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I think it's adorable that Cinderella uses the scraps from repairing her stepsisters dresses to make clothes for the mice. Some of the mice's outfits, especially the female mice's dresses, are the exact same colors as the stepsisters dresses.

With very limited screen time they established a new little world and it's one that I wouldn't mind returning to. The distraction plan felt very Home Alone in the best way possible.

I wouldn't mind the further/future adventures of young Leia.

I think it could cover Coke vs. New Coke as well. I think the overall point of the lyric is that there was an awful lot of stuff happening with soda and rivalries/competition between different types of soda. The lyric covers everything.

I thought he kept it so that Bail could send future messages if needed. It reminds of Return of the Jedi, when Luke thinks there's a chance that Vader might be able to return to the light from the dark side. I would disagree because while we know some of the characters continue on, we don't know how. For fun at one point, I was reading a book on Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. At the start of the book, I knew he was going to win, but I didn't know exactly how he was going to win. To me, this series is like that. I know which characters are going to survive and where they end up, but I don't know exactly how they are going to get there. I am interested in how the heroes will get out of thier predicament. Clearly they have not read the Evil Overlord List. I was going to post a version of this question. My understanding was that Reva attached a tracking device to LOLA, sort of like putting a Tile or an Apple AirTag on it. That to me made sense and I was more than willing to roll with it. They lost me when LOLA turned "evil," which raised all sorts of questions: What is LOLA? What can she do? Does she have useful or practical purpose? Is she more a toy that reacts to what the owner says and/or to motion?

Wow! That is dark, horrible, brilliant, and I could totally see that happening. What they should have done when they were making the fake birth certificate with her name as Jane Hopper is give her a middle name that would make "El" a logical nickname (I've always thought Eleanor might work because of the song "Eleanor Rigby" and she was born when the parents might well have been Beatles fans. Ellen or Elaine works well too). Hopper knew the boys were calling her "El" didn't he?

Thank you for this sentence, because now I realize I had totally misunderstood the line in "We Didn't Start the Fire." I thought it was about soda companies competing with each other using rock stars in ad campaigns. Also I am sorry and offer apologizes if the paragraph above made anyone feel old.

@iRarelyWatchTV36 I was coming here to post a version of what you posted on season 4. I don't understand how/why Will can just stand back and let them do that to Jane/Eleven. As you pointed out, a weak "knock it off" or explain why he isn't even attempting to stand up for her. I'd accept a few lines of dialgue referencing something that happened earlier in the semester that we didn't get to see. Something like, "I'd try to help, but you remember what happened last time," and then have her reference how much blood or how long it took the bruises to heal or something else along those lines.

I feel like this is a show with opening credits immunity, which is why I don't think they're going to kill Steve this season. Eddie does seem like the kind of character they might kill off at the end of the season like Bob, Alexi, or Billy.

My guess is that it isn't that she had a job that's unusual but the nature of the job and how much money she earns. Also, it is portrayed more like a serious career with the potential for advancement as opposed to a pink-color, domestic or service job that woud have been more common. In addition, the writers do not have a great sense of the era, especially some of the more subtle aspects of it.

This may be only my experience or a different era, but I don't remember drinking like that happening at parties until high school. Broderick is in 8th grade while Dean and Kesia are in 7th grade.

Your description is fantastic. I had a very clear image of what you were wearing, and I loved the last line about Xandu. It made me laugh and will probably be one of the best sentences I read today.

I know people with severe emotional trauma who do an excellent job of repressing it and making sure no one knows sees it or is aware of it (how healthy that is is a totally seperate issue and not relevant to this discussion). Leia may have been thinking about it when she was alone, but around Vader and his goons makes sure they see almost no trace of fear or weakness.

If Bail had gone through official channels, it would have been described as his daughter. No one would know who her biological parents were based on the official report of the kidnapping. I thought that being able to resist the force (like Jedi mindtricks) was based on just pure stubbornness, which would be a quality present in those force sensitive and also a number of regular people.

"If you want a Pepsi pall you're gonna have to pay for it." "Look, just give me something without any sugar in it" (doing this from memory) Was Tab less expensive? At the start the McFly family is lower middle class, so it would make sense if the go to soda in the house was the less expensive version.

It had never occured to me that Luke as a kid wouldn't be whiny. I always figured it was who he was from a young age. When did Leia use the force? I think I must have missed something That's what I thought. This makes sense to me. My sense of it (and this could be wrong) is that Jedi Mind Tricks and similar tactics do not work against incredibly stubborn people. Really stubborn people are immune to them, like Leia. @bunnyblue, @jennifer6973 Nothing wrong with taking a dip in the shallow end of the pool, especially if its right there in the episode. Leia's green outfit reminds me of her green outfit in Return of the Jedi. I do love that she has always been stubborn and refuses to give up information, even under threat of torture.

Maybe it was his only birthday or Christmas present.

I thought it was the same spot. After we saw her accidently create the gate in 1979, I thought it looked very similar to the gate that we see in 1983. I thought it was the exact same place. They remodeled the rainbow room and turned that into a space to study the Upside Down. It was the shattered mirror and the way the gate was framed that made me think the 1979 gate was the same gate we see in 1983.

Thanks for that very helpful and informative answer. I was thinking about state colleges too when I posted, so we're on the same page.

I agree with you. The way Nancy tells it, her father was far closer to Don Draper than a hippie. Based on when Nancy was born, Karen would have been towards the end of a woman picking a husband because they'd be able to support her, but it's possible. It's towards the end of the "The husband is the breadwinner and if the wife works part-time it's for pin money/little extras" era. Keep in mind, when Karen married, the idea of women having long-term serious well-paying careers like thier husbands was just barely starting to become more of a possibility. I can see the moms drooling over Billy. It's the bad boy they always secretly wanted. They never got over thier high-school fantasies.

This is a serious, honest, no-snark question from a younger fan who is too young to remember the time period the show is set: In the real world/real life, would a student be able to work part-time during the school year and full time during the summer and be able to afford a public college/university without loans or massive debt? I know that was possible during the 1970s and earlier, but I thought by the mid 1980s college tution had started to skyrocket and that was becoming less and less of a possibility. It's also possible that you were thinking of/going by TVLand logic, which is absolutely a completely acceptable answer to this as well.

What I am hoping is that this show will not be a shot for shot or an expanded version of the movie. I love the movie, but that story has been told. I think there are other stories about these women and this era that are worth telling. Follow the Rockford Peaches the season after the movie takes place, or follow a different team we didn't see in the movie or saw once briefly in a montage.

I like the idea that the Upside Down is Vecna's world/creation and he uses access to other people's minds/imagination to populate it further. In that case, wouldn't the the demogorgon, the mind flayer, the demodogs, and some of the other creatures be the result of Will's influence, and not El's? He was the one playing D&D, not El. It would still fit with your theory and would explain why the Upside Down is a creepy version of Hawkins.

That is correct.

It is not impacting the overall monster storyline but it is impacting the romantic storyline, and romantic storylines (at least for the teen heroes/older teen heroes) has been part of the series since season 1, episode 1, and for the younger heroes starting in season 2. Also, the romantic storyline tends to intersect with the monster storyline at some point. In the first season, Steve shows up at the Bryer house due to romantic/relationship drama and gets sucked into the monster plotline. In season 2, Dustin realizes Max has feelings for Lucas while they were hiding from the monster.