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therainscene · 3 days

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Stranger Things 4 is themed around A Nightmare on Elm Street -- Vecna is a child-killer-turned-demon who murders teenagers from within their own minds; his heavily scarred skin and clawed hand resemble that of Freddy Krueger; and the actor who played Freddy himself plays his father.

I think Stranger Things 5 is gearing up to do something similar with The Terminator. Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) is the upcoming guest star this season; Vecna's exposed skull and vine-covered neck resembles the T-800--

--and Will's speech at the end of S4 bears striking similarities to Kyle Reece's famous "it can't be reasoned with" speech.

If Vecna is the T-800... then the Mind Flayer is the perfect candidate for Skynet.

[And Hawkins National Laboratory is Cyberdyne Systems -- a military-funded lab that meddled with phenomena beyond its ability to control and paved the way for a sinister hive mind to enter the world.]

I'm pretty sure that the Mind Flayer lies at the heart of whatever timey-wimey stuff is going on. It's suspiciously linked to timeline inconsistencies -- Will is already able to sense it in his neck before his possession in S2, and young Henry in TFS is haunted by the spider monster he wasn't supposed to create for another 20 years.

I've already written a theory on how a causal loop could tie Will and Henry to the Mind Flayer -- whatever's going on is probably more complicated than this, since my theory doesn't explain why the Upside Down is frozen -- but it's worth a read, I think, as it's the same type of time paradox as the one in Terminator and could easily be at the core of ST's time shenanigans.

Will is Kyle Reece or Sarah Connor -- so does that mean he's going to be a gun-toting badass?

No.

This scene is Will coming full circle from that moment in the shed at the start of S1: backed into a corner and forced to resort to violence because he sees no other way out. He doesn't want to kill the monster; he has to.

But the difference is that he's not cornered anymore.

This time around, Will knows his enemy, and he has supportive friends and family at his side. He's just so beaten down -- by Vecna, by Hawkins, by perceived rejections from Mike -- that he's lost all confidence in his ability to stand up for himself on his own terms.

I know it seems at first glance that Will advocates the use of violence in desperate times, but consider the context of the episode in which the above scene appears:

Joyce is reminiscing about her missing son while dealing with Lonnie telling her what to do and feel about it. Shortly after, she realizes how manipulative he's being and permanently kicks him out of her life (and the show lol) -- no violence necessary.

Will's advice hadn't been about the value of violence, but about the value of refusing to play by abusers' rules -- a key lesson in Stranger Things, as we've been watching El learn it the hard way over the course of four seasons.

Will cannot self-actualize by "finally" pulling the trigger on an approach that symbolizes his homophobic father's macho expectations. S5 is going to be about him regaining his self-confidence and allowing his authentic, gentle nature to guide him to the real solution.

So, to return to the "he's not gonna stop" speech: the theme at play here is inevitability, and it's one of the central themes of The Terminator -- not simply because the titular assassin is unstoppable, but because of the love story that drives the plot:

If Skynet hadn't sent the T-800 back in time to kill Sarah Connor before she could give birth to the leader of the human resistance, then Kyle would have had no reason to go back in time and end up unknowingly fathering John. No matter how hard Skynet tried to snuff John Connor out of existence, the rebellious love that created him was just as inevitable as the T-800.

This, I think, is the message at the heart of both Terminator and Stranger Things, and is the reason why The Terminator would be the perfect choice for S5's theme movie:

Sometimes the horrors wrought by humanity are inescapable...

...but so too is the hopeful human drive to love each other and overcome them.

Read Brenner's role in creating Vecna as a metaphor for homophobic Reagan-era fear-mongering and it all clicks into place, I think.

#terminator #stranger things #time travel #byler #will byers #henry creel #mind flayer #my analysis #tfs spoilers

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starsweater · 7 months

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#godtier characters ALWAYS #caine #the amazing digital circus #data star trek #star trek #baymax #the doctor voyager #blade runner #roy batty #alien franchise #tron #castor #edward scissorhands #hal 9000 #r2d2 and c3po #agent smith #the matrix #terminator #glados #wheatley #ex machina #wall e #i have no mouth and i must scream #Some of these i dont know as well or its been awhile since ive watched them so IM SORRY if its weird to put them in but #honestly I just wanted to show as many of my fave sentient robits/programs as i could because I LOVE THEM IM WEAK #Something about grappling with your innate worth and trying to find purpose in a world that finds you less than ect ect #other categories include 'Just doing my job :)' - 'Just doing my job >:)' and being a little guy #PLEASE share with me more blorbos like this because i cant never have enough of these types of characters #Scissorhands is included bc hes 'not a real boy' and hes so awkward and i love him SO THERE #Castor/Zuse is getting shout out over any other program in Tron because hes my silly goofy guy

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s-pyder · 1 month

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🕷️Kenva🕷️

#terminator #art #purple #scifi #mech #cyberpunk #robot #aesthetic #anime

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neon-wonderlands · 5 months

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animentality · 1 year

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#terminator #twitter #this is hilarious #sci fi

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belzebubsofficial · 5 months

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Scrub with me if you want to live.

#belzebubs #trve kvlt #black metal #jp ahonen #chrono #webcomics #comic #kids #parenting #cleaning #vacuum #cleaning robot #terminator

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limerence4u · 9 months

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gabriel luna is so boyfriend coded <3

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hattersarts · 9 months

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sketch commission pages for @xenaskywalker @alcalexandria @littlenimart and @enemyoftrust ! Thank you all so much ! :)

#commission #game of thrones #terminator #umineko when they cry #had a blast on every single one of these

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wh40kartwork · 2 months

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The Red Wake

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#imperium #space marines #loyalist astartes #carcharodons #terminator #warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #40k #niellustrate

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zachfett · 3 months

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HELLDIVERS 2 (2024, Arrowhead Game Studios)

I'm loving it so far. Fighting bugs reminds me a lot of EDF and Starship Troopers, while fighting the Automatons reminds me of the future war scenes in Terminator.

I've uploaded a Toggle HUD mod if anyone wants it: https://www.nexusmods.com/helldivers2/mods/1