#the duffer brothers are hacks

[lovestuckyhatemarvel]

Powers in Stranger Things

Okay so, I want to do a powers au for steddie where one or both Steve and Eddie have powers. And I started wondering about how to do that. There seems to be like, 3 different ways most people do this.

1.) Secret Lab Children.

Steve usually gets labeled 7 because Steve and Seven are close in terms of just the words themselves. Eddie usually gets labeled 10 or something? No idea why, but whatever. Both have a lot of potential for both answering questions not answered by canon while also giving angsty opportunity.

2.) Exposure to Creatures/weird shit in Hawkins

Steve got a mouthful of something in the tunnels underground Hawkins, and people sometimes have that give him powers.

3.) The Upside Down/Dimension X

This one's less common, or at least less common from what I've read, and also apparently the canonical answer to how Henry got powers in the first place even though that makes no fucking sense. According to the stage play, apparently, when Henry was a child he got transported to Dimension X and interacted with the mind flayer which gave him COMPLETELY NEW BLOOD AND A NEW PERSONALITY AND ALSO GAVE HIM POWERS.

So what I'm saying is like half the cast should have powers at this point, especially Will. And that we can all just start saying shit. Why do Eddie and Steve have powers? Fuck you, that's why. They have powers and they're gonna fuck because I said so. And then they're gonna use their powers to fuck and then they're gonna kill Vecna just by letting him know how lame he is.

[bbibbii]

so you’re telling me … the duffer brothers are going back and re-editing stranger things episodes, cutting scenes, fixing the plot holes they created, and changing a character’s birthday because they FORGOT IT!!!!! meanwhile the better call saul writers have managed to craft six seasons of some of the best television ever aired, introducing new well-developed characters (two of which originated from a throwaway line in breaking bad) and adding backstory to old ones while never interfering with the original source material and wrapping things up in both satisfying and logical way … okay!

[kurokoros]

it’s so hard to be anti st.ancy AND a Steve fan because all of the anti st.ancy posts are constantly shitting on Steve 😞

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

Well anyway I told y’all after S1 that the duffer brothers are hacks so 🤷‍♀️

[sneakydragon]

Sneaky Dragon Episode 621

Episode 621 - This week, Dave and Ian talk old duffers, essential logo, lobster manuals, nostalgic criticisms, the power of attraction, peaking, unconvincing, girl powered, happiness hacks, scamsters, and the filter of failure.

Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 621 of the least most popular podcast on the internet! This week Ian and David talk: old duffer brothers; essential logo; salad days; semi-mush; veggie tales; to hell with it; fishy food; lobster guide; band profiles; he lost control; Taylor’s version; nostalgic criticism; awkward conversation; rules of attractive; older sister act; we didn’t firestarter; the King of…

[delving-verilly]

I understand youre mad that eddie won't be back for a second season but calling the duffer bros hacks bc they didn't write a story of salvation seems a bit much lol. Sometimes bad things happen to good people and then they die. Sometimes good people get bad lots in life and they cant overcome that. That HAPPENS. It's not lazy to not save every single character. It's not lazy to have an unhappy ending. Not all stories have to wrap up making you feel good. It doesn't make the storyteller shit at telling stories. Idk so many people seem to feel like the duffer brothers ~don't deserve eddie or whatever just bc they decided he was always destined for tragedy and that seems like a really neutered way to interact with stories. Some people do have tragic lives with no redemption by the end. Telling stories about characters like that isn't lazy or bullshit and it's actually very skillful to make everyone love them and hope for them so fiercly the way stranger things has. I guess idc about the duffer bros specifically but the way everyone shits on the handling of the character just bc there was never any chance for salvation. It just feels like we all need to stop expecting salvation and hope from EVERY character in everything we watch and read. Surely that's boring?

Referring to the Duffer brothers as hacks stretch further back beyond a story of salvation. If anything, I understand why Eddie was killed off regarding the character arc. I find their work grating from many lazy writing decisions that have been made across the show in its entirety. Plus, they seem to write to stereotype.

My issue with the Duffers regarding Eddie was with stating they didn't see a way he would be able to have any semblance of a decent life. The character was not a two-dimensional one, so why expect simplistic outcomes, especially in a show whereby other characters of similar stereotyping have managed to escape that amongst the otherwise confines of the society in which they exist? Then I have an issue where one character is explained basically as a 'bad egg' and pigeonholed that only salvation can come in the form of death. That, more than an issue with writing, is simple issue with stereotyping full stop.

With regards to your comment: "Telling stories about characters" being "...very skillful to make everyone love them and hope for them so fierc(e)ly the way stranger things has." The telling of a story using a screenplay is a multipath street in terms of a television show, film or live production. Words on the page are indeed written by the writers, which the actors and director take and create added dimensions. Like taking a recipe to make a cake. Each actor helps to construct the characters with their understanding of who that person is, what their motivations are and deep diving around why they are who they are. Hand in hand with production who create costumes, hair, make up, effects, scenes and sets, lighting, sound and many other behind the scenes teams and specialty areas all landing under the hand of the director. It is the director who has a vision for what the scene as a microcosm of the larger piece should look like on screen. It's a skilled dance of many. No one, not even the Duffers themselves, anticipated the extent to which Eddie would resonate with people around the world. It happens, and had they someone else in the role, someone else organising costume, someone else handling hair and makeup then perhaps that would not have happened the that would have led to a very different flatter version of the character as written in the screenplays themselves.

If you've not, I highly recommend you take the time to research the actual writing quality in the screenplays. Research 'missed opportunities' you will see many examples that I won't bother retyping to reiterate.

[dcbicki]

Mike, El, and the importance of intimacy and space

I know a lot of people aren’t happy with how Mike/Eleven was handled this season and so I’m here to spill some tea and offer some help. It wasn’t out-of-character, and it wasn’t bad writing. You’ve just gotta look below surface level and stop thinking everything is black and white because, spoiler alert, the Duffer Brothers aren't hacks. Here’s how Mileven’s relationship matured and got healthier in the third season, and why you should stop thinking it’s the end of the world:

First off, I saw it coming, and I’m glad my prediction was correct. It stung less, and I’m happy with that ending. I knew there would be a greater reason for Hopper to force space between them other than him just being in protective!Dad mode. They needed to learn how to be together while also maintaining a healthy distance.

I think if you’re unsatisfied with how they ended season three, or you feel cheated, or you’re depressed, it’s probably because you -- and I mean this in the nicest way possible, I really do -- missed the point completely.

In the first season, they get torn apart from one another after, like, seven days of knowing each other, but they don’t know how to handle separation because they’re twelve years old and they’re basically just strangers with deep infatuation... In the second season, El spies on him because she misses him, but, more importantly, she misses how he made her feel: accepted and at home, and Mike is unable to move on and so he doesn’t mourn her death because something deep within him is telling him not to (*cough* soulmate energy *cough). But then they’re reunited, and ever since then, Mike’s priority is keeping El safe. (This is why I have a problem with Max’s attitude towards El’s powers but that’s for another post).

In the third season, it’s established straight away that they’re pretty... erm, close, and apparently, they’ve been like that for six months (so ever since the Snowball, I guess). It’s understandable that Hopper wants to create some distance between them, and as the viewer, you’ve kinda got to side with him because these are teenagers, and they’re clearly maturing. That’s easy to see. But you’ve got to understand why they need time apart -- not Hopper’s reasons, but the writers’ motivations. Yes, it’s because they’re going to be “torn apart” from each other again.

If you spend every waking hour of every day with somebody, eventually you become co-dependent and you'll be unable to form other relationships. This isn’t Hopper’s objective, really. He just wants to keep El (and Mike) safe, and young. His plan isn’t to break them up but to make sure they learn the importance of space -- personal space! He needs her indoors for the time being, and so El makes up for this by inviting her boyfriend over every damn day to listen to cheesy music and makeout. And they are too close when the season starts. The writers use Hop to create physical space between them, and Max’s (questionable) friendship and advice to create psychological distance. But eventually, their feelings win out. And you know what else gets a win because of this? Their relationship. It becomes healthier, and they learn how to be together while also being apart, which is something they hadn’t had to face before. It’s the bittersweet halfway point between the first and second season finales.

If Hopper tells us that they’re too close, then we believe it. But the problem with seeing things through his -- and Max’s -- eyes is that the level of intimacy they’ve reached is actually a lot deeper than just kissing and hiding in her bedroom, and Mike “having her all to himself”. It’s played for comedic relief, and you’re led to believe they’re just being gross teenagers because that’s literally how the season starts. But if you fall for this, that means the writers did their job right, and you’ve fallen right into their trap.

Mike and El’s relationship isn’t “normal”, and so both Max and Lucas’ advice falls on deaf ears in the end. (What works for one couple isn’t going to work for the other when one half of the latter has superpowers.) Eventually, they just end up back together, but not in the same way they were before. It’s a lot less visibly shallow now. And it’s entirely intentional because the intimacy post-breakup is a lot more important than that in the first episode -- this is what we should be focusing on, and this is what’s going to enable them to be in a healthy relationship from here on out.

Mike is the only one (yeah, I said it!) that gives a shit about El’s actual well-being until she nearly gets her leg ripped off. Everyone else just seems all too eager to let El do her thing, and save the day as usual. Mike is the only one who respected Hopper’s instructions to keep her in the cabin until she’s allowed outside -- because, oh yeah, it’s not been a year! and Dustin’s house doesn’t count! and she does have a curfew so there are definite rules set in place that Max just totally disobeys! Mike is the only one who actually moves to defend her when she’s being, you know, strangled to death. Mike is her first protector, whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not. He has been since the first season since he took her in and kept her safe.

El has, and people always ignore this, a serious hero complex. But it’s because she’s had to be the hero for everyone, and save the day, and so she doesn’t know when they stop. I’m all for giving her agency, and it’s great that she discovered herself this season, but we’ve gotta stop pretending she knows her limits. She doesn’t. Mike does, and Hopper does, and she has to be told to stop because otherwise, everyone else is just going to wait for her to pass out and then come up with a solution. She can’t be the constant savior; and Mike knew this but no one was listening.

Mike, while the de-facto leader of his group, also fulfills typical love interest tropes, but he’s special in that he’s a fourteen-year-old boy dating the teenaged hero. People are going to misinterpret his actions, including the other characters. He’s not controlling. He’s just rightfully concerned about things nobody else seems to be worried about. And eventually, El seems to just accept this: that Mike is her North Star.

This is where we get into intimacy. Ironically, everyone focuses on the kissing when it comes to these two but that’s really not the most important aspect of their relationship: it’s touch. The progression of touch between them is everything if you track it back to their first episode. Over time, El has gone from refusing the touch of his hand on her forearm to full-on collapsing into him. They quite literally fold into each other now, into a mess of hair and limbs and hands, and I’m not even entirely sure it’s intentional. Millie and Finn play it with such ease that I’m honestly kind of surprised two teenagers have such good chemistry that I just buy the progression. They don’t have to sell it. They don’t have to try. They give the most important part of Mike and El’s relationship away freely without words. It’s seamless.

Mike is her North Star: her constant, the first person she’s reached for since she allowed herself to, was given the choice. And the good thing about that? The North Star is always there, no matter how far away you move or where you go. You’ll always find it again. Even if they’re apart now, they’ll find their way back to one another because they know how: not through entering the void if she could, not by calling out into the nether because he’s losing hope, but because they’ve discovered how to love each other without it becoming all-consuming. They breached a level of intimacy that didn't involve hormones or sex as one might have expected; pent-up emotions were first expressed through intimate touch, and this, in turn, allowed them to reach a natural turning point in their relationship: in love, with boundaries set and feelings laid out. In fact, it was actually kind of normal of them. Strange, I know...

(PS: Also, they totes love each other. You’re welcome.)

[kaypeace21]

UPDATE: YOUTUBE CHANNEL HACKED/STOLEN DON’T SUBCRIBE

Lonnie Byers is WAY worse than you think! I always thought Lonnie gave off a ‘creep vibe’, but after listening to Will and Jonathan’s character playlists ... yeah, doubt it was a coincidence that the only songs talking about their dad (hint at them being m**ested). And after rewatching the series, the story the David Harbor said “ the Duffers are telling in the background” is clearly this. El and Will’s powers manifested to create these supernatural threats- and we can see Will’s backstory with his father, through this (full theory here).

Will has suppressed memories and Jonathan is just lying by omission because he doesn’t want his mom to blame herself- and he’s so overprotective of Will since he blames himself for not being able to protect him as a kid.

Catch me outside sobbing- protect the Byers at all costs! And give Will Byers a happy ending Suffer brothers (with the love of his life Mike)! Give my son a break!

*tr***er warning: for abuse symbolism

[nancykali]

JONATHAN WITH THE AX, STRONG ARMS HACKING AWAY AT MONSTERS, PROTECTING WILL AND THE REST OF THE PARTY!!!! that's it, that's the message. also low-key hoping jonathan saves steve somehow like he chops off some monster's head that has steve cornered and steve is like sweatin' bc he keeps looking at jonathan's biceps, the hair clinging to his sweaty forehead. and then steve sees nancy cocking the rifle and he's sweatin' too.

I need Jonathan protecting his brother this season with that fucking axe because otherwise whAT WAS ThE POint duffers. Like I know I sound like a broken record but Jonathan deserves so much in season 3 bc season 2 treated him like shit. 

Jonathan needs to protect his brother and dramatically save Steve (not that i think the duffers are good enough writers to include that bc they just hated Jonathan in season 2).

I love this image of Steve just being like “I almost died but I am too bisexual to think about a monster when Nancy and Jonathan are literally the embodiment of perfection right in front of me” like yes that is exactly what I want.

[ablakespace]

Has anyone heard from the Duffer Brothers? I think they've been hacked by @taylornation 😂 @taylorswift

[lovestuckyhatemarvel]

Season 1 finale time baby!!!!!

1.) six people have been taken in one week by the demogorgon

2.) Joyce knows Brenner is full of shit and her telling him to go to hell is so good

3.) hopper way too calm from being tased

4.) i forgot that the kids got left at the middle school

5.) hell yeah nail bat my beloved. Jonathan made you but you’re Steve’s

6.) I did forgot that Hopper initially gave up El to the agents

7.) Brenner super thought Will was doomed and it’s not the first or last time he’s been a moron

8.) I forgot how cute Sarah was 😭 but also Hop was so sweet and gentle with her

9.) Dustin has priorities and those priorities are chocolate pudding

10.) the inherent intimacy of bandaging each other’s wounds

11.) Steve!! Steve is so sorry and so worried and then a gun’s pulled on him

12.) Steve got thrown into the deep end of knowledge

13.) I forgot the demogorgon fucked off for a bit

14.) I truly think the duffer brothers forgot how soft and sweet they had Hop be with Sarah

15.) Steve ran until he saw the blinking lights and then he truly became Steve Harrington goddamnit

16.) teamwork makes the dream work but they should have let it burn a bit longer

17.) I know they had a partner deal and they wanted her to love eggos and know nothing but what did the feed el in the goddamn facility???

18.) I forgot Mike kisses el this episode

19.) El murder spree time and then collapse time

20.) I really hate Brenner. I’m really sad he doesn’t die this episode

21.) I forgot Dustin carried El away

22.) hopper spots Barb’s body but it’s also where Will is being held so I am pretty sure it’s not Steve’s pool. Still no indication of characters knowing where Barb died

23.) the wrist rocket is definitely an It reference

24.) this self-sacrifice moment would have been more impactful had the lights not been strobing to all hell

25.) I do appreciate that since they just show the CPR motions and not try to bullshit the chest moving. Hopper definitely saved Will’s life

26.) Winona Ryder is a national treasure

27.) I do have a new love of Karen Wheeler

28.) the audio balancing of this show is terrible.

29.) I forgot Steve waits with everyone in the waiting room for Will

30.) one month laterrrrr and it’s Christmas and Mike is dming again

31.) ok this dnd session is definitely criticizing season 1 right????

32.) ok Nancy gave Jonathan the camera and Steve asks if she gave it to him but it’s not actually clear if it’s from him???

33.) it’s ok little baby Byers, I feel like I’ve been sucked into hell when I have to hack something up too

Season 1 thoughts:

I still think this season is fun and has some really good performances. That being said, the CGI aged like milk, the pacing is kind of breakneck, the audio balancing is garbage (I would turn down the volume because of a monster scene only to have dialogue be barely audible in the next) and we already see a referential problem with the Duffer Brothers here.

And what I mean by that is that they know references to much better media both by copying the visuals or by having props or by having a character mention it, but frequently they don’t really seem to understand it. And even if they did, they happen so often that they’re rendered mostly meaningless anyway. It comes across less as directors who have something new to say about famous products and more of a cheap Ready Player One, ‘hey fellow nerds, do you remember the Millennium Falcon exists and you wanted to make that toy fly?’

[jakey-beefed-it]

finally got around to watching stranger things season 3.

no spoiler-impressions: yeesh. 4.5/10

spoilers under the cut

Things that were terrible:

The russians. Everything to do with them. The whole plot of the season tbh. Cartoonish and bad. 

A better reference to Red Dawn would have been having the kids or someone comparably imaginative and gullible think there were Evil Russians behind things, but then no, because that’s not how real life (or plausible facsimilies therof) works. 

I know I said it was all bad but special ‘holy shit bad’ award goes to the Terminator Russian. There’s homage and then there’s pastiche. ffs. 

Hopper’s... entire characterization. Somebody take the 40 oz can of toxic masculinity juice the writers were chugging away from them please. And don’t let them near Hopper again until... just don’t let them near scripts again at all actually.

There was a way to handle Hopper/Joyce well and it was... literally the exact opposite of this (absent the last like... thirty seconds they shared)

Also just... Hop as a guy with a mean right hook and the ability to take a punch pretty well is plausible and highly enjoyable. They really did turn him into Rambo this season and it was... neither plausible nor enjoyable.

The entire tone-deaf jingo yay capitalism bullshit. This is a show where two whole seasons set up the US government as, at the very least, complicit in this world-shattering bullshit. 

Erica you had two cool minutes in season 2 and they turned you into a corporate shill. Oh, well, guess those two cool minutes are all ya gonna get.

Having Alexei declare of the carnival games capitalist system “It’s not rigged!” was particularly onerous. If Russkinator hadn’t shot him he should’ve shot himself for allowing that kind of Eagleland propaganda past his lips.

Alexei was likeable but not part of the main main cast so he was doomed. See: Barb, Bob. At least his name didn’t start with a B. Guess it would’ve been too on the nose even for these hacks to call him Boris.

The newspaper was also cartoonishly sexist. Like, I’m sure such things absolutely do occur in real life which has license to be as ridiculous as it wants but in a fictional narrative such things take us out of the moment. Like, you could’ve told the same story in a much more palateable AND relevant way by loading up on microaggressions rather than paint the newsboyz as cardboard Sexist Villains. 

Am... I supposed to care about Billy “I’m going to run over literal children because I am a racist shitbag” Hargrove (and I confess I had to google his last name there oops)? Because I don’t. He was more than just a ‘mean guy’ he tried to murder. Children. last season. because he is racist.

I do not like Murray Bauman and his creepy meddling in other people’s sex lives, but at least this time it was two adults instead of fucking teenagers. God! Ugh!

Apparently this is also going to include some beefs i had with season two, oops.

Things that were meh

The gory horror this season meant the whole tone of it was much more Cronenberg than Spielberg. Could work but kinda felt like it shook up the established tone in the wrong way. 

There was a whole... icky slasher misogyny feel to the way Billy abducted Heather. I think it was intentional, so I’m not calling it ‘terrible’, as it was effective at conveying that, but I personally hated it, just as I personally hate slasher movies.

Russian demogorgon looks entirely more... man-like than the Hawkins one. Splicing thing? Maybe just clearer lighting? Less convincing than the s1 demogorgon, less disturbing for the most, but not without potential so it goes here.

I’m all for Hopper having miraculously survived and wound up in Siberia somehow if they fix his goddamn characterization next season otherwise just let him have evaporated along with all the Russkies. 

Oh hey, maybe the ‘Russian demogorgon’ is actually mutant Hopper somehow. That’d be kinda horrible. Hope they don’t do that. But logging that here for posterity in case the brothers Duffer are even bigger hacks than I thought.

Things that weren’t terrible:

We stan two teenagers now instead of just one: still don’t care about Nancy or Jonathan but Steve’s still rad and now Robin is too.

Their entire friendship was just... *chef’s kiss*

Max and Eleven’s friendship was also pretty great. El needs more friends, or at least more time to just hang out and be friends with people who just want to hang out with her. Which, yeah, the whole gang, but having the two only girls their age be FRIENDS is a huge improvement over last season when Max was introduced as the Rival. Just, ugh. 

I do enjoy watching the kids be kids. Mostly that meant Dustin this year because the others were too caught up with Teen Angst(TM) (ps- don’t we HAVE teenage characters for that very purpose? older teens i mean? let the kids be kids!)

Murray’s interactions with Alexei were generally fun and witty. Please more of this and less being a goddamn creep if he hangs around.

the last 30 seconds with Hopper and Joyce together on screen, when he turns to her, they say nothing at all to one another but both convey lots with facial expressions. They’re both grown ass adults, saving the world and the kids they love, even at the cost of (one of) their own lives. Both of them know what this means, and they go through with it, because both understand what’s really important isn’t either of them, but the kids, and that the kids have someone to look after them. Kinda wish you could just throw out... like the entire rest of the season of their interaction, and have their relationship be built on that level of understanding and common cause. Let them be adults. 

[billyscamar0]

Chapter 12 is up! x

Chapters: 12/? Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Harringrove - Fandom Rating: Mature Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Enemies to Friends, Slow Burn, I Will Go Down With This Ship, Steve Harrington Needs a Hug, Billy Hargrove Needs Love, Smart Billy Hargrove, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, (kind of anyways), Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Harringrove, Neil Hargrove can suck a dick, Eleven and Billy Hargrove are best friends, Billy Hargrove being a good brother, Billy Hargrove Tries to Be a Better Person, Bisexual Steve Harrington, These boys need each other, like really slow burn, Gayer Things, Make it gay cowards, It will be don't worry Summary:

A tale of the awkward self discovery journey and sloppy misadventures of Billy Hargrove and Steve Harrington in their quest to heal and (hint hint Duffer Brothers) get the redemption that is deserved. Everybody deserves a second chance and friendship - but sometimes you have to go through hell and back to get to that point.

Steve joins him at the window sill, and before he can reach out to take the cigarette from Billy's hand, he's offering it to him.

“You always take it anyway,” he mumbles as Steve takes a drag. “Remember when you were peeping in my window?”

Steve hacks, a laugh escaping him. “How could I forget?” He watches Billy taking the cigarette in, exhaling puffs of smoke through his nose so majestically. The way his lips curl around it is so sensual, and it’s making every inch of Steve tingle. “I almost didn't come, you know. I almost left.”

Billy turns and looks at him, emotions on his sleeve for once. He’s hesitating, floundering.  “Sometimes I wonder if … if I wish you had left.”

But the words don't sting. Because Steve understands. He knows without Billy having to say anything that he wishes that he and Steve could have found friendship in a natural way. Not out of necessity, not out of last resorts, not out of spite because Steve wishes too. With all of his heart. Because maybe everything would be different.

He hates their relationship. He hates that it's so on and off, hot and cold. He despises it. He abhors how he doesn't ever know if Billy is interested in anything about him or if he just doesn't want to deal with Tommy all the time and that's why he's nice to him. Sometimes. Not all the time. Definitely at least half of the time, he's a complete asshole.

Blue eyes outstare brown as Steve breaks away, retreating to his backpack, slinging it over his shoulder and wrapping his arms around him torso self-consciously. “Hey, what are you doing?” Billy flicks his ashes out the window and sticks his cigarette in his mouth, heading over towards the other boy. “Don't go, please, Steve. I didn't mean it like that.”

Steve attempts to wiggle his way out of Billy's grasp, but he softens a bit when he feels the other boy’s hands on his arms. Normally he wouldn't appreciate someone standing directly in front of him with his cigarette inches away from his face, burning his eyes with the smoke but Billy just looks so good. “No...I know, Billy, I do. I just don't know why I came here, I just -”

“Look,” Billy brings his thumb up to Steve's face, running it lightly along his forehead. “I couldn't stop thinking about you either. I can't stop thinking about you. Present tense.”

[upsydedown]

aight i’ve been absent for a while but i was supposed to meet joe keery in two weeks but he cancelled on the con because of work and i’m 99% sure that charlie is back in the states now because its been six months since the coke but idk so ANYWAYS. stranger things season 3 better start filming soon and if it’s Bad then i’m flying to L.A. and drop kicking the duffer brothers and also hacking into netflix to get rid of season 2 and 3. then i’m going to get millions of dollars and do reshoots and re-do the whole thing myself because i love this stupid ass show for some reason

[milliebobbybrownfan]

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Sworn to Secrecy! The Stranger Things Kids Can’t Even Share Their Season 2 Scripts with Family.

The highly anticipated season 2 of Stranger Things is six months away — and sorry to break it to you, Upside Down fans, but things are going to remain shrouded in secrecy for a while.

Stars Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo are on the cover of the May issue of emmy magazine (out May 17), and PEOPLE can reveal an exclusive First Look at their interview, in which they open up about their top-secret work on the upcoming season of the cult favorite Netflix series.

Filming takes place in Atlanta at Screen Gems Studios — and while it may be sunny and hot outside, it’s dark and quiet on set, where only hair and makeup and a few key crew-members are permitted.

“My brother always asks me, ‘Gate, can you send me the script?’ ” says Matazarro, 14. “I’m like, ‘It’s a new season, and it’s a lot stricter than last year ’cause he read them last year, but this year he’s not able to ’cause we don’t want any, like, hacking interference.”

United in their shared secrets, the five costars have grown exceptionally close — and Brown, 13, who describes herself as “a real girl’s girl in pink and pearls and rings and necklaces,” has found her way to fit in with the boys by taking up whiffle ball.

In particular, she and Schnapp, 12, have grown particularly close.

“Noah comes around almost every weekend for sleepovers,” she says. “We watch really scary movies on Netflix like The Babadook and Hush.”

In fact, watching movies was one of the ways the young actors initially prepared to take on their roles, with creators Ross and Matt Duffer assigning them a list of classics to watch, including E.T., The Goonies, Jaws and Poltergeist.

Schnapp also says his father helped school him on the mindset of the ’80s: “They were always outside,” says Schnapp. “It’s all phones and computers now.”

“You know, I kind of miss the ’80s. Even though I wasn’t alive,” he adds with a laugh.

Stranger Things season 2 hits Netflix on Oct. 31. – People

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