
(599) During the funeral of Will Byers in season one you can hear the song Elegia by New Order.
(600) Ross Duffer said he found it funny that after season one of Stranger Things was released the Department of Energy issued a statement highlighting the important work they do and reminding people that they are not evil.
(601) Matt Duffer said that Stranger Things is more about tension and atmosphere than blood and guts "There are a few small instances where we pulled back on the violence. But, even when you talk about a movie like Halloween, these are movies that are much more about mood and atmosphere and suspense and dread than they are about gore. That was what we were more interested in: the dread and eeriness. So we didn't feel like we had to restrain ourselves in this instance to the TV-14 rating area. We basically wrote whatever we wanted."
(602) Caleb McLaughlin had to go through five auditions to win the part of Lucas Sinclair.
(603) Mike tries to contact Eleven at 7:40 p.m in Stranger Things 2. 7 + 4 = 11.
(604) David Harbour thinks that Stranger Things is a rather romantic depiction of the 1980s.
(605) Shannon Purser has about 25 lines as Barb Holland in season one.
(606) Ross Duffer said that both he and his brother put some of their own personality and teenage years into Barb. "For us it's easy to relate to her because high school was terrible for us and I know it was for a lot of people. You either love it or hate it, and we hated it. And so I think there's a lot of people that feel like they were on the outside looking in, like Barb. All I know is it was very easy for us to write the Barb character. I think everyone feels like either they knew this girl or they were this girl."
(607) Persuading Winona Ryder to appear in Stranger Things was no mean feat by the Duffers because she said she usually turns down the many horror movie roles offered to her.
(608) Gaten Matarazzo said that secrecy was so tight on the Stranger Things 2 set that he wasn't allowed to text his brother about the production. The producers were very fearful about any potential story spoilers leaking.
(609) Will Byers seems to be the only one of the boys in Stranger Things who doesn't cuss when the mood takes him.
(610) The Duffers were born in 1984 and part of the last generation of children who experienced life before cell phones and the internet. "We have vague memories of the Eighties, but we were still pre-Internet and pre–cell phone for most of our childhood. We were the last generation to have the experience of going out with our friends to the woods or the train tracks and the only way our parents could connect with us was to say, 'It's time for dinner.' We were also movie nerds and had all these VHS tapes of all these classic Eighties films that we would watch over and over again. That was our point of reference for what it was like in the late Seventies and early Eighties."
(611) The light-bar on Hopper's car in season one has a 1990s code.
(612) The Duffers said that one of the films that really fired their love of horror as youngsters was Wes Craven's Scream. In a quirk of fate, some of the sets from Stranger Things were used in a Scream television show.
(613) When she was told the premise of season one of Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown asked why Joyce didn't simply contact Will Byers on his telephone. She was unaware that people didn't carry mobile telephones around with them in 1983.
(614) Noah Schnapp said he really hates the bowl haircut of Will Byers.
(615) Charlie Heaton was twenty-two years old when he played the school age Jonathan Byers in season one.
(616) When season one came out, Matt Duffer said he liked the idea of scaring younger viewers. "As we get further into the show, especially when you get into the final episode, it ratchets up a notch. But by then you've already got the kids watching, so then we can scare the s*** out of them. Then the parents can get mad."
(617) Hopper tells Eleven he'll be home at 5:15 in Stranger Things 2 . 5 + 1 + 5 = 11.
(618) The Duffers said they were rather bemused by speculation (from those who were a few episodes into season two) that Bob Newby was going to turn out to be a villain. The Duffers hadn't intended any ambiguity about Bob (in the same way that they had clearly intended ambiguity about Dr Owens).
(619) Dacre Montgomery was already a fan of Stranger Things even before he was cast as Billy Hargrove.
(620) Before they started production on season one, the Duffers had a vague idea that season two (should it transpire) would be set in the present day with the children all adults (as in Stephen King's IT). This idea was obviously abandoned in the end.
(621) The number of the bus Eleven rides to find Kali/Eight in Stranger Things 2 is 422. 4 + 2 + 2 = 8.
(622) When they embarked on season two, the producers on Stranger Things were advised by the Games of Thrones crew on how how to maintain secrecy on a high profile television production. This was a problem they didn't have on season one.
(623) The Duffers say that they don't mind the fact that the children in Stranger Things are obviously older and more grown-up in each new season. "It forces the show to evolve and change, because the kids are changing. Even if we wanted it to be static and we wanted to continually recycle the same storyline — and we don’t — we would be unable to, just because the kids are changing. It’s cool, though. The audience is going to be able to watch these kids come of age every year. The closest example is Harry Potter. Watching those kids and actors grow up in front of the camera was, to me, very powerful."
(624) People turning to goo in Stranger Things 3 could be a reference to the story Gray Matter in Stephen King's Night Shift collection.
(625) Brian Eddy designed a Stranger Things pinball table in 2019. It was the first table he had designed for twenty years.
(626) The Duffers very briefly considered pitching Stranger Things (aka Montauk) as a proposed film when they first had the idea but they always felt it would be much better as a miniseries or TV show. It is possible (though no sure thing) that they could have secured some funding to make Montauk as a movie but Stranger Things (as it would become) was clearly much better suited to be a television show. Think of all the great moments in Stranger Things we would have missed out on if the eight hours of season one's story had been condensed down into a two hour or 100 minute movie script.
